The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-16

bargain in Paris, and the idea has sou q
times occurred to we, What if they should
not be real? And yet paid for them such
a sum that I cannot make up my mind TO
face the discovery if they should prove 10
be false. In a case like this L should call
it folly to be wiser
1t is a difficult matter with many people,
says Harper's Bazaar. to grow old grace
fully, as the saying goes. IL is not agree
able to them to grow old at all. Life is so
pleasant here that they are loath to give it
up, lodth to change its conditions loath
to drop the activities the receptivities The
delights of youth. They hate to find them
selves unable to do the thing they always
have done-to walk the miles, to climb the
hills, to achieve the task, that once was
such mere play to them. The first gray
hair is a jest. the first lines on the face
give no dismay; but when the gray hairs
serve to powder the others, when the line
deepens from nostru to lip, when the check
begins to droOp, when the flesh loosen I'M
der the china then they find it no laughing
matter, but one for gloom if not for tears.
And yet age has its very distinct value
What would a house be, what would Il
nursery be, without its grandmother?
How much of an object in life would be
missed by every member of the family to
which she is center and rallying point
While she is there the elder people have
some one yet older than themselves to
allow them still a feeling of youth a sort
of tender barrier, too, between them and
the dark unknown; the younger ones have
some one who makes the past an actual
true story for them, something less far
away and dim and unbelievable some one
who really seems to hold Up the sky on
her shoulders; and there is some one also
there for whom the necessary doing of lit
tie things calls out the spirit of effort and
sacrifice.
Nor is age unovely to the eye. As there
Is one glory of the sun and another glory
of the stars, so there is the beauty of youth
and the beauty Of age, too. 1t is not the
beauty that appeals TO the senses; il is
perhaps lofuer ard purer tyne than
that-it has the difference that there is
between red rose and a moonbeam. be-
tween the body and the spirit. And one
who has seen 1t in it's perfection on the
lovely face of some placid cid woman finds
1t restful to the eye, and all as pleasant
TO the soul as the blushlng beauty of the
young girl whose cheek wears the velvet
bloom of the peach, and whose lips are
pouted for kisses but whose soul has Vet
to find its TRANSPORTATION
Should young girls at dinners take
champagne? is one of the social questions
relative TO dcbutantes which has been
more or less discussed this winter and
l.
ter form to refuse the sparkling beverage.
not because there is any harm in taking
glass at dinner or supper or thar
there is any real danger of any self-re-
speeding young woman taking more than
she ought TO. but on account OF unl<ind
criticism which might ascribe 10 its influ-
ence unusually high spirits or the natural
eXtravagant gayety of excited youth
of course, if you are known never to
touch Wine" said a woman of the world,
admonishing her daughter. you can he
as full of fun and frolic as YOU choose.
and no one Will criticise natural high spir-
Its, and even what you would call lark-
ness viii make you popular, but il II is
once suggested that the holiness is hight
ened by champagne at supper Ga remark
have often heard made, by the way.
about certain girls) YOU win always be
liable TO DEMONSTRATION"
The faot Of the matter is" said an old
clubman and friend OF the family who
was listening TO this exhortation, "you