The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-13

the result OF her scrutiny IN a terSe.
"Why2"
The Southern girl smiled. Eyes. I know
she's not pretty, and she's not stylish, and
her father isn't very rich, and she isn't
either athletic or romantic. Under ordi-
( nary circumstances she couldn't go at all;
but all the men feel under obligation to
her"
'Hows that?" queried her friend.
well YOU see, 1t was this way. The
family came here just before New Years
and took a house in the right part of town.
| Then the Carriers gave ball TO Introduce
the girl; so every one had to call on her.
You know we always keep open house
down here on New Years day. It's out
of fashion up North; but we keep open
house all the year around, and just open
it a little wider when the new year comes
along. It's lots of fun, but il is rather
hard on the. men. Every one serves wine
and punch and juleps and such things, and
l reckon there isn't man in town who
can go right through the programme, sat
isfy every hostess, and then find his night
key when he goes home
The Northen girl looked shocked.
You needt look that way" the other
went on. Maybe we don't feel just the
way you do about a mans drinking; but
I'll tell you one thing. 1 never saw such
hard drinking among women in my life
as l. saw in New York and Washington
last winter. Then, New Years day is diff
ferent, anyway. We don't count 1t.
Every hostess gets out her best wines
and prides herself on the quantity and
quality of them But this Miss Wilson
had a great head. She had brothers of
her own; and So on New Years day, when
some of the men called there, they just
found desperately strong coffee, and then,
on the buffet there were ice and settler
and lemons and all sorts of things l don't
know about-but the men did Everybody
could just go and mix what he needed
most. The men who called first passed
the word along, and there was a stream of
frock coats pouring into that house all the
afternoon. The men went in their mad
career, calling at other places. until they
began to see double and feel like walking
quadrupie. Then they made a break for
the Wilson house and got whatever they
usually take the next morning.
Some of them called two or three times
and Miss Wilson and her mother didn't
seeem to mind at all. They just told them
to drop in whenever they happened tn be
passing that way; and the number of
times each man happened to be passing
was just in proportion to the amount of
wine ne could stand without looking for
comfort Jack Bishop was the only fell
low who didn't call on Miss Wilson at all.
He said that she was good sort, hut
that his butler would be ready for him
when he got home, and he didn't want
the poor old chap 10 feel that he had
men down to business the next morning
than on any ID of January since the town
was started.
See that big man just taking her card?
He's her fance. They say he doesn't
drink anything stronger than ginger ale.
| Neither does she. She says drinking is
| a disgusting habit but, If one can't re-
| form society, one may as well help to
keep 1t sober The men all insist that
she'll be too good wife to be wasted on
a teetotaler.'
A Brooklyn lawyer, says the New York
| Sun. learned a very astonishing thing
| about women recently. Now he Is an I'M
commonly clever man and knows great
| deal about the rib sex, but this little adj
| ditional knowledge that he picked up en-
! trely by accident, startled him so, he is
| quite persuaded that as yet he is on the
| lower limbs of the tree of knowledge, so
| far as his sisters and his cousins and his
| aunts go, and those of other men. He
was visiting a New York girl and they
were discussing n mutual girl friend
Eyes. she Is a most interesting girl to
me-" said the woman, land, what is more
quite an extraordinary person, Dorothy
| is"
why, I'm fond of Dorothy, answered
| the Brooklyn lawyer very fond of her
for she has those sweet gentle ways that
hard working men like, but must say l
never thought there was anything of the
extraordinary about Dorothy. In fact
1 always thought her very mediocre
person indeed"
Dorothy mediocre! That shows how
much you men know about us. But then
| how would you know that Dorothy Is an
unusual girl. 1t comes out when she first
| wakes and Jumps out of bed In the morn
ing. and, of course you'd have no chance
to study her then. Why, Dorothy wakes
| up with a laugh and jest on her lips"
what is there so remarkable about
that?" questioned the lawyer.
well if you knew women you wouldn't
| ask" answered one of 'em. why, it Is
| as hard to find a woman who wakes up
laughing and talking as 1t is to find a
hen with teeth"
| ''Do YOU mean to tell me that the aver
| age woman wakes up in a bad humor,
| cross and silent?" asked the lawyer. sit
I ting up straight on the edge of his chair.
! NO answered the woman, "hut the
average woman Is grand gloomy end
peculiar when she comes out OF nights
| sleep She isn't cross or bad tempered
but she has nothing to say and refuses
TO smile at the merriest quip or quirk.
| She wakes rubs her eyes a few times
vawns. stretches like a warm kitten,
| dnallv gets up, has her bath In solemn
| silence dresses with the air of one
dressing to go TO the electric chair. and
If she must, breaks her silence when she
! breaks her faSt LOT tne HrSl time.
''Do YOU mean to tell me that this is
positively true?" asked the lawyer get
ting on a summingup tone. rs it possible
that novelists have deceived men all these
years: that these girls that jump out of
bed rosy-cheeked. bright-eyed, and dealing
In repartee that would have put Geor<e
Sand TO shame are all creatures of the
Imagination? oh, it can't be true! This
is too much! In my day dreams I've al
ways pictured my wife a radiant creature
at breakfast"
Imagine your picture over and paint
her a radiant creature at dinner" dryly
suggested the woman. You won't be so
likely to be disappointed. Many girls
wake up and come to light after break
fast''-dwelling on the after" with
emphasis. More wake up at dinner.
They are like owls not wholly awake Until
the stars come out; or, to put 1t more
literally, until the gas is lighted Eut.
dear me. Dorothy isn't that way 1
should think that she would be worth
her weight in canned goods as they
say in the Klondike, to a husband
She would send him about his business
in the morning in such high good
humor with himself and all the