The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! The first lady mayor in the British empire.
! Mrs. Yates, has just taken her seat at One
/ hunga, New Zealand. She wore at her in
/ augural blue and white print dress with
I white front aad puned sleeves
| One Of the oddities Of life in the Maine
! factory villages is the class Of men who can
| appropriately he called .'housekeepers, says
! the Lewiston Journal. In almost any town
! where much manufacturing Is done, numbers
] Of these men may be found. If one calls soon
/ after mealume. ne viii be likely to ind them
/ with aprons on washing dishes At other
hours they may be seen sweeping up, making
! teds. cleaning and washing the childrel.
/ cleaning house, or cooking. Whether any OF
/ them do the family sewing is not so certain.
/ Ihese men are hOuSekeeperS tor the simple
| reason tina their wives can earn more working
! IN tne mil thau they can and IL becomes
/ matter Of money saving to let them do 1t.
! Some OF them saw and pile the wood IN the
/ she'd and do the chores. and take care Of the
! garden, and do other mans work around
| home, as well as the housekeeping, and the
arrangement seems TO be profitable.
The famous toast to this three R Us read
! ing. "ritiag' and "rithmettc"-is usually &C
! credited to Sir William Curtis. lord MAYOR of
| London, in the year 1925. and for many years
| one OF the wardens Of the tower, says the st.
! Louis Republic. He proposed il at dinner
! given by the London board Of education in
! the days when DR.. Bell and quaker Ian
caster we're pleading for increased educa-
! tlonal advantages for the poor. 1t was re
| ceived with great applause and drank amid
| much merrlment. B I though recognized at
| the time as jest it was afterwards taken up
| in earnest by Sir Williams detractors, who
| Rave handed his name down to posterity as
| Dlundering lgnoramus. late writer IN one
| OF the leadlny English weeklies says that an
| aged eX-memOer Of the board, now deceased,
| assured him that Sir William Curtis, although
a man Of limited education was very shrewd,
| and that it was the hight Of presumption to
| suppose that he used his immortal allitera-
| tlon otherwise than as Jest.
Electricity is becoming an absorbing factor
| in the luxury of modern life The description
| OF the part it is to play in New York resi-
| dental building sounds like fairy tale The
| elevators viii he run and lighted by cleo
| tricity. They will resenbl huge gilt bird
| cages in appearance. The shaft for them will
| be OF plate glass, set in bronze columns and
| protected by elaborate bronze griles. The
| elevator doors will open and shut automati-
| cally by means Of an electric device, and
| there will be no ropes or appian- es visible
| except the cables which pull the cars. The
! pressing Of button will start or stop them,
| light the electric lamps or eXtingulsh
| them. There will be no direct artificial
| light in the halls or saloons. The
! illumination VIII be dependent on
| artfullv concealed electric lamps, whose light
! yin be simply reelected, or blended with sin
| gle or combined tints, according to the sttua-
| tiOn ana the hangings OF the apartment. Thus,
| TO room furnished in white, a predominant
| tone Of any given color can be impaired by
| the changing of the lamp shades. and the
! tints Of cOlOred rooms can be modified in the
| same way when desired Attached to the
! building there will be kitchen department.
| The cooking and most of the Work OF the de-
! partment will be done by electricity, and the
| same agency viii keep the house warm in
| winter and cool in summer
Naples is not pleasant place to travel in,
| says a Chicago Times writer. The moment
| you put your foot on shore a crowd of shrek
| ing porters closes in Each one SEXES bit
| OF baggage while you fight helplessly for its
| possession. and you are borne along IN the
| crowd to the custom house, which found one
| of the most disagreeable j ever encountered.
| They judged from my looks that was an an
| archist and had dynamite bombs IN nv trunk
| and they pulled out everything l had and
| opened every little BOX. In. all my travels
| that never was done to me before. Every
| body in official life is little uneasy in Italy
! now. The troubles IN Sicily while greatly
| exaggerated by the papers, are sufficient to
| have warranted the sending over a large
| force of troops, and the fanatical anarchists
| are everywhere striving to push their absurd
| theories. one co I'D laugh at them II they
| we're not so dangerous-dangerou because
| the men who hold them consider their
| own lives cheaply sold If they can
| ruin and destroy innocent people who
! never did them an atom OF harm. Italy feels
| very deeply the financial strait all govern
| ments are now feeling, and it is harder for
| her since she has fewer resources and the
| army and navy or "Ortopj." which crush her
| very sorely, but she will weather the storm.
| Her commerce is rapidly increasing, and her
| full advance. Her people are energetic
brave, hopeful and patriotic One cannot help
| liking Italians. because, to use one OF their
| own words, they are so 'slmpatT1O.' They
| are SO uniformly courteous, and 50 inter
| ested in your welfare. For example, when
| 20 leave wharf the crowd Of on.
| their fright eyes sparkle and they wave their
| hands in graceful adieux though they
| never have seen you before and never
| will again. You may say it is purely out
| ward. but think it is a great thing to have
| gained the outward even if the inward be still
| wanting. he outward gives a charm to the
| inward. and that charm we Americans still
| lack We have plenty Of genuine courtesy
| ana kind feeling, but the frame in which to
set it is not there. and Its a ssnce takes away
| from the value. We need not trouble our
| selves. When one contrasts the deferential
wav in which even the commonest American
| treats woman It forms blessed contrast
| to the rude staring and often insulting com
| ments which Neapolltans nestow upon every
! woman who has the slightest pretensioa to
! good looks. ..-....
Miss Anna Bicknell, for many years a
| governess in the family Of one Of the ladies of
| the Empress Eugenie's household, contributes
| an article on " 1 he 1uiueries under the Sec
ond mpire" to the March Century from
| which we extract the following: It must Re
! acknowledged tha the Tuileries, built at diff
| terent periods, and arranged for various
necessities, was not a convenient habitation.
| Several OF the large galleries had been cut
into al artments for the use of the numerous
were separated passages having no means
OF external light or ventilation. so that lamps
burned Gay and night, and the air was close
and heavy. Ihs different floors communi-
Gated in the interior by narrow, winding
stairCases, a.sO lighted at al times; so that
the first impression TO visitors was strangely
lugubriOl and funereal Two floors had also
often been made out OF one so that the cell
ings were low. and the deep windows pre-
/ vented the free transmission Of light
especially darkening the rooms situated to.
ward the north The Conyeniences of modern
life we're very imperfect During the greater
! part of the Emperor reign there was not
/, even water put in and the daily supply of
the inmates was brought up in pals
to the various apartments. The sanitary ar
engagements and drainage were very bad; in
the regions inhabited by the servants. the air
was Absolutely pcstilential. The empress oc.
cupied the first floor, communicating by a
small private staircase with the apartments
OF the emperor, which were on the ground
floor, near those atterward devoted TO the
use OF the prince imperial In the first years
of the empire the furniture OF the private
apartments was not remarkable, but at
later period the rooms used by the empress
were arran red with exquisite taste and ele-
gance. The first salon, furnished in two
shades OF pal gre IN with gold trApinps coD-