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

OF Christ That is enough about the
play and what IL suggested
Speaking of women, / heard a clever
one give. as her idea Of the best method
OF holding a man. this answer. Make
MIN a creature of habit" DO you know
how much truth there is in that2 If you
are ~ doubt ABOUT man, try It. Get
MN IN the habit OF sitting in certain
chair and he finds most others uncOm-
Portable; get him in the habit Of seeing
your face smiling at him across the din
ner table, and he is rather upset when he
IS opposite another woman. That woman
who understood a man who had loved
many women, that woman who was
neither young nor beautiful. Madame de
Maintenon, said of Louis the Fourteenth:
lie Is used 70 every chair in my room,
ana II their places were changed IL would
annoy him He is used to walking a GER
tain distance every evening to see me, and
70 60 further or less would be a trouble
10 MIN. ! know the things that please
him, the food he likes, / know what an
noys him, ! know the people who are
peasant and those who are unpleasant TO
nm, and never contradict him unless l
feel that he is in remarkably good health
ana anxious TO impress upon me how
much more he knows than | do. Then
l start little discussion. but in IL / never
give hint of the great knowledge / pos
sess. / permit him to come out conquer
or, ana he forgives me and loves me all
the more because OF my seeming ignOr-
ance. After a man has passed 40, the wo-
man he loves Is the woman he is used
to. wonder II this is true? am tempted
to believe 1t.
Did you ever realize the value of magic
words-words that will bring you bless
ings or words that will result in your
suneringY Words that you could utter to
your friends, and words that said to your
enemies viii bring all sorts of trouble
upon them. Of course, the most important
of all words is "Abracadabra. This
written on a bit of parchment, and put
in a silk bag worn about the neck, will
drive away all evil spirits and bring good
health to you. Could this have been the
beginning gC1D1Il9FI Pgnnla "
were very wealthy got precious stones or
bits of gold. and had this mystic word
written upon each, and then the precious
bit was covered with a golden case, not
unlike locket and swung on a string
of pearls, gold, or of diamonds, as ones
desire or purse permitted. By-the-bye
this was the name Caligostro gave to his
favOrite horse. If you have the chills
(and oh Is there anything worse than a
after IT'D then have "Abracalan" written
on your parchment, and the chills will
disappear as rapidly as your monthly al
lowance. 1t appears, according to his
tory. that there is a certain amount of
sex in these words. for what cures a bad
headache, "a fainting spell or indigestion
in a man will do no good whatever to a
woman. For these ills a man should
have, either on the parchment in his bag
or on his shirt cuff, or, indeed wherever
it is most convenient. the word "Anam-
zaptas," while a young woman with a
leaning toward headaches, and these
other Ills. requires "Anamzapta."
For general use around the house when
the kitchen lady is fnsubordinate and the
children all show symptoms of getting the
measles, the word "Agla" is handy 1t
wouldn't be a bad idea for people who
have discovered its good qualities to have
il painted on stiff cardboard in very large
letters frame 1t, and permit il TO take the
place of the worsted motto which in many
houses has formed the chief decorations
tf &c use the langua ge of that immortal
Mr.. Chimmie Fadden, you're chasin'
yourself around the country" and meet
snake you need IN. not an tr ogole to use his IA
yourself up in the most dignified manner
stare the serpent in the eye and say "Os-
va" do not know how to pronounce this
word, and / beg that n obody win ask me
if the Y Is soft or hard; one of the charms
about the mystic words. is that you can
pronounce them as you. please, for 1t is
doubtful it, west of Calcutta anybody but
a few Oriental professors knows just how
they should be uttered. I should like you
to feel that am giving you much that is
good in Offering this mystic slang, but it
seemed to me that, as words don't amount
to so very much, there could be no harm in
trying them. In that they are unlike pat
ent medicines. If you have a ruby or a
sapphire, or even an emerald sufficiently
large to take it, get the word 'Bedooh''
engraved upon it, and all the money you
want will come to you.
If somebody would only prove this.
would pawn the entire furniture and be-
longings of ''The Hut to get ruby and
to have the dinky word put on it, But
alas! although / have heard the tale and
am repeating IT, have never even met
an oriental gentleman who had struck it
rich, so to say, by his mystic word When
you have an enemy and meet him, hurl
the word "Abraxas" at him, and imme-
diately a ladder win fall on him, or If it is
a She her hat will go out of fashion but
whatever happens you will get the best
of it. A really, rightly enemy, one on
whom you wish all sorts of dreadful
things TO fall can be made to suffer dread
fully if you send him a sheet of paper
with "Abrazapta" written on 1t. 1t seems
TO me that of these letters were spelled
out on children's blocks there would be a
great run on as. Perhaps it is because
it is the first letter, and therefore diff
cult to learn. Well, 1 don't care very much
for in my own name l have the mystic
letter A bounded on each side by the
mystic letter 3, so, though you can't find
Venezuela, there is no difficulty in dis
covering. Bah.