The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-11
PENITENTIAL TEARS.
Bab'S Timely Rules for the Nineteenth
Century Lenten Period.

How Society Mademoiselles VIII
Conduct Themselves During the
Forty Days of Mourning-Odd Res
taurant Life-Distinguished Diners.
A Sonnet Dedicated to a Cook-In
BoheInia's Land.
published 1s94.)
New York, Feb.-We are all in sack
cloth and ashes. Being feminine, most of
US drape our sackcloth in a smart way
and wear our ashes as if they were the
latest style of head-dress. We repent
oh, yes we repent, but in way that suits
us best. We thank heaven that remorse
doesn't keep US awake nights. Indeed, if
by chance it made an attempt to speak
one night, we would, properly enough,
hush it with dose of choral or morphia
and then we would laugh to think that
in the days gone by people believed that
the voice of conscience, or remorse, or
digestion, or whatever it was called,
could not be quoted. We repent in the
manner of the nineteenth century.
Mademoiselle, who has been dancing
and prancing through all the fashionable
functions getting little sleep, and having
AAldllS uCHuduuS IlduG on AGT DOQY ana
brain (for 1T is the vogue for woman to
have bit of brain nowadays is de-
| lighted to welcome the forty DAYS of
mourning, because it gives her an oppor-
tunity TO rest a little. OF course, as she
tells you, she will go out to quiet
things" but it won't be a hurry and a
scurry from house to house, from dance
to dance, fearing to be absent from any
one because then the world might think
that she hadn't been invited And she
of to-day is dreadfully afraid that that
might be believed. Well she is going to
enjoy her days Of mourning You know
there is a certain sort of pleasure in
mourning. II is nightly pleasant to 90
TO an early morning service, and convince
ones self that one is the greatest sinner
in the world; it is a charming form of
vanity, not requiring new ball gown, a
new arrangement of the hair, or anything
else that tends TO make one attractive.
NOW SHE Is GOING TO REPENT.
Dear little Madame X. gravely an
nounces to her husband that she is going
to repent by giving her cook a chance to
enjoy herself. Y. is a little stupid, and
at first he doesn't understand, but she
soon makes him. He is TO take her out
three nights in the week to dinner, and
she adds, with a bewitching smile
make me enjoy myself exactly as if we
wern't married"
For the first outing X. arranged fine
dinner at Delmonicos, flowers and favors,
and all sorts of good things to eat. But
the little Madame pouted all through din
ner, wasn't any too agreeable when they
got home, and then burst into tears and
told X, who had done his best poor
wretch, that he doesn't love her, or else
he wouldn't have given her Just such a
dinner as she has been having all the time,
and which was no novelty.
She gave him three days to find a place
that would be new to her. Now, X, hap
pened to know newspaper fellow, so he
asked him, and the newspaper man said
Il can tell you
A PLACE THAT is UNIQUE,
Where you can get good dinner, where
you Will meet the most marvellous set of
people YOU ever saw in your life, but IN
only tell you with the proviso that you
don't let the so-called fashionable set
know anything about it; and my reason
for asking this is that once they get to go
ing there they will ruin it. And to show
you how this can happen, 1 need only to
Illustrate the career OF restaurant that
Is today perfectly well known to every
body. When it was started, the proprie-
tor, neat little Frenchman. was his own
manager and head waiter: his wife was
the cashier, and very good dinner with
pint Of light claret was gotten for
40 cents. This place was down
in the neighborhood of the University,
and in a little while the artists from
Tenth street Eot to going there, the lit
erary set found 1t out, and it was the
most delightful Every body knew every
body else. and if you wanted to find
good musician, "a well-known artist or a
newspaper man, you only had 10 drop into
Joseph's TO look for him. IN a little while
the said Joseph began to make money
then he put out a flag at the top Of his
house that bore the sign Hotel Joseph
The price OF the dinner went up steadily. |
and its quality went down. The men who
had written OF it, aud among these men
was one Of the cleVerest story writers OF