The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-24

I mink she would rather sit down and talk
ABOUT now and where 10 buy a shirt waist
else would cost two dollars than 10 play
any outdoor game. Advertised barga n
D safes OF shirt waists would draw the wear
/ 4. oL lntm 10 the Wdrmest place magma
PIE, and the shirt waist fends will stand
I Ten deep ana lose ali decency of manner
Z ana speech in their determination To he in
I az lae nnish and possess one of the shirt
| waists so lavishly described in printers
llh II IS true that they are too often
IhlShts, and IL IS also true that their ma
! tetlaI Will fade under an intense smile
DU! sun when they come from a bargain
/ counter, they have virtues only appre-
one of the chief charms OF going
away Tor the summer is the packing of
Hunhs- My advice to every sensible wo-
man is this: If you have attached TO
/ your menu anything that Is masculine
/ ihaHd over your keys 10 MIN and let this
! nsss De conducted by him Nan in the
] ABSTRACT is worthless. as far as wOman's
I CONES are concerned, but man. the iudi-
NlQual, can go over your belongings, Dick
4 out just what you want. and pack vour
4 trunk so that il will lock. That is a great
/ victory. l never saw trunk packed by a
/ woman that would lock at the first call
I some times IL does, after the boys have
{ Jumped on It, ana the strap has been
Lawn az, DuI usually woman has TO TIP
az eApressnan 10 90 the locking. lie first
1 tes a rope around the trunk, then slams
| II on the floor, and the turns the key
/ with seem, and without trouble.
/ A woman nearly always knows what She
wants to take to the country with her.
/ nut she doesn't place her properties well.
/ Sne knows she can't buy the baby's timed
| Iood up country, and so she wraps up in
| Vulnerable cans of il and lays them be-
/ tween Marian's orsandy frocks, because
! they 90 not make a heaNy trunk OF
! course, the tins leak, and Marian, who is
1 is, and expects to look like r flower in
/ these organdy frocks, doesn't quite wish
! the baby hadn't been born, but does wish
/ that-well, anyhow she wishes the cans
/ nam leaked; She called them some kind
/ OF cans, but l have forgotten what.
| One of the boys inVariable reminds YOU
/ that, once you are in the country, you
/ nave TO drive four miles to buy ink and
/ that when you buy 1t II is abominably
4 pale. So being a woman. you joy in har-
/ mony, and in the trunk with your books
] ana your husbands half-hnished novel,
i goes the ink. Every man who lifts that
/ trunkful of books swears until he is the
! color of lobster; and every man who
! sWears at the trunk throws ii down, hop
/ ing TO smash II. But no man succeeds.
! However, one of these gentlemen mama
| ges to break the ink bottle, and the novel
| reeks with dark deeds and black fluid
/ and everybody is sorry.
Still, everybody is in the country. and
| no matter what ones woes are, they les
| sen somehow when one looks at the beau
! utul trees, realizes that the grass eX-
| tends further than the plot in the back
/ yard, and drinks in the air so fun of good
! tastes. City air always reminds me of
tnat perfume called opopanaN. the com
| bination if which is only known to the
| chemists, and the result of which is only
! pleasing to a rather depraved taste. It
/ was once whispered that opOpanaX was
/ made of the tails of little pigs boiled
/ down, but l don't believe anything so
crude could result in anything so complex
/ When the wind blows over the city one
eargerly swallows a mouthful of air and
! gets microbes, dirt. various unpleasant
| things in the way of vegetables, flowers,
ana people, who are more or less deca-
dents, while in with the other things comes
/ that strong odor that always permeates
the air when many people breathe into it.
10 try hn air CT 4f--
| 1t always reminds me of cows breath
that smells of clover, suggests new milk
and is altogether dainty. No after dinner
| cachou was ever made that could give
such a perfume this
! It never makes much difference when
| you have big, comfortable room TO sleen
in, and fields and groves to move aroma
| IN, what YOU get to eat in the country Bnt
II you are civilized, you don't want to stay
| there after the summer days Cfyl.zatfo
| Is MISTAKE 1t causes you TO long when
! the warm days have gone by for the good
things of the flesh, and the country does
! not set them forth. The idea of servin o
1 in the country is primeval (the Typewriter
| spelt that prime evil, and I was going to
let It go at first, but | thought perhaps
somebody would think l did not know the
| meaning of the word. VanitasD
In the country, coffee is counted best at
/ ats weakest, and there is a fancy for drink
| ing II over a curiOusly-shaped stone wall
/ Whlch the country people call a Gun Puf
! when one can breathe good air what dir
| ference does it make about the coffee?
/ whether it is, after the German fashion
/ black as night, sweet as love and strong
! as the devil or whether it IS from Sevres
| or the other thing? You don't care much
| about your coffee or your tea either in the
! country. You can sit in the shade and get
/ great draughts of sweetness the result Of
! the farmer cutting down something we
! ignorant city people don't know what but
we do know that it is health-givng.
| Country people, who don't appreciate
! their blessings, wonder at us because we
| loaf on the grass, take an apple off the
! tree and eat it with joy. go out hunting
! for all sorts of queer things that don't
| trouble them and even breathe with de-
| light. Last year l wanted a snake skin
| l told a country boy of this desire of
my heart, and 1 also told him that to
get just what l wanted, l was willing to
! lay down certain cold pieces Of silver
! that seemed to him of value, but to me
/ only of worth because of what they would
! bring. Well, l got my snake skin but
| that fool of a country boy hadn't been
made into a belt. Now, if that had been
a city boy he would have cared for that
| skin, he would have stretched It, watch
! ed It to see that it didn't crinkle and
the result would have been this: / should
| have had a belt made of snake skin, and
/ l would have told everybody that it was
a piece of the real original serpent, that
! had inherited from my great-grandmoth-
er Eve Country boys don't appreciate
| their blessings; they long for the city
! and its noise and vulgartty. 1t Is within
J the possibilities that a country boy might
! admire a girl in a shirt waist. l will get
/ acquainted better with him this summer
/ and I will let you know all about it, The
shirt waist is the expressed depraVity
! in clothes for women. And yet, and yet
| ] see before me woman in a silk shirt
pink shirt waist, but, thank goodness, not
a sailor hat, and 10! behold! for truth is
| mighty and must prevail-it is Bah.
|
Animal Eccentricifies.