The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-20

apropos of Colomon, the Talmud tells a
story of ring which he wore. It was a
wonderful emerald with some mystic char
actefs engraved upon it, and on his keep
Z ing this ring depended his kingdom. one
day when he was in the bath he took his
precious ring off and put it on a shelf.
ANNA, one of his wives, was angry at him
and stole the ring The field flattered her
ana got her to give it to him, took the form
of King Solomon and ruled the nation.
solomon was distracted. Everybody de-
MED him, but at last he did something
wonderful in the way of an incantatlon
The fiend grew frightened and threw the
ring INTO the sea. Naturally a fish swal-
lowed it. fisherman caught the fish
recognized the ring. gave it to Solomon,
and he had his kingdom back Unfor-
tunately the Talmud doesn't say what Sol
ONION dld to Amina, but as stranglng
wife was not thought much of in those
days, 1t is fair to imagine some such little
contretemps occurred.
1t is funny how many ring and fish sto-
RES there are. There is a Scotch story
about the Queen of Cadzow, rather a gay
young person, who gave to some gentleman
friend ring which her husband had given
her. one day Roderick, the husband came
nome in the usual unexpected husband
fashion. The Queen was all broken up
but, being religious, kneeled down and
u.
nad evidently been a man before he was
a saint, and told her he would stand by
Eer, or something to that effect. Then
ne communicated with a monk he knew
who was bit of fisherman, and told him
to go out and whip the stream, or what
ever was the proper thing in those days,
and to fetch him the first fish he might
catch. The monk took his fishing appa-
ratus, artificial flies and reels and swept
the river near Glasgow, and a beautiful
fish arose, and when he had gated it and
played it he brought it to st. Mungo, and
in its stomach was found the ring. Thus
the Queens honor was saved, and prob
ably her neck, and that is the reason why
there Is salmon wearing a ring in its
mouth which belongs to the armorial bear
ing of the city of Glasgow.
Rings and women and trouble and pre-
cious stones all seem to go together. Since
they initiate fruit so well in precious
stones, have often wondered If the apple
in the garden of Eden was not in reality
a pretty little brooch wrought out in en-.
eralds with a diamond leaf This is the
sort of thing a woman would long for and
not mere ordinary everyday apple. True,
tastes differ and the Roman matron, so
history says, was proud to wear iron
rings as a symbol of her wifehood. To-day
a woman would remain bachelor girl for
ever before she would walk around carry
ing NAN u pound OF iron on n6F HngSr. Inc
ancient Romans may have been great, but
they certainly were not what one would
call stylish. hate that word, but as their
usual full dress costume is only Initiated
by us in the Turkish bath it seems as if
they had no real idea of suitability in
dress or ornament. Everything that was
good was given to the men. We have
changed all that nowadays. If a liberty
cap was put upon a pole for the American
man to worship, L agree with the great
Polish writer with the unpronOunceable
name that it would probably take the form
of a womans bonnet, He is another one
OF the cads who have come over here,
eaten our dinners got our money and
then ''sassed back" Well, thank good
ness, In less time than it takes to read his
tiresome books they will be forgotten!
They are a bad imitation of Dumas at their
best and their best does not come near TO
the worst that was ever written by the
great Frenchman. Perhaps you do not
agree with me, but if you knew of the
nasty things he said about America and
American women you would think that
nothing too bad could be said about him.
even by the usually amiable person known
az Bah.