The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-09

/ head rests on the floor reaches over her
| head for the bar and rises with if 10
standing position on the seat of the chair
/ with The bell high over. her head, then
descends in the same manner and lays il
on the floor above her head asain. These
/ feats require enormous strength, as any
| one can easily ascertain by trying them.
| Some Of her friends belonging 70 a yacht
| club have been inyeigled by her brother TO
! come home with him aud visit the gym
nasium on the top floor and try some Of
/ these feats. But with all Of their boast
/ ed athletic achievements Miss Dunphy
| easily outdistances them all. In fact these
/ college bred young mon are just as jeal-
GUS of this little slip of a girl as they can
! De, and her little private gymnasium has
become the center Of attraction on the
upper West Side.
A strange story is told of how a child's
! plaything once had a soothing influence
/ upon a warlike Apache tribe, and was The
means Of avoiding a serious war. Ii nap
pened when Mr.. Bourke was in Arizona
with Cen CroOke. The general was try
ing to put a band of Apaches back on
the reserve, but could not catch them
without killing them, and that he did not
| want 10 do. one day his men captured a
little Indian girl and took her to the fort.
] She was quiet all day, saying not word,
but her black beads of eyes watched every
broke down, and sobbed just as any white
, child would haVed one
They tried in vain to comfort her, ana
! then MI Pourke had an idea. From the
| adjutants wife he borrowed a pretty doll
that belonged 10 her little daughter, and
when the young Apache was made to IN
derstand that it was hers to keep, her
sobs ceased and she fell asleep.
When morning came, the doll was stil
clasped in her arms. She played with it
all day, and apparently al. thought of ever
getting back to her tribe had left her
] Several days passed, and as no over
lures about the return TO the papoose had
been mode by the tribe they sent her,
with the doll still in her possession, back
to her people.
Mr.. Bourke had no idea of the effect his
| benevolent act would have upon the In
dams. When the child reached them, with
the pretty doll in its chubby hands, It
made great sensation among them, and
later on its mother came back to the post
with it,
She was kindly received, and Hospitality
treated. and through her the tribe was
soon afterward persuaded to move back 10
the reserve.
A group OF little girls from Il to IA,
were talking with each other on Baeys
beach, at Newport, a few days ago, says
the New York Tribune and stranger,
curious 10 ItdE WHAT tIt CIlE0iRu Oh the
elect cOnVersed about, took a seat on the
sand in their neighborhood. They were
talking of their future, as children of their
aEe are wont to do, and. of course the
prospective bridegroom came in for large
share of their attention.
Yes, l shall marry" announced I'M
quostioningly the beauty of the party, a
lovely girl of %, but" she added with
m conviction, Il do uoi think l shall
stay married long. l get tired of people
so easily. I shall probably get a divorce
after a few years"
Her sentiments did not seem to excite
any surprise or disapproval but one Of
the group said tmidly: MY mother
thinks it is very wrong to be divorced.
She says il is a solemn vow for better or
worse. and if it is for worse, why, people
must stand it." The others laughed mock
ingly and the first speaker, who seemed
to be the spokesman of the party, tn-
swered with the wearied air of a woman
of the world, which she had successfully
copjed from some admired friend CT her
mothers: How funny you are, Man gerry,
with your old-fashoned ideas. Fashion
change in marriage like in everything
else. and Just now il is the fashion 20 get
unmarried whenever you want to-.
DeWolf Hopper, merry ''El Captain" is
about to be married for the fourth time
The bride will be Miss Nella Bergen, the
stately prima donna of his company. The
ceremony will take place in London soon
after his company opens there on July 10
Those who were at the Lambs Gambol
on Tuesday say that at the time of the
last farewell just as dawn was breaking,
the 1ovial comedian announced these facts,
and the Lambs, one and all, congratulate
ed him. Some one toasted him as The
Man with a Hundred Wives The allu-
sion. though pointed, was forgiven, for
"The Man with a Hundred Wives" was
a comedy drama, in which De Wolf Hop
per made his first appearance eighteen
years ago.
Eighteen years separate Miss Ella Gar
diner, his first bride, from Miss Nella Ber-
gen. the bride OF next week.
| Miss Gardiner was a beautiful girl. She
| was the daughter of a professional min
strel who was a relative of Mr.. Hopper S
through his mothers family. the De
VOLTS Miss Gardiner was Mr.. Hopper
second cousin.
1t was when De Wolf Hopper was with
the McCauH Opera Company that he met
Miss Ida Mosher. Miss Mosher was
bright young woman from Boston. She
was in the chorus. Mr.. Hopper often tells
the story of How fell in love with Ida
/ Mosher."
Mr. McCaul surveyed the chorus COM
PLEASANTLY one day and said:
Girls, what would you do if I raised
your salaries?'
A trim, black-eyed girl at the end of the
line answered:
Il think we'd all fall dead"
The opportunity TO die did not come to
the chorus, but the opportunity TO fail in
love came 10 the comedian, and he avail
ed himself of IL. Mrs. Hopper No. / sued
for divorce, and Miss Mosher's name came
up in the suit. Soon after the decree was
granted Mr.. Hopper and Miss Mosher were
married. That was thirteen years ago. Mrs
Homer No I has since died
A bright Eye ar-o&d boy named Jack"
is the son of Mrs. Hopper No 2. Last
month he won prize for elocudon at a
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