The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-15

CatskilL y. Y, Sept lived mad
blackberry fiumnlery with rich cream on
II Tor breakfast. and so we felt az peace
with all womanklnd and eager 10 be
very Industrious. You don't know what
hummer is? Wen. il is the only way
that civilized people eat blackherries.
rbev are not iii in their raw state. They
tack taste a I'D their seeds are hard. Now.
the strawberry has a taste a slightly
acid one peculiarly its own. while the
raspberry is 50 delicate that there is no
word 10 desc~ibe its flavor. But the
blackberry is fully pictured when you say
it is raw. It nee ds to be made into fium-
merry to appear a table. How 10 make
it? I don't know that know myself but
you have plenty Of great big blackberries
and some sugar, and what the cooks call
"thickening," and then you let il stew in
a porcelain pot. And when it is cooked
there are all your blackberries as soft and
tender as possible and the thick sweet
Juice surrounding them, little like
blackberra brandy in its taste. Flummery
wants to 5 e served in a cut-glass bowl.
Then, when you get it, you make 1t richer
Win veIo1i cream and feed yourself
using for trs purpose a silver spoon. And
ioi and behol4l! you are satisfied. Nobody
ought to sers,s cake with fiummery IN
stasd Won wa Mt a thin slice of home
made bread, bt Uttered on the loaf. any
bodv. who is not satisfied with breakfast
of fiummery ant bread and butter must
be chronic gruI nDler.
The Knitter was on the border OF her
shawl. The girl v no was tatting was try
sne Ia see which "a oked best in her hands,
a black or a white shuttle, while she who
was sewing lxnevs that no improvement
could be made on gold thimDle with
band of turquoise decorating It. Inen
they began TO talk. said the hmtter'
ssIsn't il interesting to hear about the
Afghan prince who Is visiting in London
now? Did you know that the queen gets
as her right from India, and has since
1910, not only twelve cashmere shaWls'
each Of which requires the work OF an en-
tire family for year, but she also gets
twelve cashmere goats. l wonder what
she does with the goatsi"
Here the girl who W. IS sewing inter-
rupted and said with y giggle. well.
perhaps, as the Prince of wales is such a
high and mighty master IN the Masons'
maybe the queen donates tine goats TO the
swell lodgesr'
Nobody laughed. And the Knitter con-
tinued "He has given the Queen the most
magnificent casket set with jewels and no
end of other valuable presents. l nave
a friend who lives in India she is the wife
of an Official there, and she says that
the Eastern magnates are always making
an effort 80 get an official or his vile TO
accept present, for this would mean not
only the loss of position, but disgrace.
His wife can only accept flowers, fruit
or sweets and they try to tempt the
women in every wa% For instance,
bunch of flowers VIII be sent in vase
worth thousands of dollars, or piece Of
jewelry will be concealed IN box OF
sweets, but the women must be smart
enough to look out for these things and
send them right back, Tor they realize
what acceptance means. This Afghan
Prince IN London now has some peculiari-
ties of his own. For instance, when he
goes out he wears long white undressed
kid gloves such as you or 1 would buy,
and he is so pleased with colored hand
kerchiefs l mean linen ones, that he in
Variably carries four or five Of different
color. OF course. he was horrined when
ne saw the English WOman's evening get
up, for an Eastern woman would count
herself ruined II strange man saw her
neck. Somebody quoted this verse 10 the
prince as an explanation:
When dressed Tor the evening girls now
adays
Scarce an atom of dress on them leave;
Nor blame for what is an Evening Dress,
But a dress that is suited to Ever"
Then the Knitter stopped to take breath.
And the girl who was sewing said:
Everybody is talking about the advanc-
ed woman, about the summer girl, about
the woman who did and he woman
who didn't, but very little is said about
the gentlewoman. The great lady. She
who is born of good people, who is always
at ease; who is, in short, because of her
sweetness, purity and loneliness, a lady,
a woman OF high breeding. l often think
of what Thackeray said about duchesses
and countesses. As well as / can remem-
Der. it was: BE they ever so high in
station, they can be but ladies and no
more OF course. everybody has her
ideal of a great lady. The Countess OF
Salisbury is the English woman's, ana
you have yours and have mine. She
is the woEaan whose life have been read
ing lately. 1t was told in her own let
tiers. 1t was a sad life, and yet it was a
life full of love. Who do l mean? l
mean one of the daughters of the Queen
of England, Princess Alice. 1 wish every
American woman would read these let
tiers, for then they would realize that a
woman can be very close to throne and
yet have to economic and live just such
q life, as far as comfort goes, as many a
woman does here.
I'm one letter the Princess Alice thanks
her mother for some money sent to her
and tells her that with it she will get
some new chairs for the dining room and
some new little froeks and petticoats for
an expected baby; and she goes on to say
that this little one would have had to
wear old and shabby clothes if it had not
been for the money sent by it's dear grand
mother. To her came awful grief. 4
beautiful boy of 4 years leaned a little
too far out of a window and fell and
when they got to him he was dead There
is put up to his memory in the church at
Darmstadt a most lovely window. On il
is the picture Of Christ blessing little chill
dren, while the text below tells that 'Of
such is the kingdom of heaven Whenever
1 feel disconnected go and get the letters
Of this lady, and after I have read two or
three Of them l realize how much l have
TO be thankful Ter and how hard life is to
many of us"
Everybody was quiet for a few minutes.
and | thought l saw tear drop on the
red wool, and then the Knitter said, Did
you know that the Princess Alice's rooms
are kept just as they were during her life
time? While in her husbands rooms are
photographs, books and little presents that
she gave him. each with its date written
upon ii, and labeled 'hebe Alice You
know what was written about her?
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