The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-16

ed to have risen in her mind And that
was all. Not a word or thought Of love
Tor MIN, not one. He tore out large
handfuls of hair. Then he exploded the
bRolhtsen' blew out the gas and went to
Will it ever come to this think you?
The girl who wants to learn, says a
writer in the Pittsburg Dispatch. must
learn first Of all the lessen of self-denial
DeIore she even begins the alphabet of
her new study. If she be a wealthy girl
| with no necessity for denial in money
matters, she must still deny herself pleas
| ures which would detract from the value
OF her study. She must keep away from
the temptations of her social life, in the
way OF entertainments, matinees and af-
Iefnoon teas. She must arouse herself
from the incidence which is almost sure
10 overtake the intellect when it is not
spurred on by necessity, and she must
above all separate herself from the world
OF pleasure about her If she wants to real
~ accomplish something. On the other
Iiand the poorer girl may be compelled
20 deny herself in outward ways in order
to pursue her studies She may have TO
choose plain bat which costs less than
me handsome and picturesque one which
Is SO becoming, in order to devote the diff
ference IN price 10 books or lessons. She
may even have to do more and put aside
all her feminine little longings for dainty
pretty things, but all these are the price
which must be paid for knowledge. The
road TO learning is not a royal one and
all who travel it must stooD alike But
me reward Is great, and when the stu
dents heart fails her in her rich home
because of her isolation from the pleas
ures of her age, or in the humber dwell
ing because of the plainness Of her living,
let her look toward the goal,
just clasp your hands quickly, says
the Washington Post Don't stop to do
II with intent. Clasp them. How did
you DO II? If you are a woman, naturally
you clasped them with the left thumb out
side the right, and the fingers as inter-
laced We're nearer you than the right one;
that is, beginning with the digit near
est you, thumbs and fingers would be ar
ranged in this order: Left thumb, right
thumb, left foretinger, middle right fore
finger, middle left finger middle right
finger third left finger, third right finger,
little left finger, little right finger.
If you are the man who absolutely DOM
mates woman, then the order was pre-
cisely reversed. Where the order Of
thumbs and fingers read left. in describe
ing the, order of the masculine fingers it
would be right.
If the man should be classed under the
popular term of ''henpecked,' he will clasp
his hands just as the woman does. with
the left thumb nearest him and the fin
gers tnterlaced in the same order.
This funny fad arrived in Washington
in the brain of an Indiana young man
forty-eight hours ago. He brought it at
some previous date from Europe In for
ty-eight hours several hundred of men
and women have been asked to CLASH
their hands. At Nine Yang's reception
groups of women stood around clasping
and unclasping their hands and wonder
meant. At other receptions the same
sight was seen, until Nny one who wasn't
in the secret might have imagined WASH
ington had been suddenly struck with a
devotional attitude.
Only it is said that in a married cou-
pie the one who in clasping hands and
interlacing fingers brings the right thumb
nearest the body, with the right fingers
cOrrespondingly placed in relation to the
left fingers, will be the dominant member
of that couple.
Bashful young men, says the New York
Press threaten to become as extinct as
of them is, therefore, doubly refreshing
That is what the sisters of a college man
think, too During the holidays their
brother invited some of the members of a
certain glee club to dine with him. OF
course, his pretty sisters donned their
most fetching costumes and winning
graces for the occasion. So much femi
nine beauty completely ratified the high
tenor who is an exceedingly shy little
chap AS he afterward said 1.-THE girls
looked so roguish and clever and pretty
that they frightened me out of my wits.
l was more scared than If were about to
be plucked at an examination. l actually
could not have told the difference be-
tween an oyster fork and an ice cream
spoon, and when 1 went to take slice of
discovered that in my embarrassment I
had helped myself twice. l thought ia
put one slice back on the place. so that
no one would see it,, Instead of that, like
an idiot, | took third slice! If the loaf
had been in sight suppose l would have
frozen on to that, too!''
1t IS pleasant to look at spring millinery
on this cold mddwtnter day says a Paris
letter in the New York Tribune and If
happens this year to be such delightful
millinery, millinery suggestive of spring
meadows and green budding foliage. and
youth and innocence, and very long deem
pocketbooks and al the other nice things
spring ought to bring. To step into Virot'
rooms to-day, after battling with the cruel
wind on the Rue de la Paix, was to be
transported into Spring-there was So
much bright, fresh green and snch an
abundance of violets, so beautiful and nat
ural, that one was deceived into fmagin-
ing the air to be full of perfume Some
were the deep purple native violets ar
ranged with the leaves in a loose careless
bunch, just as one might hold the loose
blossoms in the hand. The flowers were |
all large and perfect, but the leaves often
somewhat jagged and irregular as violets
really are. The large blush Parma vio-
let's are quite as conspicuous as the others
and even more beautiful.
The Spring bonnet has been the nron
erty of the "comic-page man. for so long
that it has acquired an Importance thai |
does not belong to it, but ii may as well
be stated, for the benefit of the sprinp |
rhymster. that there will be no spring |
bonnet" this season. for the bonnets ara /
going to be toques. There are no shanas /
at all that can properly be termed bonnets
and only two that i'm any way sug- /
lion of the Holland cap, close and tight 1
behind the ears. l believe the 'Du3cb /
bonnet" had such a run of favor in Amer /
lea last year that is quickly lost. popular
ity with those who desire exclusive modes; /
but II has never been common or very
popular here. 1t is not a becoming shane |
10 most French women, and is considered /
too coquettish for young girls, therefore
it has remained in favor for the few who /
fancy it.
The recent unpleasant experience of a
woman at one of our best theaters, saws
the New York Times, deserves publicity
as a warning to others of her sex in the
care of their yaluables.
During scene in which the action of
the play neeessitated a dim light both
before and behind the footlights. with. in
unusual twilight in the au-
the lady in question felt a slight
pressure on her shoulder and at the same |
a little movement In her hair
Of a valuable gold comb which she wore. !