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

tion, says the Troy Times. Let us illus
trate the injurious physical tendencies by
typical case. During extremely cold
weather there occurs wedding which,
from the standing Of the parties, attracts
some attention. The happy couple, we
are told, are off for their wedding trip TO
still more frigid section of the country.
Though conscious of danger and discom-
fort TO some extent, which is greatly in
creased by their inexperience in travelling,
they cheerfully assume the risk and re-
sponsibility, as TO all married couples
bridal tour seems to be considered as ab-
solutely essential TO give the married
union an Importance without which it
would, in their opinion, be unromantic
and but a partial marriage, The tour
causes fatigue, exposure and excitement,
making regularity of life impossible in
fact, the act involves the reverse of all
that the rules of health and physiology
require.
Again, it constantly happens in the case
of both sexes that slight indisposition.
which passed unnoticed In the hurry of
preparation, is aggravated 10 % serious
and even fatal neglect on a wedding tour.
No man. for instance, would think of
postponing his marriage on account of
slight cold. If he stayed at home after
ward and took care OF himself il would
pass away like other slight colds but
often on the bridal tour the malady de
velOped into a chronic disease. A prom
inent physician recently said: MANY
cases of brides and bridegrooms In my
professional experience came under my
observation dying of typhoid fever Just
after a wedding trip which had caused
the early systems TO be misunoersto
and neglected. A few years ago healthy
and vigorous young man, just returned
from bridal tour, died of typhoid fever
in Troy. his sickness being superinduced
presumably by the fatigue ana exposure
incident to the Journey 1t will thus be
seen that the medical aspect Of bridal
Tour is sufficiently important and the
X incurred sufficiently great TO cause
t welded pair, il they wish TO be actu-
.ed by impulses of reason and prudence
rather than by the dictates of custom, TO
pause before they undergo the trials of a
wedding Journey"
tried every remedy I could hear Of,
writes a housewife, anent the festive
roach, and was always in
curing They seemed to fatten on my
poisons at least, their numbers did not
suffer diminution. One day took up an
old almanac and idly turned its tattered
yellow pages, and on the last fragment Of
leaf came this Equal portions Of
lasses and spread on plates will destroy
reaches" And it did. l put in several
dishes and set them on the floor, and at 9
o'clock stole softly out 10 see if they ate
it, The dishes were so covered with
reaches that the mixture was scarcely
visible. The next night there were
fewer at the feast, and in a week not
roach was seen. | lived seven years
thereafter in the same house and never
saw one.
Notwithstanding the educational facili-
ties of the day and the increased amount
of culture. says the New York Tribune,
very few people write really good letter,
or seem TO have the power. when sepa-
rated from their friends, Of giving an idea
of their daily life, or manage to infuse
any of their own personality into their
own epistles. A good letter should leave
the recipient with the feeling that he has
actually been talking with the writer, and
should consist not OF meagre and Lnsatis-
factory mention OF events. or what is even
worse, descriptions of places. but of de-
tails of the daily life of the individual
aud purely personal chatter. Nothing
is more annoying or disappointing on
openinZ with feelings of pleasant antici-
patiCn thick packet from abroad than
TO mud sheet after sheet filled with
guidebook plat!tudes, which are utterly
conventional and uninteresting. One