The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-13

feels that Notwithstanding the writer has
labored conscientiously and painfully to
write a long letter he or she has utterly
failed to establish that mysterious rap
port between parted friends that the
right sort of correspondence should evoke.
Pray remember, therefore, fair traveller.
that every average library has plentiful
supply Of books OF travel containing far
better descriptions of foreign lands than
YOU could write, books which are seldom
If ever opened: and that it is OF you aud
your friends and associates that we care
10 hear. Do not be afraid TO dot your
paper plentifully with capital "Is;" for
that, after all, is the subject matter that
interests your readers
1t 10 rather hard, says the New York
Tribune, for people TO live up to their
children in these modern times, and the
fn-de-slcclo young woman with her up-to-
date ideas Is often a complete and not
altogether agreeable surprise 10 her
mother, whose simple domestic and social
life has been running quietly in the same
grooves Tor years, and who looks NJ on
her emancipated offspring with much the
same feelings that a matronly hen may be
supposed TO experience when her brood
takes suddenly 10 the water and prove 10
be ducklings. Mrs N is q friendly,
social LITTLE woman, who a few years ago
was won't to talk of how much she ex-
peeled 10 enjoy herself when Lena, her
eldest girl, should have grown up. 1T
will be 50 delightful to have ones own
daughter as a oongenial companion" was
her constant cry. and she was forever
longing for the time when the child
should leave school and come nome for
good. Unfortunately, however, when
Lena arrived at years of discretion she
discovered that her vocation was social
reform, and she now spends her entire
time in the downtown slums, organi ing
newsboys' clubs ana starting free reading
rooms
Most praiseworthy, of course, from
philanthropic point Of view,'' said one Of
Mrs. NJ s friends, who was discussing the
problem of the modern daugh GER and tho
old-fashioned mamma, but do maintain
IL is hard on Elizabeth to be Obliged TO
play second fiddle 10 lot of dirty little
boys and ] ulUSt say that | felt sorry for
Prof. n when / happened to drop in the
other day at his luncheon hour, TO dis
cover that excellent man resignedly taxi
ing his chop in the LOBBY, while the house
re echoed 10 the shrill, nasal voices Of
twenty or more ragged gamins, who were
rehearsing some songs for festival In the
dining room and paror" Disappointed in
her eldest daughter Mrs. N, with her
usual hopefulness, remarked cheerfully
we DO not see as UluCl as we WOulu llkG
of dear Lena. She is such a wonderful
worker. and has so many calls on her
time, that tell her she must not bother
about me. Edith is such big girl now
that shall soon have her to go about
WITH But alas for the frailty of human
hopes Edith had no sooner finished school
than she announced her determination to
go to college and she has ever since been
taking courses of high mathematics and
writing essays on the advanced education
Of women.
Again the admiriug mother patiently
bore her second disappointment, feeling
sure that her third daughter at least
would resemble her and find pleasure In
the same occupations. "Hetty was such
pretty, lively little thing" she surely
wouldn't be comfortably frivolous.
My dear" exclaimed the friend who
had been narrating Mrs. n. IS trials and
tribulation, 'Hetty was positively the
worst of the lot. She developed craze
for art and nothing would do but she
must go to Paris and study. and now she
has cutie for Monet, is an impression
ist of the most advanced school, and goes
in for dress reform. Poor, poor, dear
Elizabeth! she cannot understand one
Of her daughters, who for their part ara
utterly incapable of sympathizing with
their mothers simple aims and pleas
ures."