The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-28

lily and inexpensively done for unless Il is
some really very desirable object start
ed at smart biding pace. the price is
apt to rise by very short steps of ), 10
and 10 cents.
The first two or three times woman
attends an auction she Is apt TO let her
Wavering decision be clenched by the live
ly opposition and brisk bidding of some
other woman. Then if her temper gets
a bit aroused she will be apt 20 bid in an
iron pot with a hole in II merely for the
sake OF showing her rival she knows her
rights and can spend her money as she
wants. After a little experience she is
likely to run TO the other extreme of alb
surd caution, and the oldest fact TO be
noted in attending these auctions. pat
ronlZed by women. is that nome of Thorn
viii buy merely for the sake Of a bar
gam. A woman must always persuade
herself she wants thing before she win
raise her voice IN its favor. and no auc.
uoneer has yet been found who can al
ways be sure he is putting forth a desiro.
Die bargain before feminine audience.
lot OF unfOrgivably Ugly. cheap l!ffle
colored prints will in live minutes be
pushed up double. treble their value ANA
win the delightful Inconsistency Of the
female mind purses will shut with a snap
ana dead silence reign when q set OF cut
glass Is put up at a sacrifice. only bv
sobs in his voice and a confessed butcher.
ing Of prices can the bewldered safes.
man raise a bid 5Uf.
There are some things. too yr.ll-
framed auctioneer separates as goats from
sheep OF the good things he can probably
sell IN womans audience Books only
by the standard authors. such as Dickens
Scett. George Eliot COOPER Hawthorne
and the like ever find worthy prices
among the women. Then they are dread
fully particular as to the completeness Of
the set. refusing almost to have a broken
lot at any figure.
They care nothing for simple, handsome
bindings, or rare editions. and they have
particular contempt for other folks
kitchen furniture but revel in sales of
rugs and carpets, house linen. tableware
and have particular penchant for bid
ding in clocks.
But the true charm Of the auction is the
possibilities of really wonderful bargains
and numbers of women have furnished
half their houses from purchases discreet
ly made under the hammer. They find
that for song china. glass and good
plated ware for stocking country house
are to be had at hotel sales, as the mod
ern hostelry uses excellent and tasteful
furnishings of this sort, quite appropriate
for the most refined private home. An
announcement sale of rugs invaria bly
brings women out IN large numbers but
for the intrinsic value of really beautiful
bric-a-brac they have scarcely any appre-
citation. perhaps the only point on which
their thrifty sense of perception fails
Some OF them become well-known habl.
tues of auction rooms and buy with amaz-
ing discretion, never rising above what
seems,t to be fixed limit, and yet one who
attended some fifteen auctions I'm the
month of April secured every detail Of fur
nishing for her little seaside home and
did II all on $500, including hemmed linen
dish cloths and a box Of laundry soap.
The reason women make such excel
lent bargaiDers,' said an. experieneed
auctioneer, "is that they don't hesitate to
examine every lot or object personally.
criticise and discuss II. ana release COW
eted chair or lamp shade rather than over
step their set bounds of price. Once
woman strikes her limit, Orpheus himself
couldn't force her over II. a nd so she gets
what she wants In spite Of our efforts
Their one weakness IS change Of opinion.
and e q table or n bookcase goes home
and seems TO be a mistaken purchase. they
will come back TO me. pour out their woes
and voluntarily double my commission 10
get it off their ha nds The funniest in
stance ! ever knew was Of a woman who
bid in a very gorgeous screen. After IL got
home she found she was mistaken in her
estimate OF It's color and tt wouldn't har-
monize with her drawing-room walls. She
gave u back to me to resell and came 10
watch its disposal. II took at once and be-
cause a woman she knew and apparently
disliked made very lively bidding on It.
saying its color just suited her complex
ion, the first owner pa!d Sl2 over the orig
inal price and carried K Off again in trl-
umph-perfectly satisfied"
DIR. Charles Montezuma,. the physician
Of the Carlisle School. and himself a full
biooded Apache. IS strongly opposed to
the maintenance Of The tribal relation
and to The entire system OF dealing with
the Indian now in vogue. He says the
only way to civilize the red man is TO
place him in direct contact with the
whites. give him a fair chance to earn
die"
Princess Helene of Orleans IS said to
have given as a. reason for not being mar
ried IN England: Il was born at Twick-
enham ! was christened at Kingston.
buried my father at Weybrfdge. Is that
not enough? Really one cannot have every
thing happen In England"