The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-27

But the raw recruits for my household
guard
] take from the young; the old are de-
barred
From taking the oaths of my service.
1.-THE countersign's Youth Can you give
It?" "Ah. no"
'~rhen right about face. You're too old
and too slow
To learn the details of my service"
Charles f. johnson, in the New York
Tribune.
What do you think some girls are do
ing now? Wearing stockings on their
arms as well as on their legs! How and
when and where? Just go into woman's
dressing room az a party or a danes and
anybody who has so much as half an eye
can see. Not every woman can afford to
have a long. warm evening wrap with fur
lined sleeves TO wear with low-necked,
short-sleeved gowns says the Washington
star; so those who can't content them
selves with pulling heavy warm stock
ings, minus their feet on over their bare
arms. Escorts little dream of the display
of hosiery under coats that has been
made this winter.
This wearing of stockings to protect
bare arms is fine" says a girl who has
been trying 1t all winter i've never
been so popular in my life as I have this
season. and l lay 1t all to the stockings.
wouldn't the men laugh If they knew
that? You see it was this way Last
winter and the winter before l never
dreamed that | could go out in full dress
without a carriage. One night last fall a
man called to take me to a reception with
out sign of carriage. Mother was going
to chaperon me, and 1t was positively fun
ny, for we both had on our most sparse
evening gowns. We held a consultation
and figured that we would hurt this mans
feelings If We teiephoned for cab. So
we decided TO make the best of 1t. The
idea came 10 me to cover our arms with
stockings and our neCks with knit woollen
shawls and to slip dark skirts over our
light gowns. We did so and went TO the
reception in the cable car. We were as
warm as bugs in rug and had real
jolly time, and the man. who is a strug-
Cling author was $40 in. lima CINE my
amazement when we got in the dressing
room which was crowded with women,
and found half of 'em with stockings on
their arms. They'd come in the cars.
too. That settled it with me. l saw that
it was possible to go out in full dress
comfortably without carriage, and
made my mother tell my friends when
they asked me out that 1 positively re-
fused to go in a carriage. The result?
oh, I've had more invitations to go out
| this winter, more escorts and more steady
beaux, as our second girl puts it, than any
|. girl in my set. ! always knew stockings
were magerful things with men, to use
| Sentimental Tommys word, but bless me
if l realized their power fully until took
to wearing them on my arms"
Yes, my dear the Countess is actually
! coming to pass the summer with us, said
AfV- T1.hh Nv
ried scion of a noble but impoverish-
ed English family. From her pretty villa
! i'm Newport, says the New York Tribune
| Mrs. Jones had written to her brother-in-
laws mother, hearing that the latter was
about to visit America, and invited her to
the Newport home.
! What do you think is her answer? That
she will accept with pleasure my kind in
vitation, and spend the summer with us.
adding graciousy that she has heard so
much of Newport, and expects to enjoy
her visit immensely. Do you know that
woman hardly took the slightest notice of
me in London? She gave me a couple of
| limp fingers when we met, and asked Bob
by and me to a family dinner with Mlly
and her husband. l hated her there. and
only asked her to stop with me to please
| Milly, and because l thought it looked bet
ter over here to be on good terms with the
family; but 1 never dreamed Of having her
more than couple of weeks al the out
| side. Bobby is quite wild but / do not
see what can do about ii.
Her ladyship, with true British econ
omy, wishes free quarters al Newport and
l suppose she thinks with people like us
it does not in the least matter what we
think as long as she gets what she wants -
In the course of time Lady B. arrived,
and, behold, a transformation. Mrs. Bob
! by could hardly believe that her agreeable,
! interested and always easily amused guest
was the same person as the indifferent.
naughty individual whom she had met in
London. Lady b. on the defensive and
Lady b. on the make being entirely diff
| ferent.
There is a certain frank greediness in
getting all they can upon their travels that
seems to be characteristic of arlsto-
cratic British "globe-trotters" who lately
appear to have discovered America, and
adopted it in their itinerary. 1t would be
impossible for an American under any cir
| cumstances to take for granted hospitality
or any favor which saves their exchequer
An American couple who were starting
home after extended tour in Europe
were invited to meet a well known traveller
at dinner in London the day before their
departure. This man happened TO say that
he intended before long to visit America
Come over now" said Mr. A, the Amer
lean; II have taken passage for my SON.
who has suddenly determined not TO go
and l should be delighted if you would
use it,A The great man declared it would
be "a pity TO lose such a chance and ac-
cepted;i and the next day sailed with his
new-made friends for New York.
So far 20 good. There was no reason
why an invitation SO frankly and heartily
made should not be accepted in the same
spirit that it was given, but Mr.. and Mrs
A., who We're anxious to rejo.n their
younger children, whom they had left al
home never contemplated paying their
guest any further attention than perhaps
q dinner in his honor. A day or two be-
fore landing, however, Mrs. A, who wo-
manllke. was given to intuition. said tc
her husband:
Henry l am sure Mr.. s intends stop
ping at our house in New York"
WHY of course not, my dear. How
could he? Neither of us has asked him /.
"Nevertheless." she persisted. che in
tends making us his headquarters IN
America, and l simply cannot have him
The house is all upset, and want to be
alone with the. children"
Her husband laughed at the idea of a
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