The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-08

I long-stemmed nodding American Beauty
roses pinned on one side of their cor
sdses' wandered about and tried to look
interesting. A light refreshment was
passed-ice cream, think, and cake and
| lemonade, for we authors are not sun
posed to care for grosser and more ma
material elements represented by terra
pm and pate-and there we glared at one
ssHot her Tor an hour or more. Later on
IN the evening I met one of my quondam
associates at Mrs. Ms whose set
you know, Is one of the smartest and
most frivolous in town. What a reliefr
| ne exclaimed on seeing me- and how de
| lShttul all these women look and | am
gust longing for the supper, which l see
Il ABOUT 10 be announced Mrs. Ms
chei, they say is the best in New York
ana or he skipped, and / saw him a min
1te atterward with pretty little Mrs.
-, who hasn't an idea in her head,
enjoying himself hugely. No, my dear.
/ you need not long to go with literary peo-
PIE. Taken altogether they are not anus
lhs' and m sure ought TO know"
The announcement is made says the
New York Tribune, that a trained nurse
| Is 10 be added to the staff Of pay drawers
| or one of the big department stores.
/ whose duty shall be to care for a GUS
toner suddenly taken i'll. This is not so
/ needless an innovation as may seem at
nrst reading. Shopping has become a Sc
TlouS strain and one that any but the
strongest of women feel. At certain times
OF the year, notably before Christmas
! ana nearly as much so when the spring
and autumn buying are at their hight.
tne stores are so crowded that it is a
| physlcal ordeal simply to make ones way
| about. Heat and impure air are addition
| al burdens, and If, as often happens to
the suburban or haste-drven city woman
the shopping list must be finished in a
given time, a WEAKNESS that is not far
removed from the danger point is very apt
| 70 ensue. One has only to glance about
the parlorS reserved now in every large
store for ladies' use to discover at almost
/ any busy time of the day several women
| lying among the pillows of the comforta-
Die ulNanS, evidently exhausted. often posi-
| lively i'll. In one of these rooms the other
| day woman was seen suffering from an
| attack of bleeding at the nose. The at
| tendant, stupid-loOkng elderly woman,
was trying. to do something for her, but
was clearly alarmed and inefficient.
HShe's been here two hours" she explained
/ to a strong-faced, energetic woman who
stopped by the pair land 1 can't do
anything to stop the bleeding" The new
conner promptly replied: Il can; I'm a
| trained nurse, but this room must be clear
ed before l can work to any advantage"
She was pulling off her gloves as she
spoke, and her next move was to send off
for floor walker, who readily gave per
mission that the parlor could be at her
| exclusive service for a time while she
cared for the sick woman. Everybody
| about Vas glad enough to withdraw in
the face of evident skill and capability,
and though the result of this particular
case is not known, it may be assumed
a bad idea at all to have a trained nurse
with a properly equipped room within
reach of the shopping public
OF all the false friends that beset the
| rich, says the New York Tribune, and
their name is legion, fortune-hunters are
! the most dreaded by those who are sensi-
tive, and many a lovely woman who might
nave been happy wife and mother If
/ she had been born poor, remains minated
| through life, growing loneher and more
suspicious with advancing years. 1t seems
/ n on he
eye of needle than for a young man
! with the reputation of great wealth to
pass unscathed through the manifold
! temptations which Will surely beset him,
| temptations that young men of modest
means are never exposed to. NO wonder
| that their mothers suffer unspeakabe anx-
| ieties, and dread above all the other wo-
men who seek to influence their sons
! liVes-hard, mercenary Worldlings whose
one aim is to better their condition by a
rich marriage.
81 could forgive her." said an unhappy
mother with infinite pathos, whose only
son had clandestinely married a woman
of the world several years his senior-'I
| could forgive her if l thought she loved
| him! But to feel that she has success
fully hunted him down for the sake of
our money breaks my hearth
1t must have been a sad day. says the
| New York Times, for our great-grand-
| mothers in Philadelphia when congress
! no longer assembled there, and New York
! began to dispute the social prestige of the
! Quaker
A celebrated Philadelphia belle of the
| day, Miss Franks, writes of a visit made
! in the rival city, and her quaint descrip-
| tons of New York society were proba biv
! colored by jealousy for home supremacy.
The letter. which is a possession of a
| Brooklyn woman, descendant of the OBJ
| serving writer, says, among other things:
by the bye, few ladies here know how
| to entertain company in their own houses.
unless they introduce the card table Ex-
| cept the van Homes, who are remarka-
| BILE for their good sense and ease | don't
| know a woman or girl who can chat above
half an hour, and that on the form of a
| cap, the color of ribbon, or the set of a
| hoop, stay, or jupon. | will do our la
| dies-that is, the Philadelphians-the ius-
| tice to say that they have more cleverness
| in the turn of an eye than those of New
| York have in their whole composition
/ With what ] have seen a Chew a Penn.
an Oswald, an Allen, and a thousand 9th
| ers entertain a large circle of both sexes
| the conversation, without the aid of cards
/ never tagging or seeming in the least
strained or stupid; Here-or, more prop
| erly speaking, in New York-you enter a
room with a formal, set courtesy, and
! after the how-do's, things are finished:
] alPs dead calm till the cards are intrD-
/ duced when you see pleasure dancing in
/ the eyes of all the matrons, and thew
| seem to gain new life. The maidens. If
| they have favbrite SWANS, frequently de-
cline playing. for the pleasure of making
| lovel for to all appearances it is the ladies
not the gentlemen-who nowadays show
a preference. 1t is here, 1 fancy always
| leap year. For my part who am used
to quite another style of behavior. I can
not help showing surprise-perhaps they
call 1t ignorance-when / see a lady single
out her pet. and lean almost into his
arms, at an assembly or a playhouse
| (Which ] give my honor / have too often
seen, both with the married and single)
or hear one confess partiality for man
whom, perhaps, she has not seen three
times: Well! declare, he is a delightful
creature. and would love him for nv
husbandy one eXclaims; or, I could mar
ry such a gentleman Indeed, gossip SAYS
that in the cases of most who have been
married the first advances come from the
ladys side, or she got a male friend to
introduce the intended victim and pass
her off. This is really the case, and with
me ladies thus lose half their charms
suspect there would be more marriages
were another mode adopted-they have
made the men so saucy that believe the
lowest ensign thinks he has but to ask
and have-that red coat and smart epau-
let is sufficient to secure a female heart.