The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-05

which he had left lying on the old wo-
mans tray. These seem remarka bly,
sweet for street violets."
The use of her Christian name, which he
had uttered involuntarily, and which he
had not called her by since her marriage.
startled them both-and the woman felt
touched by it.
If you are going for walk" she said
hesitatingly, perhaps you will come in
my direction. ! am going home
Mamma" called out a fresh young
voice behind them, and as they both turn
ed hastily and little consciously another
couple came up; the girl tall. lovely, ra-
diant sylph. and youth who was manly
and good-lOoking enough for even such
companion.
Its my Molly and your Toni exclaim-
ed the matron. and as they passed with an
embarrassed laugh on their part she added
rather sadly It's TO them spring be-
longs, not to u.s."
The struggles of woud-be intellectual
fashionable women. says the New York
Tribune, are marvellous.
Il have to read all those works before
Monday evening" said a member of one
of the literary clubs of Vanity Fair, point
ing to pile of volumes which had just
been sent in from one of the public libra
ries, comprising works on history, con-
NSinpOTdueOuS anu HnClenls DiOSTdpuAeS OF
two famous men and the works of GER
tain mystic poet.
"All these topics come up under discus
sion, and I am to read a paper on the in
fiuence those men had on their generation,
and l absolutely know nothing about eth
er of them
But this Is Saturday.? exclaimed her
visitor aghast How can you possibly do
all that before Monday night?'
tbat Ian he Int
1 dine out tonight, am going to hear DIR.
s. preach tomorrow, and shall have
| some people to luncheon; but shall man
| age to cram it all down and seribble off
something"
Il suppose you are all devotees of Rob
ert Browning" said an author to one of
these literary women, thinking he had hit
| upon the fashionable cult
'Browning!" she exclaimed. "Oh, he is
quite old-fashioned; nobody cares for him
any more. Omar Khayyam Is all the
vogue just now. 1 adore the Rubaiyat; do
| not your
Another type of this latter-day curious
admixture of society and literature is the
suddenly awakened woman who fancies
she is creating sensation and promulgat-
ing novelty when she talks the claptrap
of her shallow culture.
Mrs. B is too funny!' laughed a
really clever woman of one of these pseudo
blue-stocklngs 81 believe she really fan
cies she has discovered Kipling!'
well" said the little woman, to the
| New York Herald IF woman Is going
| to make a success in life she must do a
| queer lot of 'hustling. I know that is
slang, but 1t seems to be really the only
| word which fits the case. The way a
| woman has to keep on the go all the time
to make a success of any business she
undertakes puts me in mind of a little
story I once heard about two frogs.
"A farmer carrying his milk to market
| one morning stopped at brook to water
his milk as usual In dipping up the wa
ter he scooped up two frogs, and into the
| milk them went.
lone frog said to the other: I am going
| to drown. l cannot keep myself alive.
We'll, I am not replied his companion. L
| am going to kick for all am worth
when the farmer reached his destina-
| ton and the can was opened one poor frog
| gle was lying dead at the bottom, but the
| other had kicked to such advantage that
| he was quietly sitting on a fair sized lump
| of butter. And that is what I am going
to do. I am not going TO give up and al
low myself to drown, but 1 am going to
kick for all am worth"
If any women wishes to know whether
| she is perfect specimen of her sex she
| has only to apply the rules laid down for
| ascertaining the fact and figure out the
results.
| First as to hight tastes differ but the
Medicean Venus is feet inches in hight
! and this is held by many sculptors and
| artist to be the most admirable stature for
| woman. For a woman of feet inches
| 1873 pounds is the proper weight, and if she
| be well formed she can stand another ten
] -I,-
When the arms are extended she should
measure from tip of middle finger to tip of
! middle finger just feet Enthusiastically
| her own hight. The length of her hand
| should be Just a tenth Of that, of her foot
| just a seventh, and the diameter of her
| chest a fifth From the thighs to the
ground she should measure just what she
measures from the thighs to the top of the
head says Woman's Life. The knee should
come exactly midway between the thigh
| and the heel
| The distance from the elbow to the mid
| die finger should be the same as the dis
| lance from the elbow to the middle of the
| chest From the top of the head to the
chin should be just the length of the foot,
| and there should be the same distance be-
| tween the chin and the armpits. A wo-
man of this hight should measure "a inches
about the waist and "a inches about the
| bust if measured under the arm, and 43
| inches if over them.
The upper arm should be 10 inches round
| and the wrist s inches. The calf of the
| leg should be 141a inches round. the thigh
| % inches and the angle 8 inches. There
| is another system of measurements, which
| says that the distance twice around the
| thumb should go once around the wrist 1;
| twice around the wrist once around the
| throat; twice around the throat once
| around the waist, and so on; but the first
! are the standards used by sculptors, who
| have gained them by measurements of the
| Greek statues.
"OlI all things on earth, said this society
| girl who, says the Detroit Free Press. is
| among the elgibles Il hate TO have man
| who calls on me talk shop. Young
| johnson did nothing the other night but
| tell me about how Detroit Is handicapped
| In the matter of freight rates and eXplain