The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-24

into the aisles between the long rows Of
tao.es, and when the last ones had taken
their places the head waiter who mad
headed the procession. opened the folding
doors, and the great gong was sounded in
the nan, and dinner was ready. The guests
MED in and took their places, and, at a
signal from the head" the courses were
served in rotation. and with all possible
unison, so that for dessert all the tables
could be cleared at once. leaving-the lines
or glistening white napery ready for the
sweets and fruits, which were borne in
in gorgeous procession. To accomplish all
this required the ability of a general, and
TO make lazy guests feel the responsibility
of punctuality, the tact of a diplomat, and
the head-waiter rose equal to the occa sion,
and the tardy ones, unless they were his
especial favorites, were given undesirable
seats and poor service. He was a sly old
fox, too, and knew just what nighborhood
would be most congeuiaI to us young fell
lows, and was always ready for the will
lingly given gratuity, when he would muir
muir: I KEEP yo' seat, Mars Smith, right
over yondah by Miss Clarjnda Jones' ,
Like most mereenary potentates, he could
not be relied upon, and was continually
changing his favorites On one occasion
I remember to my cost, gave him five
dollar bill to obtain a seat next to Miss S..
noted Southern beauty, thinking of
course, would retain IL during my visit
The next day, however. l found my place
usurped by my hated rival, while the head
waiter looked guiltily conscious, as I
strove to meet his aVerted gaze, keeping
well away from me until I was seated.
1 was not flush In those days, and could
not afford another tip, so I lost that
chance of intimacy with my charmer.
Probably the other fellow had given him
a 'tenner.'
81 taxed The old fellow with the fraud
the other day when 1 saw him, and his
offended virtue was most edifylng.
No. sab, I never took advantage OF
my place. he declared oftily. 4 hab no
recollection OBJ such an event and then,
got lef, Mass Smith! Hee-heel Well,
spec it wus all for de best.
"How completely that old summer life
has become a part of past history; the
elaborate toilets for the dinner in the
broad daylight, the afternoons of firta-
tions and Yorsted work in the shady cor
ners of the verandas while the chaperons
were taking their siestas before the late
afternoon drive, the many changes of
dress OH the part of the women and the
long mornings which were often spent in
dancing. in the hotel narlors, and which
was resumed after supper in the evening.
How my boys and girls would scorn such
an existence nowadays! And how disre-
spectfully they laugh when 1 tell them of
the pleasures of our youth in the summer
days at Saratoga years ago."
Every once in a while, says the New
York Times, some man asks why 1t is that
a woman always buttons her garments,
everything in the nature of a waist from
right to left instead of from left to right,
as he has all his garments fastened. The
question shows that the man is observant
to a certain degree, but it also displays
a wide and comprehensive ignorance. The
man does not know or understand the adj
herence of the woman to the pin and the
pin to the woman. How, could a woman
with a waist buttoned from left to right
put in a pin? She has to nowadays, for,
Notwithstanding all that is said of the self
assertion of womanl1ind, the masculine
supremacy is still shown by the fact that
instead of clinging to her dear old fash
ions, which enabled her to put In pin,
or any number of pins, in a nice feminine
fashion, the really smart girl has Ter
smartest blouses and tailor-made gowns
buttoned from left to right in the awk-
ward masculine fashion. 1t is undoubted-
ly the stiff, starched, unhygienic, inartis-
tic shirt bosom which has preserved the
man from the pin habit. He couldn't use
a pin on that icy surface If he wished
to, so he has managed to do without. But
there are fifty things for which a woman
uses a pin. And when she uses one on
the front of her gown she always inserts
the thumb of her left hand under the lap,
the forefnger on top, and then she is ready
with her right hand to insert pin in any
thing from a bit of lace to two or three
thicknesses of ribbon, while the up-to-date
girl, with her up-to-date blouse, does ret
have much of anything to pin her but her
scarf; that gives her trouble. The mascu-
line scarf, from the impossiblity of pin
ming it onto the glacial shirt front, has be-
Gene accustomed to staying where it is
put; but the feminine scarf is usually the
better for a pin put in to secure the first
knot 1t is when she tries to put that pin
in with the opening at the wrong side
that the girl finds the inconvenience of
following masculine fashions She has to
twist her left hand around at a dislocating
angle that twists the scarf, and that is
the time that the up-to-date girl says
things-not the same things that a man
says when he says things but the intent
and purpose are no very unlike