The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-21

earth, viii We continue down the fatal
slope toward the ridiculous? Shall we be
compelled by current stronger than our
viii 20 array ourselves each year Cthe bare
thought makes one shudder) in more and
more youthful apparel. until corpulent SEN
dtors take 10 running about in sailor
SUITS and octogenarian business men go
down town in -'pinafOres" while bellies
OF sixty or seventy summers appear in
Kate GreenaWay costumes, and dine out in
short-sleeved bibs, with coy glimpses of
their cunning old ankles appearing over
their socks? An Idler.
Just You And /
II you and ], my dear, should try
To do what we know is duty,
This world of ours, with its sun and show
ers.
Would blossom into beauty,
Their d be more joy without alloy,
There'd be much less of signing,
If you ana /, my dear, should try
And never give up trying.
If YOU and I, when we'd like to cry
should hum a bit of tune, dear,
And gayly smile, in a little while
The weathcr'd seem like June, dear
If when we fret. with eyes tear-wet
Ger some of the things that bother.
We'd pitch right in with a hearty vim
And help dear tired mother,
Oh, wouldn't It be happier world!
An wouldn't it be worth living
If more and more from our hearts full
store
OF love we'd Just been giving?
So, dear, let's try, just you and I,
And never give up, OH neverl
And life will be brighter and sad hearts
lighter
Because of our endeavor.
Morning Star.
An interesting form Of waterproof, and
probably in existence long before the time
of Mr. Macintosh, is that used by the
Alaska Eskimos. 1t Is made of the en-
trails of the walrus is quite imperviOus
to wet, and light as a feather. The same
substance is used to make windows to
their dwellings instead of glass.
So much has been said and written
about msbohavior at weddings. says the
Ladys Pictorial, that one would have sup
posed that the necessity had passed for
reminding fashionable guests that a
church is the last place in the world
wherein to indulge in small-talk in a loud
tone of voice, to say nothing of climbing
on chairs and seats for a better view of
the bridal procession. At the marriage of
Princess Dolgorouki last week in St'Mar-
SdAGt y. w eSltl0lHlEIt lllt StIdliDiliS LOT
"coigns of vantage" and the incessant
chattering and laughing Of the guests be-
fore and after the marriage ceremony,
provided enough material for half dozen
homilies from the clergy. And it was GER
tainly not the men who were the worst
offenders.
How Would I Then be Loved?
How would then be loved2 Most tenderly
This heart doth shrink from loves fierce
fever heat.
So soon the fire of passion burneth out
And leaves us naught but ashes gray and
cold,
yearn but for the dew of tenderness.
It's thus would I be loved.
How would I then be loved? Most pa
uently.
with cares and many sorrows oft op-
pressed.
Now do I need strong and patient arm
To lean upon as on through life I tread,
To bear me up in love.
How would I then be loved? Devotedly.
OF all the world l must be first and best
And IN the measures of existence full
For him whose heart and mine do inter
change.
Devotion. patience. tenderness-no more
Could human heart desire this side of
heaven Boston Globe.
If the bicycle. SAYS the New York Sun,
never did anything else than make short
brooches and short skirts an ordinary fea-
ture of dress. 1t would have proved a bene-
faction to the country. 1t was not more
than three years ago that man who wore
knickerbockers, even on a bicycle was
likely TO be acutely rebuked by the COM
ments of the small boy. That itself would
cor 10 fs11 f,rT Ter Uaa
wills argument that the small boy is real
ly the censor that keeps the world straight
so far as peculiarities of dress or appear
ance so. He thinks that his audible COM
ment does more TO discourage freakish
originality or eccentricity than any other
force that this country or England knows
But the small boy was wrong about the
short skirt which he was compelled to ac-
knowledge later. They have both passed
into the same established category that tan
shoes and colored hatbands occupy
The man who appeared in knickerbock-
ers without the company of his wheel only
a few years ago was an object of dersion
The men who wore them first were natur-
ally of the kind that wore the best They
had been wearing them in the country for
nearly a decade, but they never attempted
them In town Frequently the younger res
idents OF rural districts made them the butt
of biting sarcasm when they wandered into
SuCn CGulSIS Oh taste ana thought as the
country store. But the prevalence of this
bicycle quoted that form of disparage-
ment just as it did metropolitan criticism.
Knickerbockers ceased to be the badge of
the dude. The majority of them are, in
deed quite free to-day from any effort at
style. 1t Is only necessary to look at them
TO realize that their purpose is useful. Any
body who observes seven out of ten men
in short breeches win see that there is no
more care In that style of dress than the
same men would bestow on what
ever else they wore. The small boy who
criticised them first when they appeared in
the country has met with a double defeat.
for they are more popular in his region to-
day than they are IN town. They are not
worn there by the city men who are play
ing golf or riding a wheel They have be-
come the customary dress of the storekeep-
ers and all the business men of the small
towns who ride 10 their places on wheels.
and they have come TO be Il majority of the
men about the towns.
The women with their short skirts have
Jared as well. II was the wheel that gave
them the first opportunity to enjoy grace
fully the freedom of a skirt that did not