The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25

a nagging wife, and when she begins It
makes my blood boil. Poor fellowr' But
there is nothing that an outsider can
possibly 90 10 make things more pleas
ant. You get the old man alone and utter
very delicately conceived word of SYM
PATTY, and he Is Immediately indignant
Don't imagine for one moment that my
Vile is a nagger. She is one of the sweet
est of women, but she has opinions of
her own, and 1 like her all the better
Tor It. The wife, on the other hand. will
tell you that George is a dear. good
fellow, and don't believe there is a hap
pier couple in the world" She probably
believes it, yet, directly they get together
again, she starts nagging until the poor
fellow groans and wishes he were dead.
Why is il? Nagging is one of the diseases
peculiar to women. 1t begins as a bad
habit. and if allowed to go on unchecked
! becomes in time an incurable disease. If
1t appears before marriage, there is one
treatment that should on no account be
neglected-don't marry her. If, as is usu-
ally the case, it appears after marriage,
| then the treatment is. put up with 1t.
| There is only one cure known, and that is
the surgical one of removing the tongue,
| but it is prohibited by law. You must
| put up with It,
From London says the New York Her.
| aid, comes the newest idea in hair dress
| ing. Very eagerly is it being seized upon
| mere by the younger element of society,
| Tor the fashion was set abroad by no one
| less than the lady of the coming Viceroy
| OF India, Miss George Nathaniel Curzon.
| In It's details it differs considerably from
| the fashions of the summer and the spring
According to this new rule the hair
must now be worn low down on the neck
| Ii must no longer be pied high atop of
| the head, as has been the mode during
| the recent reign of the aigrette. The new
style is not altogether far away from the
Dun ldea,' that occasioned so much
laughter and joking several years ago.
Oh the top of the head there are left
| no curls or frizzes, and the front is plain
| The hair is parted precisely in the mid
ole, ana thence it is drawn In a coil down
on the neck. The fashion is severe but
the new mode looks well on a pretty wo-
| man, especially on tall one There are
INDICATIONS this hair dressing will be the
rad OF the winter.
Land o living ghostsr exclaimed, rays
the New York Sun, a girl in a brand-new
| tailor-made suit as she pulled herself I'D
on high stool at the lunch counter and
| her.
Well, don't you know me?" asked the
enc with the shirt waist IF YOU don't
l hope you will the next time YOU see
| me-"
IF looking at you from head to foot
| VIII make me know YOU then l certainly
shall, answered the tailor-made girl, I'M
abashed. But 1 just couldn't help eaz-
| ing at you. I never saw girl improve
so IN three months in all my born days.
| suppose you've been off at the sea-
| shore or in the mountains all summer, Do
| ing nothing on the face of the earth but
eat sleep, and have a good time Yes, 1
know you have. That's 1t, you are all
rested up."
Il suppose I've done nothing of the sort :"
retorted Miss Pink Shirt Waist. 'Tve
been working hard this blessed, enduring
melting hot summer. l haven't had even
one holiday. Indeed, I've had an unusual
| amount of work to do, for I've had
| another woman's to attend to besides my
own The only mountains I've had, miss,
are mountains of work, and the only
ocean, oceans of labor There now!
| 'WhatH' fairly shrieked the other girl
| you haven't got the face to tell me that
you've been in this sun-baked city all
| summer and exepct me to believe il, when
| you are as plump as a partridge have a
! fine color, a fairly good coat of TAM and
a sparkle in your eyes that makes that
| diamond on your left third finger look
CLASSY by the side of 'em? Tell that to
a country lady. Why, it would be i'm
! possible for any one to look so well and
fresh and pretty-yes, actually pretty
as you do who hadn't had a vacation"
| Believe 1t or not as you please an
swered the shirt waist girl, ordering a sec
ond portion of rare roast beef and a bot
tie of German beer.
well, do tell me how you managed it,
| urged the other. Here I've been away
at the seaside three weeks and in the
mountains six, and just look at me! I've
| grown thinner my complexion is horrid
| oil ,7r1N Itr f17a SIN and 1oh an %
| count of the hard water at both places,
and I am hollow eyed and my hair is
| coming out in handfuls. To cap the eli
| max I only met one available man. Mind
| you, I did not say maria geable, for so
| far as l am concerned, say excuse me
from matrimony personally.
| what do l mean by available? Sim
| ply this: 1 have made the acquaintance
| of only one man during the entire sum-
| mer whom L would wish as a friend, as
visitor at my house. as an escort. That
seems too much coupled with my decid-
! eddy battered looks. But this isn't finding
out how you kept yourself in such fine
| order, or rather got yourself in such fine
| order, for, do you know, l never thought
you really pretty before
| Thank you," responded the stay-at-
| home, who was really much the prettier
| of the two. All the women around the
| counter smiled.
You ask me how I have gained in
| flesh, improved my complexion, and bet
tered my looks generally" she continued.
"Ill tell you. BY eating just before
sleeping"
Nonsense" impatiently exclaimed the
tailor-made girl. That's just like a girl.
She never will tell another girl the truth
when it is about anything that will help
| her to improve her looks"
II declare upon my honor as a soldiers
sister that I am telling you the absolute
truth" hastily interrupted the other.
| you remember what a wreck l was,
! how thin I'd grown and how pale and
| listless? Well / went to see a doctor,
and what do you think he prescribed? A
meal just before sleeping. He said:
| Throw medicines to the dogs, little girl.
| Don't you know that no tonic in the
| world does any one any good? It's the
| appetite which few, very few, tonics
| incite that helps one, and even that Is
| false appetite, though tbs better than
| none. A certain class of people do not eat
| enough he went on, and you belong to
| that class. You have high-strung, nerv-