The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-23
NOMAN'S WORLD.

/ None was permitted to attend, says an
old chronicle. except those who had high
social and diplomatic rank, and full dress
was required Of all who passed the ordeal
OF social inspection. Al Mrs. Washing
toms drawing rooms Mrs Morris always
sat at her right hand, and at all dinners,
whether public or private, the venerable
Robert Morris was placed nearest to the
hostess"
When Dolly Madison was the wife Of a
President, in 1915, she was described as in
the meridian of her life and beauty. Radi-
ant and beautiful, she dispensed hospitali-
ty and exchanged courtesies with unrival-
ed grace, according to the New York Com
mercial Advertiser She looked and NOV
ed like a queen. Her dress on one occa-
sion is described as of yellow velvet with
garniture of pearls, and she wore an eiab-
crate headdress of feathers, "a Paris tur-
ban, with a bird of paradise plume" One
of her characteristics was that she never
forgot a face.
It was the custom of the day to take
snuff, and the beautiful Mrs. Madison ac-
quired the habit by being too polite TO re-
fuse the frequently Offered box. When
she was given jeweled snuffboX for her
own use she was automatically familiar
with Its service.
Her snuffbox," wrote a friend, had
magic influence; who could partake of the
offered dainty and remain at enmity?'
six horses were not considered too many
In those days to convey a President and
his family from one scene of fesuVlty to
another.
There was a much closer line drawn in
regard to rank than there is at present, in
spite of the clever remark of a brilliant
society woman of that day, that "the only
rank in America was rank mutton" The
effect of a social gathering was made
more brilliant than it is by the dress of
the men, who followed the style of the
court of France. Imagine a light blue
French coat with high collar broad lapels
and large gilt buttons; a double-breasted
Marseilles vest, nankeen-colored cassi-
mere breeches, with white silk stockings,
shining pumps and full lace rufiies on the
shirt bosom and wrists, with a white era
vat inflated with a pudding, as it was
called" powdered wig and gold-laced
coat of ruby velvet were worn by another
one of the cavaliers of the first ladies'
of the land.
''What next wonder?" said the woman
who sat on my left yesterday at a lunch
con, says the Philadelphia Press. She
was not talking of the first course which
had that moment been brought upon the
table and which consisted of a delicious
melange of grape fruit, wine, malaga grapes
and sugar, but of something avstly differ
ent.
1.-THE walls of my studio were damaged
a few days ago." she said, by leak in
the pipe. This morning early went out
and selected some rolls of new papering-
a very charming variety. Then 1 sent
around to a paper hanging shop and asked
to have hanger as soon as practical.
In half an hour the hanger appeared
Who do you suppose they had sent? Or
1 should say, what? A young woman!
Such a pretty trim, opened-eyed girl, too.
l was so astonished that had hardly
enough breath left to wish her good morn
| ing.
Are you the-the paper hanger?
stammered out.
Yes, I am. Have you any objection
to having your room done by a woman
None at all. rather prefer it. But
1t is the first time have heard of women
| in this line"
" Yes she said. I believe am pion-
eer. But the business is a good one. 1t is
odd that more girls don't go in for it.
1.-The two saw horses were brought In,
with a number of boards, the paste ma
terials, buckets, brushes and so on--and
my paper hanger went to work. With the
boards laid across the horses she impro-
vlzed a table in jffy, on which to lay out
! the paper. She descended promptly into
the kitchen and returned carrying the
cooks small ladder. She prepared her
| flour paste, her brushes and all of it with
| a quiclness, a most authoritative air. She
mounted the ladder nimbly to brush the
wall before painting, and l saw they had
sent me an expert
my room is beautifully done. I have
not a prettier papered one in the house
And have certainly never seen a hanger
/ who went about things so quickly and sc
| well. We talked quite little about the
mysteries of paper hanging-for l was
thoroughly interested by that time ant
wanted to get the hang of the thing
She told me that women are considered
especially fitted for it. With the excep
ton of the tired feeling which comes a.
first and which is soon overcome the Worl
is in no way difficult.
inquired whether the work was lucra
tive, and learned that a good hanger
earns on an average from "a to IS per day
when thoroughly experienced and compe
tent. The reason, she said, why womeI
are considered as especially fitted for thi
work is because women understand tn
needs of home rooms Because they ar
especially quick and deft and consideration
about work.
In fact" continued the bright speaker
| Il have gone about all morning with tn
reflection Of that pretty figure upon tn
ladder. II / find poor young girls, as
often do, struggling for some means o
money-making, shall certainly insist up
on their becoming hangers"
give you the suggestion as she gave |
TO me.
It may not be known to many readers
and especially to those whom the inne
life of a girls boarding school Is a sealet
book-that at the present moment Their
are hundreds. and, indeed thousands, o
cases of two girls who genuinely 'love
one another. or, at any rate, act as
they do, and believe they do says write
in Tit-Bits.
This love" is as far as its signs an,
symptoms go. as fervid and soul-stirrin
as the love between the normal lad an
lass; II is characterized by similar zeal
ousies and heart burnings, and Is of equal
n not greater intensity. In one respec
I these irregular love anairs'f differ fror
the normal ones. It is almost always IN
case that the love on one side Is nue.
more demonstrative and passionate thaI
on the other-that 10 to say. the lovers
seem always to remain at the wooin
stage, the one being COY, "standoflish,
. or cold while the other is ardent. aggrcs
. sive almost. and intensely Jealous.
! The type OF girl who falls In love" wit
one Of her own sex Is usually not difficult
10 recognize. She as highly nervous q