The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29


least found its way back 10 it's royal owl
| ers.
As we become older. we become more
/ and more creatures of habit, and are made
uncomfortable Ivy any alterations that I'M
terfere with our accustomed arrange
mSn,s. one OF the moSg marked Instances
of This dislike OF change ia small things
is The affection We grow 90 feel for ana
the dependence we pace upon some favor
! tie chair. AS a conseque re- IL becomes an
4 unwritten law I'm the household that one
particlar seat Is mamma s, another papa's.
and SO on, Not that The owners openly
claim the chairs as a riSht-that would be
TO acknowledge one OF the dependencies
of advancing years-but they fccy dis
tinctly assrleved If their fayorite seats are
taken, and ere wretched IL forced 10y con-
VeuIonal politeness to take another place
fov any length of time.
1t behooVes young people Says the New
York Tribune who visit at strange houses
to remember this PECULIARLY Tor ntrmity,
as they doubtless would consider iO. ana
to take more pains than they generally do
not 10 Interfere with the comfort of the
elder members of the household. Young
folks are not TO affect an exaggerated ana
ofIicious pohteness in rroGcring the best
chairs to persons older than themselves.
This Is in bad form, and always initiates
middie-agod people more or less; but they
4 should observe where their elders uatur-
/ ally bcstow themselves, ana remember
/ thes predictions for future guidance
| Il do not think much of that Miss Smith
that you seem SO fond Of, Mary" said a
| man advanced in years, addressing his
/ granddaughter
! why do you not like her, grludpapa?"
/ queried the daughter Of the house.
Il have no special reason" he replied.
"She is simply bad form. | suppose she
/ cannot help being common"
| Poor Nellie smith, said her friend
afterward to her mother, "she Just hap
! pened to take srandfather's seat, and
| when he came In for afternoon tea he had
to take another That is the whole
trouble. He liked her very much before.
! OF course he will not acknowledge it, but
I feel pretty sure he viii always object
to her being asked here again"
! Speaking Of the attitude of exaggerated
! respect which some We'll meaning young
people assume toward their elders It might
/ he well to say a word on the subject. The
duty and reverence that are due to the
old by the young are easy enough to de-
! fine, but the obligation which young pco-
pie owe to those who are middle aged is
more difficult to tactfully adjust.
OF tate years there has come into fashion
n sort of veneer Of exaggerated poNteness
that is almost annoying TO lhe objects OF
the attentions. For instance, il several
y
| ments, It may be well that they should
rise when an older person comes into The
room, but that they should remain stand
/ ing Is absurd and embarrassing to The
| newcomer. While the deep courtesy
| (Which, bw the way, is purely American
and not English, as so many people sup
pose) may be all very well for small girls
| it becomes ridiculous when they grow uI
! and put on long skirts. To feel ones self
| che object of these somewhat Overstrained
| youthful attentions produces In a middle
/ aged person disagreeable sensation quite
apart from the bored feeling that overpo'
| likeness engenders.
II consider that it is positively insulting
the way we older girls are treated by those
| debutantes," remarked a fashionable
young woman of 80 recently, speaking o.
the younger members of her set who wer'
about TO be introduced to society.
'Why, ] thought they were so wonder
fully well trained" said her companion
rather surprised at the accusation.
THAT is just the trouble" returned tn
other. THAT they should jump up an,
open the door for me, or stand aside ono
give me the precedence, or pick up any
thing / drop or, worst of all, get up ana
stand when / enter a room, CRATES on M
nerves And as for that ridiculous cour
tesy of theirs it seems simply derisive. J
is not that l envy them their bread an,
butter youth-far from it-but l do thini
they ought be taught better manners
than to assume that there is such vas
difference in our ages.
II believe" said the woman who makes
her own clothes, firmly, that there is I
future for dressmaking."
"Um! Well, rather, as long as there's
woman" observed the tailor-made girl
according to the New York Sun.
"A future" went on the w. w. NJ II
| n ~ in az fa1t ,l.trer on
on a shorter route TO India, "a future tina
is yet undreamed Of I've thought tn
thing out, and made Investigations, and
am convinced that the possibilities o
dressmaking haven't even been limited n
by modern modistes. The woman who es
tablishes the new era will some day b'
recognized as one of the great benefactor
| of her race"
Sounds like a paper al a womans club
doesn't it?" put in the frivolous woman
cor an advertisement eadded the bust
ness woman. But the golf girl struck he
palms together and called softly: Go in
go in, McGuinessr'
My idea is like this" pursued the w
w. NJ. II. o. c., as she mounted and ad
justed her skirts. You know, every on
of you that a woman is simply helpless
as to the fashions and her dressmaker. Sh
can't influence or change them any easie
than she can get to the moon. Take TN
present fashions in skirts. That aced-up
| tight-ftting arrangement at the back ism
becoming TO one woman in fifty, and, be
sides, II requires the wearing Of a hustle
Now, to my personal knowledge hundred
of women made a solemn VOW when the.
laid off their hustle after that ugly fashion
ten years ago, that they would never wea
such a senseless deformity again, not j
! every other woman in creation did it. The.