The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-10


Yes, / am convinced that the hard
working business mantle persons who
deals in his everyday life with materials
and facts, rather than with fancies and
with Ideas-is much more likely TO make
woman happy in the close companion
ship of matrmony than the man of brains,
the man who keeps himself in a strain and
gets nervous and irritable.
The safe men are the plain men-the
merchants, the mechanics the farmers.
There we know where 20 find. Some Of
them may not be all thai they should. But
the average man is the safest man He
may be dissipated at times he may be a
little dictatorial when he is successful, he
may have an exaggerated opinion of his
own importance and that of his class But
he is more amenabe to reformation under
the gentle pressure of a wifeiy Will
He cannot fortfy his own pronounce
mentS with an appear TO The authority of
unfathomed intellect. Only in respect to
the details of his own particular business
can be silence his wife with the superior
admonition, My dear, you don't under
stand these matters" Since his class is
only important because it is large, and in
dividual arrogation of importance on his
part can effectually be met with the col
loquiallsm, There are others"
Mrs. Lyman Abbott, in the July Ladies
Home Journal. lays down eight rules that
are essential to a minister's successful
church and pastoral work. These she
has the minister himself proclaim
/. I must be always ready to call when
invited.
unjust catch at every straw of an err
rand TO take me 10 one of my people.
3. Draw out from others their interests
rather than intrude my own, but always
assume a'common interest in the improve
ment of the town.
4. Never leave house without having
something on which to hang another call.
3. Never meet a person with criticism or
fault-fndng.
6. Prepare for calling as truly as for
preaching.
Z. Study especially the Masters way
and try to carry His spirit with me
S. Keep always in mind that it is my
business to bring men to a consciousness
of God, and to an understanding of their
relationship with Him.
With the passing of the shawl the prim
and gracious herobnes of the genteel fic-
ton of the lady writer's" of our youth
disappear from cOntemporaneous htera-
ture and become creatures of a by-gone
standard of fashion. The slim, graceful
creatures they were, says the New York
Tribune, with sloping shoulders, long
necks, and draped invariably, according
to our recollection, in those obsolete arti-
cles which they carried with a grace pc
culiarly their own; for in those days the
way a woman wore a shawl was cOnsid-
cred a criterion of her "elegance! In
those days, too real cameFs hair was
a sine qua non Of every fashionable bride 5
trousseau. Now, fallen from its high es-
tate, The shawl is despised and forgotten,
and is only worn by what a smartly gown
ed woman would term trump" Perhaps
it is the only prevailing fashions that seem
desirable in prejudiced eyes, on the prin-
ciple that whatever is is right, but a
shawl certainly nowadays seems to take
away all grace of outline, and reduces any
figure however youthful and lovely 10
shapeless mass that might conceal any de-
fOrmity.
Il have a customer in New York whom
| have never seen" said a well known
French dressmaker to one of his clientele,
who visits Paris every season. "She must
be extremely rich, as she gives me no
limit, and leaves all her gowns to my
taste. I fancy her to myself, tall and
beautiful and a credit 10 my atelier So
l have taken the greatest pains to send
her over my newest conceptions DO you
know her, this Nine. A. b? | pray
you to describe her to me. / die to know
what manner of a great lady she is Can
you tell me how she looks, and if she has
the reputation of being well dressed? 1
long to hear about her. It is most inter-
esting to me. who have made her so many
ravishing toilets to hear of their success 4"
You surely cannot mean Mrs. BIZ ex-
claimed his customer. "And yet there is
no other, and ! was told she gets her
gowns from Paris but TO tel you the
truth, l never noticed them. I know her
slightly, but | often see her on the veran-
da of the golf club or at the Casino, but
she is always wrapped up in a shawl"
"A shawl?" almost shrieked the saf-
torial artist. Great heavens. a shawlr'
raising eyes and shoulders with a despair
ing gesture &Ah, alors c'est fine! There
is nothing to be hoped for!" But there
IS nothing really new under the sun they
say. and the wheel of fashion win prob
ably in its next revolution bring the cash
mere draperies again to the fore, while
The redingotes and capes which we now
consider so smart viii look as dowdy as
the shawls appear to us at present.
Mother
The beauty of al beauty is