The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-24

| or too late hours; because you have too
much company, or it's lonesome where
| there is no company. Your family is
| either too big or too little. There are too
many stairs and too many windows. II
| we could only get them to agree on any
! settled thing we might have the supertlu-
Gus windows nailed up and give away
some of our children"
Doesn't it make you tired" asked the
! other woman, Ito hear how men talk
| about managing servants? My husband
is always saying: Why, do you suppose
! I'd put up with incompetent clerks?
! Would keep a girl at the ribbon counter
| three minutes after 1 had discovered that
she was wasting the ribbon and carrying
| remnants home? Yet that's precisely
what you let your employees do Yes L
say, and you can get a hundred girls
who want to clerk where can find one
who wants do homework or cook. More
than that, a girl who gets a place as
| clerk wants to keep it, so she tries to give
| satisfaction. The servant on the other
! hand, doesn't intend to be a servant one
minute longer than she can help, so she
! doesn't care to learn to do a thing right.
| But above all, she feels that she is con-
! ferring favor on me by doing my work.
| All the usual laws of supply and demand
are reversed, and I have no hold on her"
The woman in the green hat smiled. 81
know it ALL" she said, land the worst of it
is that there's no help for us. But that re-
minds me. You know Jennie L. The
other day 1 was there, quite early in the
morning, and her house was beautifully
in order, at an hour when my floors are
| still unswept and my beds unmade How
do you manage it?' 1 asked. She laughed
and said: We'll, had the slowest, dull
| est housemaid you ever saw. 1 just
! couldn't get the house cleaned in any sort
of reasonable time. I scolded and bribed,
but to no purpose. She Jagged along, and
| then 1 tried diplomacy on her. One day
| said Minnie, it's just shame for as
! goodlooking girl as you to be shut up in
! the house all day. If I had as pretty
| face as yours I'd hurry through my work
| so I could dress up and go out where peo-
pie could see me- 1t worked like a charm.
She rushes through with everything, and
l never fail to pay her a howery compli-
ment on her appearance
The tired-looking woman rose to 60
"Well," she said, ''if l ever get another
good cook / will enter a school of diplo-
macy, if necessary, in order to learn how
! to keep her"
New fads in fancy work says Harper's
Bazaar, are the delight of every woman.
particularly at this time of the year,
when in many instances it is desired to
! give a piece of ones own handiwork in
stead of some gift bought from the shops.
! Bags and pin cushions are always useful,
now there are the prettiest possible pin
| cushions to be made up of old bits of bro
cade and ribbon and gold or silver cord,
which need only taste in the choosing of
| the colors to combine and dainty stitches
to be exceedingly pretty.
Rather in the shape of tomatoes are the
| Princess of Teek cushions-so called, it is
said, because the princess was the first to
a them They made of
pieces of material Joined very neatly to-
gether like patchwork, and they must not
measure more than a hands breadth in
circumference. At every place where
they are joined together they are tied
tightly down with a strong linen thread
and just in the middle the bottom and top
are drawn quite together, so there is the
| deep hole in the center This is difficult
to do and only the strongest linen thread
will make it possible. Around the out
side, halfway down, there must again be
an indentation, and each and every inden-
tation must be covered with gold or sill
| yer cord
! 1t is quite surprising what charming re-
| suits can be gotten with the combining of
handsome bits of brocade and the careful
stuffing of the cushion. Bran is the best
| of anything for this purpose, as cotton is
too hard. 1t is supposed to be necessary
to every well-appointed dressing table to
have four or five of these little cushions,
into which the little stick pins are put, or
hat pins, or the new brooches. So many
pins are indispensable now that it Is much
more desirable to have a different cushion
for each kind, and, of course these fill the
required needs, and at the same time are
pretty in themselves.
at don't like to ride my bicycle now"
said the fair young girl, because Of the
wind"
The young man slightly biushed, says
the Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Co-couldn't you use strips of lead or
! something's" he stammered.
Strips of lead for WHAT"
The young man blushed again. The
room seemed painfully hot.
"Why. in the hem of your sk-skirts,"
he suffered.
my skirts?" echoed the tall beauty.
| I'm not talking about my skirts. It's my
frizzes that the wind blows out"
And the youth went forth into the cool
night and butted his head against the first
lamp post.
''Do you know" said the girl. settling
herself comfortably In my big chair ac-
cording to the New Orleans Picayune,
"that I have made an interesting discov-
erv-that Is. that II is much more amusing
mother One thing is that your mother
generally wants you TO get married and
your father hardly ever does. I won't try
TO explain this, because nobody knows
why a Is, but Il Is truth, nevertheless.
"Slnce have found this out have been
telling my father everything about my
beaux, like the model girl books recon-
mend and I have enjoyed myself very
much. You know that when my father
and mother were married they were as
moor as the traditional church mouse.
rather worked, and mother economical.
and by and by they got a competence that
grew into a fortune. and they pulled
through hard places together, and came
to love each other with that close affec-
ton that only comes to people who have
endured, and suffered, and enjoyed every
thing in common for a lifetime. It's
common enough American experience, and
as It generally ends 50 Wen, l don't see