The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-13


off the most persistent fat woman who
! ever worried over her weight"
For an American girl dress allow
ance is the exception rather than the
rule. If she has one it is apt to be merely
matter of form, so much money, and as
much more as she needs, Her father is
probably rich, and when the allowance
runs short. as it frequently does, since
she spends without counting the cost, her
pretty little purse is held out with q
please, papa" TO be filled again. For
! some reason American men object to hard
and fast rules of so much and no more for
| everything; and a bill at the dry goods
store takes the place of an allowance
Buy what you need" are the indefinite
directions, and sometimes the wife and
daughters of reputed millionaires have not
80 ready money for charities.
Probably, says the Chicago Times
Herald, that is because the income of
the husband and father is a movable
quantity-he makes his money in Jumps
and prefers to pay 1t out in the same way
He has credit and 1t is easy to say Charge
it," Buying things in this manner the
WIFE, unless she be an exceptional woman,
has little idea, the daughter none
as to what amount they
are spending. In England on the contra
ny. every woman in family, high or low.
rich or poor, has a fixed sum, so much,
neither more nor less, which sum bears a
certain proportion to the family income,
and on this amount she is obliged to clothe
herself and find pocket money. If she ex-
ceeds the allowance she must do with less
the next quarter, and this rule holds good
with the daughters of even wealthy men
An Englishwoman, unless she be a par
Venu, rarely hesitates to say: II cannot
AFFORD it." She is taught from her cradle
n ri
virtues The daughters of nob.emen, who
1t is true are sometimes poor mend and
clean their gloves and make over their old
gowns after fashion which the wives
ana daughters of the ordinary American
would disdan. Queen Victoria, whose
parsimony is proverbial, makes over her
black gowns again and again. The only
time the writer ever saw her she was on
her way to drive in the Row wearing a
bonnet which was absolutely shocking
It was one of those big English estates
which was TO make a great many people
rich II all the links in the long chain of
ancestry could be found. The Iegatees in
this country had twenty-one years in
which to prove their claim before the
property would revert to the crown Ey-
erything possible had been done and one
link was still missing. This was an old
FAMILY Bible containing certain necessary
records IL was supposed to have been
burned at the time of the Deerfield massa-
ere, but notwithstanding, every effort had
been made to find it if by any possibility
II was in existence; but without success
and the time expired
Two years later one of the lepatees a
New York woman, CHANGED to see in a. pa-
per the advertisement of a woman who
wanted work. The advertiser had signed
her name, and 1t was a family name of the
woman who was one of the claimants
for the English estate. It was perhaps
the persistent facinatlon which the earn
est searcher into genealogical records new
er loses, and the force of habit formed in
many years search for precious docu-
! ments, which interested her al once. She
answered the advertisement in person
round that The woman had been the wife of
member of her family, who had died
leaving her in financial straits which had
forced her to advertise for something to do
to support herself
But the strange and romantic mart of
the story was that among old books and
papers which had been cherished as ba1-
ING belonged to her husband, the woman
mad the Old Bible, with it's register Of
births and deaths, the only link that had
been needed to obtain the big estate and
now that it was too late it was found where
1t had been treasured simply as a souve-
mir.
When Mrs. Lucille Morris of Omaho
Neb., was a very beautiful girl IN her
teens, she met young and handsome Chez
ter 10. Allison of Sedalia, Mo. 1t was a
case of mutual love at first sight but
although Chester wooed and won T.ncilIo,s
heart, she would not give her hand. He
died last fall and left to the sweetheart az
loves young dream a fortune of S150 0O0
Relatives in Sedalia tried TO breaix tbo
will. but the court has just handed down
a decision sustaining it, and so Mrs Nor
rls, who IS charming, intellectual woman
will pass her remaining days in comfort
Few women have had such a strange
experience. When young Allison cama v,i1b
the love song on his lips in the SPRING.
time of life Lucille had pledged her trofb
to another-Prof. l.. Morris In vain aid
Chester plead. The young girl franxIv
confessed that she loved him. but Ier
sense of honor was so high that she would
not break her engagement with the pro-
fessor.
Allison, under the influence of her faith
and truth, finally acknowledged that She
was right. So they parted tearfully-she
to contract a loveless marriage he 10
deaden the pain in his heart in the quest
of wealth.
Years swept on, and last summer these
two met again In an Eastern summer re-
court had broken the bonds that united
her to Prof. Morris. She was still beau
tiful. The gray was in the hair of Allison
and lines of care scanned his brow. bur he
was manly man, with his heart stin true
TO Lucille.
Under the trees he told her again the
old, old story, and IL was arranged that
they should be married in the fan. Before
the leaves fen he died. His last thoughts
were of his sweetheart, and in his will he
bequeathed her, Internationally. $4,000.
"Will you come with me on queer sort
of expedition" said a society woman 10
a friend whom she met in the street "I
am hidden to Mrs. As fancy-dress din
ner dance this evening, and l am going
TO take advantage of the occasion to have
myself made beautiful at one of these
mysterious places where they profess 10 |
rejuvenate people and give them a COM
plexion of milk and roses. have ALWAYS
longed to have il done, just to see what |
would look like, and, as this is a legiti- |
mate excuse, made up my mind would |
try At. The process is quite different ! /
am fold from that ~ tho ,rdip,r,.