The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-01
WanAr:s. Warrh.

am an old woman and cannot write
love stories, but I can at least, says q
writer in an English paper, set down a
few jottings from my experience of real
life, and, from that experience, l can make
this general observation, namely, that en-
gagements or attachments which have
been made at balls seldom result In such
happy issues as those formed at picnics
Without being philosophical or wearisome
] think l can give a few satisfactory ex-
plantations and illustrations to support
this point.
In ball room, under the brilliant gas
light, floating gracefully to enthralling
waltz music or resting in cool, palm
walled hooks, with nice young man in
faultlessly cut evening dress, what does
life seem but quiet summer sea, which
could never hold storms for us personally
nor even wet us with its cold spray.
At the picnic the pitiless light of broad
day must search our complexion; the lit
tie touch of rouge here or convenient
powder there. stands but a poor chance at
this most free-and-easy human institu-
crab and gives the girl at the stern a
drenching shower of chilly water, she
must pull no wry face over the mishap
nor must her shoes be of the dainty kid
which trips the polished floor, and woe
betde the hair erected too deliberately for
safety.
After all. a ball is a very selfish affair
Everything is done for us. our chief aim
is our own personal qualification; and
what is there for the young man to exer-
else his thougtfulness in save the neces-
sary supply of champagne, ices or lemon
ade to some bewitching damsell? for, of
course. one never expects young man
nowadays to dance with an unattractive
girl.
A picnic. on the other hand, brings out
the wit, the common sense, the pluck of
all the young people concerned. Ny girls,
remember thiS-if you want to see the real
side of your lover, see him at a picnic. We
know Algernon waltZes to perfection, we
know he is awfully amusing, we know
no one can beat him at repartee, but can
he pull four miles without an inelegant
expression upon the state of the sun, or
dark looks and ill-tempered words TO the
ass of fellow at the bow? Can he trudge
cheerily along with one handle of the pro-
vision basket?
Can he hunt manfully for sticks for the
fire, while Charlie, who has rowed the
Jolliest girls in the party all the way, sits
down comfortably among a laughing bevy
of them? These are little things; but let
me see an active young fellow at picnic,
and will undertake to predict very close
1y what sort of husband he will make. I
don't think, for instance, that he who
leaves all the hard work for his compan-
ions will be much inclined, later on, to re-
lieve his wife, or anybody else, of a few
disagreeable duties.
Now have done. This is Just friendly
chat, in which l have been trying to show
you the old truth, that it is the little
touches of courtesy and courage and kind
ness that make up the big sum of human
happiness, and especially the happiness of
married life.
Pride and WORTH
"A weed and a rose and violet grew
In a garden, side by side
JAS the rose looked down on the owlier two
She blushed in her queenly pride.
And once. as her red lips drank the dew,
The rose in a whisper said:
''If were as worthless as each Of you
I'd rather that were dead"
But the weed that night made cooIlng cup
For the lips of a fevered child;
And one who had mourned for years looked
up
And, kissing the violet. smiled
Frank S. Pixley. in the Chicago Times
Herald.
The Rev Charles H. Parkhurst, D. D.,
discusses The Young Man and Marriage
in the November Ladies' Home Journal.
Marriage to a certain degree" he says,
"a young man is to look upon from
unitarian standpoint. A good wife is so
much capital She makes him to be. by
kind of grace. a great deal more than
he is by nature. She contributes the quaf-
titles needed in order to convert his vlgor
into safe as well as productive eff
cheney. She introduces, for instance In
10 his intellectual nature that Ingredient
of sentiment which intellect requires in
order TO be able to do it's best work
Heart and brain need to conspire in order
10 the attainment of the true and with
out caring to assert that man Is naturally
heartless. any more than / should wish TO
assume that woman is by nature brain
less, yet heart in its way is just as preo-
aous as brain in its way, and woman, so
long as she Is untainted by the passion
OF wanting 10 be a man, will be that mem
Der or the connubial corporation that will
IN particular contribute TO the capitai
stock its affectiona element Some We
men may resent this, but / would like 20
caution young men against cherishing
matrimonial designs upon any woman who
Is hkely TO resent 1t. II what you want Is
"lie' and not merely a housekeeDer
you must Keep your eye well open for a
warm Dundle OF femininity that will be
20 you IN personal way what the frs.
on the hearth is to you in a physical wa,
"a fund OF tropical comfort that will keen
me stiffness out Of your thinking ~.
Irost out OF your feeling, and the genera,
machinery OF your life in a condition -.
pleasureable activity" %
caves and ankles, big waists and false
mar the immodesty Of a woman SHOWING