The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-19
Wotnan's World.

a vulgar display Of mawkish affecta-
( ton" used to be the unkind comnent,
| says Demorests Magazine for May. that
( came so often from kindly folk at the
sight of women kissing ia public. 'Tis
! odd enough, but since her majesty Queen
l Fashion has announced that she not only
| approves. but recommends. kissing in pub
/ lie, no one hears on any hand the old
2 sneer at the affectiOnate demonstration.
I It's the fashion now 10 kiss ones hostess
when calling, 10 kiss ones guests-women
Z guests, Of course-who arrive for an in
I formal cup OF the best oriental brew or
| for stately dinner party. Give the sa-
lutte lightly, like the touch of a butterfiy's
wing, just in the center Of the cheek
give it the soft sound of swaying silk
draperies or falling rose petals, holding
one hand Of the woman you kiss. only
salute relatives on the lips; older womt
kiss young girls on the brow On the
street it is perfectly proper to kiss a wo-
man through your veil: or very prettily
the kiss is given by lifting the gauze n
bit and pressing a little kiss on your com
panion's chin, just below her lip.
Tenn Mason is the author Of the follow
| ing, which apears in Life.
He lives"'
As the doctor spoke the man who but
a few moments before had been struck
| by passing cable car. and who was now
lying PROSTATE in the rear room of the
corner drug store, moved uneasily and
slowly opened his eyes and looked wonder.
| ingly around him on the faces of the men
who had carried him away from the path
of death.
%
made an effort to move, and then sank
back again, his face pale from the unusual
Yes" said the doctor Don't you re
member you were trying to cross the street
and did not see the car behind you? It's
wonder that you were not killed. We
were going TO take you direct to the hospi-
tai, but | thought when you came to you
be moved now"
lok Of great anxiety came over the i'll
1ured mans face.
What time is it?" he asked.
The doctor consulted his watch. at is
now, he said, Just quarter past 3.
Would it be any harm" said the suf-
ferer, with an expression of deep earnest
ness, If | stayed here for an hour or so
YETI don't want to 20 home just now"
But you would be much better cared
for there" said the medical man, land
l don't see any reason why YOU should
want to stay here. Come. what difference
does II make whether you get home now
or an hour from now
1t makes great difference exclaimed
the man on the couch with a look of in
tense anguish You may not know it.
SIR" he went on. his voice rising with the
excitement. as he clutched the physician
by the arm and WINGED Visibly at the
| thought OF what might be his fate. but
my wife is giving an afternoon tea, and
/ thought | would rather wait until it Is
over with
Not ali inventors arc Edisons. and the lot
OF most of them is hard. l witnessed, says
Clara Belle in the Cincinnati Enquirer the
sufferings Of an unlucky one this morn
ing, ana my heart was all the more touch
cd because she was of my own sex Her
troubles began when the conductor asked
| her for her fare. She tried to find her
pocket at first, then her face frightened
and she reached inside her coat about
tie red ard she seemed 10 be struggling 10
reach further than she was able. She bit
| her lips, hunched up her shoulders and got
! rcdder and redder. The conductor passed
| on to give her time. but when he got back
70 her she seemed TO be stu in distress.
! BY this time ever one was watching her.
| The gentleman over the way offered to
! pay her fare, but she said cOldly: Il have
| plenty of money thank you Then. with
| ner cheechs very req, sne rose sllpped on
| her coat ran hel hand down her sleeve
| and pulled out well-filled pOcketbOGk.
| THEN she PVT on her coat, accepted the as
sistance OF the conductor 10 push
sat down and breather hard. 1t was
| a bright idea to use her big sleeve for
| pockets. hut it didn't work well, after all.
Men generally win be interested II know
| that the London school board has decided
! that girls may properly be whipped and
more severely than boys, because they
are more spitceul."
IT is rot often that a mere attache Of a
! foreign embassy woos and wins the
] daughter of a reigning sovereign and the
| grandchild of the monarch to whose court
| the embassy of which ne forms part is
| accredited. Yet this Is the piece Of good
| luck which has just overtaken Prince
| E;nest OF IIohenlohe, third secretary of
| whose engagement to Princess AleNan-
| ORA of Sake coburg and Edinburg has Just
| been announced. Inasmuch as the Prin-
| cess In only 10 years of age, 1t was not IN
! tended that she should be publicly be-
| tr0thed until after her seventeenth birth
/ day, next autumn. But the apparently
we.i-etounded rumor circulated to the
| effect that the princess was engaged to be
! marrieu to the crown prince of Italy an
| gered Queen Victoria and the Duke and
! Duchess Of SaNe-Coburg so greatly that
! they decided to make known her engage
merit to Prince Ernest of Hohenlohe with
out further delay.
! In the current number of Harper S
| Weekly Mr.. W. d. HowellS begins what
| promises to be a most interesting depart
ment under the far reaching title, Life
| and Letters" In this introductory install
ment. says the New York Times, he gives
! US an idea of the new woman, whom he
! thinks is more the creation of the writer's
fancy than of actual life. There has al
! ways been 1.-The woman who goes 10
lengths and breadths in her talk, and the
woman who goes to lengths ana
breadths in her behavior" Women are
! perhaps asking more questions than they
used to and are more insistent as he re-
plies. They want to know why it is right
for men to do wrong and wrong for wo-
men not to do right, but they do not com
NIT the wrongs any more now than In old
times. The only thing that they do now
that they did not do before is TO smoke
! cigarettes, so Mr.. Howells says, but he
doubts whether they do as much smok-
ing as the new novels and the press