The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-22

play at a table You have one minute in
| which TO learn your opponents names.
| Then one person turns a card from the
| deck on the table. If it matches any of
| his opponents cards he has TO scream their
! name first There were such names as
| Boston Best Botanical Bitters' One
man screamed wildly Boston baked beans
| when he came to that Then there was
| Chambers Camphorated Hartshorn Iini-
! ment,' and all such simple names Mine
| was Spence's Chlormine Pastels' OF
course, no one ever heard of it. / think
| they made il up.
You never heard such a hubbub in
! your life. 1 was a gibbering idiot by the
| time we got through. l just sat and list
! ened to the others and made spasmOdic
movements with my eyes and mouth, and
! could think of nothing There was kind
! OF silence once. some women screamed,
| Carriers Little Liver Pills One man
! drove me crazy. When ne couldn't think
of anything else he just stood up and
! how.ed Pelletsr 'Peletsn 'Pelletsv at me
l had laughed until l couldn't make a
sound by this time and threw my cards
at him in disgust. 1t was an enlivening
game.
The next night an old colonel, a pro-
/ fessor N some college in the south, in
| formed US that he had been persuaded TO
give his lecture on Mars. He was a very
gallant and precise old man; the kind If
| you'd gone to school TO you'd lay awake
at nights 10 think of awful things to do.
| We had heard the professor tell things
| and knew what to expect
I'VE were in such a state of demorali-
cation by this time you can imagine in
! what condition to listen to a lecture on
| anything
I'VE had the parlor fixed like a primary
| room All sorts OF maps on the walls. He
kept us until Il o'clock. When he came
to one awful yellow and green map l said
| 'Goodnessi Those streaks look like cy
clones. The pellet man Of the party the
| night before said they reminded him of
| egg salad. The professor gave all the I'M
pronounceable Latin and Greek names, of
| course; when he came TO some awful
lake or sea, or something, the pellet man
| leaned over and said: That's worse than
| Spence's Chiormine Pastels.'
so you see the mental condition we
were in. That's the reason we grew fat.
We had lots of tableau parties and
such things We ended most every even
ing with an old-fashioned Virginia reel
Afterwards we girls would often meet on
our gallery in wrappers and fur capes.
| We'd turn the lamps low and tell ghost
and black cat stories until We were so
grand and creepy and shivery. But gra-
cious, you know the presence of a dozen
| real, live ghosts couldn't keep you from
! sleeping there"
MY" The listening girl laughed
| amusedly her animated friend. Your
/ enthusiasm is almost bewilderng,"
NO. do you know l don't believe it's
enthusiasm. It's fresh air l breathed in
and brought back with me"
Many unromantc and commonplace low
| ers sul cling to the ring, with its old
| fashioned symbolism, when the promise Is
/ made 20 be true to each other while
| those who banker after the sensational
| find enough IN the accepted fads of the day
| to satisfy their cravings says an exchange.
| Tattooing Is regarded as the proper ex-
/ preston of love and fidelity just now. A
| New England swain not long ago persuad-
| ed the girl of his choice TO have a bracelet
| tatooed on her left arm. Sine was willing.
/ and an artist was called i'm who burned
| pretty Cupids and flaming hearts in me
/ dallion form upon the lovers respective
wrists. To make It more effective, il was
| done with blue and red ink. The couple
/ exchanged initials, the girl wearing her
| lovers and he those OF his sweetheart in
one of those medallion-shaped etchings.
! In New York lives young Cuban wo-
! man who is very proud OF her little feet
! She Insisted that her lover present her
! with golden circle TO wear around her
/ pretty ankle IN place OF the customary
engagement ring. The hoop fastens with a
| peculiar lock. to which the dance carries
/ the key on his watch chain.
| well-kuoWn athlete wore during the
! time OF his engagement a costly belt set
| with briliants and locks OF hair of his
/ wifc-to-he. The lock was OF red ENABLE,
in the shape OF a heart, and was inscribed
/ with thc ladys initials
In England II SIS fashionable Just now TO
| have engagement rings and bracelets
made OF The hair of the beloved object. and
men and women exchange their hirsute
| tokens Unfortunately. A romantic son
/ OF fOEeV London wears a chain made OF
tho hair of his betrothed around his neck.
/ AZ the end "a golden heart Is fastened,
| which he drops into his vest pocket like a
watch. a young American woman and her
lover had diamonds set IN their front teeth
! during their engagement "a "A token OF
fidelity TO each other After the wedding
| they had them taken out and set into
rings.
a certain famous traEodian gave to his
/ nancc ns n bridal ring "a golden finger
nail. Through accident she had lost the
nail from her lcft ring finger. TO replace
| this with as valuable "a ''scratcher" as he
could the loyc-l1rn Thosplan went 20 n
famous surgeon and offered him "a large
/ sum of money Tor performing the opera
] ton of inserting "a golden finger nail. The
exact measure ~ the nail was takent IL
I waH shaped just as the original had been
/ hy taking nn impression Of that OF the
rght hand. ana when 90 was finished tho
l romantic lover htd n engraved with IA
I initials. THO operation of Inserting tho
nail was uinn painful bur tho lady
Cared n0t n Wow of hs costly ana
uuiqu" E'ft nui th" devotion IL express
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lover '1 hH upon fhn arm of he bride 90.
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/ ana enc l9sa the same win she man Of