The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-30

New York, Oct 29-Just now, when
o,rvsanthemums are in their ragged but
Great glory, nobody dreams of putting
,bern in a jar or a glass or a fancy vase.
on dear. no! They must shine from a
runch bowl. Their stems must be cut
60 that they fit in careless, artistic way,
for while the leaves are often taken from
tbe flowers. yet quite as often their TO-
1iaee is framed all about them. The
bowls most favored are those wonder
fn, deep, round ones of indiaware-the
ouaint blue ones with the lovely ladies
from Japan walking up ladders on their
heads. or coming down in sideways
fashion-fne cut-glass bowls or, best of
all great big silver punch bowls. These
glitter and seem to reflect almost like
mirror the white or yellow beauties that
are the flowers of the season.
There is something dignified about chry-
santhemu1ns, not to wear, but to put about
a room or to use to decorate table.
They have en- odd way of standing up,
as If they wished each visitor to realize
that each one of them had a special dig
nity of her own, and she wanted you not
only to realize it. but to feast upon it.
The chrysanthemum, to my way of think
ing, is a healthy looking flower. Even
when it is bit droopy, it simply droops
Its petals, permitting them to blow away,
though they never curl up or manage to
get an unpleasant odor, not they! They
simply disappear into that famous innoc-
uous desuetude, which is the one phrase
that will carry one man down through
posterity.
A girl I know has just come back from
Sweden, and as she is victim of hay
fever she thinks of going to live there
The reason why? Because there the doc
tor never sends home bill. But when
you are cured you write out what you
think the bill ought 70 be and forward the
ducats to him. If you have made wonder
full hit in wheat, if you have been made
viceroy of India, if the President of all
these United States has concluded that
you are the proper person to be embassa-
dor to England, If any good luck has
come to you, then you write on a visit
ing card $1,590 or 5000 / cannot imagine
higher than $4,000. But IL you have had
a hard time of it that year, if there have
been good many mouths to feed and
they are tired of oatmeal, or if your Old
est boy is beginning to see the charm of
a dress suit and white kid gloves when
he visits the young woman who is making
a fool of him, why, then, after a long
Illness you send a modest card with your
name written on it, and underneath it you
put 50 cents or rs cents or whatever seems
suited to you, not to the Doctors good
reputation, not to the doctors ability, but
perfectly adapted to that thin little pock-
etbook, which looks as if it had been to
sszfyga f4aI fv.r.l In
moment of airy persifage by the largest
elephant.
A thin pocketbook leads to desperation.
If l wanted to make a woman a saint,
if wanted her to care for the poor make
the sick happy and well, give to those
who are hungry and make the little chill
dren all as happy as happy could be-
I'd make that woman rich, and then I'd
teach her how to spend her money. Do
you ever think that the rich people are,
after all, extremely kind? The average
wealthy girl gets hundreds of letters a
day, most of them from frauds and the
one true request among them must be
treated like the fakes or else we win have
an anarchistic government, which means
lack of repose entirely.
When say repose, I mean 1t in a verit-
able sense. Some people consider sleep re-
pose, there are others who drown them
selves in a good book and consider that
repose, while there are still others who
trot around from here to there and really
haven't the remotest idea of what repose
Is. Repose, as it used to be known, was
dignity, and good dignity. There are only
a few specimens of it 10 be found now.
1t is as rare as real old Sevres china and
requires the same amount of care
An elderly lady-she speaks of herself
as elderly, although she is 80 years old
complains of the folly with which the girls
Of to-day talk why" she said, "when
was young, it was considered vulgar 10
be purse proud, and the people who be-
longcd to the real Knickerbocker circles,
especially those who were very wealthy
We're taught as soon as they could under
stand anything that it was extremely vul-
gar to make any display of their belong
ings or to talk about their possessions.
Then, too, the old 'noblesse oblige' were
taught very early that because they were
what they were they must be gracious
tender hearted and loving to every one
they met, but to-day the girls talk about
the value of being rich, the advantages oil
having rich friends what can be got out
Of Jack So-and-So and how much can be
obtained from Mrs. Black Diamond. TIC
me IL is horrifying l could not tell you
just what think it is, but the women who
Sell their immortal souls-poor wretches-
are not any worse than those who see life
IN It's hard and mercenary way and make
no effort to find anything that is sweet
desirable gentle or kindly in their be
haVior or in their thoughts"
Whose fauIt?" That was asked of