The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-05

The eternal fitness Of things, says the
New York Tribune, is anything but ap-
parent, as rule, in feminine headgear.
ana the manifest incongruity between a
oedl2ened hat and the wearer would
! ottentlmes be really laughable if it were
. not an accepted fact of our curious ciVili-
I eaton that woman of any age may put
( Movers, ribbons, or even stunned birds on
1 her head, regardless of the absurditv of
wrinkles and rosebuds. 1t really should
/ be law of fashion that flowers should
be worn only by the young and fair. Let
] every one with a sense of humor. for in
stance, watch for few minutes the
| thronging crowd of shoppers in Twenty
| third and Fourteenth street, and note the
old, haggard and careworn faces crowned
with brilliant flowers and bright
ribbons, and he cannot fail to be
amused If the pathetic side which is al
ways akin TO the ridiculous in our sad
| humanity does not happen to strike him
nrst, and an involuntary pity for the poor
old things sti1e the laughter Lace is
! always dlgnltied, beautiful and becoming.
Rlch ribbons in subdued tints are also
suitable. Nelvets seem particularly
I adapted for women who have passed their
I first youth, while for lighter trimmings
there are always jet, cut steel and other
concentrations, affording an abundant
chiffons, which are manifestly out of
place.
That was a sensible New Orleans
mother, says the New York Picayune,
who, when her bright 16-year-old
daughter, came home for vacation from
the old Ursulines convent the other day
placed in her hands pattern, pair of
scissors aud a pretty roll of muslin, aud
told her smilingly that she was going to
supplement the 'isms and 'ologiesn she
had acquired at school by little practi-
cal lesson in work, which must eventu-
ally form a part of every woman's
life. And one may imagine the pleasure
this sweet maiden felt when, as the hours
wore away, she saw the tlmy folds
taking shape beneath ner deft fingers.
When evening came she was able to put
on dress of her own making-the first
she had had ever made-and going up To
her good mother she said in the fullness
of her heart, at the new and
happy experience that had come
into her young life, Il don't
know how long it is going to last, but.
mamma, like sewing mighty well Now
isn't this lovely picture of home life,
and mothers gentle influence in train
ing her daughter to industrious and neces-
sarv work, and so guiding her young I'M
skilled hands, that she could make a
dress in one day and not feel fatigued or
disguised with the work and thrown it
aside in despair as so many girls might
have done. And what this thoughtful
mother has done, every earnest, far
sighted mother may do in these vacation
days, when time hangs heavily on youth
full hands, and superb bundance of activity
needs direction into useful channels. In
all the years TO come this sweet girl
will never forget that first dress she
made and wore, and above all that
mother" showed her how to make it.
A wealthy New York woman who
spends her summers in Sharon, Conn,
says the New York Times. has estab-
liShed there this summer philanthropy
that is as lovely as it is benefcient. She
bought small house with several acres
of land, just out of the town, and built a
large addition of one story, fitted up in
the best manner for a child's hospital.
Twelve of the worst cases from the Hos
pital for the Crippled and Ruptured on
Forty-secOnd street, were taken up there
June !, and will remain until well into
September. They have their own resi-
dent physician and nurses, with matrcn
and servants. The ward is large and airy
aud the children have improved very
fast; some of them really look brown and
healthy. Few of them could sit up except
on invalid chairs specially contrived to
suit each case, but now every child gets
out of doors under the trees, and many of
them can move about. The retreat is
solely for children, the eldest there now be-
ing ! years old, and its founder has fanci-
fully and prettily called the place "Bobo-
link"
No phase of hospital suffering is more
tedious and unbearable than that of de-
formed and crippled children. and the be-
nevolence which has for its aim the miti-
CATION of their pain-racked lives, is good
ness that comes straight from heaved.
Nine persons out of every ten with
cinder or any foreign substance in the
eye will instantly begin to rub the eye
handkerchief with the other. They may,
and sometimes do, remove the
offending cinder, but more fire.
quently they rub until the eye
becomes intiamed, bind a handkerchief
around the head, and go to bed. This is
all wrong. The better way is not to rub
the eye with the cinder in it at all but
rub the other eye as vigorously as you
like, according to writer in the Medical
Summary, who relates the following eX
perience:
"A few years since was riding on the
engine of a fast express. The engineer
threw open the front window, and |
caught clnder that gave me the most
eXcruciating pain. / began to rub the
eye with both hands. Let your eye
alone and rub the other eye (this from
the engineer). l thought he was chatting
me, and worked the harder. 4 know you
doctors think you know it all, but if you
will let that eye alone and rub the
other one, the cinder will be
out in two minutes, persisted the
engineer began to rub the other
eye; soon felt the cinder down near the
inner canthus, and made ready to take it
out. Let it alone and keep at the well
eye shouted the doctor pro TEN. did
so for minute longer, and looking in
small glass he gave me found the offender
on my cheek. Since then have tried it
many times, and have advised many
others, and have never known it TO fail in
one instance, unless it was as sharp as a
piece of steel or something that cut into
the ball and required an operation TO re-
move it,
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