The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-22

Ssss:
when in Rome do as the Romans do
This truism, says the New York Tribune,
IS one of the safest of all rules to fol-
low, and yet is one of those excellent
pieces of advice that is generally disre-
garded. People are more than apt TO carry
their individual conventionaliues with
them wherever they go, and endeavor to
make a square patch fit a round hole,
however difficult the task may be, and I'M
satisfactory the result Adaptability is
one of the most charming of traits. and
vet it is very seldom cultivated. This prin-
cipe applies to many other things besides
manners and customs. Britons and Amer
leans generally not only carry their ways
of living into the countries they inhabit,
like snail, with its house on its back,
but even their food while in many cases
it is not adapted to the climate, consu-
tuition, or even the appetite Apropos of
this tendency to disregard the good the
gods provide well known clubman and
epicure was speaking the other day of
the gradual disappearance of what is
known distinctively as southern cookery
and the old-time dishes that used to be
the pride of every southern wOman's
heart.
waxing enthusiastic, those ante-bellum
days, when, as a young collegian, 1 was
invited by some classmate to pass a holi-
day week in the south. The memory of
that fried chicken, with it's inimitable
cream sauce q have tried again and again
to have it done in my house without sue
cess, that indiscribably delicious corn
bread, the roast sucking pig, the stuffed
turkey surely no stuffing was ever like
that, the cakes and breakfast breads. to
say nothing OF the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
desserts, pies and goodies of every de-
scription, has never left me. When 1 re-
ceived an invitation from B., who has
bought a fine place in Virginia, to come
down with house party for Thanksgiv-
ing week, 1 was delighted, for those men,
cries of my boyish days came back to
me. bringing beatific vision of the good
old fare, which l fondly hoped to see re-
peated Going down in our special, Jack
r. and talked Of the delicious southern
dishes that each remembered so well, I'M
I'll the longing Wltnln us grew really
quite intense. Well, we arrived with a
cold wave, tired, hungry and chilly: and
my first disappointment was to see in
stead of the smiling darkey men ser
wants of autre fois and ebony maids in
bandanas, couple of correct English
footmen waiting to receive us. At this
sign of the times my heart sank
Now, feel sure said to r., that
we will have BIS excerable chef l know
of old, how he ever can stand that man l
can't conceive and, alas, my forebodings
proved true. A long tedious course dim
ner of made dishes of questionable merit
cold, and badly served, for which our
host apologized on the score of wretch
ed range and inconvenient household ar
Iange e men was only the precursor of
other like repasts. 1t is so very difficult
TO get the kind of provisions here that we
require and are accustomed to-, said Mrs
B., charming woman, but one who is,
] feel bound to say, no housekeeper; 9TH
erwise her instincts would have told her
mat her cue lay in going back to the ira
Gluons OF the country, and organizing her
household on the lines of an old Virginia
homestead 'befo' de war "
In selecting bridesmaids wisely ex-
pounds a young woman engaged in that
interesting occupation TO the New York
Ilmes, 1T is not beauty that counts so
much as style and carriage. In partfcu-
lar you want girls who walk well. The
SLOW march down the aisle is the best test
OF gait l know of. I've watched bridal
professions often and I've seen girls ra-
dianty pretty lose all the effect of their
good looks by their hobbling walk. Try
to move the feet forward very slowly and
see how easily it becomes a limping hitch
II should be a glide, then the slowness is
stately. The bride herself is helped by
ner long train, her dropping head and the
leaning on her fathers arm before and
her husbands after the ceremony, but
me bridesmaid wears short gown, must
look on level, walks up and down at the
SIDE or another girl, and so has her own
grace alone on which to depend. A girl
VINO walks well, whose head is well set
on her shoulders and whose hair arranges
Wen makes a good appearance as a
bridesmaid, even if she lacks extraordi-
nary beauty of face"
A quiet little romance. of which only
NOSE most interested are supposed as yet
70 know, says the Washington Star, has
grown from the fertile agricultural de-
partment. Once upon a time there was
= pretty girl in a far-off western state
hard times pressed heavily upon her
nome and broke the cheerful spirit of her
aged rather and mother With the brave
n a m CFFf ffnfaV
mortgage from the small farm, the young
SRI came to Washington, and. after
tuIed a position in the seed division of
me agricultural department. Quietly
ana faithfully she did her daily duty,
saving much more of her salary than
sne spent. and dreaming of a time when
me savings would be enough to tighten
NE mortgage, and the dear old hearts at
When the seed division was abolished.
1SE hopes sank very low. All efforts to
" ashington seemed big and strange and
l2heIy; She wrote a letter to the newly
e,eGled congressman Of her home district,
'Liu asked him TO aid her with his inhu-
nee IN obtaining a government position
81 lad never seen the congressman.
me Imagined him to be a benevolent PEI
disposition. ''
lie happened to receive her letter as he
va slarLng 10 Washington on afte-con-
eLt7slonal business. and he answered Il in
ifi son lie was neither old nor PETER
49, y. MAS young ana good looking and
49, puDle. His business IN Washington
Ing hened itself out unaccountabiy. The
10y klH has gone home now, but this
FHltf mere Is going 70 be a happy young
.tnie ln a modest little home on capitol
liiI, ana that western congressman Is 90
w ~ challenge every fellow member
~ snail dare 70 lift word Of protest
vision.
-olor-h-ind Girls are not pearly 20 rare.
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