The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-15

sisters and her cousins TO stay with her.
nor have a family party on Christmas
day, nor expect me TO go to church when
/ wanted 10 play golf, nor frown II iit
a cigar in the drawing room. nor sniff
when L bring home ZOla's last novel, or
my ehum Smith to take pot luck. l would
have a wife who never got fat nor old.
nor bad tempered. nor Jealous when /
talk 10 pretty Mrs Blarneyton; one who
never said silly things; one who always
looked bright smart capable and better
looking than other mems wives; one who
dressed on nothing year, who never
had a Irritation and who never called in
the doctor. This is all / should want"
And the women all said in concert: rs
that all?'
one of the absurd exaggerations Of
modern society, says the New York Tri-
bune is the immense importance that is
attached to debutante's entree into So
Ciety by herself and her family. AT the
age Of eighteen a girl is taken from her
studies just at the point when her intel
ligence is sufficiently ripened to enable
her to really appreciate and understand
what she has heretofore learned with
more or less parrot-like facility and but
little real comprehension. With a few
more years OF application she might be-
come a really intelligent and well-educa-
come out" and her mind is filled for
months beforehand with her gowns, her
tea and her dances TO come-an well
enough in their way, but not worth the
all-ahsorbing attention which, to the ex-
clusion OF nearly everything else, mother
and daughter bestow upon this, to them,
momentous occasion. Whether she VIII
De success. e., have a sufficiency of
partners at her balls and parties and he
admired BY society-is the one engross-
II is very amusing to older worldlings
70 watch the unsophisticated egotism of
an unhedged debutante, who fancies that
the eyes of her world are upon her and
that all the details of her first appear
ance are as interesting TO others as they
are to herself. 1t is an importance that
II as short lived as IL Is funny.
do you remember all the fuss that was
made over Martha X. last year before she
came outE remarked one matron TO an
other What preparations were made.
what grand ball was given. and how
months? All her gowns were sent from
Paris, and she was not even allowed to
walk on Fifth avenue for months before
hand, so that she might come upon sOcie-
~ perfectly fresh. She really was very
pretty, and her family expected her TO
De an immense success; but, in spite OF
other night at the BIS bail she went home
because she had no partner for the CO.
A move in the right direction has been
lnaugurated this winter by several SEN
slple mothers, who have postponed the
introduction of their daughters to society
until nineteen, keeping them at their
classes or taking them to Europe in the
interim. If they had extended the period
until twenty ii would have been still bet
ter, for an Immature girl has not half the
charm OF the completed woman, who sell
uOm attainS her mental and physical de-
velopment until even later.
An Angelic Husband
There are husbands who. are pretty,
There are husbands who are witty,
There are husbands who in public are as
smiling as the morn;
There are husbands who are healthy,
There are husbands who are wealthy,
But the real angelic husband-well he's
never yet been born.
Some for strength of love are noted.
| Who are really so devoted
| That whene'er their wives are absent they
are lonesome and forlorn;
And now and then you'll find one
Who's fairly good and kind one,
/ Yet the real angelic husband-Oh, he's
never yet been born.
Sc the woman who is mated
! To man who is rated
AS pretty fair" should cherish him fol-
For the real angelic creature.
Perfect, quite, in every feature
! He has never been discovered, and he
won't be, so they say.
T. 3. Aldrich. in The Forum
They met on the corner of Twenty third
street and Broadway. He was a man
SAYS the New York Times, who had
/ lived all his life in New York in a quiet
/ respectable street. His clothes showed
I that he possessed a comfortable income
/ and his manner revealed a certain degree
/ OF culture. She was a bright looking wo.
I man, whose conversation, dress and con
duet were Indicative of some knowledge
OF places and events. After the first greet
ings they fell into reminiscences-whic
Is natural when years elapse in one s ac
Both lamented the frivolity and unsta
/ bleness of the present day. why ever
the theaters give you nothing but silly
plays, light nonsensieal things that dis
gust one" "Oh, the plays are not so bad
said the man. That's just the way" she
retorted, men find amusement in tn,
I nd Yfarl,t
operas. If it We're not so we would hay,
a revival of Shakespearean drama" q
don't know that men are at fault" re
Joined her companion. 81 like Shakes
School for Scandal well played. Their
was a CLINT of laughter in the woman },
eye, She snapped her lips together for
moment, and then asked, did YOU Sc,
the duke before he went away?''
The literary woman, says the New Yorl
World, was attending an afternoon tes
given by a club Of women devoted I,
heroine-worship. She had listened witt
exemplary patience while various indi
viduals told her of the strength and com
fort they had derived from her works
Finally little woman with an aniabI,
vacuous expression and a habit of over
turning chairs, treading on toes and other
wise disporting. herself tactlessly, cam,
''oh my dear Mrs Ruyterp' she OK
claimed, Il am SO glad to meet youi YoI
have really done me the greatest service
ened with brain fever from overworl
and insomnia, the only thing that woul,
quiet him and put him to sleep at nigh
, was reading aloud your sweet little .sto
RESP
And then she looked offended beoaus
the club president trod heavily on he
( toes.
The Us are really wretchedly poor.
said one OF their quondam intimates
They have lost nearly everything. i III
not believe that they have over five o
I six thousand a year left"
This naive remark, says the New Yorl
Tribune heard at a woman's luncheol
, the other DAY, and the discussion whicl
Z followed, Ia which the oft-debated oues
tiOn Of what constitutes a competenc
was holly argued will serve 10 niustrat
the requirements Of the present time a
I c0nUasled with fhe much more modes
1 ideas OF even a couple OF decades ago.
The amount Of money absolutely need
I 20 for mere existence in socley Was VA
I riousiy. placed by the faVorifes OF for
tune who took part W the discussion. bu