The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-04

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A case occurred not long ago in which
| investigation In a suitor's home city, by
the girl he wanted to marry, caused his
rejection.
The young woman, who is very well
known in this city, says the Pittsburg
| Dispatch, Is an heiress. The man in ques-
ton is resident of a far Western city.
| They met in the East and he was her
devoted admirer.
The girl looked on his suit with some
favor, but was suspicious that he had
| eyes for her money rather than herself.
| Accordingly, with her maid and a chaper-
one she made a trip westward and es-
| taohshed herself in one of the finest suites
of rooms in the best hotel in the city in
which the young man lives. He, how
| ever, was not Informed of her presence
! there Then she set about making inves-
legations pending an answer to his pro-
| posal of marriage.
What she learned was not confided to
her dearest friend on her return home.
| In answer, however, to his question as
| TO whether she would be his wife, she
simply sent him her card. In the corner
was written, with regrets"
In one of the tents at Montauk Point
| there Is a cracker box which, like nearly
! every other cracker box at the camp, Is
| empty. 1t is nevertheless treasured by the
| man into whose hands 1t was thrust by
| some patriotic girl at railroad station,
says the Albany Evening Journal. The bis
| cults probably tasted no better because
they were handed to him while the train
| stopped by a good looking girl who was
| tatl enough to put them into his window
without trouble. The especial charm of
| them came from a bit of verse which the
! fortunate man discovered after the crack
! ers were eaten. As the young woman who
write it was not a poet, but just big
hearted girl who was glad to see the sol
| der boys back, the inscription was marked
| by intensity of feeling and patriotic joy
rather than elegance of literary finish It's
general effect was TO admonish the soldier
that IL he liked the biscuits he might also
like the girl and had better come back to
| look for her and find out for himself
He did like the biscuits, and he has
enough recollection of the girl to think
| that he would like her if he could meet
| her. But the extent of his information
| about her identity Is compressed in the
word Amelia" with which the lines were
signed. For the life of him the recipient of
| the biscuits and admirer of her charms
cannot recall whether he saw her at Bay
Shore or East Hampton Babylon or
| Quogue. He only remembers that he did
| see her, and that she looked even better
| than her biscuits tasted. Only the tin box
remains as a souvenir of this railroad sta
ton romance. There are certainly many
Amelias on Long Island. and the soldier
has never been able to find out anything
| more about this especial one. She Is not
| IN possession of any more information
about him. So brown-skinned, handsome
| young officer can only look at his empty
cracker box and murmur Amelia"
The story is told, says the New York
| Herald, of lady of respectable position
who ordered her apparel in such a way
that 1t never could be said of her that
she wore pair of anything, She wore
stockings of different colors and gloves
of opposite hues, and in the same way
introduced strong contrasts into other por-
tons of her daily attire. When asked to
! give a reason for her eccentricity, she
could only say that 1t made her uncom-
| Portable to do otherwise
Many other freaks of feminine eccen-
| tricity in Connection with dress might be
cited, but it would be difficult to instance
| anything more absurd than the craze In
France some quarter of century, ago
for using snakes and insects as toilet
adornments.
The Prinessese de la Tour dAuvergne
used to keep a little live snake in her
pocket, and in spite of the entreaties of
her husband and her friends would in
sist upon having IL for a companion at
public functions.
Nine. Musand wore a small viper on
her neck amid her splendid diamonds
| and when she appeared in the box at the
opera every glass in the house was levell-
ed at her as she sat scintillatng with
diamonds and with the dark coil of the
reptiles body setting off the Wilderness
of her neck.
I Later on the Comtesse de Villeneuve for
several months wore on her neck beau
tiful scarabee beetle 1t was tethered to
a ring by a very slender gold chain which
allowed the insect to run about on the
ladys shoulder.
A young lady living in California some
little while ago took it into her head that
she would like 10 make a horseshoe It
had been a favorite pastime of hers 10
watch a neghboring blacksmith at work,
and she at last asked to be allowed TO
try her hand upon a shoe. Permission
was granted, and she did so well that
she continued the employment, and came
to be largely patronized. Specimens of
her handiwork were subsequently exhib-
tied al San Francisco, and the black
smith who taught her sent one of the
horseshoes as a present TO Queen Vic
toria.
One day a very pleasant facet lady came
into the Boston library, says Success, and
asked for something very nice and new"
to read. A copy of Little Women" had
just come in, and / had it under my arm
/ liked this woman, and L was moved 10
give her the best / had. So 1 took the
little volume from under my arm and
handed it to her telling her that il was
the incest book we had She took it from