The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-14

same sort in the National Museum
which. Ike this one. have the names Of
me thirteen original states on the border
They were made especially for Martha
Washington, and presented to her by La
fayeIte
Here is a sheaf of true stories. unfor-
tunateiy too true. about women, aud
showing that view of the feminine char
acter which a man Is apt to say is the
woman of IT," When a woman likes to
stand up for her own sex. says the New
York Times, and believe they are above
the pettinesses and meannesses that a
man ascrihes to them when he says that
is the woman Of it," It is discouraging
to find a nest of arguments i'm favor of his
belief. If there is truth in them the I'M
pleasant tendencies may perhaps be faded
to a better color II the healthy light of
day is allowed TO fall upon them. Germs,
like bad deeds, hate the sunlight
The first story concerns the nelghbor of
a woman who, like most New Workers.
just now has more than a usual dread of
fires, and fire in connecting with a cur
tain brings to her mind a terrible fear of
the too well known horrors of which all
the world has heard recently. SO when
she saw curtain in the neighbours kit
chen the other day catch fire from a gas
stove standing near and servant help
less from fear, she acted upon her first
impulse aud hurried from her own apart
ment across the grating which extends
from apartment TO apartment In that
block of houses to he used in case of fire
as a means Of escape. knocked on the
window, and when ii was opened by the
neishbor rushed to the kitchen and
pulled down the blozing curtain without
taking time for breath. That was presence
of mind and immediate action that per-
haps saved a great many lives. That was
the first act in the play. The second took
place when as sitting at her dining table
where 1t was impossible for her not to see
her neighbours kitchen window, she saw
the same maid who mad lost her head
when the curtain b,azed. taking several
matches, one for each burner of the stove
light them, and throw Them still lighted
from the window into the area below
over the curtains and draperies flying out
from the different windows. That meant
imminent danger. night and day, TO every
one in the vicinity, and she reported the
careless servant TO the janitor of the
mouse But her well-meant efforts were
EVIDENTLY not well received by the mis-
tress of the careless maid This, the
woman who might with good reason con-
slider herself something of a heroine, dis
covered when she found that complaint
had been made against her by her neigh
Dor across the way because of two flower
pots on the grating connecting the apart
ments. They had not obstructed her way
IN her experience as amateur fireman In
getting across any more than the flower
pot which her neighbor had on her side
of the grating until she decided TO. have
fine revenge because of the matches
That was the time the man exclaimed
land that's the woman of It,"
An interesting account OF the Emperor
Menelik's reception of message from
the Queen is given by an English paper
The message had been spoken into a pho
nograph, so that the Abyssinian ruler
might hear the tones of her majestys
voice. These were reproduced with re-
markable fidelity. Meneiik was as pleas
ed as child with a new toy: nothing
would satisfy him but to hear the MESA ge
at least a dozen times. First. he would
listen to the Queens words as they came
from the trumpet of the photograph. and
then would have the ear tubes adjusted
When his curiosity and delight had been
In part satisfied Menelik relapsed into the
solmn silence expected on such occasions
ordered a royal salute, and remained
standing "a very rare thing for that 20
tentate to do) while seventeen guns were
fired.
Menelk was evidently impressed with
the fact of the Queen having taken the
trouble to send the message by the pho
nograph, for he had himself already tried
TO speak into one, and knew of the bother
involved in securing factory record.
The Emperor of Abyssina is. IL appears
quite an adept at pretty speeches, and his
Acknowledgement of the message was most
graceful. He was much Impressed by the
firm and distinct tones Of the Queens
voice.
After the ceremony before the King. the
instrument and cylinder were taken into
the Queens enclosure. and il was subse-
quently reported that the Empress had
been delighted when she recognized her
name, "Taiton." Later, Menelk ex-
pressed desire to hear the message again
and il was repeated many times Suisse
guently the cylinder bearing the message
was broken up. 1t was arranged that the
reply of the King should be spoken into
the photograph and sent TO England TO
her majesty.
At a woman's luncheon the other day
the talk got around 10 human ethics, and
the singular identity Of feeling in all
classes and conditions that moved to mu-
tual expression In moments Of appeal One
guest told how, only the day before, she
had smiled, even laughed outright with
an utter stranger over a little street COM
edy. Another spoke of an accident she
sjust missed seeing and of the wholesale
way in which the passers-by, rich, wellto-
do and humble. stopped and interchanged
inquiries and EXPLANATIONS with each other
concerning 1t. Another told how the most
prim and most strait-iaced of spinster
aunts had once relaxed conyentionality
and made common cause with her fellow
travellers on account Of some quizzical rail
way experience.
We'll" said the hostess, who is also an
artist coming up Madison avenue at dusk
one chill. rainy evening his winter / saw
an instance of fellow feeling that Impress
ed me. A belated street organ, run by a
seedy Italian and a bare-headed woman,
was playing d waltz, and against the area
railing Of the nearest house a young man
leaned. somewhat inertly, his hands In his
pockets and mis- hat pulled rather low over
his eyes. lie didn't look IKE a tramp, but
neither did he look well to do.
Down the street came a messenger boy
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