The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-03
WHEN WOMEN Arr. ECONOMICAL,
During This War They Are Making over
Their Old Clothes
r, Kind a Lined With SILK
Other Matters interest
Copyrsh 1Ss

Englishmen are a bit better looking we
can back our American women and give
long odds against the average English wo-
man. The English girl is a darling.
thousht She looks like sweet white lily.
ana she has certain bashfulness that
coInmends her wonderfully. The English
Wife Is dignitied, for her first thought is
given to the master of the house. bur the
Ehghsh mother is fine. She makes her
chlldren respect the old, be polite to ev-
| eryoody, and, although she may fondle
ana caress them as we American women
40 she makes them perfectly understand
the value of SolomoR's epigram Yet she
discrlminates. She knows when the rod
is TO be used, and while as a mother she
is very clever, especially as a young mo-
tnef' she IS wonderfully gentle of spirit.
Her majesty the Queen-God bless heri-
SET the good example long ago, so that an
English woman thinks that life isn't
worth the living, and indeed il isn't. if
she hasn't got a lot of small people who
belong to her and who call her mother"
mummy or Mamma" but never that
dreadful ''momma"
ohe IS quite clever enough to know that
| she looks younger and. prettier when a
chld IS near her, and the handsomest wo-
man IN London to-day will. when seated
III her victoria, dressed up in frills and
iufbeloWs, have seated beside her tiny
! morsel of humanity in a engharn froc1x and
d Dig straw hat. The richest of English
women never put lace or embroidery or
such ldlotic trumpery on their children
clean white frock and broad blue sash
are counted the festival get up. While as
1or Jewetry on a child-wen the Duchess
OF Westminster or the Pihcess of Wales
| would raise her pretty eyebrows and Won
der II the poor darling's mother were
! barmaid in Australia OF Africa
IL is rather funny thing that almost
every American woman who has married
an Engilshman of any position he's pre-
sented her husband and her adopted coun-
try with twins. You ought to see those
belonglng to Mrs. Burke Roche. two dear
tots of boys who wear blue sailor suits and
walk up the avenue in front of their
grandfather, Mr.. Frank Work who looks
as If he hated to acknowledge it. but is
immensely proud of them. Occasionally
their quaint little sister is with them. and
the other day | heard her mother calling
her by her old-fashioned name of cynthia.
as she reminded her to keep an eve on her
brothers While she went in to shop. 7 love
those old-fashiOned names-Cynthia and
Madeline and Milicent and Katherine (al-
ways spelled with X and Yvonne and
Clotlide and Dorothy and all the long list
that suggests old-fashioned 1owers-not
the great new ones, all size and no per-
rune but the sweet lovely ones that make
a bouquet fit to lay before an altar or in
the hands Of the dead or the living
Apropos OF names, l have had TWENTY
TWO letters asking me how I got nv
name shall make a point of telling this
Ior the last time to you all who profess
so much interest in it, A great roao,,
years ago there was a beautiful Irish ladv
gentle of manner, sweet of face and IS.
ing the thee and the "thou" which
among the Friends are so general. Tiv-
ing her quiet girlhood in her fathers
nome, she met one day the new tutor.
VINO, like her, was pacing up and down
the pleaSance, reading as he walked. She
gave MN an old fashioned courtesy and
forgot him, but next day when she was
again stroliing along she met him again
ana this time ne was brave enough TO
stop and tell her of the new books he had
brought from London and the hours he
mad to spare after her brothers lessons
were finished and how his desire was 70
teach her. So, getting permission from
her father, my lady Barbara began to
study the literature of the day with the
young tutor But alas, little attention
was paid to the books and he taught and
she learned that old, old lesson of lovel
one night she was summoned to dinner
but no one could find her. The next day
gong many miles IN an old-fashioned
coach TO the nearest town, Belfast it was
discovered that in the very meeting itself
these two were married. Lady Barbara
had joined the order Of the Friends for the
sake OF the man she loved, and that after
noon they sailed away for the new country
Where one man was ds good as another no
matter what his religion was. Among the
quiet colony of gentle Friends in Delaware
they made home for themselves, and
there were born to them children who
loved and reVered them. To-day there is
nothing but the tombStones 10 mark where
they once lived and loved. Stil when a
very old gentleman puts mis- hand on my
| head and compares my face to an old min
iature which ne carefully guards ne smiles
gently and says, You are Barbara, and
1 laugh back and say No; am Bah