The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-11
VOMAN'S " ORLD.
4 Few Things Of Interest TO the
Fair Sex.

with Flowers-How Mrs. Wander
hits Boudoir is Furnished-Some
Narrow-minded Society Women and
Tzow They Are Sometimes Punished
For Their Selfshness-How to Care
For the Hair-Some other Matters
of General Interest.
There is a certain class of women in
New York, " said Mrs. X to reporter
orthe New York Tribune, "whO are Just
IS insular' in their prejudices and mar
row in their views as is the most pro-
r5unced type of the British female of the
MINER middle class-and not unlike her in
their short-sighted and ignorant belief
shat no desirable society can exist outside
of the particular inner circle of the world
in which they move. When, therefore,
John Knickerbocker brought home a
nrettv wife from the west, and installed
her in a fashionable locality, his two mar
rfed sisters, Mrs. Van Amsterdam and
Mrs. Haughton, took no pains to conceal
their disapprObation and disappointment,
and treated their new sister-in-law with
frigid and distant politeness, which.
luckily, made no impression upon the
charming bride. She was too happily
absorbed to be conscious of neglect,
or to feel much interested in
the plans of Mrs. Van A, who
talked grandly of having her oldest
daughter presented in the spring and
bringing her out in London before her
debut at home the following winter
once in England, however, the American
matron did not find life in Mayfair all
that her fancy had painted it, for, de
spite her excellent letters, her acquaint-
ance with those of her tOWnsWOmen who
had married abroad. and her undisputed
social position in New York, she fen dis
tluctly and intentionally out of it,
Her i'll humor with her surroundings was
not lessened by receiving a letter from
her brother Jack, informing her that he
and the bride proposed taking run
over and would look her up in London.
He added, 'MiIly likes England, and we
think of settling down in London for
few weeks
IF Jack and his wife think they are
going to use me to see something of London
society," exclaimed the irate scion of the
kuickerbOckers, on reading the letter,
they are vastly mistaken. l do not pro-
pose to be hampered by a nobody from
the west, and Jack may Just as well real
lie now as ever what he incurred when
he chose to marry out OF our set When,
a fortnight later, note was brought to
her from her sister-in-law SAYING that
they had taken rooms on Blank street,
and asking her to call the next morning
she wrote an icy reply, eXcusing herself
from calling just then, on account of 'nu-
mcrOus engagements She added that
she hoped to see them before they left
town
Mrs Jack laughed good-humoredly
when she received the reply, understand
H., 90 rr4nf
quietly ignored the presence of her arts
toCratic' relative in London; but Mrs.
Van A. thought her SAVIOR faire decidedly
at fault when, a week later, she attended
a very smart dinner at the duchess OF
As to which she had looked for
ward as the most notable event of her
London eHpercnce,l and found her
pretty sister-in-law one of the most hon
Ored guests of the occasion, perfectly at
home and on terms of the greatest init
macy with the hostess, who showed by
constant illusions TO preceding seasons
that the western beauty not only had
lived abroad for several years, but had
been decided social success"
-Four golden dishes, says the London
Daily News, were missed from Prince
Lsterhazy's castle, near Oedenberg,
which the deceased princes father pur-
chased for $4,000 when he was ambassa-
dor in London fifty years ago Two of
these golden dishes Says our Vienna cor
RESPONDENT were once the property of
Mary Queen of Scots, and Scottish noble
men. according, that IS, to the tradition
in the Esterhazy family, served the
queens dinner on them daily. The other
dishes are from a service which be-
longed TO the Empress Marie Theresa Ii
is believed that some WOrkmeu who had
to make repairs in the castle committed
the theft, and in the town of OedenbUrC 4
tradesman has been arrested. l hear
that the police have already traced the
golden plates, but that they have been
melted, and are but hump Of gold.
A curious scene was witnessed recently,
SAYS the London Telegraph, outside
Paddington station. A respectfully
dressed young woman who had arrived at
the terminus from the country was quietly
proceeding in the direction of Edgware
Road when a young man, also respect
ably dressed, met her, turned deadly
pale, and exclaimed: "Oh Helen, we
thought you were dead" and would prob
abby have fallen to the ground in faint
Ing condition had not the young woman
and sympathetic way iarers who wit
I. ssed the unusual occurrence assisted
MIN INTO a temperance refreShment house,
Where restoratives were obtained.
Ihe girl had for sometime been a shop
assistant at village on the outskirts of
South London, and had there become en-
gagged TO the young man. She left her
place and returned to her parents in the
country for q holiday. Somehow or
other report was spread in the village
mat the girl had suddenly died from in
nlelza, and the news appeared so circum-
s.auual and detailed that it obtained
general creience. The lover was discOn-
solaJe, mentioned his grief to The pastor
Oh the Methodist chapel where he and his
sweetheart had worshipped and the
MINISTER next Sunday preached a funeral
sermon drawing suitable LESSONS from
sAe uneNp cted decease Of their young
friend. All was over.
me young man was, it appeared, ac-
Iea4y on his way to paddingJon station
en- route 10 the home Of the girl with, the
view OF visiting the grave when he met
mel III the flesh, alive, and looking very
wei. she declared that she had written
70 AIm once and was astonished not to
nave GOT an answer. He, on his side,
3Eeffcd mat the missiye never reached
I'D IL Is very probable that the Aletho-
uiSy MINISTER who pronounced her funeral
oEAlIoA VIII soon be asked to oltiCiate at a
sun more interesting ceremony, in which
al VIII De one OF two principal partici-