The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-26

is the guest at the best club OF every
town In New York be belongs 10 the
most artstocratic organization OF them ali
/ thought / might get a glimpse OF
ms slow footsteps approaching When
MS wife Is busy on business, as she hap
pens 70 be this spring, Mr.. Green takes
the opportunity 10 get out.
onward Green, when his wife is at
nome, Is a very methOdical man. he
tlNes a slow, easy life. spending many
hours in his club. and letting her run
the nome ranch as she pleases. But
Wnen Mrs Hetty goes away Edward, as
out also.
"A year ago he was sick, and then the
gsNotlon OF his wife in nursing him and
nismlsslng unworthy nurses was set forth
IN public and people found out for the
nrst time that Hetty and her husband
were good friends II isn't right TO mis-
represent a woman as Hetty Green is con,
unually misrepreSented. But that is the
penalty OF being a leetle too grasping'
as they say up in the country regions
where Hetty makes her summer home.
j. PierpOnt Morgan" continued the
cluDman with a cOntemptuous chuckle at
me ioolishness of fellow mortal,
goesn know how to have a good time
Wnen his family is away he amuses him
SER IN manner which a worldly old bach
elor like myself would call idiOtc And.
while think of ii. / believe I'll put il
down in writing that if 1 am ever found
actlng that way a commission is 10 in
quire into my sanity.
As soon as MOrgan's family are well
out OF town what do you suppose he does?
Why he goes over TO St Georges church
ana looks over accounts and records. He
doubles every cent given to the church
CHARITIES, or some such nonsense as that
and he acts as If he enjoyed it. Queer
ism II! Roasting days in summer TO find
a man who might be cutting off his new
bond issue checking off charities and going
them one better. Morgan enjoys il better
than game of whist" here the old club
man glanced longingly u little game go
ing on in the corner. But every man to
his taste.
''The biggest fool know when it comes
10 staying at home is Cornelius Wander
bilt. He works like a day laborer all the
while his family are out of town. Wander
DiIt Is sensitive home chap, awfully fond
OF his children and when they are away
ne works to drown his sorrow.
AFTER his son died a few years ago
ne used TO work that way. But the old
library had corner in it, where the son
used to sit, and Mr. Vanderbilt had to
nave II all torn down, and refitted to put
mat Sll. corner out Of sight. Now. in the new
Il have passed there myself at / O'Clock
In the morning, when the family were
away, and seen the light .peering around
the window curtains of his library. If /
wanted to kin the head of the richest
house in America, l would go away IL /
were his wife and leave him alone all
John Jacob Astor is a queer fellow when
he Is alone" said the clubman, chueklins
know what it is to be left for months IN
the summer, as most poor benedicts are,
and as some OF US are left-for life Be
fore he was married he was always with
his mother and since his marriage he
sticks closer to his wife than a burr to a
horse chestnut.
But she does get over to PHILADELPHIA
once in while and leaves him. A friend
of mine went in to call on him one night,
knowing he was alone and, being Wen
aware that he would never go out under
such circumstances
'"There sat Astor" said my friend.
plumb up in a corner, with a cigar in
one hand and a stand of them alongside
MIN. He was tremendously dressed, as
though the ladies' of the family were at
home, but his face wore a disappointed,
discouraged look. Home wasn't home foS
him.
at is when alone like this that Astor
gets up those books of his. He thinks
of inventions and gives them practical
form, in words at least He would make
a great hterateur, l think, If he were
left a grass WidOWer often enough
Rockefeller is never left alone He
makes it one of the conditions of his home
that he is not to be left to run it all alone
When part of his family fOrsake him. he
| gathers the other part together and plays
the violin and piano or gets up new music
| of his own.
There are some folks in the world. -
| continued this bachelor, who think thai
rich mans life is all gold and glamour
| and honey and peacocks' tongues but
| tell you that a millionaire without his wife
| and with a big house to manage isn't any
| happier than a poor fellow who leaves
| steak over a gas stove. The poor man
| has got hunger and the steak to think
| about, and the rich man has only got the
| echo of his empty rooms.
Yes, there will be summer divorces
this year the same as ever!'
all