The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
did not at once send word to her hostess OF
the exchange"

the exchange"
The Countess of Warwick is said to be
the only peeress whose name appears over
a shop window This particular shop,
however, is run for the benefit of poor
needlewomen. Sixty girls are employed
and the profits are expended for their
! benefit. One old country woman, who saw
the name Of the Countess over the win
/ dow. did not understand the situation ana
| exclaimed: "oh, pore lady, 'ow she must
ave come down in the world"
A misunderstanding over a theater en-
| gagement caused one marriage and sec
| ond engagement lately.
Michael Wessek, a society leader of Bed
ford, Ind, is the lucky man who was
| benefited by the fortunate biunder OF the
| young woman who is now his tiancee
Miss Craig went TO Bedford several
weeks ago to the home of an aunt, where
she had frequently been a visitor me
! vivacious young woman soon became a
\ society favorite in the little city. AT sew
| eral social events she met Harry Worries.
| cashier of the Bedford bank and one OF
| the most popular young men of the town.
| The young people appeared TO enjoy each
| others company greatly and were seen
together SO frequently that their FRIENDS
expected at any time to hear of their en-
gagement.
One night early in January Mr.. Worries
| and Miss Craig were to be members OF
box party at the theater Through some
I carelessness a misunderstanding arose
| over the place where they were 10 meet.
He expected to meet her at her aunts
home, while she had planned to join sew
| eral other members of the party ana meet
him at a drug store. When Worries left
the home of Miss Craig's aunt TO seek
her at the drug store she had grown tired
of waiting for him and had returned TO
her aunts house, refusing to go to the
| theater with the rest of the party.
When the young man found that Miss
Craig had left the drug store 1t was too
late to return to the house for her and
he started for his home
| On the way he dropped in to call on
Miss Caroline Wessek, a former sweet
| heart Just what were the motives which
| prompted him to enter the house where he
had for months been a stranger may never
be known, but his welcome was so cordial
that the enga cement was renewed and
Miss Wessek became Mrs. Worries within
forty-eight hours
Bedford society had hardly recovered
from the shock of the sudden wedding of
the bank cashier when 1t was noticed that
Michael Wessek, the brother of the bride,
was becoming most attentive to Miss
Craig who had been supposed to be in
disconsolate frame of mind over the turn
things had taken.
If Miss Craig needed consolation it was
furnished her and rumors which soon be-
gan to be circulated In Bedford have been
confirmed by letter written by the young
woman to her mother in st. Louis, who
bewilderingly announces the engagement
very clever and practical letter on
1.-THE Lingering Good-by" appears in a
late number of the Criterion. A graceful
exit from drawing room has always been
an art. There is a good old rule in let
ter-writing about saying what you have
to say and stopping when that is done
yet there are people who always leave the
J important part of a note for the postscript.
1t is said that women are worse than men
in this regard. 1t is in Washington So
ciety that leave-taking has been reduced
TO a fine art. Nowhere in this country
are visits and visiting made so much a
matter of business. When the call is at
an end one who is not from long habit ac-
customed to formal visiting should keep
in mind the point of leaving, and when
| she has said the last thing she wishes to
say, rise quickly and easily and shake
hands with her hostess, making some
pleasant friendly remark as she does so,
and go directly out 1t is impossible in
the rules which govern all social inter-
course to direct anyone how TO act under
| given circumstances because we cannot
| DTeSuDpOSS any ana every exact SITUATION.
Confidence and simplicity are the great
requisites, and natUralness is the most po-
tent attraction in anyone-man or women.
1t is said that American women have no
repose of manner, and that they feel oblig-
ed to make conversation whether or not
there is anything worth saying. Also, that
they do not know when or how to leave.
The uncomplimentary opinions have been
gathered from time to time from English
and French critics. There is cause for
rejoicing that the women of America have
| less repose than the English and more
than the French women. And the thor
oughly trained society woman or man
anywhere knows that a graceful leave
taking will impress upon a hostess and
guests pleasant personal recollection.
One who is unaccustomed to society may
quite spoil that impression by over anxiety
to do the correct thing, when simplicity
and brevity would do much better Ease
comes only with experience, but at any
point affectation is ill-bred and silly, and
1t would be better 10 appear abrupt and to
go promptly than to make others uneasy
and to be placed at a disadvantage by
dwading uncertainty.
Society goes to the French opera on
Saturday night because its great-grand-
fathers handed the custom down 20 it,
writes Harrydele Hallmark in the March
Ladies Home Journal. $50 established is
this custom that no social function is ever
prepared for Saturday evening during the
season. The family that gives out an in
vitation for that night is Immediately
classed as not versed in the usages of So
ciety and not worthy to be known. This
is so deep-rooted In Creole life that such
an invitation would be jeered at as if COM
ing from a barbarian.
THE best singers save their voices for
this crownlng night, and the house is
like a private ball room, where the guests
( visit and laugh and chat from the bal
comics of the boxes as they do from the
little iron balconies that connect their
r houses. If one does not go to the opera
on Saturday night through lack of IN
vitation or money one is very careful not
to be seen elsewhere, giving out the sug-
gestion that sickness or trouble impeled
l ones absence. The proud Creoes of the
) French set. some Of them in grinding
Z poverty, ignore all the Mardi Gras fes-