The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-02

Il have been asked there 10 dine once
or twice." answered the great lady, but
never heard Of any spiritual nantes
tatiOns at her house. What do YOU
mean ~"
But did you go there at an2" persisted
the other.
mo; it so happened was engaged both
times she asked me" returned Mrs. --,
rather surprised at the catechism.
We'll. no one else has been there either,
although she mas asked every one Of note
in the place exclaimed her interlOcutOr,
triumphantly, and that is why l call
her functions ghost parties as they are
only the shadows of the substance, the
dinner itself being purely imaginary.
Why, that woman has gained the reputa-
ton for entertaining, and has received no
end of dinner invitations on absolutely
nothing at all. / have suspected her tao
tics for some time, and now ] am quite
sure that what l assert IS quite true
that in nine cases out Of ten her dinners
are purely imaginary. She has a clever
way of finding out who is engaged, TO
whom. and then she asks people whom
she knows cannot come 10 her house
and so scores to her social account, with
no other outlay than her crested paper
and dainty seal And fancy she is not
the only one either who has discovered
this very economical way of returning or
compelling social obligations"
THE SIGNS OF ACE
Think You tbs years that mark US with old
All, no, my friend. It is the pangs that
dart
From disappointed hopes, aud wars that
And cause the wounds that scar the broken
heart.
We cbarca ,ritE, ts,,a scorca fae1 Ito elorrt,,
Youthful desire gradually subdues;
The ear attunes TO far celestial strain
That woos US where eterpal youth renews.
Age may impair the vigorous and strong;
May turn the dark tresses silver white:
May numb the ear TO sound, or sweetest
AND cloud the vision in the darkest night.
But if thy heart has known no care or woe;
or discord neer thy human nerves IN
Or hast escaped griefs-few escape, I know
Thou wilt then eycrlastingly he young
For youth is full OF hope, of love, OF trust,
And sentiments of gentle touch that thrill,
Content with pleasures simple; ana thou
Be young. if these continue with thee still
Though time, they say, has lightly scored on
me
O
Upon my heart is left with cruelty
And am old, with wounds from pangs and
war
JOSEPHINE HAsAM.
New Orleans, July, 1894
Many interesting genealogical facts,
says the New York Tribune, have been
brought TO light through the hunting up
of old family records invoved in proving
eligibility to the receltly organized socie-
-.F# v t,1I
of the Revolution. An amusing story is told
OF Mrs. A, who has suddenly and unex-
pectedly discovered a most desira BILE an
CestOr, and who is so proud of her new
acquisition that she has had his portrait
painted, his biography written and
printed, and has made his name a house
hold word in her family. On searching
her pedigree she found, to her great sur
prise, that her mothers people, quiet
country folk whom she had always con
sidered as humble connections of the
family, had really the best American an
cestry, and that 1t was the farmer s
daughter, direct descendant OF one of
the old colonial governors. who had made
a misalliauce when she accepted what the
world considered great match, and mar
ried Mrs. A. S millionaire father.
At the recent meeting of the National
Colonial Danes very curious relationships
We're discovered, and it was interesting
TO see old ladies from the north and the
south, who had never met, ana had
hitherto been unaware of the others ex-
istence, claim kinship through some COM
mon ancestor, equally reverenced in both
families.
The question of how to drape cur
tains, says the New York Times, is an
important one. One artist said: Every
thing should hang straight at the sides"
another favored feStoonS and ends, or, in
technical parlanCe, "Sways and tails, " and
a third favored "draped lambrequins. -"
However the artistic eye may design a
particular drapery, there Is one great,
important fact, too slghtingly treated by
many hOuseKeepers. That is, perfection
in hanging A draper is just as exact in
measuring and placing the curtain as the
carpenter is in hanging his door. A little
out of plumb means any amount of
trouble. An uneven folding meaus
crooked, unsightly hanging to the
drapery and sagging or "shew"
to the very best part of the room S
decoration. For are not windows open
pictures? Are they not the eyes of a
room, and therefore in need of careful
treatment? The poorest stuff requires
quite as much, if not more, care in hang
ing than very rich, heavy goods. A pro-
fessional curtain hanger confeSses that
he breads having to hang curtains once
placed by unframed hands. He knows
how he will find them, stretched, crooked
and out of shape
Every measurement should be perfectly
true, and when once put in place no pains
should be spared to keep the folds hang
ing as they were meant to hang. por-
there which is swished back and forth,
pushed here, pulled there, by children or
elders either, soon becomes a blemish,
rather than a decoration in a room, un-
less il has been firmly hung and is fire.
quently arranged
Two things I especially enjoy here at
Klssingen, writes a woman from the
German spa. zone is the baths. which
are delightful; the water is so impreg-
mated with carbonic ACID gas that it is
like bathing in champagne, and the ex-
hilaration afterward completes the asso-
citation of a possible result from a plunge
into tub of extra dry; the other is the
little maid who cares for our rooms
Every right she comes in and opens the
beds, spreads out the night clothes, and
then turns to each of US with broken
musical, sleep well, dream sweet back
ing out of the room as she does so"
The whole life here is delightful " she
goes on. Our rooms open on a balcony
over the 'Garten,' where at o'clock in
the morning the orchestra bepins 10 NAV