The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25 1895

she doesn't buy anything or cuts off en-
item of expense she is ecohomiZing. She
viii attend to the grocers bills. That is
well, but sometimes she will eXpend 90
cents worth of time and strength TO save
5 cents. Then the same woman may
economic on her luncheon. She will con-
vince herself that eating a midday meal
is a mere habit and will dispense with
it, She finds II all the easier to do so be-
cause her husband is not home at that
meal and of course she does nor want him
TO go without enough 10 eat. She thinks
that he needs more food than she does.
1.-The woman who practices this sort of
economy will find that the deprivation
impoverishes herself and her children
mentally and physically. Often in the
long run, it is more expensive in actual
cash, for the doctor has 20 he called in.
The right way TO economic is in eXtrav-
agances, not in necessities
When, at IA years of age, George Sand
heard some one laugh at the idea of so
big a girl sun playing with dolls, like
Mrs. Carlyle she concluded to give them
up. With tears and hearty hugs she bade
every one of them adleu and locked them
into a garrett closet. AT first the separa-
ton from her adored play-fellows was
almost more than she could bear, and
every. day she would sit for an hour or
two, sad and fearful, outside the closet
door, sometimes whispering words of COM
fort through the keyhole to the poor eX-
lies, but she never broke her vow TO have
Gone with dolls, and by-and-by they were
forgotten.
1.-The bellies of the island often bedeek
themselves with hrefiies, in lieu of cost
lier but paler jewel lights" writes Edward
Page CASTOR. describing the sights TO be
seen up and Down a Cuban Street" in
the Woman's Home Companion.
"These insects are nearly four times
as large as are the lightning bugs in the
United States, and emit a beautiful glow
from their breasts and underwings. Fhe
young women dearly love to imprison
them in the gauzy folds OF their summer
land costumes and enmesh them in the
hair in mock coronets. Sometimes
senorta will wear a brilliantly FREELY or
two imprisoned in tiny cage of gold or
silver wire hanging as bangle to her
bracelet. 1t is an astonishing sight to see
a light bedecked Southern beauty SHIN
mering in the soft night as if clad in a
thousand gems, but having no other adorn-
ment than this economical one of fire.
flies. The poor use them in a more practt-
cal way for lighting their houses, by
putting them under wire screens or in bot
ties, and they prove quite successful in
this office of utility. AT one time the laws
of Spain forbade the poor in Cuba using
any other means for house lighting than
firefles. and the practice is still COM
mon one long after this strange law has
been abolished.
"The life of the women of the upper
classes is a very narrow one, and the
average girl has little else than marriage
to look forward to. 1T behooVes 7her to
make an early marriage too while the
charms of youth abide, for she will likely
begin to fade at 30. Handsome matrons
are nfrequent, as in all tropic lands. Her
mother teaches her very little else than
in the way of personal accomplishments,
and the natural result is that the average
girl knows a great deal more regarding
complexion powder than she does of bak-
ing powder; and her lack of other useful
knowledge is in much the same proper
ton.
'"The young men play the bear in their
love markings, and as they do in all Span
ish countries. and one will often see a
love-taken youth standing in the public
street for weary hours before the house
of his chosen one, patiently awaiting the
time when the parental consent shall open
the door to him.