The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-04

simply overwhelmed with modification,
but l entirely forgot that this was the
n!eht."
Jump into a cab and come as you are"
urged the first speaker
you wouldn't ask me to if you could see
me- laughed the other.
This contrast between the two SITUATE
suggested a top,c OF conVersat ton after the
guests were sea ed
Il had rather an amusing experience in
the way of diss!milarity of situations
bet een two speakers at either end of the
telephone" remarked one OF the guests
Like every one else at Tuxedo, when the
telephone first came into vogue we used
it continually as a method OF conversation
with our friends, and Tor convenience it
was placed in my husbands dressing room.
one night after had gone to bed. The bel
suddenly rang out with a persistence that
would not be ignored 1 hastily spraug
from my bed in the dark, and started for
the phone at a good pace, when suddenly
/ plunged headl0ng into Jacks bathtub,
which was hair fun of water. Still the
thing kept on ringing, and, fearing that it
might woke the baby. who was in the next
room. | hurried. wet, cold and bedraggled
10 the instrument.
"'Hellor / cried angrily. is that you.
Polly? called out gay voice, which
friends am stopping here at the club.
How are you, dear? We are JUST through
dinner. large party of us came down
from New York. Charlie S. is here at
the phone and wants to speak to you.
Then ] heard laughter and chatting, and
l could fancy them all IN the say club
room in their smart dresses. In a min
ute Mr.. S. spoke. How do you do, Mrs
A. he began and then for fully ten
minutes l had to carry on a light CON
versation, first with one and then with
another Of the party, while stood shiv-
ering ia the dark in my damp and scanty
garments"
That was really contrast,H said one
of her audience. "A thing that always
seems 50 strange 10 me about a telephone
is how q voice can be carried a great
distance in a storm. Last winter | was
stopping a a country house on an island
near Stamford. 1t was blowing a furious
gale of sleet and snow. The water was
dashing madly against the rocks. and the
great trees about the house were swaying
in the blast All nature seemed TO be in
The widest commotion, but the wires held
fast, and when | rang up friend in New
York and his quiet voice came to me all
the way through the wild night WITHOUT
a change in its tone. 1t did seem almost
marvellous"
soft white hands are always one OF the
principal points of a refined appearance,
and for that reason women of all ages
have most carefully attended 10 their
hands" writes Mrs. Humphry, advising
plain girls how 70 be pretty. in the June
Ladies Home Journal. THE care OF the
hands cannot De iaid 90 he neglected
nowadays, when 50 many persons employ
the manicure, who scrapes the nails and
makes them of lovely pink pushes back
the skin from the little white half-moons
at the baee, cuts the nails in a crescent.
which exactly follows the outline Of the
/ half-moons. and ends by washing the
/ hands IN o preparation that makes them
1 both smooth and white temporarily, II
not permanently. The hands look ex-
/ tremely wel after the manicure's task
/ has been finished. although Erasmus VIII
/ son says that the nails should never be
/ scraped nor cleaned with any instrument
! save the nailbrush. The only other i'm
/ plement needed IS the small ivory press
] err"
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