The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-07

! afternoons visiting and even allow her
| 10 have afternoon tea in some favored
| tea room. With her dainty toilet her
/ purse must be in G---2ny, and the heavy
/ leather or coarse looking purse is as much
out Of place with visiting getup as a
! pair of cotton gloves would be.
Last year we all carried coin purses of
netted gold suspended on long god chains
around our necks. Those of us who used
our savings TO buy these purses, since
! many ducats were required for one, are
glad to know that they are still in vogue,
although something a little newer has aP-
peared. The happy woman is the one
who did not get a new purse last year,
for the latest in purses is pronounced the
most chic ever known. II is like the net
tea gold purse in shape, but is made Of
bright colored MORE or brocade, mounted
in gold and having semlprecious. uncut
stones set in the gold mounting. The
purse is then hung on a gold chain and
worn like those of last winter. The IA
vored ones are of royal purple MORE,
mounted in gold set with amethysts, of
emerald green MORE with uncut emer-
aids in the gold frame, Of hyacinth blue
with uncut turQuoises contrasting with
the gold, or of white brocade with tiny
moonstones sparkling in the gold mount
ing.
The bride of last year who is getting a
new purse has it made OF bit of the
brocade or satin that constituted her we'd
ding costume, while some of the brides of
to-day are having purses made of bits of
their wedding dresses, each one to be Civ
en- with its gold chain, as a souvenir to
bridesmaid. Card CAGES come to match
these purses, but do not obtain as we'll,
nor are they considered as fashionable as
the card cases of snakeskin, mounted in
silver gilt and having one's initials in sill
yer gilt across the face of the case. These
pretty belongings do much to make a
toilet success, for there is no doubt that
proper get up can be entirely ruined by
soiled gloves a common purse or card
case, or a mussed or halfworn veil.
Did you ever feel yourself so close to the
gates OF death that you did not care much
whether you went in or not? Did 1t ever
come to you, when pains were very bad,
that perhaps they were the last ones you
would ever have? And il you have felt
this way, perhaps you will know what the
last two weeks have been to me, and why
L did not care / have read and heard
of beautiful deathbeds. I have never seen
one. But he or she who is held by the devil
of malaria simply does not care whether
death comes or not. 1t is a matter of per-
feet. indifference. One only wants to get
rid Of life. But one does get to respect a
great many things!
You get to respect the great, great vir-
tue of a rubber bag to hold hot water.
You get to respect the great, intense,
burning desire to aid you that the mus
tard plaster brings.
You get to respect the value of ice And
then you learn a good many things. You
learn what it is to have a cold drink of
kumyss, and then you wonder who de-
signed the diabolical wall paper on the cell
ing.
You get to learn that when you are sick
you don't want people to talk loudly, or
those who wear creaky shoes to move
about near you.
You get to learn that wnen you are tired
of one side of the bed it takes the strong
arm Of man to move you over to the
other, and you are just as apt when you
get there to want to go back within five
minutes.
You get to learn that there are nice
medicines and nasty medicines but that
the nasty ones prevail.
You get to learn that while professional
nurses may have a reason for existence,
while they may be very knowing young
women, that If you are III or in pain, the
best nurse any woman can have is the
woman who bore her-her mother.
Bah.