The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-20

their customers to tell each other. They
never lack patronage The woman who
scent bargains afar off are legion in the
TWO cities of Greater New York and par
ticularly they are interested in glove bar
gains On the counter in a place of this
KIND the gloves are piled in heaps, accord
| ing to their prices. The women pick out
gloves to fit them and pay for them such
ridiculously low prices that the first time
| woman purchases them she cannot be-
leve that she is getting really kid gloves
| for such sum as ten, twenty or thirty
| cents. May be a tear across the hand or
| between the fingers, or some other defect,
but feminine ingenuity is equal to the oc-
casion. A few neat stitches with silk
| thread or, where stitching is impracti-
cable, piece of court plaster under the
rent will hide the blemish. Then the own
er draws on the glove carefully, and finds
| herself as neat as to the hands as if she
had paid two dollars a pair.
The fashion of the plain gold wedding
ring seems to have descended to us from
the times of the Saxons, without any I'M
| pulse from written authority or rubric.
| Widows, formerly wore their ring on the
thumb as an emblem of widowhood. The
smallest wedding ring probably ever made
| is that which was used for the fiancielleas
of Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII
| to the Dauphin of France, son of King
| Francis l. The Dauphin was born Feb.
| 20, 1918. and as matter of state policy
the bridal ceremony took place on Oct.
of the same year, with great pomp, al
| Greenwich. The 2-year-Old bride was
| dressed in cloth of gold and blazing with
| jewels. Cardinal Wolsey placed the
| diminutive ring of gold upon the child's
| finger, and Admiral Bonnivet as proxy for
| the baby bridegroom, passed it over the
| second joint, The bride was blessed and
mass performed by Wolsey, the king and
| the whole court attending.
A thmble. says the Philadelphia Led
| ger, was originally a thumb-bell, because
| it was worn on the thumbs, as sailors
| still wear their thimbles. 1t is a Dutch
! invention, and in 1884, in Amsterdam, the
| bicentennial Of the thimble was celebrated
| with a great deal of Formally This very
| valuable addition by my lady's work-bas-
ket was first made by goldsmith named
| Nicholas van Benschoten. And it may
further interest Colonial DANES to know
| that the first thimble made was present ed
| in 1854 to Ann van Wedy, the second wife
| of Kiliaen van Rensselaer,
When morning broke and baby came
| The house did scarcely seem the same
As just before. The very air
Grew fragrant with the essence rare
| OF celestial garden, where
The angels, breathless, leaned to hear
The youthful mothers fervid prayer
10 Goa, TO SudTu nef ufSI-DOIn care.
| And with what diligence each ear
Did listen, as her lips did frame
The helpless little strangers namer-
| When baby camel
When darkness came and baby died,
The misty grief that fell belied
The transient JOY that filed the room
But just before; where brooding gloom
Now dumbly spoke the baby's doom.
We hid away the little things
| Woven by Natures matchless loom
| A woman's hands! The amber bloom
Waxed DINNER on the fnch's wings;
The flowers, too, in sorrow We'd,
| AS if kind Nature dropped and cried
| When baby died
| Charles Gordon Rogers.
If this story does not strike the average
woman as tragic, says the New York
Times Democrat, nothing will. They had
| been lovers long ago. that is, 1t was a
sort of boy-and-girl affair, she being but
| 16 when she plighted everlasting constan-
| ey, and he 10 as he swore to Kill ner
| should she endeavor to slip the Imagined
leash. But both believed in the fidelity
of the other and for a while life seemed
/ summer dream. When she attained to is
/ Ia charming enough girl she was, too)
and he his manhood, developed and men,
| tally broad beyond his years, there was a
|
not xiii her, though Ii must be admitted
/ he had the proVocation according to the
ethics of youthful lovers. That was eight
years ago.
Yesterday l met that woman, still
young enough to excite admiration, more
! gracious, mellowed and altogether an I'M
! provement on the callow thing she had
been at is. This is what she tod me.
knowing that l had kept pace with the
| one-time courtship and understood most
| of it's intricacies:
Gle happened to be calling in the neigh
| borhood and admitted that the people
were out, which brought him to remember
| old friends No one else was at home
save my sister, who had headache and
| f. curious as to his coming at all after so
many years and changes In our lives, was
glad enough to study him alone. Every
thing was coy in the drawing room, the
lamps were beaming, the CRATE tire crack
ling with anthracite. Arrayed not like
lily but like a very gorgeous chrysanthe-
mum / went down. We shook hands
how odd ii Is that pulses that have thrill
ed at touch can steadily beat on like the
tickling of a watch, and voices that 1nce
trembied with emotion utter banaitles
with no effort at all.
After expressing solicitude about each
others family, we began TO be reminiscer
for a spell; 1t was interesting, l assure Vs..
knowing, as did. that a man feels the
scar or MS nrst love aiIalr TOT many years,
and indeed, forever, often enough. We re-
Numbered little scenes. Incidents, quarrels;
recalled his impressions of my alleged
charm and glrlish innocence, and then he
confided that he had preserved fifty out of
the several hundred letters that had been
traced from my pen-tip, letters too beauti-
full and suggestive OF the past to destroy.
He spoke, too with nattering distinctness
OF the assortment CT my photographs In
his possession lie looked very handsome.
sitting there before that blazing hearth,
his student face tinged with glow. !, too.
OF our early youth; I was no longer the
cool and self-possessed woman Of the world
full OF decets and ielishlng the posslbili-
ties OF a Irritation. I was sixteen again. a
wisp OF n GIRL merry and true ana bellcv-