The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-08
SPRINGS ARRIVAL.
Bah ChatteTS Away on This Most De-
lightiul Season.

nSHtiUl OOOOUus
Newly Married Couples Cropping Up.
How They Spend the Honeymoon in
the Great City-The Circus Comes to
Town in All It's Glory-The Woman
Who Goes in for ''Solid Reading
The Origin Of Sooiety-Doings of
Women in the Extremely Fashion
able Set-Women Who Are Not Com
PEELED to Work Criticised by Bah.
New York, April There is no doubt
that spring has come. The certainty of its
coming is not decided by the flowers, the
grass, or by the blossoming of the trees.
All, dear. no. The arrival of spring is
shown in an entirely different and much
more original way. When Adam and
Eve constituted everybody, and gossiped
about the springing up of the various
plants, the budding of the crocus in its
yellow robe probably meant spring time
to them, but since the growth of society,
since the successors of Adam have in
creased, different mode obtains. Spring
is not here until the circus arrives; nor
until the price of quinine goes up, nor
until one sees here, there and everywhere
two people who look unutterly happy.
and who announce by their faces I was
tempted to say by their cheek, that they
are newly married.
TRULY, SPRING IS HERE.
These are the signs and the symptoms
of the arrival Of spring.
There is something wrong when one
doesn't enjoy the circus. 1t seems to me
that among the Joys of the hereafter will
be free pass to that delightful show.
which is largely sham, but all pleasure.
just fancy being able to go whenever YOU
wished to look at the elephants, inhale
the perfume of the lion, and tremble with
fear at the sight of the tiger; to think
what a high collar the giraffe could wear
and to feel the bliss it must be to ride on
a wild and untamed steed, gowned in a
pink tulle frock. Plays may come and
plays may go. We may be bored to death
with Hamlet" and sigh with WEAKNESS
over the so-called farce, but there is
always something new about the circus
and always something that makes one
feel as If, after all, life was a pretty
good thing, and the people in the world,
especially the people who first invented
circuses, are, after, all, about as desir-
able as they can be- Do YOU remember
the first circus you ever went to- l am
sure IL was not like the one to which YOU
60 to-day. In the first place. it was in a
tent, and three-quarters of the pleasure
consisted in the delightful fear that the
seats were going to break down, and that
your life was, so to say, not exactly in
your own hand, but resting on the honor
of the carpenter, and the strength of the
wood. Then you did not see everything
on one ticket, but, after having gazed at
lovely colored pictures of the bearded
lady, of the twin sister of Queen
Victoria, and the only real native
OF Tlmbuctoo who ever came to
this country, and wore all his diamonds
at once; after having seen these things
and believed that the one pink Slip of
paper would give you an opportunity to
view them all, then it was always nov
city to discover that each vision meant
separate ten cents, and that not one quite
came up to what was expected The
bearded lady's voice was not purely femi-
nine; the gentleman from Timbuctoo
might have had on all his Jewels, but
somehow they did not look as real on him
as in the picture, but disappointed as you
were about all these things, still there
was a great pleasure in the smell of the
sawdust, in the appearance of the ring
master, and in the trained dogs that made
you feel happier than you had been for a
year.
LIVING CHILDHOOD OVER AGAIN.
Personally, am great believer in the
circus The late lamented MIR. Baruum
used to say that it was educating, but I
am not exactly certain about that; in
fact, don't very much care whether it is
or not, but it certainly does make people
young again. 1t seems to me as if it were
the same dear elephant WHO ate apples
when 1 was a small girl would not
like TO say how many years ago-who
now looks out from his queer little eyes
and seems just as hungry as If in all that
time he had never absorbed any of the
delightful fruit that first brought trouble
into this world. The ringmaster of to-
day is just as handsome and impressive
as he of the past. Surely he found the
fountain OF youth years ago when they
stopped over in Florida, and in finding il
he also discovered some other great foun-
tain that gave him that exquisite
manner which makes all the
women and children wish that they
might join the caravan and be able to
listen 10 his delightful requests every
day. Nobody wants to look back of the
scenes. That is one of the joys of the cir
Gus. Nobody ever loses his illusion about
it. Indeed, it seems to me that if there
is In all this country, in all this wide
world a single human being who does
not find pleasure in it, it is because there
Is somethingwrong with him, mentally
and physically. And because [ can see
the big posters from out my window; be-
cause as / am paying the extra price for
quinine, and could only hear the bands
the night of the procession, l know that
spring is here, because the circus has
come.
The next thing of interest in town are
the newly married ones.
LOVE A BRIDE,
and pity a bridegroom. The average
bride of to-day who has come to New
York on her wedding trip may be found
any afternoon drinking soda water and
holding on 10 the young man whose
name she condescends to bear, as if she
were afraid some other girl was going
to run away with him. She walks him
up the street exactly as if she were ex-
ercising a puppy, and she has every
thing matching so perfectly that if you
could not tell that she had lately en-
tered the holy state by the glitter of
her wedding ring, you would know it be-
cause his gloves and hers are exactly
the same shade, and his scarf is made out
OF piece of the silk that is combined
with the cloth in her going-away frock.
She condescends to him as if he had never
been any place before, and she believes
that the smiles that greet her as she
walks into the hotel dining room, attired
In a pale blue wrapper trimmed with
white lace are those of 9OOrOha tiDn and