The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-24

1 pN9ti~N iNObCAN w amer ) ONCE. W0eTG they
were married. Then they went across the
river to Granite City to the little cottage
| which he had fitted up for her, 1t is
l close to the plant of the Niedrnghaus Iron
I Works, where he is employed.
| 1T will only be necessary for you to drop
| about half a teaspoonful of the mixture in
! to his cup of coffee each morning" the
| circular said, "and the taste for tobacco
| VIII gradually depart from him. He may
not cease the use of tobacco immediately.
| but within week he will begin TO abhor
toDacco If the mixture is given TO him
! faithfully every morning"
And so the young wife sent her little s.
| on and got f1agon of the tobacco cure
says the Bangor Commercial.
Pretty bum coffee this morning." he
remarked dryly the first time she dropped
| the half-teaspconful of the mixture into
| the cup.
ITS the same as we've been using right
along she replied. crafty.
NOW, 10 and behold he was a pretty
smooth proposition himself and he had.
unbeknownst TO her. seen the package
holding the flagon of agin tobacco mix
ture when it was delivered.
| So after dinner that evening he pro-
| duced a large bulky package of fire-cut
| tobacco from his pocket and took there
| from a plenteous chew of tobacco. 1t was
the first chew he had ever taken in her
presence, and she marvelled greatly there
at, but she determined to persist with the
| treatment"
Dead rank chicory again this morning.
isn't it?" he inquired at breakfast the
next morning.
II m sure it tastes the same to me-" she
replied
That evening after dinner he produced
short black clay pipe and package of
new kind of tobacco that was as black
as the ground work of Jolly Roger
Thought I'd bring this old dudeen up
from the office he explained cheerfully.
It's as sweet as nut"
Whereupon he filled the house with the
aroma of punk that was strong enough to
break rock
This grocery person who gets all of
my wages is certainly doing us on ths
coffee game he remarked when he tast-
ed his cup next morning.
Really" she said gazing innocently at
the ten-cent bunch of asters in the middle
of the table, Il can't detect any differ
ence."
And yet there are low foreheads who
don't believe that all women are actresses"
said he to himself on the way to his Of
fee that morning
That evening he brought home a box of
auction stogies. and after he had smoked
one of them after dinner all of the people
in the neighboring flats stuffed cotton in
the hall door keyholes and closed the han
transoms.
Il must persist though" thought his
bafiled little wife gloomily
Coffee tastes like stewed gunnvsac,x
again this morning" he remarked at the
next breakfast. She felt bit sorry for
him. but she was determined to use up
that aagon of "agin-tobacco'' if she had
to chloroform him and pour it down his
throat.
That evening, however, her resolution
deserted her. After dinner, for the first
time to her knowledge, he pulled out a
package of cigarettes, lit one and began to
smoke it. W,
she went upstairs, poured out the re-
manning portion of her 81 worth of agin
tobacco and carefully hid the bottle
"Coffee's all right this morning" said
he at breakfast the next day
"Yes?" she inquired, absently.
When he had finished his dinner that
evening he lighted one of his usual brand
of good cigars.
''Men are mysterious to me" she
thought, regarding him out of the lal of
her eye.
Women only think they're foxy he
thought, blowing smoke rings into the
Swiss curtains.
II think it is the greatest pIty - re-
marked a sensible young woman recently
to, The New York Tribune reporter. THAT
girls and men cannot be good friends and
comrades without the meddlesome world
assuming that either on one side or the
other there must necessarily be a feeling
of sentiment. If a man and oirI Are
seen together more than twice all of the
Grundys say Immediately, 50 and So Is
desperately in love with Mary Jones' or
Mary Jones is crazy about So and Sol
1t goes without saying that no sensitive
person cares for such imputations, and
the consequence is that many pleasant
incipient friendship is destroyed by simi-
lar remarks. .f.
For instance, not long ago was intro
duced to a man at a dinner whom l found
very agreeable. Our tastes appeared to
be similar. and we got on capitally. He
asked permission to CALI and not long
afterwards Joined me in the street and
we went together for a walk l liked him
very much; we seemed mutually congenial.
and ! congratulated myself upon having
secured new and desirable friend. when
suddenly there fell upon me, metaphorical-
" speaking, a posse of gossips. I hear