The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-28

people who lived a long time ago, / wan
TO know what they ate and drank and
what they wore, and what they said q
their most intimate friends. i Wouldn
give straw 10 know what they said il
parliament, or when they were seated on
their thrones Oh, TO, what ] want are
the little stories told on the strict ,. T.
When they were human beings and not
royalties. Lately there have been a lot
Of books come out that, while they are his
iorical. are also satisfactory to the lover
Of gossip. Lives Of pretty ladies like
Jeanne Dubarry. and Nine. de Monte
span, and a history of Austria, and OH
what a bad lot some of its kings werel
and pleasing little book about Nine. de
Maintenon, and another interesting book
ABOUT some Of the peculiaTities Of Louis
the Nv. He was "a nasty old king. as NOR
Did as morbid could be, and never so hap
Ply as when he was hearing details of
funerals, and peoples deathbeds, and the
expression on the face Of the corpse. But
that Ignorant King OF Naples was the most
dreadful His bctrothed wife died Of the
smallpox. Etiquette demanded that he
should stay i'm the house at least one day.
RMS he found very hard. The English
ambassador, calling to express his sym
pathy with the bereaved found him.
playing funeral" that IS 10 say, he had
sent out for coffin. and had IL put in the
state department. In il reposed the most
Slrhsh' looking Of the cOurticrs dressed up
as a woman and with chocolate drops on
MS race TO represent the marks OF small
pa @AtOAAA TINS EUIllns EEEuluAuQ ana
ms friends marched singing, first relig-
ious songs and then the vulgarest songs
known 10 the keapOlitan pOpulace. And
this was king! By divine right
To return to the immortality of clothes,
When stays with iron pieces in them were
worm ladies were very moral. What can
be said OF to-day, when the young wO-
man who rides a bicycle, wears what is
known as sweater Clancy a lady in a
sweaterD and which the French call a
"cache-misere" (slut coveril Which name
rs besty ours reek with cOarseness while
the Frenchman's rather suggests the sit
uaton. am not an advocate of tight lac
lng- With pride ] confess that / measure
twenty-three inches around the waist but
q sloppy garment takes away from the
dalntiness of a woman and makes her too
free and seasy. And who wants to con-
Tess that he knows women who are free
and easy2
Men are not brave, morally. and sell
dom care 10 tell of any acquaintance eN-
cept those which are recognized and APP
proved OF by the world. / know that IL is
a favorte theory with the young person
on the bicycle that, as there is so much
good fellowship between her and the
masculine rider, no thought of one being
a woman and one being a man ever comes
up. That sort of fellowship will exist
When the country is populated entirely
with women, OF entirely with men. Good
Fellowship is impossible between men and
women, and the women are the first ones
10 make 1t impossible. Unless they are
very very bad, they never rid themselves
Of the feeling that makes them long to
nave men recognize them as women And
That is the feeling that ought to be culti-
waited, because that is what makes men
polite to women, consderate of women and
loving to women. You don't want to be
Jacks good comrade. You want to be
the lady of his dreams the lady of his
heart, and from him you want to receive
the consideration due to you as a lady.
This comrade business will die a natural
death, and the people most anxious to
KIN II should be the women, for by it they
lose everything and gain nothing. True
II know it is true. else I shouldn't say it
over the signature Of Bah.