The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-12

vanity. She not only spends q great deal
Of her time ia Identifying herself, but
she adopts such homogeneous combinations
as a fine mat lava-lava and a bah gown
/ waist or velvet basque cut V-necked, her
/ hair done up empire style and wearing,
TO compete her toilet. a string Of ferns
around her waist ana a necklace of the
Inevitable sharks teeth about her bronzs
I throat.
Her arms aud limbs are bare She has
seen shoes, but she prefers to be comfort
able. She also refuses stockings, CONTRA
ny to the Samoan warrior. vino. Il IS told.
marched with his comrades in battle array
wearing pair OF opera length silk hose
the soles Of which were worn completely
Off. These had no doubt been given TO
him by some European travellers.
Although the Samoan girl does not wear
clothes, properly speaking, she IL taught
while srll very young TO embroider and
sew.
The halrpins worn In her hair are beau
iiful in their workmanship They arc
made out of the wood of the cocoanut
tree and are carved with dead cocoanut
leaf This is most delicate work
The girls are taught To swim when ba-
bies They are graceful and readily learn
TO dance As a people the Samolns are
great dancers and during their holiday
season they dance day and night They
are also fond OF music and have native in-
rhythmic music, not altogether beautiful.
but harmonious
! The marriage of the Samoan girl is ar
ranged by her parents The girl never
| thinks of having any opinion Of her own
on the subject, but accepts the parents
decision as inevitable. This does not prs-
vent her from having any number of ad-
mirers before or after marriage, which
seems TO be another matter entirely. Sha
Is far more Interesting IN her native cos-
tunes, pursuing the customary life of her
own people, than when she tries to ape
the foreigners who visit her beautiful
tropical country to admire her in all ner
native simplicity and beauty
A womans prospect of marriage is dis
tinctly affected by age The statistics OF
all countries show that the great matoritV
OF women marry between the ages of 20
| and 80. Before reaching 20 a woman has.
of course a chance of matrlmony but the
objections raised by parents or friends to
marriage at a tender age frequently out-
weigh the desire of the young woman to
acquire a husband and lead her to defer
the wedding day.
An statistics that have been gathered
bear out the statement that n womans
best chance TO marry Ia at the age oe
%. that over sX-tenths of the MARI ages
take Place between 20 and 3d. and conse-
quently that woman's chance decreases
ing point somewhere about GO.
out of 1000 married women 1i9 marry
before the age OF 20, $50 between 20 and
80, III between % and 40, the woman in the
thirties having not so good a chance as this
giri in her teens: between the ages of 10
and 90 the falling off Is enormous, only
forty-one In 1000 contracting an alliance
in that decade while past 50 the chances
sin further diminish, for the woman who
has celebrated the semi-centennial of her
birth has only nineteen chances in 1000
The way 10 hurt a woman most deeply
to win her direst dislike says the New
York Times, rs to hire away her servants
She will never forgive her dearest friend
for It, and every other woman except the
woman who Is doing tho stealing VIII give
her heartfelt sympathy. There Is story
which has become a classic about WASH
lngton woman who lost a butler in tnis
way. She was leaving her house one day.
when passing through the HAN she met a
woman whom she knew by name and slight
talking with her butler. That gentleman
gave notice shortly sfter, and his one-time
mistress learned that as she supposed,
he had gone to the house of the woman
with whom she had seen him talking. ros
Tong after she was formally presented TO
this woman and she made the most OF
her opportunity ooh, yes" she said,
sweetly. acknowledging the introduction
81 think I have seen Mrs. Blank bsfores
she has called upon my butler"
A Brooklyn woman has been out servant
stealing this fall, and she has aroused
some un-Christian thoughts In the minds
of some Of her friends and neighbors. She
returned TO the city after d summers abb
sence 10 find herself without a servant
ana with sickness In the house. 1t was
trying, as all housekeepers know, but
this woman had money, and she knew tho
people around her, and 10 a certain extent
their domestic ARA ngements. To tho
house Of one who had n fine cook she sent
offered the cook an increase of several dol.
lars a month, and got a cook. She then
sent TO another house where there was
another girl who would suit her very wen
as an upstairs maid. took her, and them
drew n sigh OF relief and settled down to
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