The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-20

examples set by the fashionable English
woman is that of being a mother. 1t Is
possible that you may visit at her house
formally and you will never know that
there is anything in the shape of small
child there. But if you happen to know
your hostess well the small people are
brought In with the dessert, dressed in
the simplest and prettiest of clothes and
prepared by the teaching that has been
given them to show not only their finery
but their good manners. The English wo-
man, copying the example set by the roy
alties, is proudest when her family is large
She likes to go to drive in the afternoon
up and down the row showing the sons
and daughters that are so much of a credit
TO her. She certainly looks her best at
these times, for the tall, slender girls, with
their beautiful hair, the big, fine looking
babies and the manly looking boys remind
one of that small girl who so many years
ago announced to her mother, Il am glad
YOU married into our family, mamma, be-
cause you are so pretty" The extreme
" smart woman in New York is copying
the English grande dame and goes out
driving with her midgets about her and
tries her hardest to impress the woman
who rides with dog as her companion
how much she is to be piued.
BY the bye, did you ever notice the way
some women hold babies. especially the
way they lift those unfortunate limp look
ing ones who seem to have no more back
bone than cells? 1t really does seem as if
one type of women slung this kind of ba-
by over her arm as if it were a scarf
she were wearing. And nine times out OF
ten the same woman will hold a plump
baby as if il were a pitcher filed to the
brim with cream and which she must not
allow to move for fear some might spill.
never saw man who didn't mold BABY
well, and l never saw a baby, especially
a girl baby, that was not extremely anx-
ious to be held by a man. 1t seems as II
they realize, bless their tiny hearts, that
the arms about them are good and strong
and that at last somebody is holding them
who does not fear dropping them. The
children of this generation-I mean the
fashionable children-are extremely hand
some and the reason is not hard to dis
cover. They are dressed with the utmost
simplicity. They eat simple food, which
Is nroper food. They take plenty OF eX-
ercise and they are not supposed az an
immature age to be informed OF Greek
and Latin. Their mothers are Determined
that they shall be beautiful women ana
handsome men, rising up to do them
credit.
Sneaking of children, how many people
know the story of Dinah Maria Muloek
Craik's adopted daughter? Strengthening
some books the other night, came across
a COPY an old, old copy, OF "John Han
1
knew what l was about | was rereading
that most delightful of books. Ihen
there came back to me the story OF the
little gill whom she had loved so well. Al
the funeral of her mother some one said
that her marriage banns had been an
nounced only the Sunday before. One day
Mrs. Craik and her husband were out
driving and, meeting some friends, We're
told by them that beautiful child,
baby evidently of aristocralc plrth, had
been found on a stone by the wayslde
that morning, and, not knowing what 10
do with it, the man who discovered II had
taken il TO the town hail, where 1t was
waiting to be identified. With woman's
curiosity, Mrs. Craik drove on to see the
child that had been so cruelty treated.
AS she leaned over to look at 1t II raised
its little arms to her, and the chndless
wife announced that, having claimed her
Il should be her child. 1t went home
with her. and for weeks afterward de-
gcflptlOn OF IL was advertiser III al inc
English papers, for Mrs. Craik did not
propose to lose it just as she had learned
to love it, But no word as TO who II was
or where its parents were or who had
abandoned it ever reached its mother By
adoption. AS soon as the child could I'M
derstand she was told that while she was
not their daughter in the usual sense, she
had been given this father and mother by
God, who had laid her on rock where
they might find her.
The stone had been dug up and was
In the hall of the Craik house, and from
the time she was old enough IL became
the duty of the little girl to put fresh
flowers upon II every day Whenever
a beautiful vase was given to Miss Mu-
lock, a lovely jug or a bit of china that
would hold flowers, IL would be sug-
gested that II should be put on what was
known to the household as the baby
stone" The fact of the child's unknown
parentage was never made a cruel story
to her. and she was surrounded so en-
tlrely by love, by sweetness and the beauty
of life that each night she thanked God
a. her prayers that her dear mamma had
found her instead OF some one else, who
might have been less gentle and less
thoughtful Of her. friend OF mine was
present at her birthday fete, the day cele-
hrated being that one on which she was
discovered. Al this, her 10th festlvityi she
said to another little mite, who was tell
grandmother a duchess. "Oh, yes but
that's nothing. I'm not an ordinary child
like you. You were only born, while !
was found" The story OF this girl, now
wife and a mother seems particularly
sweet 10 me, and / think that she can
have no better lesson than that given TO
her In the book written by the dear dead
woman who was a loving.mother TO her
and be sure that II she always remembers
the quotation that II on It's title page the
best words that Ruskin ever wrote, her
lie Will be Ike her mothers. queens
you should always be; queens 10 your low
ers, husbands aud sons; queens OF high
er majesty 10 the world beyond; but, alas,
you are too often Idle and careless queens
grasping at majesty IN the least things,
while YOU abdicate IN the greatest" Cer-
talnly one might wish that IL could be said
or every woman writor what can be said
OF Dlnah Maria Mulock crailt-she never
wrote anything that did not tend TO elo-
waite woman. and she never put IN the