The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-03


She is coming this way
| The summer girls coming back home!
r.. c.
! Speaking of gay times" said a well
known society leader yesterday. there is
sure to be a Lively season in the social
world of Savannah this winter. Already
there are several weddings booked for the
fall and winter, and it Is strictly within
bounds of reason to predict that there will
be several which have not yet been an
nounced. 1t Is always the case that these
trips away from home in summer time
bring forth their crops of weddings for
the winter. 1 don't know why it should
be So but it is, nevertheless, that Savan-
nah girls get more romantic away from
home than they do here. They go off for
the summer and spend a longer time than
the girls of most of the cities, for the
reason that our summers in Savannah are
more extended than they are elsewhere.
| Nobody ever thinks of returning to Sa-
vannah before the middle of September
or the LIST of October. 1 mean the women
folks. Thus, they have from June until
| October to while away in romantic idle
ness in the mountains, or at the seaside
resorts of the north, or across the waters.
But when they do come back to Sa-
vannah the old town changes out and out.
| There is life and light in every house
hold then and the winter season is started
off with rush of social gayeties. There
viii be a large number of debutantes this
season, and of course, they will all be
giving their receptions, upon which occa-
sions debutantes are supposed to make
their bows to the world at large and world
of mankind in particular.
yes, there is every indication that Sa-
vannah will have gay social season.
when the girls come home"
1T is truly gratifying to observe that in
Savannah the milk of human kindness
has not yet soured. To the people of this
city can never be applied the lines of the
poet: Mans humanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn"
Bright and early yesterday morning
there were several well-to-do gentlemen
of the city down at police barracks to
| make arrangements to procure the release
of the unfortunate young man who is inn
| prsoned there on a charge of vagrancy.
| The full story Of his career had been given
in the Morning News, and no sooner had
| these gentlemen read it at the breakfast
table than they had on their hats and
were off TO make inquiry about the young
man at the barracks.
One of these gentlemen has started up
on a plan by which the prisoner will at
| least, be spared public trial in the courts
and a sentence to the chain-gang on the
| charge of Vagrancy, and by the arrange
] is <
| ne may be sent to a private sanitarium
| somewhere to be treated for the opium
| habit, which has fastened itself upon him.
Few young men of the south have ever
| had SO thrilling a life story to relate as
| this one, varying from the serene to the
! solemn. Born of a family, the members
OF which once ranked high in the baronial
aristocracy of ante-bellum days, and thus
! inheriting all of that high tension" of
| spirit, which characterized "the old-time
southern gentleman" pride, chivalry love
| of the artistic, and being the possessor of
| all those gifts which cause a young man
| to be the hero of the social throng, his
downfall is not difficult to trace, when it
| is known that early in life there were lit
| tie sides scenes of romance, love affairs,
| disappontments, which buried their Sc
crets and their griefs deep.
81 remember the poor fellow" said one
| of his college mates yesterday, when he
How handsome he was, and how we'll
| dressed. Why. he was the envy of every
swain in college, He could sing the
sweetest songs, play the most enchanting
airs on a guitar, write the prettiest let
ters to girls, and tell the best stories in
repartee. He was a beau ideal. Every
body liked him, and he didn't have an
| enemy on earth.
Il recall how readily he used to catch
the airs from the operas and plays and
sing them right off. One night the col
lege boys had all been down to hear
| Seaman at the theater. The Lucy Cobb
| girls were all there the night Seaman
| sang for the first time in the town his
| far-famed ballad, My Nellies Blue
Eyes" which he had just brought south
on his tour. That same night, with a
| crowd of university boys, this young man
stood beneath the windows of the Lucy
| Cobb Institute, and in a rich, clear tenor
voice sang as sweetly as Seaman him
! self:
MY dear Nellie has eyes so blue
Sparkling like the drops of dew,
And her heart to me is true
My Nellie's blue eyes,
1.-THE world seems to get all mixed up
and so to turning backwards when / try
to think of that fellow as being a tramp
and sleeping in a Jail on a charge of va
grancy. l wonder if Rudyard Kipling
could find a Vampire lurking anywhere
around that poor chap when he lies down
there in jail at night to sleep"
The young man in question will be al
lowed to remain in Jail by his benefac-
tors only so long as it is necessary for
them to negotiate their plans by which
they hope to get him out and have him
sent to a private sanitarium.
1.-THE gentlest and yet the most cutting
rebuke l have heard lately was dealt by
a preacher to several men who are mem
bers of his church one day when they
were out for little jaunt. 1t was rainy
day and the men had got wet by the show
ers before they reached the boat. One
of the churchmen began to talk about
feeling bad. I've got soaked through.
said he. and l believe 1 have a good ex-
cuse for taking drink out of the flask
! have brought with me- One after an
other the others began to talk of being
vet through and through and feeling the
need of a drink. We'll" said the fell
low who had the bottle, We are all wet
and it will do us good--ahem, won't you
join us? This query was addressed to the
preacher, and he surprised them all by
accounting NV reason FIR talxfpoe THU