The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-31


fits in every path Of life. This woman
woke up and. just as people always do IN
such cases. saw man." Everything
1ras ouiet and peaceful. The man was
busv and absorbed in his work, ana
thieves like silence; they must have peace
IN order to work really well. So when TINS
woman gathered together her forces ana
broke the silence. peace and stiffness with
a rending. ear-splitting, heaven-penetrat-
ing shrek. her burglar dropped as though
che had shot him. Maybe he had heart
disease. or perhaps it was only nerves.
ANY way you may decide it, he was para
1vzed by the awful noise she made and
was caught.
"What would you do if you found a man
in your ROOM
We have all been asked this question
and most of us-women. l mean-think we
would die of fright" but one can never
tell until tried.
I asked girl the other day: What do
Won suppose is the reason women are more
afraid in the dark than men?''
"Thev aren't" she said. Men never 20
into the dark They always say Just wait
until I strike a match l think men hate
the dark as much as cats do water. They
run into chairs and bump their heads and
can't find anything they want and make
more fuss over being in dark room thah
any woman ever would do.
That was this dainty girls idea OF 1t.
Then | asked a man what he thought on
the subject "Oh, I truly believe that
women have more courage than men, ne
answered. "They love to be cared for
saved, in little unreal scares; but when
the pinch comes nine women out OF ten
keep cool. and men get excited"
1T is merely matter of brute force
said another. Women know they have no
show against man when it comes to a
tussle. and they would be fools not to
avoid the chance of meeting roughs or
thieves after dark, as men may dare DO.
Every animal living is afraid of a strong
er one of ats species
Being afraid is all habit" declared one
slender girl with a delicate face. Three
wears ago l would have thought l could
not sleep in a house without a man, and
now 1 sleep in a house that stands alone
with only two old women as companions
and 1 never feel any fear at all. When /
had my husband to take care OF me low
ed to look for protection; now / do the
protecting" go,
But what would you do II you 1ouhu
man in your house?'
Scream at the very top of my lungs
veil. make every kind Of noise possible
ANY man with any sense would try TO get
away before the people l woke could get
there. It's no more cowardly to scream
TO brighten away thief than to whistle
TO stop a CARTS means 10 an emo
Lots OF men pretend they are too
sleepy to 90 TO see what a noise IS at
night" said one young woman blessed
with many brothers, iand as for locking
up, they are simply awful The hottest
night everything must be shut up usht 10
keep out thieves"
Then one woman told me of her aunt, an
old Vermonter who lived alone with her
sister about half mile from her brother
The old ladies always took all the silver
to their room every night This night
'Jemima" was in bed and asleep and ia
nette was putting up her gray hair in yell
low curl papers. The SILVER STOOD on
chair The door was locked, and she saw
an her glass a pair of Enthusiastically mas
culine feet under their bed.
Poor Janette, she was in her robe de
mutt, and the shock, on that account
alone, was enough to have made her faint
if she had been the so-called typical
woman; but she wasn't. She put up all
her curls till she looked like blonde por
cupine then she opened the window wide
Gt looked out toward her brothers house,
where lights were sull burning, and how
she wished that mental biography We're
a thing Accomplished; then she put out
the light and got into bed. The heroine!
Think how she must have felt about the
ankles: but he didn't grab her.
She Law down cr0ssWise and waited. He
had TO come out at the side of the bed, for
the foot was low, and it stood in a corner
of the room. Janette breathed just as
though she were asleep and the man start
ed to come out. She watched. and the
moment his head appeared, before his
shoulders could follow it, she grabbed him
by the hair and ears and began to thump
his head up against the bed and down
against the floor and 10 scream out all
her pent-up nervousness. Jemima Joined
in magnificently, not knowing at first why
but the man said nothing. The people
came from their brothers and saved-the
man. or Janette would have thumped him
TO death, once having got into the swing
of the thing.
That is true story.
dinner party, says the New York
Times. is never an easy thing to give, but
if you help it out by a specially" as a
certain woman does, who is noted for her
nice dinners you win find it is robbed of
abe formality that makes it a terror to
hostesses. A grape dinner at this time of
the year is seasonable and certainly beau
tiful and il possesses the wonderful adj
vantage of being no more expensive and
a great deal less trouble 10 give than the
ordinary formal affair The woman who
originated the grape dinner had a man to
serve IT, but that is not necessary. In the
center of the table was a big silver and
glass dish into which were piled grapes
of a deep purple and a bright green, with
an abundance of grape leaves upon them
AS grape leaves are not always easy 10
obtain, imitation ones can be substituted
for the sake of the appearance of the dish
but at this time of the year a trip to the
country viii give anyone an armful OF
leaves for the asking. From the dish there
extended grape vines which led to the -four
corners of the table. each terminating with
large bunch of green grapes. The table
was set for eight, and under each plate
there was a dolly in the form of a crane
deaf, attached with green around the edge
and veined. The cloth was snow white
as were also the dishes The guests wer,
served with grape jelly made in bunch-of
grapes mould This was served with The
game. With roast came grape SCRIBE
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