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

Love VS.. Ducats.-From the Boston
Traveller
Inc VloIins were laughing all the while
MY german favor was white Pierrot;
And, with the most intoxicating smile,
she gave me Columbine-hfs girl you
know.
We danced a grave and stately measure
through
She wooed my heart by every subtle
vile;
And with her eyes she vowed she lovea
me, too,
The violins were laughing all the while
We're l a picture, SIR she said, you
might"
And yet we sat alone upon a stair
On smallest, whitest hands, so warm in
mine.
Though both knew that we oughtn't to
Not I, Pierrot, nor She Columbine.
For when her mothers carriage blocked
the way,
1t was not I who led her down the
aisle;
| 1t was the man who married her to-day
And violins were laughing all the while
Talking about cranky shoppers" said
| the salesman in the jewelTy and silverware
] store to a New York Sun reporter, 1.-THE
| coming of Christmas reminds me of Gus
toner 1 had last year, two or three days
| before the 18th. About 80 one morning,
| just when the store was packed with shop
pers, lady came in and asked to look
| at novelties, also silverware. She was in
terested in only the expensive goods, and 1
took pains to show her fully our best
line. Several parties whom 1 am accus-
toned to serve Were in the store while she
was there, but let others wait on them
and devoted my time to her. / fiatter my
self that L am a good salesman, and more
over that 1 can tell pretty quickly the
shopper who really intends to buy that
day, and the shopper who is only looking
around. This lady after examining every
thing closely, pricing, comparing, getting
my ideas, and occasionally referring to the
| proprietor's taste as he came round, taxi
ing up an hours time in the busiest part
| OF the day, remarked carelessly that she
had son who was then on a hunting ex-
| petition in the south. He expects to be
an usher for wedding In June she said.
1 will write him about these things L have
seen, and very likely when he comes back
he will look in himself
In June madame? I could not help
| exclaiming, are you locking at these
| things now for wedding in June and all
these people waiting to get things for the
day after tomorrow.
| Why, yes she said, seemingly not a
whit embarrassed, I thought all of your
prettiest things would be out of their cases
now and that it was a good time to get
| suggestions
" Suggestions for a June wedding
whispered to one of the men as my custo-
mer swept out to her carriage; and then
| the laugh was on me, because all had ex-
pected to hear of 600 sale at least
counted up and found that 1 had lost ex-
actly $500 worth of sales while that
thoughtless woman was in the store
I'VE have people in here sometimes who
do such odd things that to tell about them
sounds like exaggeration," he went on.
See this brooch?" pointing to a small
gold leaf with vivid glowing berries. 1--WE
sold one like il to a lady who lives-well,
not hundred blocks from here, and has
the reputation of being wealthy. If those
berries were rubies the brooch would be
costly, but being garnets 1T is worth only
$40 The day after the brooch was sent
to the purchaser, a tall self-collected,
stern-looking man came in and addressed
himself to me.
" You sold this brooch to my wife I un-
derstand, he said. holding out the brooch
1 told him that was the case.
" L want you to take it back and refund
the money
" Anything wrong about it? I asked
" No. But you had no right to sell such
an expensive piece of jewelry to my wife
with my consent. 1 do not choose that
she should buy goods all about town in
this fashion; when 1 wish her to have per-
sonal ornaments L will get them for her.
Besides, you overcharged her because she
was a woman
He was so in earnest and berated me so
roundly that I really felt uncomfortable,
although l knew it was all ridiculous 1
explained that the sale was made, that the
lady had paid for the article, and that the
firm did not take back goods under such
conditions. He got into a towering pass
ion, argued with me to the top of his bent,
although there were other customers lis
tening, and then, when he found that it
was no go and that we would not take
back the brooch, he pitched the case out
through the open door into the middle of
the muddy street and took himself off.
what did we do? Why, one of our boys
ran out and picked up the case from under
the very feet of cab horse. We packed
the brooch carefully in a new case and
sent it round to the lady's address. What
was it that made the man act in that way?
Crankiness, pure and simple. He is one
of the kind that objects to his wife's MAX
ing any disposal of his money without con-
sulting him. He is not close-fsted, either.
That very Christmas he bought her SUI
perb brooch and some other things, costing
six times the amount of that little gold
leaf with the garnets."
An attractive new sort Of boa is made
with wide fiat Alsatan bow of violet vel
vet at the back. From each side of the
bow fall mink bands ending with tiny
heads. On the inner edge of these bands
there is a plating of the purple velvet that
gradually diminishes in hight as it nears
the tiny heads.
For theater toilets the fur wraps are
elaborate and dressy with dashes of bright
plush and lace frills insurng their be-
comingness.
DR.. Chalmers Prentice of Chicago is
about to communicate to the medical world
a discovery that he believes bound to
prove a boon to humanity and to rob death
of one of it's terrors, says the Chicago Tri-
bune. He has found how he says, to read
death in the human eye, to tell by the APP
pearance of veins and arteries whether life
has departed or a spark yet remains, and
to tell it with absolute certainty.
For centuries man has been haunted
with the fear that he will wake up in
the tomb to a realizing sense of his awful
position Many times graves have been
| opened for some reason or other and those