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


Tennyson had been staying at a little inn
in the Isle of Skye. After his departure.
another guest inquired of the landlord if
he knew who had been staying with him
and gave the name of the poet Tennyson.
LORI cried the landlord in surprise;
ito think O. that! And sure 1 THOUGHT he
was shentleman.'
AT another inn near Stirling a similar
occurrence took place. 4f-n
DO you ken who you had VII Won
tother night?" the innkeeper was asked.
'Naa, but he was a pleasant shentle-
man"
1T was Tennyson, the poet"
An wha may he be?' asked the land
lord.
"Oh, he is a writer O. verses, sick as We
see i the papers"
Moo, to think O. that! Jeest a public
writer, an I gied him ma best bed roonol"
However, there was consolation for this
bestowal of too great distinction upon a
mere poet in the fact that Lady Tennvson.
who was not a public writer, had accom-
panied her husband, and had quite won
the landlords admiration. After digesting
his disappointment in the poet laureate
for moment in sour silence, he added.
"Oh, but she was an angeln
In the days TO come, in not far distant
giene? We are surely doing all we can
10 improve our physical condition. We
have been taught many useful lessons nv
Orientals Look al the way we sit or
rather lounge. We do not hesitate. saws
the Philadelphia Inquirer to couch every
spare corner We can find about the house
The divan effect is always exceedingly low
and 1t is sumptuous with pillows though
they may be only of the plalnest kind.
A Cy,ar~ Of ic
we were obliged to seek our bedrooms and
there find a spot for lounging, we should
simply never lounge, never nap, never sue
cumb to the WEAKNESS of the flesh
1t is one thing to take a graceful little
header among q lot of pillows and quite
another Systematically TO go to work to
undo bed that is all furnished and furbe-
lowed for daytime niceness We have
learned the Delsarte flop. Our corners af-
ford many chance to practice it..
In the harems of the East chairs are
unknown to women. They are we'll nigh
perfect physically, and comedy as well.
We are initiating their methods in our
manner of sitting, or rather reclining.
There are times when nothing short of a
complete nerve relaxation will do one par
ticle of good We secure this when we
take advantage of the low softly-cushion-
ed couch and its nest of pillows to eniov
a quiet hour.
The idea Is actually advanced that we
women, so long traduced because of our
Eighty nerves, are becoming after fash.
ion japanese in type; that we are begin
ming to wear an expression akin to that
of our japanese sister.
Are we really cultivating the serenity.
the reserve of the Oriental matron and
maid? Are we to modify our impulses.
soften down our asperities mold our feat
ures from the self contained, the calm,
the unruled japanese?
If so the physical culture teacher, the
rest cure faddist, the repose coacher and
all around mentor will most certainly
have to go out of business.
When you meet a girl carrying what
looks to be a pair of pretty little scarlet
morocco volumes bound together. saws
Harper's Bazaar. do not be too sure they
are prayer book and hymnal, even during
Lenten days. The newest cases for play-
ing cards are of red morocco, lust the
shape and size and clasping of the COM
bined prayer book and hymnal. The lin
sion is perfect. If one had ever the desire
to appear pious when in reality on pleasure
bent, she has here a convenient shield
ready 10 her hand, but the chief charm of
the new case is its ability to lay bare HE
gullibility of the average human being
Not one in ten of those who see the little
red morocco hypocrisy for the first time
but takes'it to be the real thing.
-So-S