The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-01

ABOUT all SORTS OF diseases IL Ism I YOUR
business, it isn't mine to read about these
/ things. It makes US nervous, and the
/ chances are, nine out Of ten, that we may
( know somebody who is cOnsumptive, who
breads insanity, or who has some terrible
illness like Damocles' sword hanging over
their heads. These books don help any;
they only hurt; they only make US throw
ourselves face downward and give the
old cry, as we think of somebody for
whom we care, of MY God, my God,
why hast thou fOrsaken me2" We don't
need to have our hearts torn to pieces.
/ All that we ought to do is to try and help
/ those who are not strong TO live as they
/ should mentally and physically, and to
| cause life to be as full of sunshine as we
can for those who suffer. ! hate TO think
that il is women who have written these
books. 1t seems TO me that when they
Will write books, recognizing as they do
so many Of the horrors of life, they ought
to feel that it is their duty TO give good
cheer to the living and forget the sins of
the dead But there, | don't want to be
blue, too. ! want TO represent a certain
amount of cheeriness in the world.
THIS SUMMERS OUTINGS.
What are you going to do this summer?
Have you found the ideal place where
you will have a comfortable room, simple,
good food, agreeable people, and where
the drives are pleasant} That is the
place we look for every spring. And the
one we never find We go on a chase for
happiness, and we may have good time
in the search, but if the rooms are COM
Portable, the chances are the people think
1 you are dieting and give you precious
little to eat. | once stayed six weeks in a
country house where the woman who
kept il said she thought it was vulgar to
have an appetite. We all remained and
starved because the grounds were so
L. -I.s Il
| boarders though she had no feeling
in regard to taking our money, and she
said she felt that in letting strangers
come into her house, she was giving them
an opportunity to enter the society which
ii was more than probable they had never
been in before. They hadn't She was a
very clever woman. The nearest livery
stable was run by the undertaken, and /
used TO hire what he called a buggy and a
mild horse, but | called the horse a sheep.
However, it answered our purpose. 1t
didn't run away with us, and it had q
pleasing way of stopping and thinking,
which gave US an opportunity TO go to
sleep. The lady to whom we paid our
board possessed a horse that was sheepier
even than the one who reioiced in the
name of Jonathan, and whom l drove, or
rather who permitted me to hold the reins
while he went. The lady, who said she
knew nothing about finance, made this
proposition to me: she proposed that /
should buy a buggy for $500, and then
l could have the use of her horse with it
every other day, and when | went away l
could leave her the buggy. l didn't ac-
cept this offer; | am not much of finan-
cier but somehow this seemed a little
One-sided, and afterwards the masculine
element said that woman ought to 90 on
| Wall street, for if she did she would own
a railroad in two days. Still, though we
I were starved that summer. we had
pretty good time. 1t was interesting to
hear thelandlady tell of the blueness of
her blood, while we looked at the pink
ness of the tea, and then, too, when she
marshalled her children to give them
/ maternal advice, it pleased US oil to
know that she didn't use her slipper, and
that probably she hurt her hand as much
as she did the children. 1t was very
cheerful if we happened TO want larger
carriage than the famous buggy to have
the undertaken tell of the funerals that
there barouche has been to-" and it was
cheerful, more than cheerful when we
/ paid the bill each week to have him tell
us how much he asked for the hearse, and
to hear him say that if we had ten car
riages there was reduction on it.
UPS AND DOWNS OF COUNTRY LIFE.
Still, we are looking for the ideal place.
/ Personally l don't think it exists outside
VI ubdNOL. Jubb 1duCy duYDOuY D6lnR
fortunate enough to go to bed with
sheets that weren't too short, pitchers
/ continually filled with fresh water, strong
coffee and weak eggs, golden butter, sill
very fish, beautiful red beef and agreeable
/ people. Oh, no; that will only come with
/ the millennium. One year the man who
! kept the house where / stayed, thought it
4 was his duty TO see thatI didn't get all my
| letters at once. He delivered them at in
/ tervals during the day. He said, in ex-
/ PLANTATION: "Wimmen is gettin' too
knowin' this yere havin' letters and
readin' EN- is what makes wimmen
sassy. Row, my wife never got but two
letters in her life. One, when her mother
died, and another when her sister got
married to a worthless drunkard that no
body wanted in the family. 1t makes
wimmen kind O. independent like to get
letters. They thinks as how they's equal
to their betters, and l amt going to have
no sassy woman round yere."
didn't stay there very long, because if
| ] have a weakness it is liking to get my
letters with my coffee. | shouldn't like
TO be thought to be sassy, but still, | don't
particularly care for anything masculine
to decide when and where / shall hear the
latest news, and under what conditions.
/ Why, even the few people who know me
and like me, insist upon receiving at its
regular time that variable epistle signed,
Bah.