The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-17
w onan's Wor1d

III. additional rice and old shoes. says
ID, N.w York Journal, which are sup
..1 t1 bring good luck if thrown after
r..Ie when she starts on her wedding
i .- w. have their obvious fnconveni-
one unlucky bridegroom. who is
H..sl with astigmatism, and whose
.r .ses have always TO be made to
,-s- sxpressly for him, taking a couple
oeva.rs to manufacture. mad his only
-..- smashed on his nose ny a well-di-
-l Slipper and I'm consequence he
,s---l miserable honeymoon. seeing
-str-e. and being therefore. greatly
bor.f still more unfortunate bride
rsl lot only her wedding trip complete
IL, -saIet. but suffered for months from
1..s1 -rouble brought on by a grain Of
rf- which slipped down the Orince Of
her ear
Tra minor Inconvenience of having
ri.-. suck in ones collar. hair. etc, are
e,os4h in themselves 70 render object
iosshs such attention from ones friends;
saa pretty substitute which was used
IA. o.ler day a a country wedding, and
which IS said TO be quite as lucky" if
rsr more SO, was a shower Of rose leaves,
whose perfumed softness could do no
harm while the idea is certainly a
charming one. 1t was rare, red rain
of roses in Juue-ht pelting for a bonny
BRIDE
'Won't you be mlne?" pleaded the love
stricken young man. says Harper's Ba-
Ear
"I love you so! Say that you will mar
~ me my sweet OneH'
II ten YOU. 1 cannot do it, Mr. Oar
lington. i hope / make myself plain"
HasHEa "a zeal .
youths native gallantry did not desert
him Although she would not be his, she
was woman and she was lovely. She
was quite as lovely now as before she
pronounce. his doom.
"Nake Yourself plain he repeated.
'No4 .lu.u uct. with al your skill, DO
tHa. Mss Teeters. Your beauty cannot
She gazed at him in surprise. Never
telling her she was beautiful. He inter-
estel her. man like that was worth
cob GeorgeF' she exclaimed. III take
back all the cruel things / said. / am
yours
She Marries Him After All-From the
Union and Advertiser
You love me? All, / know,
AS men love, no better dear.
MQrshlpf Yes, a month or so.
tenderness? Perhaps year
After that. the quiet sense
OF possession; careless care,
And the calm Indifference
That all married lovers wear.
Blame you. dearest Not at all,
AS rate made you, so you stand.
As rate made YOU, so you fall
Far below loves high demand.
Yet strange is loves deep law!
can look YOU through and through
tracing painly nature s flaw
In the heart she gave 20 you.
Knowing all my heart must stake,
All the danger, all the fear,
And Yet glad, even SO, to make
This! my losing bargain, deari
Madeline $. Bridges
A willy little maiden recently. visiting
a childless aunt, made too many demands
upon that busy woman's time. Finally
she evoked a fiat refusal. NO my dear,
! really cannot thread your needle again"
There was brief pause. Then the tiny
visitor said refectively: do you know,
eunty, l am going TO ask God when
say my prayers tonight to send you
needle was threaded
In the November Forum Boyesen has
an article, which his death makes of
melancholy interest, on the position of
women in pagan times, and incidentally
cation he said:
You cannot make a comrade out Of a
cackling hirt or simpering fashion
plate or an auiiable echo. Until we cease
10 teach our girls the pernicious folly
that they are to live only to love. they
will in my opinion. not be worth loving.
besides being extremely trying to live
with"
The artificial ensemble sung of in the
following rhyme, clipped from a London
exchange, is not applicable to many
women nowadays, but the catastrophe Of
the closing lines is by no means rare:
The lady was fair as a summer flower,
And as pure es a Christmas rose.
Her dress was white and her stays were
And she'd brown tan shoes on her toes.
The ensemble, l ween, was fit for a queen,
NV nile she walked with a queenly air.
The daintiest sight. by day or night,
Was that lady, passing fair.
The bloom on her check, to make took
Her eyes were of heavens blue,
But alas for her placquet she'd forgotten
And her petticoat would stick through.
One Of the philosophers who discourse
IN the back pages of Scribner's has a
few timely words on the intellectual
comradeship" idea He remarks
When all the benefits Of intellectual
comradeship and political participation
are established when men and women
ma their greatest common interest in
The political situation or the Intellectual
problem of the hour, where is to be found
me woman whose sweet old-fashioned
snWorldliness makes her mere presence
more uplifting than all the words of many
men, who is going to help TO make me re-
member to say my prayers?'
What a dear little footr' remarked,
says the New York Tribune, a woman
of the world, admiring the tiny foot Of a
little 2-year-old. Now. you must always
keep her shoes a little snug, and she'll
have pretty feet when she's grown"
Not at ALL said papa, with emphasis,
happily more sensible. wen let her foot
develope precisely as the Lord intended,
ana perhaps when she's woman, it may
be pretty, after al"
So this wise father sought out the best
hootmaker in the city, a hgh-priced per-
son as beftted one who put good ma
teral into good shape and charged a good
sum for his intelligent workmanship.
me bOOtmaker was commissioned to
make Miss Baby's shoes from the meas
uTement of her own dimpled feet instead
OF the hit or miss ready-made fit which
Is generally the fate of infancy.
Year by year, as the little feet changed
IN size and shape, the bOotmaker'S meas
urements altered to suit their individual
lJy. Winter and summer the walking
boots We're of calfskin, laced to keep the