The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15

spoons said one to the other. Il have
several from Europe, but I pride myself
on the American ones. have them from
nearly every leading hotel in the country.
1 have two from the Waldorf which
value most of all; they are sterling, and
so handsomep'
How on earth did you get them?' ask
cd the other woman. 4 have some from
abroad; you can buy them at some of the
hotels, tttthey know you, but none of the
hotels here will sell them. 1 begged Os-
car to let me have one of the Waldorf
bat he wouldn't
Number I looked at her with mild sur
prise. why" she said. Il Just took
| them. 1 thought 1t was all right-they
| charge such high prices at the hotels;
don't your"
Since the death of Empress Elizabeth of
Austria many stories have been told of
| her eccentric tastes and deeds. Like the
| great Elizabeth of England she was SEN
| sitive about her personal appearance, and
regretted the ravages of time to more than
the ordinary degree Her passion for vi
dent riding and long, very quick walks
was connected with her great dread of be-
| coming stout She had brought on her re-
| cent i'll health by the rightly with which
| she dieted herself in order to avoid adding
to her weight Although she was rather
tell, she made point of Weighing less
than seven stone; and would practically
starve herself for some time if she turn
ed the scale of the weighing machine that
always stood in her bedroom, at anything
beyond that figure. This in her case had
produced the anemia that was the direct
cause of the disorder of the heart for
which she had lately been treated The
warning should be taken to heart; while
! exercise and judicious care in diet can do
a great deal toward keeping down super
fluous flesh, the starving trea tmenI is very
dangerous. and any sort of dieting should
only be undertaken with medical super
vision. not in the first place, but through
out its course.
The unfortunate Empress. like Queen
Elizabeth forbade her portrait to be TAX
en- when she had passed her bloom. Ira
diIion says that Elizabeth, for many years
before her death, refused to look in 9 mir
rOr. but she had the responsibilities of a
! queen regent, and could not seclude her
self as she aged from the eyes of her cour-
tiers as the modern monarch did. Ii is a
curious example of the irony of fate that
the most hideous portrait ever produced
of Queen Elizabeth is ore of the few thar
may now be seen in the National portrait
gallery, Notwithstanding that she ordered
the absolute destruction of every reproduc-
ton of it. II appears in the form of
com, SHOWING IleI very dStu anu per i6Ntlt
hideous, with a "nut-cracker" nose and
chin, hollow cheeks and sunken eyes. The
| only example of the coin, l believe is the
specimen now on show in that most promi-
nent position. Empress Elizabeth was
under no obligation TO appear on ordinary
coins. and on the few medals and orders
on which she appears in the company with
the Emperor youthful portrait is always
to be seen. Growing old is hard to all of
| To = he ao lfxri 4 &c tor
rible tragedy.
Hundreds of wives, says the New Or
| leans Times-DenOcrat, would have less
reason to complain OF negligent husbands
| did they open their eyes to the truth That
by slow degrees they have been giving up,
| one by one, the small adornments that go
so far to make the difference between a
weu-dressed woman and an unattractve
one. a knot OF ribbon here and there, a
tiny touch OF colcr, a bit of pretty lace,
a sash left aside. A silly woman fancies
| that man takes no heed of such trifies,
| and that when he throws himself down
| on the sofa of an evening he quite forgets
| 10 notice al these deficiencies.
Never was greater mistake made! The
weariest man that ever sought his ffreside
Mas a critical eye in his head Cor matters
| of feminine attire and the sooner a wife
|
! gown of well selected and becoming color
is not thrown away upon her husband the
| more likely are we to hear the last of the
mournfui wall over marriages that have
turned out unhapply.
Marriage, do you not think is always
very important thing in the eyes of all
womankind? At what precise period of
her life it enters into her brain thar she
! will ultimately marry is beyond conjec
ture Mites N baby frocks quite make up
their minds as 10 which of the little men
in tiny sailor suits they will award the
palm, and it really seems as if some fairy
godmother stole 10 the cradle-sde and
whispered tales about fairy prince about
10 make his appearance. 1t is just a trfe
humliatng thar although almost every
woman has given her fullest attention to
the marriage question, it remains as much
a haphazard business as ever, and has as
much of the element of uncertainty about
ii as if advanced women had never aid
| their heads together over The matter. and
left it in much the same condition as when
Adam fell hope.essly victim 10 The first
! girl he met, without a single thought as to
her capabilities of serving up a properly
cooked dinner. Indeed, the vast majority
of men still contract marriages on the
same rash foodng,a and few men Law much
store on the advantages of a thorough
/ grinding in cookery books when a pretty
face comes between them and their dreams
The region vaguely known to the aver
age New Yorker as up the state" is IN
like heaven in one or two respects. one
point Of difference is that up the state
there is still marrying and giving in mar
rage OF course, says the New York Sun.
some commentators explain the matrimo-
NAL stagnation in heaven on the theory
that only married people are considered
to have earned the joys of paradise. But
! that's neither here nor there. The point
is that they keep right on getting married
! in New York state, and not always in
the good old way. Once in a while thew
think out a new wrinkle That is what
a certain young couple did a few weeks
| ago.
Theirs was a church wedding, and when
the procession moved up the aisle the peo-
pie almost forgot to look at the bride be-
! cause they were so curious to find out
! what under the shining kerosene lamp
| chandelier the bridesmaid was CARRYING.
/ She held it out in front of her. support
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