The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-26

often happened years ago In Athens or IN
Rome! | do most positively believe that
II Romeo and Juliet and an the rest Of
them were living nowadays. that Juliet
would marry Paris and carry on d nirta-
ton, after marriage. with Romeo.
She would lunch with him az the FASH
ionable restaurant she would drive out
with him Tn his hanson. and make him
send her bouquets of flowers every day;
she would name her first baby after him,
ana the chances are her husband would
grow fond OF him. and talk about the time
when there used 10 be some ridiculous
feeling. but that was all nonsense. and
my wife ANA Rooney and ! are the most
devoted friends possible. lie would call
MIN Rooney, | am certain, II IS the fash
ION OF the day TO take all dignity out
OF names. Think OF my beautiful name
OF Elizabeth being boiled down TO Bet
~. Though, really. I should feel very
III an ITS stateliness / am bit inter
eSteu as 10 the emotional period that we
are IN Just now, and, my dear, except
thtt we have VulgariZed IL a little I do
believe that we have gotten to the Fgyp-
t!dh stage. People are trying TO prove
that Cleopatra was a small blonde wo-
man, very eNcitable and liable at any
moment TO an attack of the nerves This
OF course, makes her seem very like the
dNetaBe woman in society to-day. Then,
ii cleopatra We're like this II is fair to
conclude that Antony and Julius Caesar
could not have been such tiresome men
as history makes them, but really very
nice sort OF fellows who wore their hair
snort and went in for athletics Perhaps
they TOOK them little differently from
the way men do nowadays Whenever
they wanted TO get into a good healthy
glow they did not punch away with the
gloves, or practice on the horizontal bar
buJ called their servants and went out
ana killed few people. ] wish this were
the mode nowadays. OF course, It would
not be very agreeable having to kill peo-
pie but so many people could be spared.
we are told there We're street cars and
telegraph wires, telephones and messen-
ger boys in the days Of Cleopatra Fancy
Cleopatra receiving a telegram from An
tony saying he would come for her TO dine
with him at 1880 In those days the tee-
graph companies probably managed lust
as they do now. SO she would receive her
message at 7:l0. although II was started
al 3, and she would have Just twenty min
utes IN which to rush around and dress
herself before her noble lord arrived Then
Antony would hunt up the girl that took
the message and the boy that delivered II,
| and XIII them both Nowadays he would
not nave that very proper privilege. He
could only write a letter of complaint TO
the company and the company. with its
usual appreciation of the rights of the
| individual would take no notice OF il. And
still, we are in the Egyptian cycle.
am all the more certain OF II because
.When / was IN the city ! was taken by
one of my nepheWs 10 SEE a ballet The
women in that ballet certainly belonged
/ TO the Egyptian period-probably to the
pallet or Cleopatra. Some were so sCraw-
/ ny that 1t seemed ptiful TO take them out
OF their graves and make them dance
others were so fat that one regretted that
/ their pandages had been undone. and their
/ mummies let loose. They were not fat In
1 a pretty way; they were fat IN a umpy
/ way, and IN "A ballet, at least that Is what
/ nave always thought, the fat should be
/ evenly distributed. or course my dear
am only one girl giving my opinion Of
how things seemed to me IN the city anC
\ may be wrong but / doubt it,
/ was Just going to ask Miss Anne what
4 she thought of the ballet when her sister
! put her hand on my arm and told me not
! TO mention II 10 her. She considers Miss
4 Anne too young TO look at such things
] Miss Betty, herself, is thoroughly up "a
| date, although she does not approve OF
! this particular date; but the eyes Of heT
/ sister never rests upon anything that IS
/ not quite proper. / wonder what Is quite
/ proper In this world. Jest as soon as you
| want to enjoy yourself, somebody decides
/ that this special mode Of enjoyment Il
i not right Just as soon as an interesting
! book comes out. Il critic decides that n
/ would cause blush to come LDon the face
| OF the young person Certainly the youna
/ person IN America needs TO be kept guard
/ eu. Iaken as type she IS not given &c
/ blushing She Is self-satisned She be.
! ieTes she knows enough TO set the world
! on fire II she used her knowledge and she
i Is perfectly ready at any time to give the
/ people, who kr ow more of life and more
i of books and more OF people, than she
/ ever dream Of her opinion Of everything
| and everybody. The advanced girl is not
! agreeable She is a failure as a sweet.
| heart. she is tiresome as a companion, and
! she is a fraud as a woman. The best
! thing for her to do would be to become a
| bicyclist, and give her time exclusively
! to the study of the wheel and it's posi-.
! blities. Then she viii act as did the beg.
| gar who was put on horseback and no one
| will regret her appearance. / say nc
/ one; really / cannot vouch for all the
! world though can vouch for the emotion
| that would be experienced by Bah.