The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-11
STRENGTHENING Up.
Bah Makes Herself Generally Useful
Around the House.

An Ancient Chest Filled With Love
Letters, Tintypes and Valentines.
Memories of the Long AEo-This
Life Doesn't Mean Forever When
Death Greets Us-The Life Beyond.
Bab's Broad Beliefs, Which Has
Love for Its Cornerstone, and Mercy
for It's Watchword.
New York. March l0.-If you are fem
inine which 10 put it in the words Of the
old writer, would mean. if by chance you
are a woman. then surely there comes into
your life the sort Of a day when you are
kept indoors as closely as if you were n
thief and the house We're a Jail. And,
whenever this stormy day comes around,
somebody, some feminine body, invariably
suggests that everything should be
Strengthened up. STRENGTHENING up is
q feminine phrase. 1t would only be POS
sible to the feminine mind. To s,raighteu
up, to explain it fully, means TO
pull all your belongings to pieces, to
Hnger over them, as the stage miser does
over gold, and then to put them all back
in their places again. When my house
hold is affected in this way, when the
Strengthening up fever comes to it, / al
ways drift 10 a chest of drawers that, be
cause of lack of time, or care-essuess, or
what you will, is never quite as tidy as II
might be- In the top drawer, the ribbons
are smoothed out and put in their places /;
the handkerchiefs are laid in piles, the
bits of lewelry put IN their proper boxes,
and once this IS fixed all becomes easy,
until the lowest place of all is reached,
and hesitate over that 1t is
LIKE OPENING THE DOOR OF ONES HEART.
and yet, even that must be done once in a
while. Here goes, then. 1t doesn't look
as if il held much, and IL seems as II all
the things therein were worn out Close
TO the edge is a white satin slipper, high
OF heel and with a rosette made Of orange
blossoms on the tip. Somebody wore that
at a wedding-who was it, / turn around
and look in the mirror-surely not the
woman l see there. The girl who wore
that slipper and who danced so mcrrily
thought all the days were sunshiuy, all
the world was love, and that she would
dance through life 10 Joyful tune, and
never dream of sorrow or pain And the
woman who is looking at it knows that
the dancing days soon ended, that the
rainy ones came, but she can
be glad for one thing and that
is, though merriment seemed to 60,
love and kindness stood beside her
ike LNO EOOu lIleIQS anu HluQt a Dlb Oh
sunshine in the darkest weather. / wipe
the little slipper of and put it back in its
place, and l pick up an old-tashioned
daguerrOtype You have pictures lust
like this ones where, unless you hold il
properly, you simply see your own face
reflected, but given the right light, there
is the softened face of some one you re-
member. This one is the picture of a
small girl, who, rebelling at having to
stand still, looks as fierce as if the whole
world was to be fought by her, and the
bird promised by the photographer would
never appear ! can laugh over that
photograph, and so l can over the next
1t is tintype Of a whole party Of girls
holding croQueJ mallets. Under it is an
other one of a young girl and a young
boy, each looking as conscious as possible,
and / discover by close examination that
the small girl has borrowed pair of ear
rings and had them tied on.
AULD LANG sYNE.
throw the pictures down and pick up
bOx-my first valentine. Ii is a COR
Eeous combination OF lace paper and
colored flowers while in the center in
lovely pink letters, are the words Ever
true Yes, the poor little chap that sent
thar wAgsy-ss. true for year and n day.
$3.50 for me to get sentimental
~ u.Sduse | had an invitation the
- day to his daughters welding /
think l will give that valentine away.
some of the children might like it, No
body likes TO keep an evidence Of even a
boys unfaithfulness. The heart of
woman is so beautifully unseltsh that
she wants everything masculine 10 love
her and love her forever, and she must be
privileged 10 love one and for ust a little
while. There is a bunch of letters comes
next. letters that are tied up with a pink
corset lace. / read two or three over, and
/ find myself wondering about the people
who are spoken of. One sentence reads
'Allie danced ali night and it was nearly
Z O'Clock when she got home. Mother
says she hopes none of our boys Will
take fancy TO her as she is entirely too
worldly. For nv part, / find no pleasure
outside Of my religion; il seems to ill up
my life and | am more than ANNOYED
when, for mere household duties, am
forced TO give up my hours of reading or
praying. After all, there are very few
girls who are. as mother says, like me. 50
Isn't that the conceit of YOUTH And be-
tween you and me, how very offensive
that young saint must have been What
became Of herr DO you want to know
I saw her at the opera the other night in
an extremely low gown and surrounded
by lot OF men. She IS to-day the repre-
sentative fashionable wife, and the relig.
ion which she claimed meant so much tC
her was in reality nothing more than q
surface disease which soon wore of
And Allie, To-day the white snow
fakes are falling on the stone that ma.
Allies name carved on it.
SIRE DANCED INTO LOVE ONE DAY. .
and then she became somebody's wife
and she made somebody very happy witt
her merry, laughing, loving WAYS, bu
another day ana she was gone, and in her
place there was a sainted form that helC
dead baby in its arms l tear up In,
letter l have just read; l despise tn
writer.
Up in one corner are innUmerable rib
bons, pink and blue, and most enticins
of all, bright scarlet. ] remember whel
they used to tie long fiaxen braids. bu
now the braids are pinned up CLOSELY
about the head. and the ribbons are inn
possible, and though life is full of goo,
things, still these things are not tied ID,
with the rosy ribbons Of girhood
That's an old prayer-book dowl
there. The clasp is broken and tn,
cover discOlOred.. Or the fy-leaf IL
written the name Of girl and followir.
that the dates that were the mos
important in her life Her birth hen
marriage, the deaths of those she loved
and there is just room enough for few
more words-for the announcement o.
another death. I wonder when il vii
CDuel I wonder " ho will ra.u.1r,l Ho,. o., o.,