The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12

Without complaint.
Lord, Thou knowest well how dark the
way,
Guide Thou my footsteps. lest they stray;
Give me fresh faith for every hour
Lest L should ever doubt Thy power,
And make complaint!
Give me a heart. 0 Lord. strong to en-
dure,
Help me TO keep it simple, pure;
Make me unselfsh, helpful, true
IN every act, whaJe'er l do
And keep content!
Help me to do my Womans share
Make me courageous, strong 70 bear
Sunshine or shadow in my life;
Sustain me in the daily strife
To keep content!
Anna B. Baldwin in Ladies Home Jour
nal.
The newest furnishings for writing Ia
bles for women are of leather, says the
New York Sun. And. by the way, writing
fables will be more fashionable next sea-
son than desks. They are spindle-legged,
of course. and are enamelled or made OF
wood that matches or harmonizes with
the other furniture.
The pads to be used on these tables are
small, hardly larger than the square
sheets of letter paper used on them. The
hacks and corners are of carved or burnt
heather, instead of the long popular silver
~ decorated china mountings. The
hilrnt leather is of several shades of mole
with elaborate designs burnt in dark
brown. The effect is dainty and some
what more feminine than the carved
leather The latter is said to be all i'm
ported. and, therefore too expensive for
a moderate purse. The inkstands, muci-
iage bottles, sealing wax holders. CANDLE
sticks, pen and pencil trays, paper
weights. and the other articles are leath-
er covered and carved or burnt with the
same design The blOtting paper to be
used with such sets should be mole col
ored or brown to match the leather, and
sometimes it has a similar design traced
around the edges.
For men the fashionable furnishings
for desks are cut glass, stag horn and sill
yer. The inkstands and other large
HDieces are of cut glass on massive sill
yer mountings, with stag horn top pieces
or pen racks The paper knives have
carved silver blades, with handles Of stag
horn, in some instances also carved, but
the most popular are plain and highly
are a novelty. They are silver-mounted
and beautifully colored, but uncomfort-
ably long.
Just before DR.. hansen started on his
Journey furthest north it occurred to him
that il would be a pleasant thing to have
among other scientific Instruments,
monograph into which his little baby
had gurgled immature speech. To turn
this on amid the silence of the Arctic
seas before he went to bed o nights
would he thought, be comforting. OBJ
stacles presented themselves which pre-
vented the realization of this pretty idea,
a circumstance Nansen mentions with
profound regret
The other day Detroit youth who had
come home from college for vacation
took his younger sister out to see base
ball game says the Detroit Free Press.
She is a quite, demure little lass, with
blue eyes and a timid manner, and she
slipped into her seat in the grand stand
as staidly as if she were entering the
family pew at church.
As the game progressed he kindly I'M
dertoolS to explain to her something about
the points, SO she would understand at
least a little about it,
Now the young man is about to throw
the ball" he said. HE is called the
pitcher The man with the stick in his
hand is the batter. He will try to hit
the ball, and If he does he will run to
that little bag, which is called a base"
The young mans sister seemed to be
quite interested, and listened attentively
to his explanations.
Presently somebody hit out a two-bag-
ger that went clear through the short
stop, and lit out for first like a wild tur-
key.
The young man began to explain.
G.Tl ~,
abe bail to the man on the bag before"
The young man ceased suddenly
His sister had sprung upon the bench,
grabbed his hat, and thrown 1t into the
crowd, and shrieked at the top of her
voice:
yah, yah. yah! Wasn't that a hot
stop a seine Go it, Dempsey, you're
peachl Oh, lordy, what a daisy cutter!
Get him basket! Whoopee, don't that
make your whiskers curl? Yah, yah,
YAH"
sit down, sis" said the young man in
q slightly aggrieved tone. Why, didn't
YOU ten me you were rooter?"
A wise bit of advice was given recent
ly to a housewife, whose husband is a
busy city doctor, with an office in his
home, says the New York Post. This
was to cover the outer edge of the door
plain, dark-blue cork carpet nailed on.
The covering proved far from unorna-
mental, and it had besides. the inesti-
unable benefit of being washable. This
quality is necessary when anything is
handled-even by neat persons-over and
over. dozens of times, during the twenty
four hours
Very few women know how to pack a
hand satchel afIirms the New York Com
mercial Advertiser. Few things are more
offensive to good taste than an open
satchel, revealing a medley of brushes,
combs writing material and clothing,
with probably the pocketbook at the bot
tom of the mass. SO that a general up
heaval is necessary before the most ne
cessary things can be reached. A satchel
containing pockets at the sides is most
common. A careful division of small ar
ticles into two groups. according TO. need.
should be made. For instance. three or
four pocket handkerchiefs, a clean collar
an extra veil, extra gloves, glove button
or, button hook and other things per-
tanning TO wearing apparel may be placed
ia one pocket. In the other postal cards
telegraph blanks. addressed and stamped
envelopes. a small writing pad. with
Special delivery stamps, pencil, pen