The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-28

ter AT tne cnurcn SoclRDle TO prlZe-taker
in the progressive euchre smart set, al
most invariably kick down the ladder by
which she climbed? You may live next
door to the Blank family for ten years
You may nurse the Blank children through
the measles and the whooping cough, and
the mumps. You may, lend Mrs. Blank
your patterns, and baking tins every
week Of all that time, and do her unnum-
bered little friendly turns, but IL a sud-
den rise of prosperity comes her way and
she moves up town into a finer house and
a more fashionable neighborhood, ninety
nine times out of a hundred she will leave
all memory of what you have done behind
her, as unconcernedly as she does her old
furniture. Womans ingrattude to wo-
man makes countless thousands mourn,
but it doesn't surprise anybody. We are
used to 1t, and expect it.
A custom among the people of Weisch
Tyrol, which is almost as old as the noun
tains, is that of giving n wedding kerchief
to the bride on her wedding day Imme-
diately before the young maiden steps
across the threshold of her old home, on
her way TO the church, her mother sol
EMMY gives her a new pocket handker-
chief. The bride holds 1t in her hand
throughout the marriage ceremony, using
it to wipe away her tears. As soon as the
marriage festivities areasCyer the young
wife lays the handkerchief aside in her
linen closet, and there 1t remains as long
as she lives. Nothing could induce a
Tvrolese wife to use this sacred handker-
chief II may be half a century or longer,
before it is taken from its place to fulfill
the second and last part of its mission.
When th61wife dies, perhaps as a gray old
grandmother, the loving hands of the
next of kin place the bridal handkerchief
over the face of the dead, and it is buried
with her in the grave.-EXchange
In London Truth, Mrs Emily Crawford
puts forward a theory, SAYS the Chicago
Record which seems so plausible sand log
ical that 1t is astonishing that no one
should have thought of formulating it be-
fore. Mrs. Crawford notes that accord
ing to the evidence furnished in old paint
ings, grace of bearing and of dress in wo-
men was conspicuously lacking in the pc
Rod before large mirrors were generally
used. BY careful comparison OF dates
she finds that marked Improvement in
this particular Immediately followed the
Introduction of the mirror. From this she
infers that it is the large mirror which has
been the magic agency in identifying wo-
mankind and causing her to be graceful
and well dressed.
Since woman is responsible for the
theory, it may not be ungallant to wonder
what the women of the nineteenth CEN
fury probably would look like had it not
been for the mirror. The mirror did not
supply a deficiency in taste of course. No
one will dare lnsinuate that taste WASH
Unborn in the very first of her sex But
there had been nothing by which to try
standardQof taste; the woman was a the
mercy of her dressmal1er or dependent
upon the criticisms of her friends. 1t is
easy to figure out that had not the large
mirror changed all this, allowing a woman
to see herself fun length, to note the effect
of poise and gesture and to correct blem-
ishes, the nineteenth century maiden
would have been far different The styl-
ish effect of the natty shirt waist, the in
territorial coquetry of the bonnet, the
length and "hang" Of the bicycle skirt,
would have been out of the question.
Woman would have been a victim of her
tailOrS ingenuity.
1t may not be carrying the point too far
to argue that inasmuch as manners and
morals are 50 intimately related, the mir
ror must have been responsible for much
of the development of the race The mir
ror added to the arts of woman, and those
arts have been used with unquestioned
success to provoke marriage, incite con
spracies, beguile kings and break up
thrones. Woman's dress and manners be-
ing less refined, the manners of men
would be rough in even greater degree.
The whole civilization would be resting on
a lower plane. And all for lack of some
large squares of glass backed with tinfoil!
This may be straining a point, but it fol-
lows logically from Mrs Crawfords in
teresting discovery.
Yet there is something the matter with
this mirror theory. For large mirrors
abounded in the days of hoopskirts and
bustles.