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


iastlcally of his literary triumps, that are
yet in the future.
but Brown outdoes them all, and
Brown was here last night. He's sta
tistician He first had the impudence 90
ask my age, and when / informed him he
went figuring like mad. Now he inquir
ed. how much food do you suppose mas
passed between those rosy lips of yours at
the present time basing the estimate upon
the daily consumption of food by those
who can afford TO live Well?
II insisted that the subject did not in
terest me- but he reeled off figures about
beeves, calves, sheep, poultry, fish, fruits,
bread, cake, cheese, vegetables and every
thing else we ever had ON the table. Totals
ran into the tons and hundreds till was
so ashamed that went TO telling him in
very direct manner what thought of his
method of entertainment.
And what do you think he dido Out
came that pencil again, he figured like a
lightning calculator. and then had the au-
dacty to inform me that If / should talk
that rapidly for a period of twenty years
my jaws would have Travelled through a
distance of 1,2479Oo miles and a fraction. |
was so angry that 1 just told him to reach
home by starting at once and taking the
shortest route"
Until the reign of the Empress Josephine
says Woman's Life. a handkerchief was
thought i'm France so shocking an object
that a lady would never have dared 90
use il before any one. The word even,
was carefully avoided in refined conversa-
ton. An actor who would have used
handkerchief on the stage, even in the
most fearful moments of the play, would
have been numerically Kissed; and II was
only in the beginning of the present CEN
fury that a celebrated actress, Mile. Ouch
enois, dared to appear with a handker-
chief in the course of the piece, she never
could summon enough courage to call it
by its true name, but referred to it as
light tissue"
A few years later translation of one
of Shakespeares play by Alfrey de Vigny,
having been acted, the word handkerchief
was used for the first time on the stage,
amid cries of Indignation from every part
of the house.
1t is doubtful if even to-day French
ladies' would carry handkerchiefs if the
wife of Napoleon 1 had not given the sig
nal for adopting them.
The Empress Josephine, although really
lovely, had bad teeth. To conceal them she
was in the habit of carrying small hand
kerchiefs adorned with costly laces, while
she constantly raised gracefully TO her lips
OF course, all the ladies of the court fol-
lowed her example, and handkerchiefs then
rapidly became an important part of the
feminine toilet
The Land of Sweet Sometime
Over the water Wen sail some day
To the land of Sweet Sometime,
And Wen anchor there for year and
day.
In the ripple of gold on the lower bay.
In the sunsets rays subiimei
Tt,s o,,ar tbe river In sonoa5a v1y;Ile
BY the lake of Soon-to-Be,
And Later on is the mightlyAhil
That arises out of the laughing rill,
The river of Wait and Sect
It's always summer-the whole year
In the beautiful Sometime land,
There are happy skies that are deep and
blue,
There are roses waiting to bloom for you,
To blossom at your command!
SO out to the breeze let us spread the sail,
Till il beats in a merry rhyme,
And off Wen go in the moonlight pale,
Till we reach the land of the fairy tale
The land of Sweet Sometime!
Criterion.
She Shops
She shops!
She does not mean to buy,
For funds are low and prices high,
So many people wonder why
She shopsl
She shopsl
| She keeps herself apprised
OF all the bargains advertised
And with a gusto undisguised-
She shops!
She shops!
The tired assistant sighs
For long experience makes him wise;
He knows wherein her weakness lies
She shops!
She shops!
She hurries to and fro
And when the sun is setting low,
A thousand captured samples show
She shopsl
Pearson's Weekly.
The "Stanlaws' face is rapidly eainfne