The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-12

A well-known decorator observed the
| other day that a woman in the furnishing
| of her own home looks too much in the
selection Of fabrics to the perfection of
| little details. She judges of a fabric the
/ same as she judges OF the merits Of a doy-
Z ly-by the details-hence the value of
broad color schemes very seldom
seems to suit her, for it is full Of complex
J decoration.
We frequently see a house that is totally
lacking in good results simply because the
woman at the head Of it has attempted
too much. Such a house reminds us Of the
building of an opera hat wherein a little
OF everything from her top drawer has
been poked into it, simply because 1t is
beautiful. This woman has not thought
sufficiently of the whole. but has rather
grained her liking for a multiplicity of
things which, while good enough sepa-
rated, become an homogeneous and IN
meaning mixture when brought together;
she's Ike a cook who has tried TO make
one fine dish and has thrown into ii every
thing she knew how TO make, from cod
hSh TO caramels.
Never acknowledge "yourself beaten"
said successful man, but make the
prosperity will come" There is more truth
in this precept, says the New York Tri-
bune, than many people realize, but only
In business relations, but in social life as
well. If you succumb TO financial diff
cultes and sink gradually to "A lower level
acquire a slovenly. or at least careless
!
! distrustful soon you find yourself de-
served by your friends as you suppose,
whereas in reality it Is you who desert
them. In the press of modern life there
is no time to stop and look after those
who fall by the wayslde, and it is much
easier to keep footing than to regain ii
IT once lost. Never let your right hand
know how poor your left hand is, is an
other worldly axiom that the children
OF this generation find profitable to fol-
low, and this suggests problem. How is
IL that Jones, who failed dsastrously last
year, and who, 1t is said. lost every PEN
ny and more besides, is apparently still
rolling in wealth? And how does he man
age to keep his carriage with two men
on the box and go on giving dinner par
ties TO his smart friends whenever it
seems good to him TO do so? 1t was only
last week that the newspapers announc-
cd that he would not pay 50 cents on the
dollar, and yet his wife has just ordered
knows, is one OF the most expensive dress
makers in town. Who pays for the din
ners, and the carriage, and the gowns :
And II they are not paid for, how does
Jones manage it, and why can he not let
us all into the secret? Then, again. there
are people who make what one would inn
agine to be an ample income, and who yet
talk as If they were positively poor, ana
who deny themselves not only the luxur-
les Of life, but often the necessities of a
pleasant existence. Why is 1t that some
people have nothing, and yet seem to pos
Sess everything, and others have a sufff-
cheney and yet seem to lack so much that
~S@AAAOA
Mrs. Cleveland's manner toward her
children is perfectly lovely, says frequent
ers of the white house, and she lives in
dread of their getting into the papers.
Ruth called one day TO the room where
her mother was receiving visitors ana
| shyly stood on one foot in the doorway.
"Oh, Ruth" called Mrs. Cleveland,
don't stand so, else the newspapers will
declare you have only one Leg
There are certain wonoan's cIuhs and CO
| cieties, says the New York Herald when
| seem to get constantly before the public
| No possible reason can be found for this
in the. value Of their work, for they do
| no real work. They are either elementary
| to a degree or else they may be cassf-
/ fled under that large and constantly grow
ing head-the genus humbug To those
| who attend, as disinterested outsiders.
| club meetings the amount of twaddle
/ which Is soberly absorbed is at once anus
ing and pathetic. No doubt men can
! achieve quite as glorious regulations in
| this line, but somehow or other they DO
not make such to do about 1t. One
/ woman's club in particular, of old ana
! glorious name, seems no longer to pride
! itself on the intelligence of the members
| 1t admits. When a visitor once asked to
have the prominent members pointed out
| her guide replied: There's Mrs X who
owns two country houses; Mrs Y. whose
son has life position in the naval de-
partment; Mrs a., who has half a mil
How are the nightly fallen!
How will you manage to go to Mrs.
| As luncheon after the meeting in Mul-
berry Bend?" said a fashionable philan-
thropist to a friend of the same ilk. "0h,
body" was the reply. And the result, saws
| the New York Tribune, was most satisfac-
| tory, for no one looked more gorgeous at
a.. whose upper half 'c Certainly ann N ieft
nothing to be desired. Next to the golf
frock and the bicycle costume, nothing
ma ra1rg forfl In ri r,Ff
| emancipation from the tyranny of fash
ion more than the separate waist which
the dressmakers have tried so unsurcess-
| fully TO abolish, and the reign of which
seems more firmly fixed than ever For
there is nothing that makes 1t SO possible
| to rush from one occupation to another or
most opposite functions, as in the case lust
cited. Intense energy is one of the char
acteristics OF our up to date fashionable
woman, and she has no longer either the
| time or the inclination for long, elaborate
toilets in the middle of the day, although
| she is ready enough to adopt the latest
extravaganza in the way of new fashion
/ at the proper time and season, showing
thereby the instinct of the eternal femin-
inc, which men adore and at the same
time laugh at.
Lucille. the pretty little 6-year-old of an
uptown household, says the New York
| Times, was lowering about her mother the
other morning, when her eyes was attract
ed by smant painting on ivory of the Sis
tine Madonna which stood upon the writ
ing table.
| baby, Who is it?"
That" replied Lucille's mother. stop
ping her writing to be impressive, lis the
the arms of Mary His mother - 80
Lucille listened silently, and her big ewes
watched the picture as II they would never
leave them. Then she stole away, and her
mamma became absorbed in her writing
| again. Presently there were sounds on the
| stairs, and Lucille reappeared, holding the
hand Of her younger sister, Marie. Keen
quiet, Marie, and don't disturb mamma =
was what the shocked mamma heard her
| whisper before she could raise her ewes
and right there where she's writing IS 'tbe
picture OF Gods wife and His little nov y
The German woman is beginning at last
| 70 assert herself The Berlin c0rrespon-