The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-21


large hats, hitherto considered only APP
propriate for day wear or for high gowns.
It is delightful innovation, and many
a comparatively plain woman has been
made over into a beauty by the cOmbina-
ton of a low gown and a large hat. We
shall see the style here this winter. Even
now a few society women have been seen
AT Newport dining at the Casino dressed
in this manner.
Not all our summer firtations, says
Clara Belle In the Cincinnati Enquirer
have comic endings that are tragic for
their immediate partcipators-tragic. at
least for a little while. one that promised
to be serious for him began with her
saving that she would be sister to him.
Not the trte words. but the manner of
her saying them counted for heartbreak.
She was mistaken, and never smiled.
Moreover, she went on seriously: q shall
not marry" she told him, so don't let
that worry you. / am too fond of indie
pendence. l wish TO shape my own life
to make my own path and 10 be beholden
to no one. So I cannot be a wife"
Then he told her that was all very well,
but that he loved her, and that ought
to make a difference; that he had all the
sisters he wanted anyhow, one real one;
that she would get jolly tired shaping her
own path and that she had better recon-
slider But she wouldn't. She said his
loving her didn't make a bit of differ
cnce; that she didn't believe in love, any
how She admitted that she expected to
get tired shaping her path, which was a
bad sign for him, but that she should like
Il ell the same. Then he said more things
being a young man accustomed to getting
what he wanted He told her that she
was all wrong. you don't know it,"
said he, but you can't get along, you
girls without a man TO help you, and you
can't get along without one particular
man, which is me, don't you forget it,
You had better marry me right now ana
save yourself the humiliation of asking
me later to help you get off your perch
because I shant mention it again" And
she laughed and said Ii she ever did mar
nv it would be to some man who talked
that way. but she refused to marry. To
quiet him she said: IF | ever find l need
your help, or find that you are necessary
to me, then 1 will reconsider. I promise
YOU that" "And if you call on me may
I take it as equal to yes to the qlies-
ton I have just asked you?" She laugh
ed blushed little and answered that he
might, 'only TO prove that it will never
happen" she added.
There may be some thing In dreams. says
q writer in the Chicago Times Herald, but
when | dreamed that I was IS years old /
knew that couldn't come true for a few
years. anyway. Nevertheless in my dream
was I sorely distressed. Not by physical
suffering but from mental. ''Why don't
YOU hurry up and leave the world? some
kind soul with a spade asked me, you've
certainly been in it long enough, and as
I haven't much to 90 to-day IL would be
a splendid chance TO get you buried with
out losing time
"NNhy do you want me to dep I querled
Il don't think it is very polite of you. DO
you think l have no feelings"
People as old as you are have got over
feeling" answered my frank friend I've
nothing i'm the wide world against you, eX-
cept that you are no longer necessary 10
the universal plan; YOU must know that
yourself You are only just a log that lies
across the road in the sunshine, and peo-
pie who are too busy to be hndered have
TO delay while they step over or walk
around YOU DO be sensible and die II only
to oblge the folks"
But / don't want to die" said. Il feel
perfectly we'll and 1 haven't an ache or
pain. Besides, l am just beginning to en-
joy myself doing nothing. Nobody worries
me 90 work any more, ana 1 like the
rest"
You'll rest longer and much more com
fortably under che daisies" pleaded the
persistent friend. You can't expect TO 90
on livug when YOU are not producer
by the way. i don't think you ever did
produce anything, and that Is another rea-
son why you ought TO get cut as soon as
ever YOU can"
81 know I haven't ever produced any
thing really worth while" 1 said humbly.
but ] assure you I've always tried only
you see II isn't easy doing things ali
alone and never mad any body
"'Inats it, agreed my companion. "Tf
there were living soul who cared for Won
now % would perhaps be different. though
I'm not so sure, for you must have noticed
that there aren't many tears ever shed Tor