The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-23

seats TO the last person who gets INTO
the car. The narrow band around his hat
was fastened with a small black bucket
and shining brilliantly out from the black
wool of his clerical vest was a solitaire
diamond. But the minister was a strang-
er, ne was intelligent, ara that one lesson
was enough to teach him the ways of
New York. Climbing over the two wo-
men on the end he had become the third
on the seat, and there was room for one
more person between him and the woman
at the other end. The NTH person 10 get
IN was another women. and. of course,
1t would have been Il little easier for her
if the clergyman had moved along ana
given her third place, but did hess NOT
Bit of it. There was nothing in church
etiquette or the remembrance OF the po-
likeness of his own townspeopie to make
him do it now that he had learned New
York ways, and the woman crawled over
him to her seat as he had crawled over
the others in getting in, and he did not
move a muscle.
"Have you ever done any charitable
work?" quered the missionary of a So
ciety girl not long ago says the Detroit
Free Press.
Yes little"
Il suppose you found it interesting?"
Very. Some one told me of such a
pitifully poor woman who was living with
guilty to think that any one could be
SO distressed. right in the shadow of our
door, so l went to see her | found her
sick, and lying on ragged couch, with
covering scarcely enough for a summers
day. The furniture was in spliuters and
the whole place was heartrending in its
forlornness. I asked the woman if she
could use some of my old clothes to make
over for the children. She seemed very
glad to get them, and said. she'd send
her daughter for them the next day. About
10 o'clock in the morning | was told that
some one wished to see me in the kitchen.
so l went down and found the clipper
est young girl there that l had seen in
some time.
' Are you Bess Hunt? she said. with
as much assurance as though she was
about to order me to do something.
YES ! replied meekly.
We'll, my mother sent me UP here to
get some clothes.
Really, she was such a fine bird that I
didn't have the effroutery TO give her old
clothes, so l presented her with a very
good gown-one that l had not discarded
until then
THAT evening as l was on the street
l noticed a young couple whizz past. and
they were attracting attention because
of their loud laughing ana because the
girl was smoking a cigarette
"'Wellr said my escort, if you We're
W
that was you in that carriage
you see, it was the girl 10 whom
had gwen the gown. She was just about
my figure, and l had worn the dress so
I didn't lose my reputation entirely bur
I've since wondered how many people mis-
took me for her"
1t would never do to give any clew 10
the identity of the physician who con-
ducts a private hospital and who has Just
successfully accomplished a new depart
ure in medicine, says San Francisco
News letter.
One of his patients is a wealthy but ig-
norant woman, who had been for years
a confirmed hypochondriac and who had
successfully tried allopathy, homeopathy,
hydropathy, osteopathy-in short, every
thing pathic The patience of the nus
band was finally exhausted. and he con-
scented TO enter into a conspiracy with the
doctor to play upon his wifes jealousy.
1t was arranged that he should seem TO
be deeply smtten with a young widow.
healthy, rosy and jolly, who is secretly
angaged to be married to a Los Angeleno.
There was no question about the unhap-
DIV hypochondriac's jealousy. 1t blazed out
in a hysterical declaration that the pref
~ widow was waiting for her old shoes.
but she vowed that she would get better
lust to spite her supposed rival and TO
be avenged upon her faithless husband.
She has kept her word and is now GER
tainly fair, fat and forty But her doctor
says she is an example of the jealousy |
Some facts about womankind are related |
in the Atchison Globe as follows:
A girl is visiting in town who has a |
dress trimmed with four miles of lace. and |
her hostess is thinking of giving a re-
ception for it.
4 woman who knows how easily the |
men can be fooled tells every one who |
kisses her that il is the first time she |
was ever kissed by man.
II occurs to man with some wonder |
mat his wife never got 10 as much en- |
thusiasm over him when she was bride |
as she gets up over the new little red |
babv.
When woman doesn't know Of any, |
thing else nice TO say about another vTo- |
man she saws she has such "cute little |
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