The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-10
PERSONALITIES AND WASTE.
BAD THINKS THEY ARE BOTH DE-
CIDEDLY VULGAR.

Nv W EAAAmE serves
A. a Fair sampIe-A simple Royal
Wedding Over in Old England.
How An English DamseI Aston
ished Her American Girl Friend
During Her SoJOurn in This COun-
try-HOw Saving May BE Effected in
a Properly Managed HOusehoId-A
brokers' Beautiful But Reckless
Wife.
New York, March 9-There is no place
/ quite so provincial as New York BY
some curious counting, it is said TO be the
biggest town in America, while in reality
it is small to a degree. All you need do
is to pick up the morning papers and read
the nonsense written about the Gould
wedding. New Workers think il is very
funny to see in an out-of-town paper the
announcement; Miss Birdie Morse Of
| Kalamazoo is visiting her cousin. Rose
Smith. Miss Birdie. we hope you will
have a good time" But this is refined
and desirable beside the descriptions Law
/ ished upon the family of a dead and gone
mOney-maker. whose methods were held
4 in scorn by all honest men. We are care
/ French visitors will occupy; a big news
/ paper describes the paternal and hllal feel
ing existing among them all, while five
different papers have picture Of the we'd
ding dress and each differs
Why can't we be big enough to let per
sonalities alone? OF course we are a young
/ country, a young country eaten up by the
vice of curiosity, and a country that until
/ it RECEIVERS from the disease, will
be laughed at by the whole world We
are carefully told how the lover of proud
/ degree and corresponding blue blood ex-
/ presses his love to the so-called fair one,
/ who. by the bye. is a very ordinary looking
| girl with the peculiar Gould look which
| they all have, and which suggests their
/ fathers "cuteness" in selling the rat trap.
/ Now, they can laugh. Their fathers in
vention was only calculated to catch the
| household horror, but his sons and daugh-
! tiers have bated another kind of trap, bated
/ it with gold dollars and caught New York
! society. New York newspapers. and they
/ can afford to laugh. I remember before
/ Jay Gould brought sadness and poverty to
/ his friend Cyrus Field hearing a woman
who had been on his yacht speak
! Of him as Little Mr.. Gould, who,
/ after all, really meant to be kind to every
| body and was quite a reader" Little
/ Mr.. Could" alas! toppled over the giants
/ Of the Field family, but who can ever
/ think of those gold dollars. which are in
/ reality Gould dollars, as desirable? Inas-
much as they represent cuteness rather
] than shrewdness; dishonesty, not honor,
and false friendship. rather than truth.
| If we, as a nation, had the English and
! German respect for honesty, the Gould
| trap to catch society would have to be
| bated with something better than dollars.
| and indeed could not have been utilized
until the years had brought forgetfulness
of how the money was earned.
The newspaper accounts of tho wedding,
of the rousseau, of the flowers and the
! jewels, the frills and the frivvles stand in
| black and white TO accuse us of another
vulgarity-the vulgarty of waste. 1t is
another evidence of our youth. but it
rises up and confronts us and we dare not
deny it's existence.
The other day the daughter of one of the
richest men in the world, a man who could
buy out the Nanderbilts and the Goulds
and the Standard Oil magnates, and still
be wealthy mantle Duke
of Westminist er-was married to young
prince whose fortune was largely in his
kind heart and his blue blood, and he gave
her a beautiful little brooch set with dia-
| monds and rubies for her wedding present.
/ This girl, who counted among
her belongings gems inherited from
| her mother and given to her
on her wedding day by her father
wore, on the eventful day. the brooch that
came to her from her bridegroom and a
| simple string of pearls given her when she
was d girl. Her people had sense enough
/ to know that she had the beauty of youth,
! which needs no jewels to emphasize it;
and that there was such thing as senti-
| ment, and that it, when a girls heart was
right, appealed to rich and poor alike.
! We have undoubtedly the most beautiful
| girls in the world in this country; beau
! tiful with the delicacy of a Dresden stat
! uette or fine orchid and instead of
| gowning them simply and saving bro
| cades and elaborate pieces of jewels for
| their matronhood, we given them carte
| blanche to wear what they please, and
| the consequence is that with the first
| wrinkle, they can assume nothing new TO
| draw attention from it. What the rich
| girl does, the girl in the middle class
| does. The rich American girl throws
I aside the gown of which she is wearied
/ and doesn't care what becomes of it,
! The English, German or French girl, in
I the same position, would have her maid
! take it apart and put 1t away for future
use those decorations which were in
/ order, and decide then whether the ma
terial should be used for pillows, coseys,
gowns for a smaller girl, or whatever the
fabric was best fitted for. Wrongly
enough we call lndl StlilSlu6SSt whereas
| it is simply proper care. American wo-
men handle more money, spend 1t more
lavishly. and account for less of it than
/ any other women.
A New York girl has had an English
/ friend staying with her this winter, and
| this girl has made her open her eyes very
wide In the morning, while the Ameri-
! can girl is Longing and yawnng. her
| English friend is, as she says, "totting up
! my accounts and writing in my diary"
/ The New Yorker said to her: why do
you bother with diary?" And the Eng
lsh girl answered Because when l so
home, l want to be able to tell about all
l have seen and enjoyed to my mother
and sisters, and it will be help to me
recalling things; and then, too, think
what a pleasure it will be to me
in the future. The American girl can't
understand that while she has smat-
tering of everything, that what the Eng
fish girl knows she knows well. She Is
slow; but, lacking versatility, she has
| concentration; having studied botany, she
is interested in all the strange blossoms
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