The morning news., 1894-07-08

not few learned damsels were prepared
with almost as much study and care as
the graduating theses In fact, the dress
of one young lady class poet is described
as being "a poem in itself"
Thanks to modern advancement, learn
ing is casting of its old clothes and ar
raying itself most gorgeously. And we
owe the coming of the sweet-scented
muses. of to-day to the wisdom which has
opened the door to woman. For the first
time in history learning may truly be
called lovely.
Strange, says the Cincinnati Times
Star, what fads possess some people. The
delegate, the other evening, calling upon
one of the sweet girl graduates, was sur
prised to have her make of him this pc
culiar request: Wont you, "ARsked she,
help me in my collectionS what,
postage stamps1" he asked. mo, indeed;
that's only for school children. You know
collections are a present day fad. I'm 60
ing to be just a bit eccentric, and have
started an original collection fad. You
may think it an odd fancy, but Pm
collecting wishbones.' So saying,
she displayed those already gathered
She has vast assortment strung about
her own room, and any number put away
in boxes. Now. then, she poutingly
said, 81 think you might help me in my
collection. If you can't get wishbone
when you dine on game at the club or at
the hotel, you can do another thing. Save
all your empty cigar boxes for me to put
my gems away In, won't youl' OF course,
the promise was made. Then she showed
more and more Of her wishbones. Among
them were those of particularly large and
small birds. She even had the wishbone
of humming bird.
Clara Belle has the following in one of
her letters to the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Said the steward on one of a popular line
OF summer steamers: For years I've
been watching bridal couples, and great
difference has come over them since first
went into the business. l pricked up
my ears and proceeded to melt the stew
ard with smile with view to getting
more informatio You can always tell
them, he went on, ANY one can, and no
matter how their general makeup
changes, still you can recognize them.
A brides and a groom keep together on
deck, and yet they are not trying to en-
tertain each other. They make point
Of being very quiet and not appearing
taken up with each other, acting as if
they were friends simply travelling by ac-
cldent, or else as if they met each other
through Irritation before the
boat left the dock 1t is by their not
flirting you can distinguish 'em, and right
here | come to mention the change I've
noticed. 1t wasn't ten years ago when
you could tell bride by hundred differ
ent signs that are not around now. Why,
ten years ago it was by the bride you
knew the coupler; now, mark you, it's by
the groom you tell. She used to be timid
and shy, blush and cling to his'arm, fol-
low him about with her eyes, and you
knew all the time that if she didn't
put her head on his shoulder in the gen
e. O1.o IN Iapl~ ,1yae hora he
knew he wouldn't like it. Every time he
spoke or did something for her she would
blush and look at him in a way that
would make man squirm. Often he
would be very attentive, and then you
could tell by him, but a good many more
times he would be mighty off-haud and
dignitied, and you'd catch him shaking
his head and scowling at her when she
acted too shy. I've seen a man talk an
grily and get right up and leave because
the little bride began to whimper at his
scowling.
Now! Why, there's all the difference
in the world! She is as quiet and cool as
an ice cream brick. You'n see him get
her fixed comfortably with her cloak
about her and chair for her feet, and
she will sit still and look out on the wa
ter, while he takes shy glances at her
now and again, wondering If she likes it
as far as she has gone. That's it; the
bride nowadays seems to be wondering
the same thing, and more than half of
them look as if they didn't My father
used TO tell me that in his day brides
were still and frightened, and kept get
ting whittier as it came on to candle time
but, mercy in these DAYS it is he that is
scary-looking. And she! 1t isn't that
she looks unhappy, frightened or any
thing like that; but she's got it sin her
face these days that she wonders what
she did it for anyhow and feels bored
and restless about it. No one
but steward can tell how
many brides in these days get up from
the supper table, just saying they don't
feel well, and go to the stateroom. and he,
getting red as a lobster and trying to
finish his supper alone. Half the time he
don't dare do anything but knock at the
door and ask how she is feeling Sea sick,
nav! 1t is more often the groom is not
in the room at all; likely as not he wan
ders around till very late and then gets a
berth on the quiet. There isn't one
who is going to be sorry for the bride
these days-it's for the groom. 1t ap-
pears to me that girls get welded be-
cause the man is rich, or because ne has
been very attentive, or that all the girls
she is acquainted with are all getting
married. When it is actually done, she
looks at him and says, Pooh, is that ALP
di4S budO OCllS buC way Lt CdlluOb uClD
feeling it in his mind, and it puts him at
disadvantage,
''Is old age unlovely2" said woman of
society, to the New York Tribune, who is
herself not so very young. Yes, but it
need not be so. OF course good temper
and youthful spirit 20 far to make it
charming to look upon, but, putting these
desirable qualities aside, old age is, TO
speak frankly, made agreeable by abso-
lutte neatness.
Its in the lack of this dainty neatness
that too many old people offend-even
some Of those who have all their lives
been accustomed to refined and careful
ways They yield to the physical languor
and weakness that creep on them with
the creeping years, and the little
efforts and exertions that beautiful neat
ness requires they are inclined to neglect.
All the accessories of an old PERSONS at
tire should be fresh and complete, though
not necessarily expensive, and the most
exact personal cleanliness should be OBJ
served. Attend to these matters and no
old man or woman need be unlovely I've
seen old Quaker ladies who were as win
ming in their way as any sweet, rosy baby
with their spotless dress and their deli
cate compleXions, their scrupulously cared
for hands, and their smoothly banded
white hair. 1 should always preach TO
old people the prosaic and perfectly sim
pie doctrine, BE clean, be clean, be
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