The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-16

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/ zen YOU We don't, so there. now. oh, you
naughty, naughty girlsl But then / don't
| blame you've men are SO silly, aren't
/ Wef How thoughtful You were 20 send me
these lovely flowers ! do so adore orchids.
40 you know, papa thinks ID a shameful
waste TO squauder so much money ON
flowers for us men, ana thinks il would
I be much more sensible TO put the sum IN
/ the Homestead Aid Association. where il
/ would accumulate interest Papa, YOU
/ know, spent his early days on a farm and
/ wasn't reared TO the little niceties of so
| cial life But then he is such dear kind
4 Old soul, and keeps me SO well supplied
/ with pin money that / can't bear the
/ thought of openly disagreeing with him.
/ Poor dear papal ] really don't know
| what 1 would do without him-I don't
/ think the woman lives that ! would mar
/ ~ and leave my papa. GLADYS starts
/ Tor the carriage and gets as far as the
/ door when he calls out in alarm) ION,
! mamma, where Is my fan and the door
4 key! 1 am so thoroughly excited / near
/ ~ forgot them" CIhese necessary articles
/ are produced Gladys cuddles conhdingly
| up 70 his escort in the carriage, and the
| party is fairly off for the partyD
/ Arriving at the ball Gladys devoted fir
| teen minutes to rearranging his hair, ana
| was ready to go down stairs at quarter
| before 10.
ut is a curious sensation" remarked
! one of the hionable set of fifteen
years ago, 70 a New York Tribune writer,
TO go back to New York after "A dozen
years of quiet living IN the country, and
md ones self dug up'-that Is the latest
term, l am told, for those who have been
out of the world of society for some time
and who wander in like the ghosts Of the
past for some occasional function. At
Mrs. A. 5 ball the other night / felt as
| II l had strayed into another city. New
York society, in which l had been born
and bred, where 1 had always felt as
much at home in my fathers house
with the same sense of vested right by
reason OF Inheritance. and in which | al
ways Idncled could retain my place.
which could take possession of when
ever l cared to do so, suddenly seemed
| quite alien, The room appeared to be fun
| of unfamiliar faces, with here and there
am Ord friend, whose greetings were of the
brlefest and who seemed intimate with
people had never heard Of
1 wonder where all of these frumps
| come FROM l overheard one OF these
strangers say. Il never saw such a set
OF dHg-ups in my life. l suppose they are
the Van Amsterdams. and the Van Twill
ers, and the Spuytenduyfels and all the
rest OF the Rip Van Wrinkle tribe that call
themselves old fQmilies. and who have
peen asleep for the last twenty yearsp
As for my children, they have quite de-
serted me and our ancestors rs.
-, w MATHS the use, mamma said my
eldest daughter the other day of talking
OF old families? Who cares a straw about
mem Ihere's Kitty Knickerbocker
VINO, they say, is going to marry young
Bodenstein. He IS good-looking. clever
and rich, and every one saws She Is very
lucky Who ever thinks OF her colonial
ancestors, except a few dear old ladies'
father made his fortune? OF course ~
our line forebears had left us a lot If
money would have thought them per-
fectly splendid, but / hope YOU WON'T mind
my saying dear, that as it is / think
they must have been uncommonIv stunid
70 nave mad so many chances and to have
left us SC lttler
The art of reading aloud is one which
VIII prove an inyariable delight In a con-
GENIAL home circle, and in an uDcongenial
one II may, when properly exercised 10
much toward bringing i-assorted threads
together, ana starting that intercourse
Whlch IS so sweet between family mem
pers' ana which ought to be the chief
part OF every home life. On the shoulders
81 the daughters of the house much of
the burden of home enterta lining mnst fail
after She reaches WOmanhood Music is
a necessary factor, and after this sweet
art comes that of reading we'll 1t NAV
NOT come INTO requisition often, but If well
3t1e 81 iOou may pass away many de-
lghtful hour. There Is no picture moro
pleasant than that of a real home room
whether II be the handsome drawIng room
of the millionaire or the plafnlv-fnTnisbed
dining room of the humber family The
suiroundlngs have little to do with the
spirit, ana IT Is the spirit in this as in All
slse' Whlch pieases. The members of the
famiiy circle gather together tn tbe
evening; which ought to be the home hour
may indulge in far more real loving com
munion than is possible at anv otber tyna
Here is where the art of reading aloud
may De Drought into good service by the
Nerd5AAtCAs a poor reader is no
none az all. but a clear, low voice exDres
slVe infections and proper pronrncia lion
ana enunciation Will never fail TO please
me eyes which watched the daupbfaSs,
nrst baby steps fail as the LAST Jears -
me draw on apace; hence much of the
pressure or reading goes, and the daughter
Who learns to supply this and other Wants
t agI her parents Is the one who VIII ful-
MI her mission best and be a real com fort
70 the hearts which are the most Ioving
ana tender OF the home circle.
zone of the surest Indications that as
people, we are tearing away from bar
IN February Ladies' Home Journal rs
found in the changes which. sToUf1 b,,9
surely, nave come over our mourning Gus |
toms and funeral embiems The itjnoa' e |
not so far back when the announcen1ap9
IN a funeral notice that friends will nIeaee
omit flowers was an unheard-of Thing
When this first appeared people wondered
at 1t. Now one meets the requst In mn !
merouS cases, and the effect has baa,, |
good: Gates AjaF' and similar v1Ilear |
floral monstrosities are being dfsear5ed |
and the modest laurel wreath or crosse
or sheaf of wheat have in good taste sI,n, |
planted them. Flowers for the dead are |
Lot "a De ueerled SO long as they have |
meaning or carry message Of tender |
sympathy to a living, or attest a love rev. |
erence or respect for the dead But when |
offered miSsionleSs, in prOfusion iaproad |
or crammed into every magma HE med
to-order-lOoking design or device fbe e,i,
tom Cor habiD of thus remembering the |
ored in the breach" Mr. Box also Az
presses hearty satisfaction that fbe dav
of big funeral corteges is passing ana
that the heavy black Grape at the door
of the home which death has enfered bss
been supplanted by simple unobfruei1te
wreaths Of green or blossoms. With soi,ai /
he notes that the siohf 81
young children, fairly Sitting beneath tho
heavy folds Of mourning, is becoming more
rare. In this connection he wrifes. III
never thoroughly understood until recen+
~ the depth Of affection and the s,1re
sane judgment which prompted that mem M,
Der of my family who, when he was d1t-
ing, asked that his wife and ChiId1ssn |
should refrain from wearing anvtbino |
which savored Of mourning at his psssings
1t was difficult to do; the heart seer,e,i |
to prompt otherwise. But II was done
and the wisdom of my fathers dyfng !
wish has often come home to his s1Irtr: |
yUrs when they have seen the c,5sfor, /
followed which has made relatives ana
friends sonber just to look at each
0ther."
Edmund Clarence Stedman. who e.
the author Of the best critical works oI1
the Victorian poets, says that Mr. Austin
VIII 90 as poet laureate during xvhaf
may be called an interreguum.'s