The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-31

Human vampires is the way one woman
describes certain of her acquaintance.
She was lunching with three other women
in hotel restaurant recently, says the
New York Sun, and was startled when one
of the party eXclaimedi
why, Frances, what in the world ails
you? You've aged five years since I saw
you yesterday Are you ill?"
You do look utterly tagged out" put
in one of the others. Has the heat used
you up!'
mo" answered she by the name of
Frances. Il dote on hot weather"
you look as if you didn't have a spark
of life left in you, as if all Of your vitality
had gone commented number four.
You've struck the nail on the head"
answered Frances languidly. Il have no
life left in me. I've been spending the
morning with human vampire Mrs Up
start Newrich, and I'm always in this con-
dition after few hours of her compan
ionship."
"A human vampire" repeated the hos
tess, stout, jolly woman, in a puzzled
tone. Who ever heard of a human YAM
pire? ] thought vampires were believed
TO be ghosts, even among people who think
they exist. human vampire! Nobody
would ever have thought of that but you,
Frances. You are a queer duck. 1 call
Mrs Upstart Newrich a bore, pure and
simple. OF course, / don't know her WELL
as you do, I'm thankful to say, for she
tires me nearly to death"
You are very much mistaken il Won
think her a bore. answered Frances de-
liberateiy 81 tell you she is one of these
human vampires. Unfortunately there
are lots of them among women. That 5
one reason men are so selfish 1 pity a
man who has a mother, sister or wife
who is a vampire from the bottom of my
heart. Talk about temporary insanity
causing so many suicidesi l don't believe
fits of madness are in it with women YAM
pires when il comes to melting men TO end
their lives. woman bore is one thing
and woman vampire quite another. When
you are with a woman bore you can APP
pear to be interested in what she says
and all the time you can be planning your
new gowns thinking of where you will
spend the summer or just any old thing
When you leave her I'll admit that you
have a sense Of mental fatigue, but it is a
healthfUl sore of mind tire and is the re-
suit of being forced to appear Interested
Not so with the vampire. She absorbs
your interest and attention. She forces
you to listen to her. Independent mental
activity on your part is out of the question
in her presence. You must give her YOUR
undivided thought, and then she begins to
take the very life out of you, 10 absorb all
of your vitality, TO rob you of every bit of
mental VigOr that you possess, which re-
suits in complete physical enervation."
Would you say that our friend Nellie
Worthington was a vampire?" Interrupted
the hostess, and every woman of them
pinned back her ears, as the expression
goes.
Decidedly she is" answered the one
called Frances. Poor Dick Worthington !
If ever l felt sorry for a man he is the
one. People say generally that they think
il is an outrage that Dick breaks loose
every now and then and gets off on a wild
tear with some of his old bachelor friends.
1 say these little bats are his saving
grace. The minute that man gets into the
house Neil begins to tell him about her
thousand and one ailments to berate her
dozen and one doctors, to declare that
their little girl is unwell and on the verge
OF a terrible Illness to speak of the hard
ships of keeping house and managing ser
wants, and then she begins to call him to
| account for his days dongs. She makes
him give her a detailed story of his move
ments, and if the poor man wants to walk
around the block to smoke an after-dinner
cigarette she. Immediately suspects that
| he is going out to take a drink and tells
| him so. She doesn't allow him to smoke
! in the house, because the odor of tobacco
| is isagreeable to her and trying to her
| sensitive throat If she'd stop complain
! ing long enough to give her lhrOat a