The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-01

the Snp young man who exhibited this
bag If he was sure that it was made of
sea-serpent's skin, and he said he was
Just as sure as if he had skinned the SER
pet himself by the sad sea waves The
leather looked like ordinary snake skin
but as truth-tellers alone are behind coun-
tiers, l gazed with admiration at the piece
OF sea-serpent, so degraded, although 1
did not purchase him. My reason was that
l thought if l waited long enough the same
young man would show me a bag made
of the skin of a mermaid, and that would
be something rather UNIQUE
me unique rules in all the small be-
longings Jewellers are showing, as the
latest in cuff links-that is, the London
Jewellers, for I don't believe these links
nave reached New York yet-what are
known as the Road to Ruin" cuff links
They are oval, and on them is enameled
the easy ways by which to follow the
rake's progress. On one link is a cham
payne bottle. opposite it is a ballet girl
me other pair shows on one side a court
card, and on the other the head of a
morse. SO you have offered to you, in
picturesque way, wine, women, horses and
cards. Any one of them is calculated if
enough of 1T is taken, to ruin the average
man, but all four of them, INDUCED in TO
excess, means quick ruin. l wonder il
the cuff links will teach anybody a les
son! am afraid not. The Prodigal Son
that he thinks he could learn nothing.
By-the-by, the advanced woman who
wants to ride a horse or her bicycle in
man fashion, doesn't realize that her dl-
vided skirt, about which she likes to talk
is almost as old as the hills.
AS far back as 1885, the devantiere,
which is in reality the divided skirt was
worn by the women sof the court of
france, to whom the sfde-saddle until IL
was introduced by Catherine de Medici,
was unknown. Many ladies' did not care
TO wear trousers, and SO the divided skirt
was arranged for them. Several fur.
trimmed devantieres are found in the
wardrobe list of Isabel of Bavaria. the
wife OF Charles VI. tell you there is alb
solutely nothing new In those DAYS OF
long ago men might not have cultivated
their brains quite as much from the book
stdhopolnt as they do now; but how they
ala know humanity! What diplomats
they were! How they grew to read the
meaning OF laugh of smile, of frown,
ana how they could talk and never finch
while they handled a poisoned sweetmeat
or realized that an assassin was waiting
IN me corridor to kill them. Those were
the Gays when men had to keep their wits
about them and sharpened by use.
The man of to-day, who understands
many languages, who counts himself very
wise, laughs at the courtier who played
with cup and ball; but he little knows
now that mlE-s Eaind was working as he
tossed the ebony ball UP and strived to
catch it as it fell. The game may have
seemed childs play, but life in those
days needed not only the trained mind.
the wits ever on the alert, but they needed
perfect knowledge of the art of diplo-
macy, and to-day diplomacy is almost an
unknown art. Some one said 1t died out
with Benjamin Disareli. There is not half
as much in knowing books as knowing
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always the same, but the people change
from day to day, and he whom you
thought you understood yesterday, may
be wonderful puzzle to you to-day. And
the great book of the world never fails to
interest that reader who takes the time to
study it. The why's and the wherefores,
the everlasting changes, the fall of the
curtain when sleep comes, and the GER
tainty that you never can count on the
climax being reached until death appears.
makes it book that demands wondrous
knowledge in reading. There must be an
appreciation of influences, an understand
ing Of the motions, a comprehension of
the physical mental and spiritual side
before you can understand even the least
of humanity.
You think you have no trouble in under
standing 'Maymye Opal Jones'" That de-
pends If she continues, as her name has
marked her out, she will be as easily read
dS lIt dlpHdD6l, out ACROSS HeT pain there
may come something that will influence
her strongly. She may be taken away
from the people who have made her life
what it is, aid she may surprise the
bearer of greater name, by a hereto
fore hidden keenness of wit, and, grow
ing more ambitious every day, learning
from the world every day, she may
suddenly become MARY Johnes," and
influence the car of all the Russias, or
be the power behind the throne in India,
in England, in Germany or in France.
Nothing is Impossible when one is a wo-
man. Women have made history. The
F'renchman's advice, "Cherchez la fem
me-" is just as true when you are
seeking the answer to a riddle to-day as
it was in the Garden Of Eden. The wo-
man is behind the throne, behind the
book, behind the music, behind the paint
ing, behind the song. Always she is the
influence. Some times, too often, she
is an undesirable one. Sometimes, very
often, she is an extremely good one. But
she is always there, and even behind this
pen, big, coarse, quill one, as certain as
you are you, is a woman-is Bah.