The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30

! ny Colu kisses deposited on foreheads or
gwen on the tips of dainty fingers. Tom
t Moore maidens, crowned with roses. and
| trimming over with sentiment. were nm
| doubtedly charming girls. very tickle de-
clued nlrts. and greatly given TO having a
sOoo une, and then talking a great deal
ABOUT II. The ladies drawn by Richard
1 hardlng Davis, are more interested in he
| ing good form than in loving; with a GER
talnty that their frocks come from the
oest french dressmakers, and that they
| are illustrated by Mr. Gibson. they allow
| their emotions TO be told bv uDIiftinos
or downputtings of their eyes. turns of
| their heads, and occasional clever words.
put they never get their clothes mussed. as
STANLEY Weyman's women must, nor do
! they sacrifice themselves to any extent
Ihey are in good society and believe that.
II there Is any self-sacrifce, it had better
De on the part of the men,
Love, in those wonderful stories of
Mary Wilkins, is portrayed. but it is sell
uom happy love; it is a love in which
| hard work, deprivation and village gossip
! play such large parts that it seems scarce
~ worth while to have IL, for il doesn't
make anybody happier and It brings
ABOUT no end OF suffering that following
the New England fashion, as described bv
her, must be borne in silence. Bre.
| Harris ladies too often belong to the or
| der that have the adjective perfect as a
| prenX, and they are always willing. as
an expression of their love. to do one
great wonderful act of unselfshness. and
| after that to disappear. Yet people have
10 go on living. and for my own part 1
| could never quite understand it, Nobody
dies or drops out of life just at the right
moment, except in stories like these.
Ihere are whole lot of books that
| nave come out lately, rather nasty books
Where the women are all B. AS, and
| have advanced ideas, and these advanceD
ideas are usually in dead opposition TO
the laws OF decency. Love doesn't play a
very prominent part in these stories. that
is not nice, sweet love- and the women
| pictured think that 1t is much more i'm
| portant to be epigrammatic than it Is to
| be loving and womanly. Personally. I
| like real love story, one that eliminates
as all love stories should in a maria ge
| And in the peopling of the world with
children born of a happy marriage and
| who appreciate love because they see il
In their own home every day. OF course
| this is old-fashioned, but did you ever
! read anything more silly than that de-
scriptio of George 3Merediths of Aminta
and her schoolmaster out swimming and
yearning to kiss each other? The heay-
ing of the ocean and the heaving of Amin
Ia and the plunging of the schoolmaster
and the signing of the wind, and the long
drawn gable of everybody concerned is
unreal and foolish. And yet people gush
over 1t. And people call this book a novel
If they called it an incentive to the reading
of the dictionary l could understand 1t;
if they called it a mongrel l could under
stand it, but when they call it a novel
then am surprised. novel, my friend
is bit of imagination in which there are
pictures of real life idealzed: in which
there is love story, series of incidents,
a proper plot and proper elimination.
am not a critic-not bit of it, but l de-
spise book that is nothing but a mixture
of words and nastiness.
l used to say that it was safe to let
young girl who loved reading rove at her
will through a library containing all sorts
and conditionns of books. but l don't say
that nowadays-not in this day of green
carnations. Smollett is not refined but
ION my word, l would rather put any of
his books in the hands of a young girl
than these labominable novels, of which
| there is a superiority in the market to-day.
They not only defy sin, but they give
horrible suggestions, and they are alto
gether beastly.
And it is just as true to-day as when it
was first said, that the wages of sin are
death. Not death as we usually think
of it, but a much worse state of affairs.
The loss of something that we value most;
the going away from us of that which we
most love; the great suffering of the body,
or entire loss of the brain-these, 1 be-
lieve are some of the expressions OF death
that count among the wages of sin. My
belief may be wrong one, but l have
taken a little trouble TO watch the career
of one or two people, and / tell you that
those who sin with the body suffer in the
body, even while they are here. If we will
just keep our eyes open we will see the
people who do wrong have their punish
tn , lie in fl1a pvf
A sermon? 1t started out as a discussion
of books. But that is one of the great adj
vantages of talking about books. 1t inva-
riably starts something else and 1t keeps
one from idle gossip.
Fancy a life without them! Oh, no,
don't fancy it; it would seem something
too dreadful. The horror of a life with
out a visit to Vanity Fair" having no
acquaintance with "Dombey and Son.
no chance of meeting the Three Nous
quettaires," or hearing about the Man
with the Iron Mask or weeping happy
tears over Col. Newcome,, or feeling that
life is better because Ethel was in il, or
laughing over Dora and Jip, or smiling
as Bella told John of the ships sailing
over the sea and what ii was bringing to
them; it would be indiscribable! Oh, how
utterly worthless life would be without
all these people. Not ideal people, but
real people, for just such people are
around us every day making part of our
lives, as they live their own. We fail
to recognize that we are part of the ro-
nance for that is what life is-a ro-
nance No matter how simple 1t may
seem, II has its love story and its plot,
its odd characters and its witty inter-
lude and always there is the self-abnega-
ton; and then comes the reward-some-
times here and sometimes hereafter, but
surely is the page marked 'fnis" The
end comes to life just as it does to any
letter which reaches you in life. Just as
IT does to this one, which is signed Bah.
A Fin de Steele Play-Well-known Play
wright-"Our fortunes made, boss. I've
lust completed the play of the century"
Theatrical Manager-"What now, Quills?"
w. K. P.-"Hero, Napoleon; heroine, Tril-
bv. Napoleon, alarmed at revolt against
the income tax, is about to abdicate; Tril-
bv's singing. of the Washington Post
March fires him with new courage; he
slabs Little Billee; accepted by Trilby;
marriage ceremony performed by Mgr
Satolli with battle of Waterloo raging in
the background. After the battle Napoleon
determines to fee with Trilby, but Sven
gall hypnotizes him into voluntary sur
render to the British. Last scene tableau:
NAPOLEON sailing away to st. Helena, Tril-
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