The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-20

OH it's Henneryr' and the confession
seemed at an end in uncontrolled below
ings of despair. The minister urged till
she went on, her voice muftied behind
the apron. "Hennery, he come home 30
o6 fb sfot s6o5d 3 R1e to see F ne d
of forty years it's been we've been man
and woman, and him true to every cent
of his pay, as the sun to rise, but now,
oh, the dayi" and again the rocking, and
the walls of woe.
Cheer up, cheer up" commanded the
minister; 1T is no such matter-35 cents
in forty years is nothing TO wall so about
or to blame him much for. either You
should care less for so little an amount,
and in good husband, too
money" she sobbed; Il am thinking Of
the sorrer of 1t in my heart. It's not the
money, but it's what 1 have it in me
mind he's been doing with it, and she
rocked afresh and fairly screamed.
Nonsense, woman; and what terrible
crime could so good a man do, you
not the money" she insisted; its not
that. It's that I'm afraid, and after all
these forty years, too, that he's took TO
keeping another establishment, sir!
And the young minister confines his
efforts to his own district now.
srRetter a dinner of herbs where love is
than a stalled OK and hatred herewith"
This wisest saying of the preacher con-
scientious mother, says the New York Tri-
bune, has had artisucally Incorporated in
Gothic letters with the scroll pattern of
a frieZe around the wall of her dining
room, as a constant reminder to her young
people to keep the peace and i've IN re,
however. which would be of little use if
the gentle house mistress herself did not
embody the sentiment daily by precept and
There is a great difference in families
i'm the way of home courteSies. At the A.
the father, mother and children doubt
less love each other as dearly as they do
at the b s, but what a different atmos-
phere, what a. constant wrangle and jan
gle, what incessant complaint and retorts,
and what wearisome fault-hndng, and
con seuuent recriminationsi At the 3. S,
on the other hand, there are peace and
harmony. The mother is loW-volced ana
invariably kind, the father good-humored
and CHEEKY, and the children affectionate
and friendly. And yet this great and Vi
tai difference, which makes the latter
house 50 delightful and the former house
so unattractiVe is in the beginning almost
altogether matter of habit If politenesS
and consideration were not only required
from children i'm their relation to their pa
rents and each other, but practiced by the
heads of the family themselves, the de-
plorable condition which exists in many
a home would be impossible, and life
would be a different thing altogether TO
it's inmates.
Two gentle and beautiful old ladies were
discussing the other day the households
Of their daughters and nieces and the
were sisters.
"Why Is it," they commented, that
Martha's children are so rude and incon-
siderate, and MaTy's so kindly and we'll
manneredP'
ave were a. large family ourselves, but
we never quarreled at home, Ruth" said
one of them, Wonderingly, land our own
families were always gentle and kind to
each other, and the children have happy
homes in their turn, all but poor Martha"
And Martha they agreed, commenced
wrong" What a retribution for a wrong
beginning.
Young mothers would do well to ponder
these things, and to accustom their chill
dren early TO habits of courtesy, affection
and consideration. Another beginning of
a bad habit is the frequent wrangling be-
tween husband and wife at the table
about trifies, a wrangling which does not
amount to actual quarreling, but which is
after the order of recrimination, and which
is awkward and tiresome in the extreme
to any third person who may happen to be
present. Many otherwise well bred
couples will acrimoniously discuss pri-
vate affairs and mag" each other before
perfect strangers. without taking into con-
sideration how much such personalities
bore, to say the least, the outsider, who
longs for the dinner of herbs" with its
precious concomitant
There is absolutely only one open Sc
same to the best New York society" said
a masculine member of that exclusive
body at a recent London dinner. 1T isn't