The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-09

Florida. Orange County. New York,
Aug s-As our party consists OF mere
women. except from Saturday go Monday.
we have an opportunity 90 DO, NOT oaIy
considerable talking hut cons leran-e
thinking. Even the most talkatFe woman
uses up her chatter iu time. Ana lnen
she rests and waits Tor fresh ammunitl1n-
The thinking is done during the resting
period on Saturday we suddenly become
conscious Of the Importance OF mankind.
for We are informed that the gentlemen
will arrive on the o'clock train Inc
two gentlemen consist OF Uncle Iimothy'a
brother who is over I'D. and Aunt Maria =
Wiue. VINO is lg. and clerklug in the city.
The entire household gets on its hes;
clothes and goes down 10 meet them. VIZ
lie is an ambitious youth. given 10 fancy
scarfs and with a desire to make money
enough to 90 10 college next year. j re-
spect his ambition, but ! do wish thar
he would not stutter and blush so every
time you spoke to him. and that he would
not MI his pockets with all sorts or
things. When he walks around he has
lumpy appearance. and unless Aunt Ma
ma gets hold of him and manages to make
him unload, his coat never sets smoothly
on him.
It is a queer thing that the average
dressmaker nowadays has absolutely no
consideration of the comfort Of woman
kind.
She declines to put a pocket in a skirt.
She expects you to tuck your handkerchief
up your sleeve. or to keep It in your pock-
etbook, and she counts on your being
willing to carry your purse in your hand
and chance losing II. With the average
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the subject OF pockets. A pocket / will
have, I insist upon having, and do get
OF course, / don't want to put IN my
pocket all the things that a man carries
in his FIVE or seven or nine. or whatever
number belongs to him, but still like to
know that there is place in which can
slip love letter or bill, or keep the al
ways necessary hairpin. A purse, knife
a handkerchief, a watch, pencil, a MEM
orandum book and snuff box are only
few Of the things that men carry in their
pockets. Some men have loose bits Of
candy, and when this candy gets covered
with snuff or tobacco, II lacks the deli
cacy of taste Il had when IT started. Some
other men carry a whole writing get-up;
that Is, a small pad of paper, one of those
pens that holds ink. and is stopped up
when you wish 10 use it, and a collection
of postage stamps. Other men indulge in
cigarettes and cards, while still other men
wear on those double chains and conceal
3n their pockets not only great lunches
of keys. but often two and sometimes
three watches. The three watches are
worn to see what time il is in America
England and Russia.
Speaking of snuff, which the extremely
smart middle-aged man Is just now TAX
ing up again, II IS difficult thing TO
md good snuff box. Just try II you want
10 give one to somebody. You can get
bonbon boxes, you can get stamp boxes,
but a snum box ought not to have a hinge
for the snuff collects in Il and makes the
rlat hot "a
snuf box must be nat, that Il will not
make the waistcoat bulge. and yet 1t must
hold sufficient snuff for at least half day.
To be very swell, you must make an effort
10 get the Pope's snuff.I have smelt it,and
its odOr is decidedly good. / am told that
the Pope has great liking for perfumes,
consequently the snuff used by him is not
only made of the very finest tobacco. but
II Is perfumed with altar of roses. Balti-
more is proud of the fact that IL is made
there and under the direction of so good a
Judge of snuff as Cardinal Gibbons.
1t is interesting TO know, speaking of
pockets and the things that are needful,
that abominable bag made of netting,
which is seen in most OF the cities nova
days, and carried by matrons who go out
TO buy a lot of little things, had it's birth
not in Philadelphia, not in Boston, not in
New York city, but in Rome, and was
1ancied by the stern Roman matrons. The
ancient Hebrew matrons carried a pouch,
but in addition to the Melted bag carried
by the Roman matrons, they had some
way of arranging swhat they called the
strophium, which was really their stays
so that a pocket was permitted near the
heart, and in il they carried their most
precious jewels. French ladies of the old
days carried sort Of oval bag made of
leather and set with uncut gems. The
Saxon danes had velvet purses, and the
Normans, when they went to England
wore bags hanging at their sides, in which
there was supposed 10 be money to give
away. Just now good many Of us would
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has some money to burn or offer without
interest to her friends. / often wonder
what Eve did without a hairpin. Or was
she the original inventor of this useful
article? Did she really first call it the
multuTn in parvo? / hate Latin, but that
just expresses the possibilities of this
part Of woman's costume ! have been
trying, with the help of a girl / know, to
think of all the things a hairpin can do.
In the first place, it buttons gloves, shoes
and collars, il takes the place of a paper
cutter, and 1t opens a letter neatly. l have
seen It used when lock was obstreper-
Gus. 1t is valuable when cork screw is
not around. 1t viii smooth and make
clean the wick of a lamp when il refuses
10 burn properly, and held in the gas and
allowed TO darken, it may take the place
OF an eyebrow pencil. Again, l wonder
what did Eve do without a hairpin?
MISS Betty was asking me the other day
who my favorite hero was. Now, Miss
Betty is nothing if not proper. and yet
she confessed, with a faint blush that
of all the men in history she liked Charles
the Second the best. She said she thought
he would have been different if the proper
influence, through some good woman had
been brought to bear upon him, and yet
she was not sure that she would have
liked him quite as well if he had been
different. From the beginning of the
world women have adored rascals
Who was interested in Abel? Who
cares for the good boy of the family?
ASK the average woman about her hero.
and she will select one of the French
Louis, probably Louis the Fourteenth
She likes his good looks. his fine man
ners, and she is sure he must have been
fascinating, else so many women could
not have cared for him. She has a lean,
ing towards Richelleu, towards Robes
pierre, and an expressed fondness for
Sheridan. Personally, l think Disraeli
stands foremost in my affections. Men
say Of him that he was the most con-
ceited man that ever lived: but women
who are wiser than men, know that he
mad much to be conceited about The
story OF his life. the story of his ambi-
uons his pubic speeches. his written
DOCKS and his inner life all combined have
a wonderful fascination for women. and
draw the feminine heart to him. Just
take up one of his novels If YOU want
70 convince yourself of his thorough un~