The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-03

oue WINDOW about O'clock in the after
noon. when she never failed to be there
II she happened TO be in another mart of
me mouse at that hour. she would scurrv
1,MaS 70 her room to greet the coming of
SSSS 9itSht patch Of sunlight that never
ldileu ner except on a rainy dav She call
So Il my company She knitted a great
usdl' Stockings and mittens and muffiers
anu otner uninteresting and useful things
II never once occurred to any OF us grown
Ups or children that there was anything
pa.ne ile about her. Even when she dieG
SIOHte i feeling was a sense of relief
ShIy OF late years have ] come TO realize
NV i9heiy she must have been IN her
Of - - Hep5Tildence upon US and in her lack
~ loNe Ihank heaven, though there can
DS no Aunt Betsey's nowadays You NAV
oeSJSct ds you choose to the present influx
ijf omen INTO professional and business
tt, u ITS II Infinitely preferable to the one
1 ! ne 10 my daughter. Betsey. a home
Eon believe in boomers. nor in many
man de enlnSs that the 'emancipatef wo-
ate them" '-''-' -
d, bbaere are many MANUALS quarts
Heufes IN the lives of the absent-nind-
gu When the results of their lspses in
tba are brought home 10 them, saws
NJ Nv FORK Tribune. Little Mrs A.
S MY lad been charmingly entertained at
Ohlcago on her way to California -lasf
Spalns, was delighted the other dav to
s sltres ons OF her quondam hostesses on the
% ieISl, ana asked her to dine couple
" Gays later. Then, as luck would have
~ she entirely forgot the engagement
On tbst 10 her husband that they should
On mat very evening dine at the Waldorf
ana go afterward to the piay
Just as the pair We're starting however
carriage drove up to the door and Mrs
A., with unspeakable consternsti on s,,d
ushly remembered her Invitation. To ex-
plain Inc me situation to her husband. and
senu MN flying to his club which fortu-
nately was in the neighborhood. for a
! course dinner, was the work of a moment.
anu SIo{Iigratulating herself upon her gen
eIdIsnlp Mrs a. ran down to the dra wing
/ ting her attire ~
You are going out?" exclaimed the lat
n Te9', am sure you forgot all about
Mrs. A, of course, protested. secure in
VII yie hhh OWE of the. elaborate dinner
"!miIIeh she knew would soon he served
| the other 0'' P0iSis'eu
| latest Partisan headdress for hati
rraus4llngly returned Mrs. A. with calm
neIuacity and her guest had the tact
e eU Hienexe, or to appear to believe, the
instead Of the old-fashioned grab bag"
OF me nsh pond" at fairs and bazars. il
fd pTgis1y f fqea to have what is called
! arranged as to look like a bit Of garden
| ~ Win palms and Towering plants In
| eren must IS construction of ever
sieeh 70 represent a tall and vigorous
! tree, and to its limbs are tied fruits that
! aPpear 10 be oranges, lemons, cocoanuts
| piheapples, bananas, toma toes cucumbers
! gourds-any fruit in fact. which can he
initiated IN color by tissue papers. Inside
| ron OF cotton shaped like the real
| any sold at such times The fruits are
OF course, valued at a set price. but. If
ffesiitteuis me different boughs may bear
Huit OF different value
The fruit tree is more troublesome to
| SSt ready than the grab bag could nos
s shy be, but il is so much more attractive
% IL.
An old friend Of Miss Alcott saws that
tne author of Little Women told her.
When l sat down to write that book ii
f SSS IN desperate response to a request
rom my publishers that / should try
something they were greatly i'm need Of
az that time; story about girls in their
teens: Do you know, it was the hard
est thing / ever did Although had had
tnree sisters-one was dead the dear
| Beth OF my Childhood never had been
brought into conflict with any other
girls, and the peculiar circumstances of
my childish life, my fathers odd views
ana the places and people they led his
IdIhliy among, did not tend to give me
courage IN writing of ordinary home
Ile nor snow me how the rest of the
else to describe, just set down our everv-
Gay happenings 'amonk ourselves with
scarcely a word of fiction, except as i
mad ed TO Draw on my imagination a little
Tor the character of Laurie. And even
there had always been fonder-and am
noW-of boys than of girls so that / did
have one or two models TO work from
1t was tremendous surprise to me when
l found that the homely details of our
commonplace struggles. our fun and our
wanted to hear all about. l have never
fairly recovered from the establishment
caused by the reception accorded to
Little Women"
If it weren for fads the heart would
break, or people would stop in their mad
career and think. But fads we have al
ways with us: And the craze of the mo-
ment is for illustrated cards
Not yet in America has this mania
spread appreciably but Paris, that sets
the fashions, pipes us this pace, and our
more alert mondaines are about to dance
to it.
menus" writes from Paris a youthful
leader in the New York smart set. Paris
Is daft about these cards Can't eat
without them Everywhere you go you
meet them. You get to look for them as
YOU do for new faces. / say new, not old
| because the same designs are never used
twice-except, / suppose, by such vulgar
people as get their things ready made.
AT a dinner given by the Countess of
c. the other day each card differed
from the other and no end of fun came
We're thought appropriate fer those who
found them at their plates. Nell S.
whose engagement is off and whose ex-
fiance was present, had a menu upon
which man was shown on his knees
begging for forgiveness.
II don't suppose that the countess knew
of their trouble, but there! that is just
the point. You can touch up your dear
est enemies with these cartoons, and
they don't know whether you're a fool or
a vixen Nobody else knows either And
they amuse themselves with wondering
Just the proper sport for dining, Ell?
They tell a story of ar unfortunate So
ciety woman, says Clara Belle in the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, who, being terribly
pushed for a gown to wear at a great oc-
casion, SOLD seven gowns for the price of
one to Nine. X. Among these gowns was
one hardly rumpled, and which, though
very magnificent, had evidently been worn
at most only once This dress Nine. X.
sold as a model to Nine. Y, who was the
society woman's dressmaker. and who
had been obdurate about making another
thing for the poor little woman without
cash down When this model came in
she saw a chance for big return of money.
so she compromised with her customer,
and agreed to let her have a model dress,
just imported, for a very low figure.
Whereat the poor woman paid all the
money she had received for all her
dresses, and out Nine. Y. brought the
model. The poor woman talked herself
blue in the face. but she could not say