The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-07

and appearance. This is by no means an
Insult; on the contrary, it is rather a
compliment for the butler is often the
more gentlemanly docking of the two. Not
iOHs ago l went 10 call at a country
mouse; the front door was standing open,
ana as crossed the veranda a man came
10 the door, whom, as he looked the char
Ter
Are the women at home? I asked
handing him my card, as a matter Of
course.
" I viii see he answered, standing aside
TOT me to walk into the drawing ROOM
ana off he went Mrs. s. and her
daughter came down, and as I left after
the visit the supposed butler was sitting
on the porch.
Allow me to introduce my husband,
said Mrs. s., as ne arose at our sp-
preach.
Why! I exclaimed, involuntarlly, and
then stopped, greatly embarrassed.
MISS b paid me a great compli-
ment Just now, my dear remarked Mr..
s., with a wicked little smile of entire
comprehension. She took me for James,
VINO, l fear, would not be half 50 well
Pleased at my being mistaken for him as
am, for l am sure he considers himself
greatly my superior.
They Are Not Lost
The look of sympathy. the gentle word,
Spoken so low that only angels heard;
The secret act of pure self-sacrifce,
Unseen by men, but marked by angels
These are not lost.
The happy dream that gladdens all our
youth,
When dreams had less of self and more
of truth;
The childhood's faith so tranquil and so
sweet,
Which sat like Mary at the Masters feet
These are not lost.
The kindly plan devised for others good,
So seldom guessed. SO little understood;
The quiet, steadfast love that strove to
Some wanderer from the ways of sin
These are not lost.
Not lost. Lord! for in Thy city bright
our eyes shall see the past by clearer
light;
And things long hidden from our gaze
Thou wilt reveal, and we shall surely know
These are not lost.
selection printed in the New York
Tribune.
When Miss Jennie Watson. OF Aiken, S.
c., decided to subsist wholly upon fruit
and nuts, she was actuated by more Sc
rious motive than that of reducing her fig
ure to sylphlike proportions. Indeed,it was
her very manifest fraGility she hoped TO al
ter by radical change of diet.
Under ordinary conditions, says the New
York Herald, such a tale of sacrifice would
have an exceedingly mournful sound, but
T~,fss nh. Illness
extending over period of fifteen years,
had been subjected to as many different
methods of treatment, the resolution i'm
piled no additional misery.
Ii is now one year since Miss Watson,
almost hopeless, visited New York for the
purpose of ascertaining whether she had
exhausted all known measures of relief APP
plicable to her peculiar case. Hitherto she
had carefully avolded fruit and nuts out
of respect for her disOrdered digestive APP
paratus To her utter amaZement she was
directed by a prominent physician OF tins
city to substitute nuts for meat, and. with
the exception of an occasional cereal. 90
forego al other articles of food save fruit.
Moreover, but one Tepast during the day
was advised, and though the abrupt reduc-
ton in quantity of rcfreshment was in the
beginning not wholly agreeable, the doc
tors instructions were eventually acted
upon without the slightest deviation in
obedience to the unWsse demands or NOR
tai appetite.
Now the simple cereal is no longer a
feature of her daily meal and Miss Watson
not only finds peanuts and apples, on
which she chiefly depends, ample nourish-
mert, but her invalidism a condition of the
past.
Long walks and bicycling are daily d.
versions and the monotonous and appar-
entity meagre amount of sustenance on
which she thrives is partaken of with as
keen q relish as that which characterizes
the average young woman's appetite Tor
frozen dainties and bonhons. And 1t is with
much enthusiasm thar she declares the Vir-
tues Of such a primitive bin of fare TO be
many. raining as most important, perhaps,
that which eliminates. the necessity of en-
ploying cook.
1T is not probable, however,, that Miss
Watson's system of maintaining her phys
cal welfare will be adopted by the multi
tude. though a host of individuals have re
Gently pronounced breakfast a needless in
diligence, and sc0rn a fancied craving for
coffee and beet steak before the hour of
noon.
"What struck you as the most salient
features of the Confederate reunion in At
lanta?" was a query launched at the
thinking box of the writer of the New
Orleans Picayune, by tired, rainy day
parade worn veteran as we jOurneyed en-
route together and longing every moment
for the Gulf breezes of our own beautiful
Crescent City, the struggle for the last
few days for existence in the hot, crowd
ed streets and hotels of the Gate City
making us particularly alive to the bless
ing of our own breezy cline Well, come
10 think of 1t, l really believe the wo-
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