The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-21

Vded graceful employment for her hands
which might otherwise have strayed of,
as English womens hands are apt to do.
into awkward poses.
All the Lenten exercises seem to be de-
vised for the improvement Of the feminine
part of the world and one hears and reads
constantly about what women are doing
in Lent. Why shouldn't the men come in
for little share OF advancement? Or
perhaps men don't see the need for
change in any of their customs. II some
Of them could hear the structures pro-
nounced upon them by their dearest
girls" there would be a great resurrec-
ton in the valley Of dry bones. There
is one species of man that particularly ex-
cites the ire of the enthusiastic, energetic
girl of the day and that is ''the blase
young man"
Everybody knows him. He works like a
Turk to get invitations to places and ac-
cepts them all and then makes his staple
OF conversation "the beastly bore of go
ing about" The worst Of 1t Is that this
style of man is usually one who has no
fixed social position and is only able to
hold on to the hight he has attained by
being constantly on the available list,
the last one invited to a box-party.
makeshht for a dinner and yet he COM
ports himself as though he were the most
distinguished guest and conferred a last
ing favor by his presence. Why would not
good Lenten penance for such be? to
stay out of society until he can feel an
interest in it,
The Cleveland babies were tie guests
not long since at a children's party given
by Mrs. Carlisle at which the baby from
the Chinese legation was also present
All the little ones were greatly interested
in the odd looks and peculiar clothes of
the young celestiall and none more so
than little Ruth Cleveland She rhovered
around her little Chinese friend wondering
II 1t could not open its eyes as far as she
did, and why 1t did not take of it's long
dress and run about with her On the
other hand Esther looked askance at the
strange child and all efforts to make her
better acquainted with the little foreigner
We're greeted with protests that ''she
didn't want to-"
On their arrival home the first thing
told to her mother by the excited Ruth
was the fact that they had ito come
home early, because Esther was afraid of
the Chinese baby"
Il expect Ruth was a little afraid too"
laughed her mother. "Oh, no, no." said
the little girl, II would like to have it to
play with all the time"
Not long ago at a fashionable church in
this city the minister announced that a
collection would be taken up at the pres
ent service for a designated missionary
work and "he continued in case the
members of the congregation are not pre-
pared to respond as generously as they
would like, there have been placed in the
pews, cards on which may be written the
amount anyone desires to give toward this
very needy work. But" he added with
emphasis, 81 would request that the pen
ellis attached to the cards be left in the
pews and not carried away as was the
case at the last Offering of this kind
There were a good many sheepish looks
| exchanged among the younger members
of the congregation when the pencil clause
was reached and possibly some resolu-
tons to be more careful about purloin-
ing church property in the future.