The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-18


the Tray. At shop No. she tries on coat
after coat. Nothing suits. Suddenly
she sees one on another customer. and her
choice is made That is the coat she
would like she tells the saleswoman, and
they hang breathless on the second Gus
toner's decision. Alas! she decides to
take 1t, and the golden opportunity is
gone.
Our heroine is discouraged then and re-
solves to seek another shop. She looks
around for her coat, to find it gone.
An inspiration seized her. 1t was her
coat the other woman had bought. The
saleSwoman Indignantly denied the allega-
ton; insinuates she must have come in
without coat. This aroused her net
tie; she invokes the aid of the head Of the
department. makes her assertion officially
backs it with proofs-a card in the pock-
ct, mended place where the braid had
slipped-and as the coat was still in the
store, having been left to be sent G. .. D.,
victory perches upon her banner, and the
coat is restored with apologies. Incident
ally it slipped out that the second pur-
chaser paid Sl8 for the fifteen dollar coat
Even this rise in value, however does
not satisfy its owner Possession, as
usual, tempered the 10y of coveting. When
she found the coat was her own, it became
as unbecoming as ever, and she walked
out of the shop and went straight to
another "to look at cloaks."
She reached the second store about l 80
O'Clock, tried on numerous garments, but
found nothing TO suit her. Preparing to
continue her travels, she looks for her
coat to go forth. Again it is gone
Search is begun, continued, and success
fully ended at 4 o'clock, after our I'M
happy friend has waited three hours in
the stockrOom on the top floor.
There are two deluctiOnS from this ali
solutely true recital. One is the wisdom
of looking after ones belongings-a les
son many careless women may advan-
tageously learn.
Another, that should not pass unnoticed
is the exposition of the saleswoman's
tricks. There was no price mark on the
cloak, and she deliberately put her own
value upon it, 50 more than its estimated
worth, and added to this unprincipled
method the stupidity of not recognizing
strange stock in the wares she was hand
ling.
Many heartache, says the New York
Tribune, and many disappointment re-
mains latter the ball is over" and a great
many girls ask themselves, as they gladly
subside into the retirement of Lent: SIS
it worth while all this striving and effort,
this going out year after year in society
endeavoring with more or less success to
hold ones own in the 'swim2' "It is
simply because everybody thinks that we
ought, and we feel ourselves that il is in
cumbent upon us TO get married." said a
very plain-spoken young woman. do
imagine for one instant that the pater
would pay my big dressmaker's bills
without protest, or that poor dear mamma
would sit up for me, night after night,
at the balls, and give expensive din
ma 20
chance'2 We know it, and they know
that we know it, although it is not openly
spoken about, and ID Is called letting us
go out and giving US good time, while
it really means that we are to get mar
ried if we can"
1t is hopeful sign of the times that
not a few spirited girls are rebelliug
against being put, as it were, upon the
market. 1t remains one of the inconnpre-
hensible inconsistencies of maternal affec-
ton that the majority of mothers, how
ever loving and devoted they may be to
their daughters, would-as a really good
woman said the other day-''rather see
them unhappily married than not married
at all.n
Whenever Max O'Rell opens his 1atter-
ing lips on the subject of woman, feminine
ears all over the world are pricked up.
ne mas De6u recurring ABOUT ner l0bely,
and makes some pleasing international
comparisons. He said that in the French
household woman was queen; she led her
husband, and he did not complain she
knew all his affairs. He consulted her
about his investments; that was why
wealth in France was so stable, because
women were not speculative. She thor
oughly understood the poetry of matri-
mony. In England a woman knew Moth
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as his clerk The wife of the peasant pro-
prietor was the very fortune of France
harkworkiug, sober, thrifty, always work
ing in the house. the field, the market. Her
daughter did not wear fringes, but when
she went to service every month she paid
visit to the savings bank when she got
her wages; an English servant girl got
new hat and was photographed in it. The
more he saw of American women the
more deeply he was impressed with the
conviction that they were totally unlike
all other women. There were few women
to be compared with them in the drawing
room none with whom men felt more at
ease. They had beauty, but it was not
equal to that of English women but il
was there intellectual qualities that were
striking. From the age of is a girl was
allowed almost every liberty-she took
the rest. In Europe women let the men
uObihS Nhdu Wdo piOp0L III AMOElCd, buey
did it for themselves.
A writer in the Springfield Republican
tells of intense motherly devotion of the
first lady Of the land. The example she
sets is well worthy Of imitation, writes
she, for surely it Is woman: Mrs.
Cleveland is an ideal mother 1t is true
that the "Rosss of France" have faded
from her cheek since her lovely form and
face first dawned on the city's astouished
vision. but in its place has come ma
tronly shape, mothers tender dignity
and a wife's high resolve. No woman
looks at her, especially if she is privi-
legged to see her, with her babies, without
to intense Loyalty Ruth
was not, to my thinking, beautiful
child, but one of unusual attractions
and exceedingly winning. When 4 saw
her in the spring, just after she had be-
gun to go alone, had bunch of violets
in my hands. She wanted them, and
gave them to her. She took them to a
remote part of the room, spread out her
dress, laid violet after violet upon it,
looked at them awhile and then laid them
daintily into the tin foil and brought
them back / never saw 50 young a child
so concentrate her attention. The last
thing l heard Of her she was doing down