The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-04
WOMAN'S WORLD.
4 Few Things Of Interest to the Fair
Sex.

A New Fad of New Orleans Girls.
WAYS of Bringing Husbands Around.
A Method for Disinfecting Room-A
Word About Miss Harraden-A Ser
wants Mistake - A Fair Smuggler
Caught-The Desire to Read of People
Who Are sick-other Facts and Fan
cies That May Be Read at Odd Times.
I'D like to speak to Miss Edith private"
said a woman who had been a servant in
Miss Edith's family, but who, according
70 the New York Tribune, now took lodg-
ers.
Miss Edith" she began, after some pre-
In1inary remarks, I'm told that Mr.. Rip
lev comes here considerable. And, Miss
Edith, you know what I've always thought
of your family, and that any one of you
young ladies is fit for the best in the land
and I'm not sayin' but what Mr.. Ripley is
worthy young man; but I think I owe
it to you, Miss Edith, to tell you that he
gets terrible affectionate letters from a
young lady named Belle
i've no right to interfere with his let
ters," said Edith, but her voice trembled
"And how do you know anything about it,
Ann? You wouldn't read his letters"
mo, indeed Miss Edith; far be it from
me to read anybody's letters when they're
in the whole sheet and done up proper in
envelopes; but when a man tears up his
letters and scatters them round his room,
I have the right, as nobody can deny, to
piece them together and make what may
be out of them; and hold that it's my
duty for your family's sake, and for your
sake Miss Edith"
A few days later Ann paid another visit
and this time she announced, Miss Edith,
my minds at rest, and hope yours will
be- too, pieced together letter from his
mother last night, and 1 found out that
Belle is his sister"
Miss Beatrice Harraden, says the New
York Times, is gaining health slowly but
surely out in California. She is staying
at ranch near San Diego, and proposes
TO take long draught of Pacific coast
ozone before she leaves there next June.
Those who meet the young Englishwoman
md her a very charming personality. En-
tirely unassuming, her bright mind af
fords fund of entertainment for her COM
panions. At a dinner recently given by
that veteran journalist Charles Nordhon,
Miss Harraden was the center of attrac-
ton and entertained the company with
some of her experiences. My book" she
says, brought me bushels of letters in
criticism of it. Some of them are very
funny. An Italian said, i read your book
and love you l answered his letter. Such
devotion was enhancing, though, 1 be-
lieVe this foreigner was ignorant of the
English meaning of the words he used"
Miss Harraden admits that her own eX-
perienCe at a health resort suggested the
young woman in Ships" and promises
too, that her forthcoming story is to be
about healthy persons She still suffers
much inconvenience from paralysis of the
right forearm, brought on by playing the
violoncello She can write only ten min
utes at time, and uses for this work
penhoder of the diameter of a broom
stick, This arm trouble is very similar to
the affection known as writer's cramp
and affects the hand, as we'll as the fore
arm
A writer in the Medical Magazine, who
has witnessed the Berlin method of dis
Injecting a room, describes the cleansing
of an apartment in which a child had died
Of dipthera: -Four men were engaged.
After everything that could be subjected
to steam without detriment had been re-
moved to the disinfecting station, all the
things were removed from the walls, and
the men began rubbing these with bread.
Ordinary German loaves are used, forty
eight hours old. The loaves are cut into
substantial chunks about six inches
square, the back of each piece consisting
of the crust, thus allowing of a good pur-
chase. The walls are Systematically at
tackled with strokes from above down.
ward, and there can be no question to
its efficacy in cleaning them, nor does the
operation take as long as one would
Imagine. The crumbs are swept up and
burned. After this the walls are thor
oughly sprinkled with a per cent. carbolic
acid solution. The floor is washed with
per cent. carbolic acid solution, and all
the polished woodwork and ornaments as
well"
New Orleans girls, says the New Or
leans Picayune, with plenty of leisure and
nothing to do, must have new fad con-
bJantly on hand, you know, and just now
II has pleased them to unearth an old one
ana invest it with all the charm of Some
Ihlng new" 1t is nothing less than the
making of Friendship quilts" We all
know what a friendship quilt is OF course
each piece must be worked, painted, or
Crocheted by friend, and put together in
we long winter evenings when time hangs
heavily on ones hands. Just now the
elrIs are cutting up squares of cheese
cloth for the sake of equality in size, and
with the injunction to return, in their
stead a piece Of silk of similar size painted
Ut embroidered for a quilt piece. These
are put together with a delicate thorn
sutching, and then quilted and lined with
some soft old rose or golden-rod. one
new Orleans girl, who is making a friend
sulp quilt, insists that each friend shall
Suorolder her individual name upon the
iurther corner of the quilt piece as a gen
We reminder in after years of the donor.
|l'er all there is a pretty romance about
lhe friendship quilt, and, like a certain
great writer, "Woman's World and Work"
lhIhks that homemade quilts are chiefly
interesting because OF the glimpses they
b''e OF the makers and their lives"
i3u might have taken the moulten lead,
ana poured II on my breast;
VI the naked sword which hangs by your
bed.
whichever had pleased you best.
ana would have kissed your hand nor