The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-23

self I do not think was ever the cause
before Of tempting another person 10 dis
olsy the expressed rules of a household.
The daughter of a Methodist clergyman
has recently returned from college. A few
Of her young friends desired TO give her
small dance down at Fountain Ferry park,
- be followed by refreshments. The young
girls father has been strenuously opposed
q, Iancing. However. without his knowl-
edge or consent, his daughter had learned
how to dance and was always devising
every possible pretext 10 attend a dance on
the sly She determined to be present at
this Fountain Ferry dance. if there was
any possible chance. After several days of
planning it was finally arranged that was
10 call for her TO spend the evening with a
friend
we Joined the party and had a very
pleasant evening. We came back and trans
fsrred to a Fourth avenue car. It was late
at night, and the party was talking in the
usual manner about the dance. The young
girl was leased by the others for skipping
OF from home without her pious father
being any the wiser as to how she had
spent the evening. Presently the car bell
rang just this side of the cornerswhere the
young woman and had to get off. We were
about to alght when, for the first time
we observed. that the father of the young
girl was on the car and had heard our
remarks about the dance. shook like an
aspen leaf when realized the situation.
There was not word spoken between
father and daughter and myself All thBee
Of us walked to the front door, and I felt
relieved when 1 tipped my hat TO go. I
do not know how the young woman ex-
cused herself to her father"
It is not always advisable, says Texas
Strings, to bring up children in the strictly
orthodox fashion NAMES mother was
very i'll and Mamie was brought in to see
"Oh,my dear. what would you do without
mamrna?' asked the sick mother.
Il don't know, mamma, but 1 suppose it
would be all for the best" responded this
child of orthodoxy.
You hard-hearted little thingp ex-
claimed the mother, who promptly pro-
ceeded to get wen again.
OF all the strange adventures Of women
and shopping packages in street cars, says
Clara Belle in the Cincinnati Enquirer,
saw the strangest to-day. a woman was
otdAuluS Oh the pidLLOfn OF q crowded
broadway car, when at Fourteenth street
she spied a vendor of toy balloons ana
suddenly was seized with an ambition to
take one Of the bObbing red things home
to baby. So out Of the car she tumbled
and in two minutes she had exchanged 10
cents for a balloon fastened to a string
Then she waited for another car. a whole
bunch of balloons fastened together may
be easy to carry but one balloon all by
itself isn't She was afraid of losing it, 50
she made knot of the end of the string
and slipped the button of her cape through
it. The balloon was a strong one and
away it went as high as the cape would
let it. That wouldn't do She pulled back
the cape undid the string and at the same
moment hailed an open car. She got into
one row Of seats, but the balloon went
around the other side of the post and then
around again. A gentleman at the same
time trying to board the car got it square
IN the face and didn't like it. He went
so FAR as TO say that he didn't see why
children were allowed to go about
with things like that on cars, so the little
mother felt shy about claiming the toy
she managed to slyly get the string I'M
wound from the post between the rows OF
seats and caught by a breeze 1t at once
Heated sideways toward the further side
OF the car pulling the string taut under
the brim of the hat of the man next 10
her. As soon as the string had a good
hold under the brim the balloon waved
toward the back of the car and off went
the nat. That man wasn't pleased, either
Next, in her excitement, she let go Of the
string and the. balloon rose triumphantly
ana began knocking about the ceiling OF
the car. Every one was at once inspired
10 catch the dangling string, and every
one missed it, the car presenting the ap-
pearance of a riot on wheels meanwhile
Al last the conductor more used to climb
ing over seats than the rest of them cap
tured 1t and restored it to the now help
Iessly embarrassed woman. She pulled
the string down short, and, holding down
the bobbing bulb, covered her cape over
IT, by so doing she presented a most ex-
traordinary appearance, seeming to have
cnlld hidden under the cape, for the
balloon made violent struggles to get out
She was within block of home when a
big woman started for the empty seat be-
gohd her. The young mother thought il
pest not to give up her own end seat
SINCE she would soon be getting out. The
former had hard time squeezing by, ana
"hen the car started she lost her balance
ana came down on the others lap. A
fearful explosion resulted. and the fat
woman yelled. Help Help! Help! I'm
killed! Oh, did you hear me?" The poor
Attle woman didn't wait for the car to
stop. She tumbled off and fled toward her
door Before she went upstairs she
poked the remains of the once beauti-
!ul and bright balloon into her neigh
bors letter box. That was some COM
Tort of course, but it didn't square her.
If New York women, says the New York
Times, have apparently gone mad over
cycling, their passion is as moonlight
unto sunlight" compared with that of
their London and Paris sisters. In Lon
den fashionable danes belonging to the
most exclusive sets are enthusiastic and
persistent riders. and at the modistes and
ladies' tailors wheel costumes are the
most important in the wardrobe. Not to
WheeP' is to be out of the whrl, all
feminine royalty, except the queen her.
ser, having set its cachet on the fascina-
ung sport. In Paris the same story is
told with the added touch of the French
Women's daring in the matter of dress.
IN the latter city, the English widow, Lady
Randolph Churchill, is accredited with the
smartest cycling version of the mourning
Iollet. She wears a black alpaca suit,
eaged with black leather; kniclierbockers,
usually concealed by a short skirt and a
black gtTa hat Will oalr III,