The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-03

+ sexes; but in the fyear 1890. just thirty
| three years. or the period of one genera
! ton from the present time. people VIII no
longer concern themselves about sucn
matters.
The greater the number of women at
| work in proportion 10 the men the more
! stringent the competition and it can easily
! be seen that, according to the figures
shown, the day might come when there
would be no street-car manners, but every
| individual would look out for himself or
! herself, as the case may be. But even
should chivalry be extingushed from hui
man manners, there viii always remain
the Christian grace of charity; so, in the
time to come, able-hodied young men and
women who have seats in the cars will
rise to give their places to old men and
women, and to Others who may be sick or
disabled
Mrs. Richard King of Texas. says the
| New York Tribune. is probably the rich
est woman in the United States, not even
excepting Mrs. Hetty Green. Her wealth
was partly inherited from her father, a
pioneer Presbyterian clergyman, the first
who ever went, staff and Bible in hand, to
preach the Gospel to The Indians and mix
ed races that peopled the vast domain
over which his own little daughter was
destined to hold sway as a landed proprie-
tor.
estates in southern Texas amount to L.
10000 acres, or about 1000 square miles.
The ranch on which she resides is the lar
gest in the world. 1t is called THE Santa
Gertrudes." In the center of it, thirteen
miles from her front gate, Is Mrs. Kings
home, a central chateau, looming up like a
baronial castle on a slight eminence. All
around it are the pretty homes of depend
ents, surrounded by well-tilled fields and
gardens.
The 100000 cattle, of improved and i'm
ported breeds, and all sheep within the
Santa Gertrudes ranch belong to Mrs.
King The current expenses of the ranch
reach 100000 a year. Three hundred
cowboys are in her employ, for whom she
| keeps 1900 ponies.
Corpus Christi is the terminus of a
branch railway built by Mrs. King to take
the place of her wagon trains, which for
merly bore ice and every other necessity
and luxury to her ranch from Corpus
Christi. Long trains from THAT city now
carry Mrs. Kings cattle to the east
The 1000 square miles of Mrs. Kings
territory are bounded on the south by Cor
pus Christi Bay. Forty miles of the coast
belong to the Santa Gertrudes ranch. The
barbed-wire fences on the land side Of the
estate extend 300 miles For every twenty
miles of fencing a superintendent is en-
| ployed to see that no break is made and
| he has several assistants
Part of every year Mrs. King lives in
Corpus Christi, where she has built a pal
ace in which is found every modern appli-
ance for comfort, domestic economy, lux
ury and for the qualification of taste in art
and literature. Another remarkable
Texas woman, Ms Elizabeth Brooks in
a volume intended for private Circulation
only, and entitled Prominent Women of
Texas gives some of the facts in tire
above sketch, and others not of quite so
n he
The friends of girl just home from Fu-
rope We're surprised to find when thew
questioned her about 1t the other day that
there was a great deal she had left I'M
done. mo, it was too much trouble to 90
to all those out-of-the-way holes" she
said, land as for sightseeing I never did
care for it, anyway so 1 soon made m
my mind that l wasn't to wear myself to
| death for all the old castles and art CALLER
les that ever lived But / had a good
time; oh!perfectly splendid! just the very
help but have it. Didn't I spend all my
money!"
A lady, says a London exchange. whose
organ of benevolence was not properly de-
veloped once sent the following adver-
tsement to London paper:
"a lady in delicate health wishes to
meet with a useful companion. She must
be domesticated, musical, early riser.
amiable, of good appearance and have
some experience in nursing Total
| abstainer preferred. Comfortable home.
! No salary"
A few days after the advertiser received
! a hamper labeled:
This side up-with care-perishable."
On opening it she found a fine tabby cat
| with letter tied to her tail. It ran thus.
| Madam, in answer to your advertise
ment I am happy to furnish you
| with a very useful companion. which Won
! will find exactly suited to your REQUIRE
ments. She Is domesticated, a good vocal
! ist an early riser, possesses an amiable
! disposition and is considered handsome.
! She has had experience as nurse. hav-
! ing brought up a large family l need
scarcely add that she is a total abstainer.
| AS salary to her is no object. she will
serve you faithfully in return for a COM
| Portable home"
1t would be putting it very mildly to saw
that this reply quite upset the lady's equi-
| librum.
EVERY woman" Lillian Bell writes,
'has had at some time in her life an ex-
| perience with man in the raw. In reality
one cannot set down with any degree of
| accuracy the age when his rawness at-
| lacks him. or the time when he has got
| the last remnant of it out of his system.
! But a close study of the complaint, and
> the necessity for pigeon-holing everything
and everybody, lead one to declare that
! somewhere in the vicinity of the age of
30 man energies from his rawness and be-
comes part of trained humanity-a hui
manity composed of men and women
trained in the art of living together"
! 1t is with this dictum that Lillian Bell
! begins the opening essay in the volume
| just published by Harper & Bros, entitled
| From Girls Point of View" The es-
| say in question deals with THE unframed
man under 35, and is sharp and witty
and biting to many, doubtless, because of
! the truth it contains. The essays are all
| short, the subjects, as the title indicates,
| being treated from girls standpoint.
! They are characterized by a quiet humor,
| and are dedicated to the dull reader who
will insist upon taking this book literally -
| From which it is inferred that the book
! must not be taken too seriously.
There is a time" she writes in the
| aforementioned essay, "when the youth
| of 20 knows more than any one on earth
! cold teach him, and more than he will
! ever know again; a time when, no matter
| how kind his heart, he is incased i'm a
mental haughtiness before which plain
wisdom is dumb. But the time will come
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