The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-07

only admire so handsome ana udsIlllS ID
couple as Lord and Lady Romilly make.
They will not return to London till the
storm has blown over and people have for
gotten a bit Mr.. Cunard's first knowl-
edge of the affair was brought to him
by the papers, and was soon followed by
mis- truant hancee's package of presents.
Lady Rornilly is happily travelling about
on the continent. honeymooning in the
trousseau intended for her wedding with
Mr.. Cunard.
Twas a summer ago. when he left me
here,
A summer of smiles, with never a tear,
Till said to him, with a sob, my dear:
Good-by my lover good-by!
For love him. oh. as the stars love
And my cheeks for him flushed red and
white,
When first he called me his hearts de-
light:
Good-by my lover, good-by!
The touch of his hand was thing divine,
AS he sat with me in the soft moonshine,
And drank of love as men drink wine:
Good-by my lover, good-by!
And never a night as knelt in prayer,
In a gown as white as our own souls
wear
But in fancy he came and kissed me
there:
Good-by my lover, good-by!
But now Cod what an empty place
My whole heart is! OF the old embrace,
And the kiss loved there lives no trace:
Good-by, my lover, good-byl
He sailed not over the stormy sea;
And he went not down in the waves, not
he
But, oh, he is lost, for he married me:
Good-by, my lover, good-by!
James Whitcomb Riley.
When necessity compels, woman is
marvellous inventor. Some of those who
are suddenly left to shift for themselves
resort TO queer methods to earn Iiveli-
hood. For some time a number of women
in New York have been doing professional
mending. EXPERIENCES with the needle is
the only preparation necessary for this
business. The members are missionaries in
a way, for they seek out bachelors at their
boarding houses, apartments and hotels,
and make a contract to keep buttons on
coats, vests and trousers, to darn hosiery
and to close up rents in clothing. The
price charged for such service varies ac-
cording to the size of a mans wardrobe.
This scheme of a perambulating repair
shop appeals to the average man, for 1t
means money in his pocket. Tailors charge
good round sums for odd jobs, and a wo-
man fixes up many things that a tailor
would not touch. 1t is easier too, to have
a woman drop in while a man is away
at business and rid him of all the worry
about the condition of his clothes.
A Philadelphia woman has hit on a
novel plan of converting muscle into cash.
When her husband, a laboring man, died,
leaving her with four small children, with
healthy appetites, she decided to become
professional cleaner of kitchen floors
She has worked her speciality to advant-
age and is so efficient that her regular Gus
toners would as soon think of allowing
plumber to tune grand piano as to per-
NIT any one else TO touch their kitchen
floors. Many kitchen floors nowadays are
made of hardwood or tiles or are covered
with oilcloth or linoleum. An expert can
clean them with great rapidity, as this
woman has proved. She makes the aver
age floor as neat as wax in half an hour,
and charges only % cents for doing so,
she carries her own tools, soaps and cloths
for getting the dirt off and putting the
shine on, and leaves things spick and
span behind her. For each customer she
has a certain half hour on a certain day.
She is an exact woman, and, knowing
this, her customers have the kitchen
ready for her. She earns from So to 81 a
day, and says she likes the work better
than standing behind a counter
American women, says Leslie's Weekly,
are proverbially amiable. Their anna
bility indeed, is more universal than their
beauty, and they are surely the most
beautiful women in the world AS to
this pleasing amiabiity, which contributes
untold blessings TO American bones, there
IS no better proof than the fact that one
million American women belong to wo-
mems clubs.
This is not prima-facie case at all but
the truth of it is easily proved In the
current periodicals there are several arti-
Giles on women's clubs, and particularly
luminous discussion of them by Mrs. Hell
- Waterson Moody in the October num-
Ler of Scribner's Magazine. Now. from
these various articles we learn that wo-
men go to their clubs to be preached at.
TO be instructed In one thing and another
end to learn how better to act their part
IN the complex civilization of which thew
are most important part.
Ihe exercises at these clubs, we believe
usually consist in the reading of papers
by persons who forego other empoyments
90 as 10 nnd time to spoil good paper with
galnt INK. In all the things that humans
nave 10 submit to a one time or another
there probably never was any one thing
so tresome as the listening to papers on
SUBJECTS about which the authors know
httle or nothing, except that more fear