The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-10


try for some time, having been called to
a fashionable church in the neighborhood
of the bridge not very long ago. The ep-
ISOLDE with the fascinating Egyptian is
pure romance. The clergyman was a bach
elor until after he took up his residence
in Brooklyn, and then his wife was
chosen from the members of his new
congregation, and in no faint way resem-
bles the coquettish and hayward girl who
fore the astOnished gaze Of his strait
laced flock.
Her Picture.-From the Brooklyn Life.
You wish to see the photograph
OF her l love, you say.
All right, old fellow; now don't laugh,
Here is line array.
Three-quarters profile. braids and curls;
In gowns for street and ball.
What's that you say2 They're different
~ of course, I love them all!
Well, entire nous 10 end this chaf,
There's one 1 love the best;
All, no, my boy, her photograph
Is not here with the rest
Nor would it profit you to seek
'Mong treasures laid away.
She sent for it about a week
Before her wedding dayl
The origin of the polka, says the Sci
entific American is not generally known,
the inventor of the dance having been
a young Bohemian girl named Haniczka
Selezka. She was blooming young peas
ant maiden and the best dancer in the
village of Costello, on the river Elbe,
and used to perform solo dances of her
own Invention at the various village fes-
tivities. 1t was in the year 1880, at "A farm
house, that the assembled guests asked
her to dance a solo, and she said: Il
will show you something quite new" And
to the music of her own singing she
danced the polka step, though with more
elaboration than it is now performed, The
dance became so popular that 1t was later
made a national dance, and Haniczka
named it pullSu, as she said it was danced
in short steps; from pulku came polku,
and finally polka, the dance three years
later, in 1898, becoming popular In Prague,
and in 1889 it was already danced at Vi
emma balls, and one year later became
the most popular dance in Paris. Hanic-
ka Selezka is still alive, surrounded by
numerous grandchildren and great-grand-'
children sprung from her own six sons
and daughters.
A woman who met Miss Beatrice Harra-
den, of "Ships That Pass in the Night
recently in New York describes her to a
bigger than my thumb-all invalid. with
a little soft hand that feels like soft
cloth just wrung out of hot water" Miss
Harraden created a decided sensation at
Sorosis. a sensation that quite overwhelm-
ed the gentle little lion.
''If had my way would smash every
woman's thermometer! exclaimed an
from his slumbers in the dead of night
by a nervous lady. She had found, says
the New York Tribune, that her little
instrument registered fever heat and al
though she felt only slight indisposition
she fancied herself seriously i'll, and sent
post haste for the doctor.
I'm my opinion the laity have no bust
ness with professional implements; they
are too ignorant and too panicky. Many
a time thermometer, for instance, will
register heat from some local cause,
when there is little or no fever Another
time when L was sent for at night, after
I was comfortably asleep, by frightened
mother, l found the child had only
canker sore in the mouth, which, of
course, produced irritation and heat, and
consequently affected the thermometer.
Another one of my patients bought a new
fever thermometer the other day, and IL
was delivered to the house just as the chill
dren were starting to matinee. While
foolishly put the tube in the mouth of one
of the little girls, to test It. To her con-
sternation it registered 102l2 You are i'll,
Maudr' she exclaimed. You cannot posi-
bly, go to the play.
"The child, who apparently was per-
fectly well, protested, and then began to
howl with disappointment but it was of
no use, the mother was convinced that
there was some incipient malady, so the
party was broken up the poor little mar
tyr was put to bed and l was sent for.
When l arrived found no traces of fever
whatever, only the hysterical remains of
a crying fit, brought on by dlsappoint-
ment What caused the rise in tempera-
ture2 / can't say. Perhaps the excite
ment after eating, for they had just had
their luncheon and were wild about the
theater Half the calls 1 have are for
imaginary ailments. Pain is apt to
brighten people, too, and l have probably
lost money although 1 nave saved my rest
by telling the anxious ones that even quite
severe pain without any fever means
nothing, and that almost any serious
trouble that causes pain must necessarily
produce fever. 1t is a very simple rule
to remember, and one that will save much
useless anxiety"
The covering of books with channels.
silk, or fine linen has come to be a posi-
tive art. BY means OF l., a paa .Ll
thing rich and dainty by a pair of clever
hands at home. A volume copy of "Old
Love Letters was seen not long ago when
had been charmingly decorated by the
outer slip, which was made of what is
called "sad-colored' silk. On II the title
had been embroidered in subdued unts. A
true lovers knot enci relied the words,
and from il a few sea altered forget-me-
nots were dropping. Tle effect was ex-
quisite, and yet it was done by no expert
enced embroiderer.
1t is a very common trick with Dress
makers and milliners, says the New YORK.
Tribune, to take the belt and hat Innings
which bear the stamp of the great F'rencn
bonnets and gowns Of their own manu-
facture; and even milady is not infrequenu-
ly guilty of the same deception.
II simply can't throw away my dear
Worth belts" said a fashionable girl the
other day. II always use them over and
over again, and l have a Virot hat-lining
which has done duty for half dozen hats.
When I take off my hat in a friends house
to arrange my hair, it has very good
effect, don't. you know. / don't actually
saw that il Is a Virot hat, but / toss ii on
the bed or chair with the inside up"
II wonder how Es telle A. can afford 10
get her best dresses from Doucet" re-
marked one young woman to another.
How do you know that she does?
don't believe it," answered the other, In
credulously.
''Bfy dear little innocent" answered her
more astute compenion, "she gets those
belts from her married sister. who really