The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24

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| visit had lasted for two weeks and that
I my mother w3uld expect ne to come home
1 al the tine set for my return.
| Then SAD my Teil-meaning hostess,
i shall wT--z her this very day. and in
I plore her 20 let you stay another week"
And ~ the sane mail went surreDti-
uous little note 70 the best OF mothers.
Please, please. say I must come home -
Great was the c1agrin Of my kind-hearr-
e hostess. and equally great was my we'll
concealed delight. when a letter arrived
cordially thanking Mrs Blank for her
kindness, but advising that I adhere to
my original pan and come home at the
tire set.
sim. through IL all felt like a hypocrite.
II was an awkward position into which
my insisIeut entertainers had forced me.
A curious story is told by Lady Middle
ton OF how one Of Queen Eict0ria's small
st gold spoons was lost and found. A lady
attended a state ball in a dress, the skirt
Of which was arranged in perpendicular
pleaLS IN 'front.' stitched across at inter
walls and unknown TO her. d gold teaspoon
got lOiged at supper in one Of these recep-
tacles. OF course there was one missing
after the ball and il caused great pertur-
baton 10 the official in charge Of the gold
plate. The next spring the lady who had
been the innocent cause Of the loss went
10 q drawing room in the Identical dress
she had worn AT the state ball. and as she
bent low before her majesty, the pleats OF
her skirt expanded, and the gold spoon fell
at the queens feet
Perhaps, says Sir Walter Besant in the
Queen, the following method of settling
disputes between husband and wife may
be new 10 some readers. Do not, pray.
misunderstood me. I am far from advis-
ing the introduction Of a new and strange
custom into our family life. Better do
nestle jars than domestic casks. But one
must explain. In some parts of Germany
when the relations of husband and wife
become strained, so to speak-in other
words, when each returning day gave
birth 10 new squabbles. and the mans
hand was ready as the Woman's
tongue, the couple were brought before
the magistrate, who. after listening to
recrimiuations, ordered them TO prepare
for the ordeal by battle. The man was
placed in a cask which was then nearly
nlled with sand, 50 that he was covered
up TO the waist; in some towns pit was
kept mandy for the purpose. just as the
ducking stool was kept on Bankside, op-
poslte ST. Pauis. When he was thus half
buried, the man received a short stick
for his right hand while his left hand
was tied up across his chest He was
thus one armed, and could only deliver his
blows if his opponent came near enough.
The lady put on a linen garment, the
right sleeve of which was lengthened in
the end was tied up a stone. The sleeve
projected about twelve inches beyond her
hand. She had thus a formidable weapon
out IN order TO use it she had. 10 get
close 70 the enemy. Now observe the sit
uation and the chances. If she succeed
ed in bringing the stone down upon her
h. NJ q E~rl-@ L. l.
senseless; she might even brain him, but
in order to do so she would expose her
self to the full blow of his stick. The bat
tie might, in fact, be settled by q single
assault. But mark the craftiness of the
man. It was better TO make a woman
ridiculous than to knock her silly. The
husband, therefore, if he was a philoso-
pher, did not try to hit his wife: he ward
ed her blows with his stick; he tried TO
catch the sleeve upon his stick, then the
stone few round and round and the lady
was caught She could not move, and the
victorious husband dragged her unwil-
hngly, head first, into his cask.
The bedroom of the Queen of Sweden
is large and airy, but is furnished with
the greatest simplicity. The walls are pa
pered with a cream-colored paper with a
small gilt design, and the hangings are
Of royal blue rep, with a border of gold
and blue. The bed is a huge one of ma
| hogany, and the carpet is blue. The walls
are covered with photographs of members
OF the queens family. The book shelves
contain many religious works, as the
queen is a good and charitable woman, in
terested in all benevolent work There is
not an article of expensive luxury in the
room, and in spite Of its old-fashioned air
il has a delightful tone of gentle fem.-
ninity.
A curious craze, says the New York Tri-
bune, has obtained vogue among fash
tonable people for rafting their belongings
Half in jest and half in earnest they put
up bicycles, articles of dress, horses, and
even as IN one recent case, houses t
is canny and essentially up-to-date meth
ed of obtaining the full value of what
might otherwise be difficult TO dispose of
The house, or rather small cottage, in
question belonged to a young, and, it is
unnecessary to add, attractive woman
She was willing to sell at a moderate
price, but could find no purchaser Sud
denly the idea occurred to her. IF so and
so ratified her bicycle and got a good price
for it, why should l not do the same with
my little cottage?'
The preliminaries were quickly arranged.
fair price for the house was first de
cided upon. $1,000 or Whereabouts Gt was
simple little seaside box, and the shares
we're divided into SIS each Her friends
first wondered at her audacity, then laugh
ed, but ended by buying the shares
some tickled by the idea of getting
house for S25, others on the gambling spirit
of their set, where law of chance seems
paramount and the majority doubtless
prompted by the desire to help where help
was needed.
At all events the lottery succeeded. and
the prize fell to the lot of a cynical old
bachelor, who, to complete the tale. put
up the house at auction. The red flag
toated at the door, and society. which
like the Athenians of old, always Graves
something new. and which was vastly
amused at the whole transaction. focked
to the sale; clever auctiOneer made some
capital hits in his recommendations. and