The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-16

girls get tipsy anyway on excitement, late
hours, and perhaps the twirling around
like so many Whirligigs and you had better
not add champagne to the list. l have
seen young women at a late dance, who I
knew had not touched a thing, show all
the signs Of incipient intoxication, or at
least what would be called so in a young
man similarly affected-glassy looking
eyes, excited demeanor meaningless
speech, etc. OF course, an old stager like
myself understands how easily a sensi-
tive nature may be overexcited by the
concomitants of a ballroom-the heat the
atmosphere, the unwonted excitement.
But young men are not so reasonable and
IL a girl drinks champagne she is apt to
talk, so altogether, l think, my dear
child, that you had better do as your
mother says, and let wine alone"
Words of wisdom on the subject of mat
rtmony are spoken by Justice Ephram
KeigWin of Jefferson, Ind, on the borders
of the Ohio river Here is the dictum
OF the Hoosier oracle who has united over
$500 couples and is still at the business:
Marry young is my advice. If you can
not marry young marry as young as you
possibly can, and, above all, marry"
The squire says he holds the worlds
record as a marryer. He has married peo-
PIE, young and old, for twenty years and
he believes that It is the greatest bless.
ing that poor human nature can know.
He is certain that very few of the cocfples
whom ne has married have been divorced.
and this goes far toward making him an
opUmist
Nearly all the Opponents that come
to me are pleasant little shams," the
squire went on. THE young folks want
TO inject little innocent romance into
the marriage, and then, too, they wish
to escape the expense and trouble of bic
weddings. Once in a while there is !.
secret marriage but these are very few.
am glad TO say"
When | say that people should marry
young l do not mean that they should
wed before the young man is of are
When people are young they can adins.
themselves to each other more easily
Some people are born fools and remaiii
so to the end of their lives. You could
not make them happy with a sultan's
harem and a car load of money. They
ooh want 10 be. Most marriages are
COMPROMISES anyway; a matter of give
ana take. and, as a whole, il is better for
a man and woman to be married. even
II they do quarrel occasionally, than /,
IS to remain single. Even quarreIing cou-
pies will gradually adjust themselves and
get more happiness out of life than the
most peaceful old maid or bachelor"
is usually as wearisome as The pious in
tants in plays who threaten through three
acts to die and go to heaven" but keen
the audience in unmerciful suspense untll
the fall of the curtain. But the small girl
says the New York Commercial Advers
user. who was wheeling a dolls carriage
on Saturday morning was an exception to
the rule. She was rosy and roly-poly, and
looked too pretty to be wise. The passer-
by was interested, and asked why the
healthy-looking dol was so we'll wrapped
M
she has the Influenza" said the apple
faced one, gravely. And. as | go to school
every day. / can't give her proper airing
It's very trying. The doctor says that in
huenza is a germ. But If the germ has
influenza why doesn't 1t kill the germ"
The passer-by taken unawares by This
tusllade OF scientific queries. looked blank.
Perhaps you don't understand" said
the little girl, gently, as II she were talk
ing to very small and stupid doll. "But