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


look on bricks and mortar in the city, it
was delightful TO sit on the verandah, and
- rest ones eyes by gazing at the long, slop-
ing. green lawn that seemed to bury itself
IN the blue waters of the ocean. 1t was an
ideal country house. And we women We're
harmonious. so that the summer days
passed pleasantly and the nights, which
brought the men, We're gay and joyous.
Our hostess was never idle. and it was
most interesting to watch the slender.
white fingers that controlled the ivory nee
die as it flashed in and out among the red
wool. She always worked in red wool
1t gave a beautiful spot of color, and form
ed a fine background for her hands, Of
which she was very proud. I don't know
what she made. Something either 10 be
worn by. or sold FOR. the poor, but her in
dustry was always picturesque. All Of Us
were busy there on the verandah, because
nowadays it is vulgar not TO know how 10
sew. The more fashionable a woman is
the better needlewoman is she, for at the
very smart schools girls are invariably
made mistresses Of the work basket, even
# they are shy on Greek and Euclid. What
lot Of unhappiness has been worked out
at the point of a needle! How much nerv-
oGsness has been quieted by its monoto-
nous but attractive. method of working,
and how curiously feminine needlework is.
Somebody said-I think it was the girl
from Boston-that she found it very di'l-
cult to get a good book nowadays. The
very busy woman nodded in sympathy,
and one woman dropped her work in her
lap and said, do your know the reason
why? 1t is because a few years aso a
number of good books We're written, anu
then their creators grew ambitious and
wrote beyond themselves. There is
Zangwill-his sketches of Jewish life were
fascinating, but did he stick to what lie
understood and could do well? On, dear,
no Instead Of those clever Jewish char
ccter sketches he writes an oVer-ion5
book about art and the AcaGians, with
which everybody is bored. Look at Jer
ONE K. Jerome - we loved his Three
Men" we adored Montmorency, we lived
in that boat, we thought out his Idle
Thoughts with that dearest of Idle Eel
lows, but nowadays he says he wants TO
do better work, which means that he
and beyond himself. That instead Of
sticking 10 his last he wants to paint
realistic pictures. You don't like the
comparison of a writer with shoe
n aker? Well, if you wore an uncomfort-
able shoe you would never appreciate an
interesting book. Mr.. Stanley Weyman'
first stories bore a comparison with Du-
mas and lost nothing but the greedy
publisher called for more. and he takes
his old characters and puts other clothes
on them and presents them TO the public
to make their bow, but alasi they are too
old to stand tile weight of the new robes
and they toppde over That is the trOu-
BILE. AS soon q S = man makes a success
with a book, he grows scornful of the
ladder which helped him over the chasm
that lay between obscurity and fame. 1t
is the same way with magazines. One
gets prospectus that says that the ideal
journal is about to appear. The first
number Is all your fancy painted il, fun
of delightful short stories, rich with pic
lures and having one or two serl-
Gus articles to leaVen the rest. And
eagerly you subscribe. In the next num-
Der there is one short story and two
serials started, only few pictures ana
five heavy articles, and you wish that
magazine had never been born. 1 like
pictures in i magazine. BY the by,
there is a magazine that is devoted TO
pictures, and in which every woman is
hoping 10 get. 1 am saving mine to have
them bound, for as the photographs of
well-knOwn people are in them, people
well-khown in every station of life they
will be quite as valuable to our grand
children as the books of beauty are TO
US. One of the later numbers had a
Charming picture of Mrs. Burke-Roche in,
and another, a beautiful one of Melba, and
my dear, they have some new process by
which they turn out photographs for this,
not by the dozen pictures, not by the yard,
but by the milel AS / have to buy mine,
I am perfectly honest in what l say about
it, and l assure you it is well worth get
ting, and it is cheap-and aptly enough it
Is called Celebrities A book like that,
you know, affords a lot of small talk after
dinner when the men need to have sub
Jects suggested to them"
Then she stopped for a second to breathe
and while she was doing this a girl who
was working in Berlin wool and wore a
thimble with band of turquoises about
it, asked: Did you ever collect newspa-
per clippings. Well l have been doing it
for long while, and a man who is sup
posed to know everything said that the
wisest method was TO put them in en-
velopes and after the envelopes were all
full then to make lot of books at a time.
I followed his advice and the result is that
1-have envelopes full of scraps, and yes
terday Thought / would look up all that
could about precious stones. The first
ten scraps had nothing historical except
ing in regard to the tomato where it first
grew. The next twenty were given over
10 the history of the tear
bottle. and the next thirty on
how to get good complexion. and how to
keep it. threw the whole lot into the fire
and 1 made up my mind l would never col.
leet newspaper clippings again. BY the by
! did come across one thing that was inter
esting. Did you know that years age
whistling was called the DEVILS music, and
is still strictly forbidden to the Jesuites
1t is said that the Emperor William OBJ
jeetsvery much to whistling on the street
and some people say that is because an
old English servant told him of an Irisf
legend which asserts that every time
woman whistles the heart of the Blessed
Virgin bleeds. because a woman stood bS
and whistled as the nails We're being forg
ed that were afterward put in the cross.
A pretty girl. who had simply been lis
tening, said: "WeH, 1 never heard that be
fore; still. there are so many things on
never hears, and while you have been talk
ing i have been making a riddle This i
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