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

and assortment. FROM personal expert
ence, one is inclined to indorse this opin-
ion. Probably the reason lies with the
men OF their respective orders; intellect
and superior culture are rather in { the
way of a woman's shining in society, but
the workman and the peasant, relying
much for guidance on their wives, are in
their choice more attracted by good
sense, industrious habits and cleverness
generally, than by personal charms, or
even the money the girl may happen to
possess.
In a crowded cable car, says Clara Belle
in the Cincinnati Enquirer, a beautiful
Boston girl hitched herself toward the
gripman's end and stepped on the toes of
almost everybody.
Really. oh, dear! I beg pardon" she
said for every toe or so, and at the for
ward end of the car man arose, and, sig
nifying the seat he had been occupying,
said:
won't you sit down?" She smiled
sweetly and REPLIED
''Oh, dear, no! Really I couldn't think
of depriVing you of your seat
1t was very pretty, and it almost took
away his breath.
oh, don't feel that way" he returned,
realizing that all the car was listening 30
this extraordinary dialogue: Il get off
myself in a block or So
Then the Boston girl flushed a little and
spoke firmly: "Oh, sir, that is impossible,
and | cannot take your seat"
All the passengers pondered, and the man
stood glued to the strap he hung to-. His
eyes began to stick out of his head, every
one was thinking and breathing hard, and
the Boston girl, looking sweet and austere
and firm, lowered her eyes and tried not
to blush Presently. an the profound ST.
lence that was broken only by the jangle
of the gong and the sobbing breath of the
conductor, who also had heard and won
dered, the man who had risen from his
seat faltered:
Madam, 1 should have said myself get
| off in a moment"
Then she smiled sweetly, remarked, "Oh,
| thank you," and slid into the seat. At
that the car contracted and expanded with
| the indrawing of breaths, while the man
| staggered off the platform like one escap-
ed from a horrid danger.
| Awkward souls in every locality must
| have often pinned for the privilege of such
| an institution as Harper's Bazaar de-
scrbes as one of the features of New
| York life. That periodical says: lone of
| the most attractive of the establishments
| of women is the Bureau of Social Require
ments, on Forty-second street. The man.
| ager and proprietor, Mrs. Ledyard Ste
vens, is a lady of high social standing,
who is brave and clever enough to start
! in business and to use her past advantages
| as a means of success. Having long been
! in fashionable life, she knows its require
ments, and is able to intelligently assist
! those whose needs appertain to it. She has
) in her office a corps of workers of all
| kinds, who will go to houses to suDerin-
| tend entertainments, or to open or to close
| the house or to take daily care of lamps
| and bric-a-brac. Besides these, she has
| several English man servants, who go for
| great occasions TO wait on guests, and
| give an air of elegance to the houses in
| Vanity Fair. Mrs. Stevens is ready to be
| consulted at all times on matters Of social
| customs and etiquette, and has an i'm
| mense correspondence on these topics.
| Among those who have applied to her was
a wealthy Texas lady who wanted to en-
list her assistance in getting into the
Four Hundred and another, from Colo
RADIO who wanted child to adopt. Among
unique features of the bureau is depart
ment for bootblacking for women and
children"
The Countess of Annesley is one of the
few English society women who have TAX
en- a thorough course as a trained nurse.
She spent some time in the city of Dublin
hospital. and at one time thought serious
| ly of taking up the work professionally.
| The only woman engineer in the United
States, so it is claimed is Mrs. Annie
Shanivan of Tulare, Cal, who, by all ac-
counts is a real Tom Groghan. She runs
planning mill at Mountain Home, and
the mountaineers thoroughly respect her.
They call her "Our new woman"