The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-09

school years she changed her bosom friend
eight times, and her minor satellites shift
ed as the sands of the sea. Each change
OF sentiment affected requests and pro-
cession, and the will went through a be-
wilderlng and tempestuous career. Edu-
cation affected the girls musical and lit
erary taste, too, and she changed her
hymns and her epitaph once or twice a
month.
Then she met her fate al a musicale
where she wore a white frock and carried
red roses and sang Tosd's "Good-by."
Her best friend was promptly thrown out
of the first carriage, so that Fate might
have seat with the family; but a month
later the Fate proposed to the best friend.
The P1ttsburg girl promoted another friend
changed her will and inserted a clause
SAYING she wished to be buried in the
white gown she had worn at the musicale,
with the bunch of faded red roses on her
breast, and the music of Tostis Good
by tucked into her coffin.
In the spring she fell in love with a
football half-back and was engaged. The
will once more was changed radically, and
the white frock was made over for a Yale
prom" Then she graduated and went
away. A teacher to whom the will had
been read in all its varying phases met
the young woman again last summer af-
ter the lapse OF a year.
Harry still riding in the first carriage
behind the hearse, Bess?"
"Oh, dear, no." said the prospective
corpse. arily. He'll have to ride his
wheel if he gets into the procession at
all OF course, Jack will have to ride with
the family, you know. It's all arranged
for in my will"
The teacher insists that the Pittsburg
girl bequeathed to the school a will-mak-
ing mania which is still in full swing.
The Princess of Wales seems to have
been good deal of a mascot at any rate
to the eight bridesmaids who attended her
at her wedding thirty-six years ago. In
the language Of an English paper, "the
whole of those ladies are still alive, ana
nothing unusual has occurred to dim their
happiness although on Jan. l their united
ages totalled up to the not insignificant
figures AL" The Princess, with her
daughter, Princess Victoria, is now cruis-
ing in the Mediterranean on the Osborne.
A London special says: Lord and Lady
Warwicl1s example of forming themselves
into limited liability company is about
to be followed by Lord Montagu, of Beau
lieu, and the Earl of Shrewsbury.
Warwick, Montagu and Shrewsbury are
inheritors Of historic names, and large
estates They have suffered equally from
the agricultural depression. Their incomes
which a score years since were almost
princely are now but moderate, and they
have TO maintain establishments far be-
yond the resources of the estates.
Lady Warwick has opened a shop for
the sale of dresses and fashionable articles,
in Bond street, which she personally su-
perintends when in town. A report is
circulated that she will sell goods person
ally on Mondays during the season, when
crowds of fashionable people will flock to
see her and make the business boom.
The laws of chaperonage, says the Boston
Transcript are very strict and are strict
ly observed in New York, which would
seem in.this respect to copy English ways
much more than most of our cities. A
young girl at a New York dance must re-
port to the matron under whose wing she
goes between the dances and at supper
and must defer to her wishes about going
home. Moreover, she is never allowed to
go home alone, even in her own carriage,
she must be always attended by parent
or maid. 1t would there be considered the
height of Improperly for a young girl to
! go home from any entertainment and I'M
| lock the door for herself after the rest Of
the family had gone TO bed. We know of
two frightened Boston girls who. after a
| party in the city, were driven, IN the
small hours, far out into the suburbs by
a drunken hackman; and we have heard of
| three girls who went home together in the
early winter morning and, having lost
their latchkey on failing TO find Ii under
the doormat, rang In vain. They then
proposed going to hotel, but instead rang
the night bell of a neighboring physician,
whose wife took them in and made them
as comfortable as she could in her one
vacant room. Being accustomed to think
of our city as the home of reforms and
| reformers, we wonder how long Boston
mothers are going to allow these evils to
| continue?