The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-27

'Iush1DE.'
face when she finds that even the touors
IN the center of the table are NOT 70 bo
dragged apart and distributed among the
guests This desire to carry something
away exists in all women 1t Is a vulgar
streak, but 1t is just as strong in Mrs.
Blueblood and Mrs. Millionaire as It il in
MRS Shoddy and Mrs. Poverty. There
nave been times when some brave woman
nus limited her souvenir to a flower-a
great rose or stately lily-but she has
always regretted It,. Women long for
some rubbishy piece of china tied up with
rlpbon, and filled with miserable little
sweets, hard as bullets, and calculated 10
Dreak the teeth of whoever tries to eat
them. But woman will lunch off of
soppy croquettes, a half-cooked bird, d
Dauly-dressed salad, ices that are melt.
ing only too quickly, coffee lacking in
strength, and sweets limited as to sugar
ana announce that she has been to the
most perfect luncheon Of the season If she
can carry home a small toy which rings
as you turn 1t round, a by ; china box.
nIIed with hard, round, little candles and
a paper lamp shade.
There seems to be more satisfaction in
the accumulation of rubbish than in the
absorption of good food.
The average man doesn't know what to
90 with a souvenir; he rather likes a flow
er to stick in his buttonhole, but when It
come to carrying home anything in the
shape of china or glass or silver he feels,
properly enough, like a thief.
BY the-bye, it's pleasant to hear that
sunshine is coming in fashion By this
1 mean that by having drawing room as
DIack as hades is going out and streams of
sunshine are coming in. This news will
be greeted by the average man with pleas
ure. There are a great many men who
really only know some women
Dy the sound of their voices.
They call on her in the after
noon when the drawlng-room is in
the proper dim, religious light; see her on
the street when her face is swathed in
heavy yelling, and really would be unable
TO recognize her. 1 think this change of
affairs results from the fact that many
women are tired of being told that they
Keep their drawing-rooms dark because
OF the old riddle: Where are all women
like all cats, beautiful" I'm the dark"
but what are you going to do about as
pleasant way to entertain your friends
those friends whom you want to meet
with whom you like to chat, and who
seem to make life better because they live.
One agreeable way is to have them to
breakfast; make out your lists, and then
IN regular rotation give your little enter
tainments. The proper hour for a break
fast is half-past u, and not ! o'clock You
want your table to have the lightness and
the brightness of the early sunshine it
must not partake of the grandeur and
dignity of the dinnertable. Your fruit
must be fresh-well, as fresh as if it had
really come from the southern land where
1t is born. Then, your oysters must be
plump, but never limiting in size that they
belong to the tribe which Thackeray com
pared to young babies, and which. when
he ate Them made him realize what it was
to be a cannibal. After this, have a outlet
or bird with some green salad, and Their
a fancy omelet. The coffee must be like
amber, the rolls as white as the gown
worn by debutante, and as light as her
heart, while the butter must be the color
of the sunshine, and taste of the cream
used for making it. You can make your
breakfast more elaborate if you like.
The most perfect breakfast l ever ate
consisted of first, strawberries, then oat-
meal with cream and brown bread, then
a bird with grape fruit salad, and then, a
sweet, which 1 have forgotten as 1 didn't
eat any. But everything was perfectly
cooked, daintily served, and the breakfast
itself was given in honor of a man who
announced that he would only eat brown
bread and oatmeal, so each one of these
dishes were the pieces de resistance. You
see. a breakfast may consist of little or
AHuCH, DuI the ulSueS served must De per-
feet. You may offer nothing more than
grapes, rolls and coffee, but the purple
and white of your grapes must contrast
artistically as they lay on the dish best
suited to them, with their own leaves
around them, while the rolls and coffee
must be white and dark, light and strong,
as each demands; and yet we haven't
made up our minds how we will entertain
this winter. My advice is to wait and see
what the season calls for. To wait and
see to whom you wish to offer an enter
tainment. Then, too, one must give a
little thought quite too often, to the depth
and weight of ones purse; and some
purses will be lighter and some will be
heavier after the election.
There is a slang phrase that always
makes me laugh; in 1t there's a deal of
good sense and a deal Of generosity-it is
this: '"If you know a good thing shove it
along."I know of a good thing-a good
story, and 1 shove along the news to who
ever wants to read it, 1t is called "A
Vagabond Gentleman" it is written by
Col. Carter of Gainesville. No, 1 don't
mean that, 1 mean by Hopkinson Smith,
who wrote Colonel Carter" When you
read it and laugh over it and joy over 1t,
do what I have done-shove it along.
Slang? OF course, its slang, but slang ex-
presses so much, and one would be an
awful prig, If occasionally one didn't drop
into slang l may have weaknesses, dom [
deny them; may be wicked, ] have sus-
pected it, But there is nobody who can
say that prigishness is a fault belonging
to Bah.