The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-08

ing them at wholesale Such a marketer
would be OF special value 10 small private
families and small boarding-houses All
large Establishments keep stewards. who
do substantially this business for them.
and Il would be the exception when an
outsider would be employed. The greatest
drawback 10 the work OF a professional
marketer in families is the practice Of
keeping running account at the most
convenient grocer's and butchers shops.
where the requisite supplies can be OBJ
tained. Even If Il could be demonstrated
that there was an actual money saving in
this method, the majirOty Of housekeepers
would be too conservative TO make any
change in their methods Of obtaining sup
plies.
This work has proved success in Phil
adelphia, but il remains to be demonstrate
ed whether there are enough persons who
are willing 10 systematically pay cash 10
make such marketer's work a success
IL this cosmopolitan city. OF the majority
II is safe 10 predict, as of the cells and
pixies in the old rhyme, that though
Much delighted were they,
They preferred the old way
Women" said Theophilus Great Head.
'are naturally vain over their physical
charms. There is no getting around it.
sir. Permit me to recommend this Glen
livet."
And Theophilus smiled knowingly, says
the Herald. and nodded 10 the waiter
Yes, sir he resumed, being an I'M
usually keen observer 1 watched two nuns
who sat opposite to me in a Broadway car
coming up town. Both were demure,
sanity looking women. The bands of
snowy linen over their foreheads and the
funeral blackness of their attire gave them
look which to an ordinary observer tran
scended all things on earth.
lone Of the nuns had the loveliest hands
ever saw on a woman. The fingers were
delcately tapered, the nails showed the
half moons which manicures so much de-
light in, and the blue veins coursed and
ebbed through them. And believe me, sir
that woman knew it. She lost no opportu-
nifty to show those hands She folded
them, moved them about and gesticulated
with them in such way as to show every
grace of outline And the other nun had
teeth which We're simply radiantly beauti-
ful. She would smile at every opportunity,
and even when she way saying nothing she
would keep her lips away from the teeth,
as If to show their pearly beauty"
And Theophilus smiled approvingly on
himself and stuck his unusually small and
high arched foot out where it would show
to the best advantage.
The showering of brides and bride
grooms with rice is happily to be done
away with. There are few couples who
nave not entered upon their honeymoon
in actual physical pain, thanks to the
stony grains which have stung their eyes
and ears and have found their way into
their clothes and down their necks. Worse
disasters even than this have followed the
use of rice as a sign of good wishes of
friends, and serious accidents have not in
frequently occurred in consequence of the
reckless showering of the cereal. Horses
have been frightened. which has led to the
Overturning of the carriage and the in
jury of its occupants
Attempts have occasionally been made
to improve on this custom, but until late
ly nothing has taken the place of the rice.
Rose petals and small flowers have been
tried but they have many disadvantages,
notably that of becoming crushed to pulp
and leaving unsightly stains on the car
pets of the house. Shreds of colored paper
have now and then been used, but they
are suggestive Of the school boys hare
and hound" At recent fashionable dou-
BILE wedding in London. confetti were sub
stituted for the offending rice. They were
such as are used at the Riviera for the
battle of flowers. and they may be dis
cribed as tiny waters, principally gold
and silver, with few colored ones inter-
mixed to add brightness. The progress of
each bride down the staircase TO the car
riage on this occasion was made in
shower of gold and silver.