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

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/ waited till light came and then turned to
see who was behind her. a man, woman.
| and child Of about twelve years were in
| the seats. Feeling positive of her suspic-
| IONS she directly but quietly accused
| them. They showed little annoyance. but
! promptly denied all knowledge OF the
/ comp. Not TO be thWarted. however, and
/ positive the thief must have been within
/ easy reaching distance of her head, the
/ owner OF the comb insisted that search
] De made Tor ii. The man and woman
made some pretense of looking about ON
/ the floor and got up from their seats the
/ chlld remaining in his place. Nothing was
! round, however, until after repeated urg-
! ing the child stood up and there on the
] seat lay the missing article. Not wishing
/ 20 make a scene, the victim of this un-
/ QOupteQly cool theft refrained from maxi
| ing public the occurrence at the time and
] causing the arrest of the parties against
! Whom circumstantial evidence was so
/ strong and at the beginning of the next
/ act the three put themselves out of harms
/ way by leaving the theater.
| Inc incident emphasized what had often
/ entered the mind Of one spectator of it,
| a wonder that women do not more often
/ lose their jeweled combs and hatpins in the
same way. They are prominently worm
ton TO stealthy and sbllful thieving fin
/ gers.
Why not really make up your minds
/ that one hour daily should be devoted to
recreation or resting in some manner?
Either we will walk an hour, lie down an
!
work, visit or chat with a cOngenial friend
! Tor an hour. In short we viii oVerturn
/ our common methods for one brief space
uitly. Ihe result Of a months fair trial
| or TINS plan will encourage to further eff
| tort IN the same direction, and in faith
Iul observance Of some such system we
shail renew our youth like the eagles, 3"
/ while many of the worn and toiisome
places viii take on new beauties land
blossom as the rose"
There are women in New York. saws the
| new 1Ork Press, who would ra ther go TO
/ a clinic than TO ball, and-more extraor-
binary yet-would rather be the subjects
! ested spectators
So cunningly do they simulate symptoms
/ OIL disease to gain their purpose that the
1 Wlsest of doctors often are deceived
/ PERSONS who have this mania for being
! cut open do not always choose EASY iiS-
! eases IL would seem impossible for in
4 stance, to counterfeit a tumor Yet such
/ cases are not rare. A year ago a woman
came 70 one OF the hospitals with all the
/ Wel-khoWn symptoms of an abdominal
tumor, so cleverly feigned that she de-
celVed the physicians who lecture there
She had even gained such control over her
muscles that she could contract them and
initiate the lack of resonance in the abdo-
4 men, which is one of the sure signs of the
disease; 1t was not until she was placed
ulder the influence of ether on the operat-
ing table that the fraud was detected with
loss or consciousness she lost control of
tne muscles, OF course and she could keep
up the sham no longer.
But tumors are not the only difficult dis
eases felsned. A young woman who had
peen under the care of a we'll known and
able surgeon in Brooklyn came to a uhv-
slcian in this city to have him treat one
OF her knee joints. which was perfectly
stlH-quite out of the question to bend at
all. she told an elaborate history of haV-
ing been shot in the knee several years
ago and of having fallen on a street car
track recently, by which she had suffered
this injury. Her story not the knee ex-
cited the physicians suspicion She was
brought before clinic. Still the knee was
as sun as a board. Finally she was put
under the influence of ether, ready for an
operation. 1t was found at once that the
supposed stiff knee was as supple as the
other me physicians could not decide
whether the young woman was taking
or under "a delusion. So they told her that
an operation had been performed and had
her apply cola water with bandages. In
two days time she walked away from the
hospital as lively as a cricket.
Miss Estelle Reed. the state sunerin-
tendent of education in Wyoming, has
brilliant political prospects now. 1t is
said that politicians in that state think
seriously of nominating a woman candi-
date for governor this year. In that case
Miss Reeds name will come first. Her
chances for election, if she is nominated
promise to be fair. She has Conducted
the affairs of her important department
with skill, tact and business ability and
has won favor with people of all parties.
If Wyoming women, particularly repub-
licans, want woman governor they viii
have one, for they have fun suffrage and
vote for all officers. Miss Reed is said to
be a stanch republican.
There is a sort of free masonry. saws tho
New York Tribune, among people he
longing to what is known as the "snart
set and they have almost an "argot'' of
their own, with the shibboleths and mass
words that happen to be in the fashion for
the moment, and which, before they are
even perceived by outsiders pass out of
one of the chief and most marked char
acterlstcs of the day. one which up to a
certain point is certainly desirable and
commendable is an entire want Of affeefa
ton in the majority of this "set " II
seems TO be 1.-THE thing Just now to he
quite genuine and natural, and it is con-
sidered bad form to be otherwise Anglo
mania, which was rife a few years ago
seems to have disappeared entirely and
the men and women OF the leisure class
are to-day frankly and decidedly Ameri-
can. All this is, as has been said. com
mendable, the drawback being that this
naturalness, if one may call it so, is ant
to go too far among intimates, and become
little too free and easy, while miladv's
pretty oath by yea or nay does not sound
so well in modern lauguage-for an up-to-
date woman does net hesitate at darn ,,
or even stronger expressions evoked by an
unsuccessful drive at golf, or some other
circumstance equally trying
Together with speech and accent FASH
tonable nOtewr1t1ng has greatly changed
of late. The newest thing in chirography
is round and vertical, and even inclined IN !
be backhanded. This writing executed |
with a quill and with spaces wide apart
seems to be the writing now in vogue and |
it is curious to note how the handWritine /
of even the older women has altered Late /
~, following the tendency of the day AS |
this handwriting is very legibe this too
is a decided improvement.
1t is also fashionable now to be rather |
enthusiastic, not to say gushing, to thank 1
people profusely for an invitation or 10 1
regret, les larmes aux yeux'' If oblieed 4
to refuse. Fashionable women call each
other by their Christian names on very 1
short acquaintance, and drop the Mrs, /
mediately; and even men are often called /
Jack or billy" as the case may he In,
their wives friends. In fact, all that Is still
ted and conventional Is out of date. ana Il
everything - charmingly friendly ana ia
miliar within the set" but decidedly stiff
and arctic outside Of It. for kindly court
esy to stranger Is not one OF the charac-
teristics Of modern society.