The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-14

green leaves. kissed Dy the suns warmth
is food fit for the gods. and more than
that, it IS food TT for lovely woman. a
woman looks pretty eating strawberries.
The whiteness and shapeliness of her hand
shows to perfection as she lifts each
strawberry by its stem to her lips. and
then proceeds to eat it in the dainty way
that a well-bred woman always does,
which. between you and me. is something
after the fashion of a polite kitten. All
the good things that we have. strawber-
ries, asparagus, green corn, are dainty to
eat and tend TO make one healthful.
which means, of course. beautiful. The
trouble is, that we don't appreciate our
blessings. We see a wagonload Of pine
apples go by and think nothing more Of
it; in England. pine, as they insist on
calling it, costs a guinea; the first night
it is put upon the table to do duty as a
decoration. and then, on the second night.
is carefully cut by the hostess, each guest
getting a tiny piece. So it is with melons.
The English melon is a cross between a
cantelope and a watermelon, is dealt out
as if it were gold, and is particularly taste
less and dreadfully expensive.
Then there is ice. You and I, who are
housekeepers, growl dreadfully about the
ice men, but if we were in England and
asked for some ice at dinner, piece the
size of a small apple would be brought
and that would be expected to answer for
everybody at the table. tell you, we don't
appreciate our mercies. About the only
good thing in the fruit line that England
offers is the gooseberry. Here, we know
IL as a sour, hard berry, seldom served in
its natural state and not over good when
made into a pie or tart. over there ii is
pink of color and has an exquisite taste,
So a frn1 Of ~ NGE
describing it. ! like to see an English WO-
mans face-When she hears that all the
fruits that cost so much money on the
tight little isle are within the reach or the
very poorest people in the states; that
peaches, such peaches as she only gets
from hot-house, can be bought for a few
pennies by the working mans wife, and
that great, big, sweet, juicy melons are,
in season, almost given away. 1t gives
her an opportunity to say how eXtrava-
And truly, we are. A funny sight, and
one that, in New York in summer, when
the globe-trotter is TO the fore, is quite
common, is an Englishman eating his first
clam and a French woman her first green
corn, The difference, in nationalities
stands out plainly The Partisan is de-
termined to be pleased; the Englishman is
determined to be displeased, and yet
beast" for fear he might be thought a
coward. He first says the clam Is too
fshey; then he announces that 1t is
neither as bitter nor as salt as those mis-
cradle things that in England are called
"natives." and which compare with our
oysters as stage pineapple does to a real
But in time the Englishman and the
clam grow very friendly, and when ne
goes back home, the Englishman takes
with him a chahng dish, ana ne hopes
to be able to teach the wife of his bosom
how to prepare on 1t Just such dalntles
as he has had from the chafing dish here.
Deiuded mani He forgets that clans a
la Schenck would be impossible where
CLAIMS do not exist, that Holsters a la New
-Hrs, Fa H-h "a q
and that terrapin, well-to tell the truth,
he never quite got accusto toned to terrapln
himself. Nowadays he has better opln-
ion of American cooking than ne used 70
have. 1t is curious how little the Well
bred English people know about our coun-
try and it must be confessed that, atter
visiting not the set that is written about,
not the set into which American girls
have married, but the real Englsh people
who are shyly hospitable, Well-mannered,
well-read, and interesting one FdnIly
gets a tumble. The truth is discovered.
1t is this: They are not Interested IN US.
What we do or what we say IS mat
ter of no Importance to them, ana, some
times l don't blame them. Ihey nave
got the finest ships in the world, they
have got the finest army in the world,
and they have got the best government IN
the world, and why should they be IN
terested in a lot of half-civilized savages
like ourselves? They need only read one
Of our newspapers if they desire to prove
th Al TEnsiish woman who had been to
India several times, who goes TO EGYPT
every spring, who has travelled all over
the continent, was surprised that was
So white. since Americans lived on MOTH
ing but salt pork And this mas only
been five years ago. she SAID she was
afraid to come to TINS country, DscSus9 =
she understood lynching was common, ana
she thought if she saw man hungi as
she might do on the street at any time
1t would upset her nerves. we thlnk
NOT: that is We are not in the eyes OF the
great mass of the English people, while
most of the French. Probably there will
be more respect shown us when we have
a decent government, but as long as we
haven't even an attractive ngurehead we
cannot expect the ship of state to be par
ticularly admired. We are right in think
ing a great deal of ourselves, but we
must get away from the idea that other
nations are much troubled about US. / am
afraid that if 1t came to naval display,
we couldn't do the jingo business, and l
am also afraid If 1t came to an army as
play, well-wars have brought out good
fighters, but our army is not particularly
large, nor does 1t have proper attention
shown it by the powers that be-
Gracious goOdnessi I must stop or else
somebody will conclude that L have Sc
rious opinions and these are not good
things to have. They trouble you. in the
night, and make you conscious of some
thing that worries you-What IS II! Heart
or conscience, or WhatE conscience Is
troublesome thing, in warm weather par
ticularly. / wonder If that IS the reason
SO many crimes are committed IN warm
a man commits a crime and is sentenced
to be hung the governor of the state
doesn't insist upon his being absolutely
secluded and allowed to see nobody? If
that were done we might get rid OF some
of the sickly sentimentallty that nova
days is about all the awful, brutes that
ever deserved to be put to death by tor
ture. That is not a nice subject. Let US
talk about the girls.
The type that is interesting nowadays
has undoubtedly resulted from the flower
trimmed hats She is the innocent girl.
She talks about the little cotton frock she
wears in the morning. and in the evening
she is fair in white muslin, not the dowdy
white muslin of the English girl, but the
white muslin as it is made beautiful by
a French dressmaker. 1t has a wide
skirt, a draped bodice, a lace trimmed
fchu, while about the small waist is a
narrow girdle of white ribbon. The
sleeves are full and big, and on the dainty
little head is straw hat heavy with The the
flowers of the field and the hothouse. The
innocent girl looks from under the brim
and wonders ''how the gentlemen know SO
much" and lis it really true that some of
them drink whisky" and can anybody
have the heart to say that pretty girls
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