The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04

Iii happier nOuTS restore the gift
Untainted back 20 thine.
A tiny billet being folded awav in -.
azure slken envelope on which a har 80
music Is inscribed, a set OF bonbons MAJ
for use at a musical function. reads Tine
Accept this little pledge of love.
And loves request obey;
And ever kind and constant provo
From this suspicious day.
Other notices read:
Woman, dear woman, still the same
While lips are balm, and looks are Aana
While man possesses heart or ewes
Woman's kingdom never dies
None but yourself shall e'er be rnins
Resolve, dear girl, to make me thine
One most obvious and reminiscent Of ~,
feits and fun-making games reads;
A certain girl-need say who?
Would not refuse to marry Won.
Now, Mr. Bashful. take the hint
Prove that your heart is not of fin,
These are the indentical rhymes use7 -.
a supper party given to Washington o. -
some of those notable GATHERINGS that m,
yer Cromwell frowned on" said The ~
ager. "The kiss verse never chanpes ~
German conceits are quaint and nrat,,,
the French more subtle and delicate ~
the English; some few of the French a-'
philosophical or pessimistic, but the mo
Jorlty are all about love pure ana ~
PIE, and almost child-like in their eir,ai.
directness. Here's the title sheet -
French notices that is to be cIinnod -
Tor use in those violet favor bopbonI
1here are twenty-four notices renaat",
over and over in regular succession on ~
sheet, and only two out of the tu,.rt,
TOUR are about anything else than IoTo
presume the fact that love and conn
snip are as old as the hills and nevo.
cllahSeu Is the reason why the imnort-
eIs ana the American distributors of can
dy motto verses think one single stool,
article will answer the purnosa W. ho
no Spanish motto verses. That eor+ 20
pau3hage IN love matters is not approved
oL IN spain or Portugal. 1 have been an
through those countries and l never saw,
KISS verse or motto used there evcon,
Wheh they hoated in to English or EronaL
people Not that the Spanish are NOV,
stfalt-laced, in fact, but, in their etinratto
rove matters are not to be alluded ~
III Puoilc any more than a Spanish girl
! permitted to see a man friend other
wise than in the presence of a duanna
To jest of love in Spain is brandod ho.
form. The English notices. many ~
them reversions of Irish or Scotch RHYMES
ana sentiments, are the crudest we have.
ana When the Americans have tackled ON
or taken off something to make the verse
shorter or better it becomes baldar on
cruder still Some few are vulgar hn,
most OF them are sentimental with tba
suH-stilted sentiment of a past generation
tnat seems comically out of place with all
the up-to-date conveniences and improves
ihents that are in use now.
All
casing OF motto bonbons is done in Eu-
rope, added the, manager. 'sT'he distinc.
1--WE novelties that we plan for any uni
que occasion are lone here; but the bulk
OF the FANCY designing and ornament 10
oohe Where accurate, painstaking labor
can be had cheaper than we can get it,
All the silver busting of those butterfly
wings and the intricate tracery of silk
ana carbohydrates rosettng used on the
motto cases takes too much time for Is
to do 1t with profit. The best labor here
is high priced, so we still turn to Eu-
rope for things of this sort, and maybe that
IS why the verses in the motto bonbons
yet come from the same source that las
supplied them to us for centuries. Only
one department of motto labels Is done
by original design now, and that Is The
inscriptions on the ribbon scrolls drawn
across the inside lid of fancy bonbon
holders. Terse translations from old low
ing-cup toasts and salutations are used
for these and each season as the bon
bon holder grows more important these lit
tie messages come more into use As
much as $25 or $50 is no uncommon price
for fancy case or box filled with four
or five pounds of candy, and somewhere
about 1t will be an inscription made 50 as
to be appropriate, whatever use the box
be put to-
AS to the motto candies themselves,
they are never more elaborate or
more exquistely put up and ornamented
than now. Every device in nature-sea
shells, flowers, grains and all sorts of in
sects and vegetable devices-is initiated,
and the kiss verse is in the center of each,
the same old kiss verse, never mind how
new in design the cover that hides it.
Everybody, from the humblest to the
highest, smiles when you ask about kiss
Verses-the white-capped candy-maker,
busy about his starch-llned moulds, the
girl basket and box packer in the Big
factory, the candy sellers, and even the
stoical order taker and immaculate cashier
in the smart shops, who look as if any
thing less automatic than a prim assent
or dissent to a question asked In business
hours need never be expected of them.
Perhaps it is the naive guilelessness ana
unblushing sillyness of the kiss verse that
makes 1t such a universal peXpansionist'
but certain It Is that anybody starting out
to track ks verse to its origin by way
of the people who handle kiss verse leaves
trail of smiling establishment behind.
LAS it was in the beginning, is now
and ever shall be- is instinct in the kiss
verse, unless, as that one man who starts
them all out in New York has threatened
the old-type plates shall be changed neNt
year. or some other and remoter year.
and new ideas and phrases set up. In
the meantime the little kindergarten pu-
pill gives a kiss verse to her grandfather.
and he is tickled at the joke, the OLD
bachelor statesman hands one gravey
over TO the budding debutante, an iden-
teal copy of the one he might have hand
ed her mother or aunt TWO decades ago.
and the grandmother gets some motto bon
bons to take with her to the nursery ana
pop off with the play caps that the tod
dlers love. Few people read the old time
servers in earnest maybe, but it wouid
seem strange, indeed, to undo one OF the
compactly twisted and puckered up SUI
gar comfits and not find narrow little