The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-18

countrywoman of yours, one of my best
customers. She had run up am enormous
bill for gowns and CONNECTIONS, and was
az her wits end how TO pay me, for her
husband, who was man of great seveI-
lily, provided her with a liberal allowance
but positively forbade her buying on cred
IL, and she did not dare to confess to
him her predicament. So one day she
brought to me this ring and begged me
TO take IL for the debt. Although the
proceeding was irregular and not alto
gether satisfactory to me- l consented to
oblige madam and added the ring to my
collection. 1t cost me a good customer,
though, for 1 have never seen Madam A.
since"
Madame A.P exclaimed his deeply In
terested auditor. You don't mean Mad
anne Robert A. of New York;"
"Oh, what inadvertencep' exclaimed the
great dressmaker, really distressed. How
could l have been so stupid as TO betray
the name! l must count on madames
discretion" and he would not be satisfied
until he had obtained promise Of Sc
crecy.
so she took her own ring. after ALL"
soliloquized Mrs. A. We'll, that could
hardly be called theft but to allow susy
picion to fall upon others was certainly
as bad, az not worse"
OF course, Mrs. A. had planned the en-
tire thing before the dinner party began,
as that was the only way she could OBJ
tain money for her dressmalSer
If the prover'b Laugh and the world
laughs with YOU be true. II Is to be hoped
that the world win adopt the new laugh
For the New York society girl who de-
lights In doing new things each spring,
summer, autumn and winter, says the New
York Herald, has devised one, and she has
scored an emphatic success with IL. Dis
tinguished by a great measure of differ
ence from the traditional merry Hal haG'
II is a laugh to be taken notice of.
IT is not so much of a laugh. to tell the
truth-though it Is intended TO do duty as
one-as II is a ripple of merTiment. The
Smart New York girl this summer
makes no noise at alT with her laughter.
She keeps her mouth closed, her lips well
together But over those lips steaI when
she is amused, something that Is more
than smile. 1t is laugh, all but the
sound. all but the opening of the mouth
and the showing of the teeth. 1t is fun
and amusement personihed, but it is all
in silence.
The world in general, society thinks,
might very We'll copy this for it shows off
girldom much better. There are no longer
shrieks of laughter to be heard from
porches and piazzas in the summer, and
giggles have been banished once for all.
Society mothers have been the factors in
accomplishing this, In planning the new
laughter. How they came to bring IL about
is an interesting story. 1t has long been
whispered about society that the young
girls in 1t were making altogether too much
noise-that their gaety was not subdued
enough. The question of what true refine
ment was was commencing to get raised.
Finally society's mammals came down with
a heavy hand AT once the new regime was
instituted
So If, while summering, you meet with
girl who seems only to smile at your with
cisms, be assured that she is in the fash
ion and has learned very lately the lesson
of how girls should laugh IN 1888.
The most magnificent and costly pearl
necklace in the world, says the London
Mail, is said to be owned by the Countess
Henckel a lady we'll known In London
and Paris society. 1t Is composed of three
historical necklaces, each of which at
tracted much attention in Its day. One of
them, valued az some $500 was sold to
the Countess by a Spanish grandee. and Is
known as the necklace Of the Virgin of
Atokha;" the second was once the prop
erty of the ex-Queen of Naples, sister Of the
Empress of Austria; the third was the
famous necklace worn by the Empress
Eugene on state occasions, and recently
sold by her majesty to a firm of London
jewelers. for 100000. The present value OF
the Countess Henckel's necklace is esti-
mated at not far from $4,000.
The habit.for 1t is often nothing more
of deteriorating speech says Harpers Ba-
Ear Is so common that IL would be well
for all of us to stop aid think about 1t.
This sort of thing is so often heard: II
don't think she Is so very pretty as people
say" or II don't think he Tor she) is so
very clever"-or economical, or stylish, or
bright, or cheerful, or a thousand other
things. We do not stop TO think that while
perhaps we do not think her so very pretty
as we have heard, we do think her
pretty; and, again. If not very clever,
surely interesting, and all the others In
like measure. 1t Is merely a habit with
many people, not skin-deep, but just the
cruel and unfortunate habit of depreciat-
ing speech. A woman with a sharp tongue,
but with the tenderest of hearts, the most
generous of natures, but with a keenly
critical mind and a rare intuition as to
character, was brought up "all standing"
as she expressed il, after she had been
talking one day with a friend about sew
eral people, and before young girl who
was visiting the friend.
In a sudden lull in the talk the girl said
as If by uncomfortable impulse, Don't you
like anybody" what do you mean?"
said the startled woman. The girl blushed
and hesitated, and then said, please par
don me. but II seemed So" Little more
was said; it passed Off and passed by, as
in the polite world things that are I'M
pleasant are passed over; but into the
heart of that woman the criticism sank
deeply and from that hour she watched
and guarded her tongue. Now she does
Rot depreciate in speech, and, IL che can
not appreciate, is silent. It is well TO re-
member the wise words of Emerson:
"Omit the negative propositions Don't
waste yourself in rejection nor bark
against the bad, but chant the beauty of
the good" What a changed and better
world we would all live in If we only fol-
lowed that advice!
Pretty autumn hosiery is startlingIy
brilliant, whether the material is silk, Isle
or wool New golf stockings are made
Of camePs hair yarn, showing In sharp
contrast the three highest tones OF green,
red and brown, and the fine Isle for daily
use, is Haunted before us in black shor
with scarlet. There Is a new way OF
marking stockings in lines and a very
bewildering effect is given by sober dark
blue hose having a dozen or more thread
Iflra limos Of ye11oU fttrui,ao orottr,1 A. To-.