The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-30
Overheard in n Restaurant.

My husband has explained the silver
question to me very thoroughly" said a
dainty-looking little woman as she and a
friend seated themselves in q restaurant
yesterday and began to look down the bill
OF fare, says the Chicago Daily News.
has heE' returned the other. What
are you going to take?"
Yes. l don't know. The coffee here IS
splendid, returned the first speaker, men
ldhy calculating the amount she had sc
naming after morning of shopping.
Lets both have chicken salad and cof-
Zee suggested her friend, and their or
doris being given the two ladies' settled
down TO an earnest discussion Of the
money question
You see" began No. l, giving her
glossy hair gentle pat, Mr.. Bryan owns
number of silver mines which aren l
paying him anything just now
why, l thought he was a poor man.
cried the other, leaning forward in her
eafnestness. He must be, because Mrs.
Bryan has no jewery"
VI course ne is now, because these
mines won't work" answered No. l,
munching a cracker as she spoke. but
Mr.. Bryan says that if the government
VIII only order some more silver collars
ne can go to work and employ silver
miners to work in his mines Now, what
can't understand is why the men
wouldn't Just as lief work in Mr.. Bryan 5
mines as in Mr.. McKinleys mills"
Perhaps Mr.. Bryan doesn't pay as large
wages as Mr.. Mckinley suggested No. 2
That may be, but l don't think that's
II. guess it's because the men think
II more respectable to work in mills than
IN mines. What do you Think and No.
l turned anXiously to her companion
1 should think silver was cleaner than
ulrty rags and waste paper. That's VIVA,
through one once was No. rs answer
as she began to eat the salad brought
her by the waiter.
"Oh, they must use other things besides
paper and rags" cried No. l, because
lots Of things are made in mills; but. any
way the people want Mr. Mckinley 10
open his mills and Mr.. Bryan to keep his
mines shut up"
wei, if they want that, why don't
they let him do it?" asked No. 2. at
seems to me that men are awful silly
anyway. If we women were in power
wee know how to manage things,
Indeed we would. 1 can't saw WHY
they all act so, but my husband says that
IL the mines open we can't go to Europe
next year as we have been arranging to
90, and he says 1 can't keep but one
servant so Of course I'd rather have the
mills open than the Mines" and No !
uiSA4AA llIA COlAeS ike one VINO had been
deeply injured.
But what difference does it make to
YOU husband? He doesn't work in
either cried No. 2, a fold of perplexity
appearing between her eyebrows.
Ot course, he DOESN'T cried No. 1 in
dignantly. DO you think I'd have mar
ried miner? No, indeed. When I ask
too many questions he says that don
seem to understand anything, and so !
keep still and just gather up my infor-
nation from what see and hear"
It's wonderful, DEAR how you do man
age to keep yourself posted" said her
| friend, admiringly. 81 often think I'll try
to do it, but somehow 1 can't understand
anything" and she sighed deeply.
"Oh, just keep on trying" No. ! said
encouragingly, as the ladies rose zone
ought to keep abreast of the times so as
to be able to talk inteligently to one
husband"
Yes indeed" returned No. 2, struggling
to discover the Whereabouts of her peck
etbook, but if 1 were a man 1 think I
would vote for Mr.. Bryan, he is so much
better looking than Mr.. Mckinley"