The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-19

MISS Baylor IN Lippincotts Magazine,
says: 1.-THE most amusing instance I can
recall Of the effect Of a suddenly ac-
quired fortune upon a pet meanness is
that told by an English author about
an old woman in an almshouse who
came into a million by a chancery de-
cision that had been pending a hundred
years. She bought everything that money
could buy-siIks, velvets, laces, furs, es-
tates, carriages. horses, soi-disant friends
even. She threw away her bank notes
upon everything imaginable, in a kind
of frenzy Of possession. But when it
came to tea, she suffered, she debated,
she chartered, but never could make up
her mind to buy and pay for. at any one
lime. more than a quarter of a pound
Of good black Bohea.' She would have
felt beggared by pound of any tea at
any price; it has always been so precious
10 her that she had lost all sense of its
intrinsic value. Perhaps it represented
TO some extent the bright unattainable,
without which life has no zest."
Queen Margherita's manner of shop
ping is, for a sovereign, deliciously I'M
conventional. She rises early in the ante
Noel days, and, summoning some favorite
AdAy III " dANAAA6s AoaAN1 AuANNA9 AA4AAA NV
courtyard of the Quirinal, and makes her
way to the Corso-the Bond street Of
Rome She will enter a jewelers. and
survey rapidly the treasures before her.
Then she viii point out some dozen trink-
cts. ranging from pearl pin to dia-
mond-studded Geneva" and will leave
the place as swiftly as she entered. A
few yards lower down she will enter a
second mart Of glittering wares, and re-
peat the proceeding, and so on until
every tradesman Of Importance in the
street has enjoyed her patronage. Though
from preference the Pearl queen, as
the Italians lovingly call the king $
charming consOrt, gives jewels, she also
frequently bestows such things as dainty
wraps. seal-lined gloves, statuary, and
other delightful commodities, ana II IS
seldom Christmas day closes without ev-
cry member of the palace being made
happy by some token Of remembrance
from her majesty.
When one sees women sit down SUI
pinely and complain, There is no way
for me to earn a lvingH' one is inclined,
says the Philadelphia Press, to thlnk
of what other women have done in the
way of taking care of themselves and 9TH
ers, and wish to stir up these weak sisters
by a recital of this or that achievement.
Here is a true tale of the life of one such
woman. She was an indOlent careless
young girl, so easy-golng ana thoughtless
that she drlfted into an early marriage
with man beneath her in social position
and with no force of character, no pro-
fession and not much intellect. Children
came, and she was Obliged finally, after
several terrible attempts OF the husband
which included dragging them all out to
a disastrous life on a Kansas farm-to
look in the face the problem of taking
care of herself, three babies and a lazy
man. She had been brought up in utter
idleness and had not aptitude for any
work whatever. She tried sewing, but she
could not do much at that, hampered as
she was. She was by this time about 40
years old, worn out in appearance, and,
according to the fears of her friends, not
well enough for any more hard labor.
Yet, while keeping up her dressmaking
and with her diminished powers of mental
application, she set herself to work to
learn stenography, as well as typewriting.
she had been educated at fashionable
boarding school. and had always kept up
a correspondence with her chum, al
though the friend was now the wife of a
wealthy Boston banker and she herself
was stiH toiling in little town in North
ern Pennsylvania. She now obtained
through this old acquaintance a position
as stenographer in the banker-hus S
children, the eldest motherly little girl
with the father, who was doing a little
Pennsylvania village while she went to
Boston and took the new place. In course
of time she found some suitable work for
the Incompetent husband and brought him
and the children to the Hub There they
live very comfortably and happily, all en-
ployed at home or in some business out
side, and at their head a woman who
turned her Hfe's apparent failure into
a hard-won success because she did not
sit down, fold her hands and whine, "Oh.
there is nothing that, situated as l am,
did it. anu 9'i'
She Gave Me a Rose
How did it happen? Nobody knows
She
And I, bending nearer to see it the clearer:
Well, now, l suppose
just couldn't help it-'twas as much a
To me as to her! Her beautiful eyes.
Half-startled, half-glad, looked up into
And before I had time
To beg her sweet pardon l did it again.
(Most wretched of menD
But then, you know, Eve tempted Adam,
She tempted me!
Girls should not be pretty-they should
not Ely give m roses oss s,nnosos
A man to be perfect! I'm not and I'm
For if 1 had been I should not have had
The exquisite bliss of that kissi
What man wouldn't miss
The JOY of perfection thereby to discover
The joy of a lover?
Some people might blame me, but.
As every one knows,
Eve tempted poor Adam, and she tempted
me.
She gave me a rose.
Harriet Francene Croker, in Judge.
What three prominent women consider
the essentials of an ideal husband is
gwen, says the New York Press, in "a
Study in Husbands" in the January num-
Der of the North American Review.
Marion Harland begins the SYMPOSIUM
with equality as the basis of her argU-
menG She says he who brings his imagi-
nation down (or up to the Contemplation
OF his idol (Which is short for ideaD.
as a partner, with equal rights, in the
concern which we name life" a cola
borer, whose "counsels'-to quote at sec
ond hand from Tacitus-"are not to re-
main disregarded nor her utterances un-
derValued"-so simplifies the marriage re-
lauon and strengthens the marriage bond
that he may be reckoned an authority in
causes hymeneal.
This writer also makes the statement
tnat men are prone to settle down into
tatallsflc resignation when judicial
Weighing finds their wives wanting The
ideal husband is different. He is quick 10
see ana taetful in following up oppor-
tunlties TO comfort and TO uplift her