The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-04


SoO,O0O TO nave 1t done as | wish it,"
another case in point is thato a gentle
man whose middle name savors so
strongly of wealth, he being connected on
MS mothers side with one of the richest
American families, that he has been
Obliged to drop it, finding it a positive
disadvantage while travelling in Europe
70 De Identified by the trades-people and
lnnkeepers with his golden relatives.
GU have no idea how hard l find it to
make both ends meet said the wife of
an opulent banker. Il actually lie awake
at night worrying over the expenses of
the family, which, do what / can. l can
not manage TO keep within a prescribed
unit. | often envy my maid, who has
everything provided for her who has no
appearances to keep up, and who receives
her monthly roll of bills as clear protit.n
Certainly, domestic servants, did they
but know 1t. may be numbered among the
rich poor" for in no other class are the
individual expenses so small in proportion
to the amount received, or the comforts
enjoyed so great.
Mrs. Richard Clarke, says Kate Fields
Washington, wife of the congressman
from Mobile, Ala, is one of the few women
brave enough to scatter witty things in
the waste of five-minute official calls. At
the house of Mrs. Hale, of Maine, the
church service was mentioned.
"Ihere's one portion of the litany,"
SAID Mrs. Clarke, THAT always used to
bother me. It's where we pray especially
for the widowed and fatherless.' / never
could see why they need praying for so
much, as l thought motherless children
deserved pity much more; but I've just
found out why the motherless aren't men
toned. It's because there are so few of
them, as the first thing a man does when
he is bereft of his wife is to look around
for new mother for his children"
In the laugh that followed, Mrs. Clarke
clinched her argument on the litany with:
Il think ought to know, for didn't l
marry widower myself"
They say, says Clara Belle in the En-
qulrer, that flirting is out of fashion
That 1t is now the thing for girls to look
their admirers in the face with steady,
honest eyes and just talk the simple, wo-
manly truth to them. Now, isn't that
lovely! If ever a man is in danger, it is
when the girl levels steady, honest eyes
and comes the simple womanly," and the
adoption of this method only proves that
the girls have decided to come right down
to business, and that the men had better
look to themselves. 1t is nonsense to talk
about abOhshing flirting. Society could
not exist without it. 1t is, indeed, a corner
stone of civilization, the prerogative of
emancipated woman, and finally, no family
should be without out. The history of
flirting would include the history of wo-
mans progress. There are as many kinds
as there are girls, BUTT is safe to say that
the most dangerous of all to the man is
that which conforms to the present mode
The girls of some seasons past have been
all challenge and aaillery they have
dazzled and attracted the men on all
sides, and have laughed and threatened.
Men have gotten so used TO this
method that that they have become lazy.
1t is no odd thing to see man just lean
ing back passive and being fiirted at OF
course, this will never do Hence this
sudden change of method. The old style
has ceased to stimulate. The new style
will be sure to set the men to work. Now
when aaagirl- is introduced, instead of
bursting into sparkling flood of small
talk, instead of being all mods and quips
and quirls, fash of wit and flip of tongue
she lifts pair of very solemn eyes and
with mouth little dropped, just waits.
The man is naturally startled, and he
thinks this is a new sort of girl She
speaks, when she does speak. slowly and
very softly She is bit dreamy, seems
to take things seriously and appeals to
the man with her to help her
understand all the wonderful things
she sees. This same girl really
knows just as much as the man does.
Maybe she told him and showed him as
much only last season. If so, the change
in her is absolutely Intoxicating. She
takes herself entirely in earnest. He can
not trick her into seeing the joke of the
new attitude and the first thing he knows
he is talking blue streak and trying all
the tricks he knows to see what she will
do So it looks as if flirting would really
take a new and inspiring impetus from
the new method. There is some excite
ment in proposing to a girl when she is
as like as not to refuse you from not
really knowing what you mean. The
girls say they are getting three proposals
where last year, at this time, they had
one, and that by hard work. Men have
so long been dosed with the witty and
self-possessed woman that the new girl is
a downright dissipation. Naturally the
adept at the old method is the very girl
who adapts herself most bewilderingly to
the new. The really solemn and shy girl
is no more a go this year than she ever
was or ever will be.
The Wednesday Club, of ST. Louis,
woman's club, is about to erect build
ing, which, while it will house the club,
will also be a business building, where
various enterprises conducted by women
or catering to women will find place.
1t will cost $3.50, 900, will be five stories
high. built in Greek classic style, of white
Carthage marble and buff Roman brick.
The ground floor will be yielded to mer-
chants who look to women for patronage,
the second will have offices for dentists
and physicians, the third will be the home
of the Wednesday Club. The st. Louis
Decorative Art Society will occupy the
fourth floor, and on THE fifth will be
handsome theater for the use of amateurs.
The ladies of the club are very enthusiast
tic over the project, and expect the build
ing will be monument to the enterprise
of women.
The report recently in one Of the medi-
cal Journals from well-known physician
of recovery in three cases of gastric ulcer
following a diet of ice cream revives at
tention to the benefcence of this diet in
certain forms of dyspepsia. The first
patient of the trio was a woman of 30,
who had lost twenty-five pounds from in
ability to assimilate food, and also suf-
fered great pain. She was put on the ice
cream diet. and for two months she con-
sumed from one to three quarts daily. By
the end of that time she had gained
twenty-four pounds and her ordinary diet
was resumed.
The theory is that the healthy intes-
tines recover first from the chill Of the
frozen food, and do the digestive work,
-; Vino, tho disaasad mpm brane rest and