The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-16

said: Jennie, that's my silk gown you
have on; take it off this instant"
right here on the street, Mrs. A? Oh,
1 couldn't"
Take it off, roared the woman's hus-
band from the carriage. 'Tl teach you
not to steal from your employers"
The girl obeyed, and crowd formed
circle about her. watching the perform
ance with keen relish.
land that's my lace trimmed petticoat;
IL has my name on the band. Take It of.
The girl hesitated for a moment, but a
look at her defrauded master and mistress
showed no leniency in. store for her, anu
off came the skirt.
~That will do. although you have some
of my best underclothing on" said the
woman, and, taking her recovered proper
ty, she got in the carriage and drove on
with her husband while the half undressed
maid retreated precipitately amid the
boots and jeers of the crowd.
A Los Angeles girl is credited with nav
ing been engaged seventeen times one
has been dubbed the Queen of frances
She says she Is anxious to be loved for her-
self alone. Somehow it doesn't seem
strange that she hasn't succeeded.
One of the most beautiful women of the
Yildiz-Kiosk in Constantinople has turned
up missing, and it is the general bellet ih
the Turkish capital that an Enghshman
spirited her away from the harem ana
took her to India.
1t Is said that he became acquainted
with her at the time of the recent Ma
hometan feast Of Leilat-El-Kadret, mean
ing Night of Destiny. on that occasion
all manner of men and women spend the
night in the mosque in accordance with
., ~ of a
of the Yildiz-Kiosk were accompanied by
watchful attendants, but the Englishman
is believed to have wen his point by SUI
borning the particular eunuchs IN charge
of his favorite.
A secret correspondence followed, and
finally the doors of the harem were open
ed for her one night and she escaped. She
and her Englishman were far from shore
on a British steamship by the time her
departure was discovered.
Half a dozen eunuchs were cast into the
castle dungeons as a consequence, and the
harem doors are doubly guarded.
A woman who derives a good income from
making infants wardrobes was telling how
she happened to take up the work. 1T
was absolutely necessary for me to do
something for my support. I had reached
the point where only $50 stood between me
and starvation. didn't know what to do
or where to look for help and I had no
friends in the city who could help me. In
this plight 1 turned to a friendly woman
whom I had met in one of the big libraries.
"'What can you do?' she asked me-
"I am willing to do whatever presents
itself 1 replied.
"'Can you teach?
" No; / am afraid not
".Have you a certificate or diplomat
"Again I said no. 1 had been educated in
a convent, but had not completed a course.
Weren't you taught to do any one thing
especially welI?' persisted my would-be
helper.
az did learn to sew beautifully; that is
all, I am afraid
well, can you make baby clothes?'
at think I could, although 1 never
tried
Good. Now, you go to --'s~and buy
on nv account some fine muslin and pat
tern and make an infants robe for
model
81 did that and, through my kind friend,
got some orders to make others like 1t.
| Acting on her advice, spent $l4 of my $50
| in advertising, offering to make the little
robes for seventy-hve cents apiece. l soon
got more orders than l could fill, and when
| / was established / raised my prices and
now get So each for them. But never
should have thought of undertaking it If
it had not been for the librarians tact in
finding out what 1 could do. The trouble
with half the girls who can't get along is
| that they are trying to do something they
haven't been trained for"