The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-24

me, 1 was prepared for his going off into
a tit of apopleXy.
" He got nothing on earth said papa.
'"He would have me. ! suggested
1.-Two beggars,' snorted papa.
" We could work, / said.
" Work howled papa. Calls himself a
man and asks woman to marry him and
go to work If you want to work, why
don't you hire out for cook?
" Suppose l love him., I ventured.
What's love?' papa demanded scorn-
fully You are crazy. When did the
government make love legal tender for
money? Can you pay your grocery bills
on love? VIII they take love in exchange
for onions and potatoes i'm the market?
Love, fudge, pretty capital to marry on
Good heavens, to think l should ever have
a daughter with little enough sense to be
willing to marry on love- And he posi-
lively snorted around the room.
" 1t seems to have worked well enough
for you and mamma, l suggested.
" We were different he muttered and
then he asked me what on earth l had
done with the morning paper, and said it
was hard thing that a man never could
read paper In comfort in his own house.
Then there was Jim Halfback You
know Jim. Well, wish you could hear
father descant on Jim. He says it is "A
mystery to him why some man with de-
cent common sense never comes to see me,
and that before he would have the house
filled up with twanging, mandolin playing
cranks, with hair that looks like plate
of cold slaw had been emptied over their
heads, he would take TO knitting yarn
socks for the heathens He says that
there was none of this nonsenscal love-
making in his time. A man knew at once
whether he wanted girl or not, and had
the courage to ask her right off, before he
impoverished her family burning out gas
and coal and wore out the parlor furni-
ture coming to see her. No, says papa,
give him the plain-spoken honest-hearted
young men of his time, who wasted no
time talking love, or writing idiotic non
sense, but who meant business and came
to the point at once.
Now it just happened that accidently
found a bundle of old letters from papa
written to mamma before they were mar
ried. So the next night, when papa came
home, 1 was in the library with two OF
three in my hands. 1 affected to hide
them, and he bounced on them at once. l
wouldn't let him have them, but COM
promised on reading one. 1t was the
most sentimental thing you ever heard.
my ownest own l begun Father
groaned.
Although it is but two hours since l
left your angelic presence. it seems year.
To think that twenty-five more hours-a
very eternity-must elapse before / can
again hold that little hand in mine, and
gaze into the heaven of those blue orbs,'
read on.
The differing IDIOT papa howled do
you mean to tell me, Mary, that you would
let any one capable of writing such drivel-
ing rot come into my house?
Why papa, said, I think that's just
too sweat. Listen to this, it's only about
| twelve pages. and all about that little
cold had when 1 was kept in the house
two days
Twelve pages about cold, shriekeu
papa
And he says, I went on, that he
would cut off his whole arm to save me
needle-prick on my finger. Don't you
think that tender and touching?
g L think it's nauseating. It's the most
disgusting thing 1 ever heard in my life.
| No wonder people talk about the degene-
racy of the times, when a long-haired fool
| writes that kind of idiocy to a girl. Idiocy
by Jove that any jury would convict a
man of lunacy on. and a sensible we'll
| brought-up girl, instead of being disgust
ed and throwing 1t in the fire, actually
treasures 1t and reads it. One thing / tell
you, Mary, and that is, ! won't put up
with THIS foolishness any longer. If the
writer of MISUNDERSTANDING stuff ever
comes here again I'll throw him out. He
shant stay under my roof. Here, give
me that letter
81 handed it over to him. 1t was signed
Tommy Papas name is Thomas JEFF
| ferson Thompkyns. He gave one look at
it, at the date and the signature. and in
the silence you could hear the hall clock
tick" Dorothy Dill.
"Roi ne peut, Prince ne daigne, Rohan
je suis!" Many social Aplrants says the
New York Tribune make fatal mistake
in paraphrasing this old-time motto of a
high born medieval snob to suit the SEN
timents of modern times when mentally
defining their feelings toward the people.
by whom they are surrounded
They find themselves unable to take
pronounced position in the set
they long to belong to ;
they do not condescend to be in
innate with those with whom they are
naturally thrown, and who may be intrin-
sically even more desirable as companions,
and the consequences are that they make
no friends, and have socially no standing
in any set. why people should drop
substance for ashadow is one of the many
queer phases of human nature, especially
in this country, where what is commonly
called society" is so unstable and so en-
tirely local. 1t is particularly so in the
so-called lone Hundred and Fifty" or
smart set.
The members of this body would, with
! few exceptions, find themselves not only
nonenities In London or the Faubourg st.
German, but like the Peri at the gates of
Paradise they would most likely remain
without, disconsolate."
This set is so Kaleidoscope in its char
acter that those in the inner circle to-day
may be on the outermost edge to-
morrow, and vice versa. Nevertheless,
such as 1t is, 1t represents what Is consid-
! cred by many people so desirable that
they will offend and neglect old friends,
belittle themselves, contract their lives and
their sphere of usefulness, and even spoil
their careers, for the sake of belonging to
II and being recognized by its members;
an ignis fatuus chase, which is incompre-
hensible to steadier and broader natures,
who have not this futile ambition.
II wonder why it is that Annie March
has never married." said fashionable
woman, speaking of a very popular girl,
who, by her tact, breeding and certain
power had made her way into very exclu-
sive circles.
IT often think what a wife she would
have made for an ambitious young man,
and what a delightful companion she
hau