The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-15
He Took a Chair.

All good and true men appreciate the
! Undesirable evidences of the gentle hand
of fair woman that are to be found in
/ many households. says the ST. Louis Re
public. Whether 1t be in the deft ar
rangement Of a portiere, the disposition
Of bric-a-brac, the scattering here and
there of fragrant flowers, or the general
air Of daintiness that characterizes her
presence, the influence of woman is al
ways refreshing. Then, too, the sex is
growing day by day more practical. No
longer content with playing Chopins mas
terpieces on the piano, with painting
chinaware or embroldering tides, they are
getting closer to everyday matters. For
instance, in a certain Lucas avenue home
the girls, two vivacious and accomplished
bellies still in their teens. have made a
wonderful difference i'm the appearance of
the interior. They have restored and re-
decorated everything, and their latest
achievement was the revarnishing of half
dozen occasional chairs in the par
Tor.
Two young beaux called one evening last
week and were ushered into the parlor. The
girls soon put in an appearance and the
quartette spent a very pleasant and in
tel-ectual time. Now, it happened that
one of the callers seated himself on a
newly vanished chair. The weather had
been quite warm, and possibly the girls
llcLu iADl SulllCltillN AOOkeU INTO the QueS-
ton of dryers when they did the varnish-
ing. Be this as 1t may, it is a certain
fact that after chatting pleasantly with
Miss Nellie for half an hour the young
man, desiring to change his pose, discov>
cred, to his horror and dismay, that he
could not. He burst into a cold perspira-
ton, and his manner became so embar-
raised that Miss Nellie could not help
noticing it,
1T certainly is a little warm" replied
the youth, as he parted her query.
Then won't you sit nearer the window;
you'll get a nice breeze here?" remarked
Miss Nellie with an impulsive solicitude
that under ordinary circumstances would
have broked no denial but this time the
poor object of so much consideration
awkwardly declined to bulge. Unhappily,
he was at best a diffident fellow, and the
thought of having to disclose what had
happened almost made him faint.
AT one moment. while his entertainer
was looking the other way, he made quite
desperate effort to secure his liberty but
a warning sound of ripping nature com
PEELED him to stop with a suddenness that
made the windows rattle.
And so he sat on. He sat on until his
friend suggested that the hour of ad-
journment had arrived. and he still sat on
when all else arose. At last he managed
by dumb show to communicate to his
CuuLl inc lat lndl something was wrong.
The chum, aided by the girls brother,
who arrived opportunity, succeeded In get
ting the sisters out of the way, and a
few minutes later the victim chair and
all, was hustled out into a carriage that
had been summoned. He did not hear it,
but there was a Shrek of mirth as he
drove off that was renewed when the chair
was returned the next day
And now the young man swears he will
never set foot within the hospitable house
again, while the girls, who are sincerely
mortified at the tribulation they unwit-
tingly caused him, are puzzling themselves
how to make amends.