The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-18
A Great Discovery.

Il don't claim TO rank with Copernicus.
Columbus and other great discoveries, -
sal9 me sad-eyed man. according TO Har-
per's Bazaar. simply because I've found
out that the feminine mind is a queer
thing; nevertheless, L have made that dis
'.Yes?" Intercepted the listener. encour-
agingly.
Yes" repeated the sad-eyed man, posi-
lively. For instance" he continued, AZ
ter waiting short time to see If the
listener dared to dispute il, lit is a pc
cularlty Of every good cook to ask any
OF her friends who happen to drop in
ABOUT meal time 10 eat something. Now,
my wife objects to that, j suppose on the
score OF economy. The consequence Is
tnat the cooks get mad and leave, and ]
nave 10 ne always hunting for new one"
But your wife is right" said the lis
tener; 1t would be very expensive to feed
all the cook $ guests"
Il deny that said the sad-eyed man,
emphatlcally- I've calculated it, and the
actual expense of advertising Intelligence
Office fees. fares spent in looking up rec
concentrations, and so forth, averages be-
tween 81 and $ for each new girl. Then
the amount of material wasted in my
Wlte'S cooking school experiments while
We're without cook. together with the
waste of the incompetents we have TO try
viii average $50. The doctors bills cOnse-
quent upon the consumption of those ex-
periments by self and family will aver
age $50 more.
And the strained relations existing be
tween myself and wife, together with all
1
wouldn't have for 500. Now, adding up,
i finds Is costs me for each change We
make il sou or SOS; and we go through
this experience a least ten times a year,
l find a total cost of 5000 or $1,000 per year.
on the other hand, l will contract to
furnish all the food cook will give her
friends in any year for Sl,7O0. ConSc-
quently. I'm just between 5000 and 5000
out every year. And that is considerable
for man who earns 5000"
Adventures of "a Ring.
You see that ring?'' said the Chicago
man, according to the Pittsburg Dispatch,
twisting a plain gold circlet off his little
finger as if he were unscrewing nut
Well, she lost it one day, and we couldn't
find il, high or low. About two years
afterwards friend of mine wanted to
give me a young cherry tree
Hold up! If this
This is a true story" continued the
Chicago man. l didn't want the cherry
very pretty out on the lawn. and l took
it. She went out and marked the spot
and I dug a hole. In the operation l
threw do out that ring! Yes sir 9G t,
man, pulling out his gold wacth. I've
known stranger things to happen. You
see this watch? l had sunk LEO foot
hole in the ground, and given II up as
bad job. Looking at it one day drew my
watch out never wore IL fastened-and
ii slipped out of my hand into that dry
hole. l could hear it rustic as it went
down. We got cylindrical tube. open
at the bottom, and putting some putty in
the end let it gently down. 1t went the
whole distance. 1t just fitted the hole
and acted like sucker of pump. When
we drew it up ii brought the watch with
it. The watch never stopped runningH'
But l haven't finished my story of the
ring" said the Chicago man, seeing us
about to get away. I'VE had moved
from the far west to Iowa, and there my
wife lost her ring again. We sold out
there to a preacher, and came to Chicago
1t was about seven years after the last
loss of the ring, but my wife, had never
ceased to grieve over it. One day / re-
ceiVed a letter from the man who had
our old place, and in this letter was the
ring. He said he was pulling cabbages
i'm the garden, and this little yellow circlet
was around a cabbage root. which had
grown through it, and nearly all over it.
NV wife let's me wear that ring for luck
and I've had pretty good luck ever since
/ got IL back"