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

Times Herald. as she tried to snuggie her
chapped and red right hand out Of sight
under the sofa pillow "Oh, | never yet
tried to be saving that ii wasn't a more
expensive proceeding than rampant waste
fulness. l recollect once being very self
denying and giving up visit because it
would cost s. 50 for return railway tick
ct. A month afterward l found that /
really must make that visit, but l was
then much longer distance off, and my
ticket cost me $1O.35, without parlor car
or luncheon fares counted in
Il know" murmured her conddante, Il
never yet went without luncheon when
downtown but | got 50 hungry that
squandered twice the amount of lunch
money in a good big box Of candy Econ
omy is the most expensive Of luxuries."
1t is" said the first speaker. Here is
a fresh instance of 1t. / went downtown
yesterday with a new pair of gloves on.
When the snow began to drizzle down l
took the gloves off for fear they would
spoil and carried them in my hands. Yes,
il was cod. and / could feel the chaps
spreading on my fingers as l grasped
tight hold of my gloves and parcels. Wen,
1 got home with the bundles, but the
gloves must have dropped en- route. SO
there's another SIZE gone through being so
obstrusvely economical.
why didn't you put your gloves in your
pocket?" asked the third girl, in matter
of-fact way.
The first girl looked rather foolish. ITO
tell the TRUTH" she stammeHed, Il have so
many pockets in this tailor suit that
don't dare put anything away for fear OF
losing it. Anyhow, what good are pockets
in a woman's gown-they just look awful
If they are filed. They bulge so"
That reminds me" said the third girl,
''of a time l had making trip from Lake
wood to Philadelphia. I had 10 pass the
little station of Toms River, where sundry
of my relatives and friends abide, and as /
knew they would positively find out If
went through without stopping and be
engry and naggy about il after the pleas
ant manner of friends and relatives as
long as we all should live, why, l con-
cluded, al a good deal of inconvenience, 20
Chamber off and stay over night. My tram
left at o'clock the next morning-a colo,
miserable winter morning, and | just got
into cab and drove to the station alone.
Then l walked to the ticket sellers win
dow and began 10 reach back in my pocket
for my purse. Now, that was tailor
made gown, but the tailor had insisted
that there was no other place for the
pocket but in the placquet hole. Conse-
quently, ! rarely used IL. one needs 10 do
a good deal of cropping to find anything in
that sort of pocket. Besides, il is un-
comfortable when one sits down. This par
ticular morning, however, for some mex
plicable reason, had put my purse in my
pocket, probably because my hands were
filled with bundles and the small, slippery,
slab-sided packages which relatives usu-
a Nv n nnbannV traveller. OF
course, l couldn't find the purse. | didn't
really quite expect to the first time, SO
watched ehe railway clerk punch the
lcket and fall into an attitude of agoniz-
ed patience and didn't much mind. Then
! carefully deposited Ave of my parcels
on the ticket windows ledge, nearly obs
Uterating the clerk as | searched anew for
my purse, and a slim line Of people began
10 gather behind me. Not meeting with
any real success il occurred TO me that
had better retreat into the waiting-room,
deposit my parcels and gloves and get to
work in earnest. | did so. and just then
The train arrived and matters became ex-
citing BY this time | could feel the
purse could grab the pocket, but, alack! |
could not open IL. Some adverse fate had
that morning coused me to twist the thing
inside out, SO that, as you viii under
stand. the mouth of il turned inward.
TO the ticket seller and turned solemnly
around. Here l said, is a pocket, and
YOU can plainly see the outline of a purse
in Il. Now, I can't find the opening to
that pocket nor get a that purse but II
you can l am willing to pay bonus on a
ticket
"What did he do?"
"Oh, he was a discreet young man, and
rose TO the occasion. Tll take you into
ba col nd tal sOndnP
how much you ought to pay. 1t will give
you a chance to find your pocket by the
time you reach Philadelphia"
"And how far off was that?"
Just two hours and a half
but what is the moral? Never to have
pockets. or to have pockets for ornament
only? Or to eschew feminine garments
and wear clothes which even pockets can
not cause to look uglier? Does Il come
TO this, or -
Choose your own morals, and point
them as you like As for me, | now carry
my purse in my hand, and brave sneak
thieves and snatchers' at every step. But
on the whole ! find IL safer and less exas-
perating than the refuge of a pocket"
N B.-If you wish further conversation
either on the subject of economy or peck
cts apply to Mrs. Hetty Green, who econ
omized on a 81 sleeper ticket, dozed I'm tn,
discomfort of a day car, and had her peck
Ell picked of $50. 1t seems possible tina
women may tilt too hard either at the win
dowsill of economy or the privileges o
pockets, and achieve too much Of each L
be happy.
That the mind of woman moves in 4
mysterious way It's wonders TO perform
has long been recognized by the thinkini
few who have attempted to follow it in
its flight, says Dorothy Dix in the New
Orleans Picayure, but the fact has re
Gently had curious illustration in iii
vorce case that has come up in Texa
court A woman who had been married
to a man for thirty-eight years, and VIII
had. as far as her husband or friend
knew, been reasonably happy and content
suddenly left him. She gave as her rea
son for going hat before she was mar
ried she had. been in dove with a younl
man who had died. and that the longe
she lived with her husband the more con
WINGED she became that she preferred tn
man she didn't marry, and so she packe'
up her things end left.
it is not to be supposed that a mer'
man can follow the intricate chain o
this kind Of unreasoning, but every mar
ried woman will know just how it is. Fo