The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-26

Orleans Picayune. This thing of a fellow
hanging around a girl year after year
always apparently on the verge Of pro-
posing yet never doing it, is altogether
too common, and il is time a halt was
called upon 1t. Modern customs are too
easy going. I'm not sure that the old
plan wasn't the best, where. when man
wanted to visit a girl he was required to
ME declaration of his intentions with his
attentions. as a guarantee of good faith,
and that he meant business.
As it is, the man without intentions
pervades society. Every year he grows
more numerous and more conspicuous
and has things more his own way. In The
democracy of our native land our homes
are run on the open door policy, and
there Is continually increasing class
of men who take advantage OF our lack
of protection, and who deliberately. make
ciubhouses-places where they are warm
ed In winter and cooled with ice drinks
in summer and entertained free of cost
at all times-of the parlors of their wo-
man acquaintance. They calmly appro-
pirate the best that life can give them
OF feminine beauty and charm, but with
out the slightest sense of any obligation
or of making any return. They are but
TEXTILES that sip the sweets of society,
but as for any idea of retrograding into
a domestic grub by marrying, their one
prayer is good Lord, deliver me!
SO far as older women are concerned
the matter is of small consequence. If
they have not sufficient knowledge of the
world to rid themselves of dead beat ac-
quaintances they deserve to suffer for
their stupidity, but it is a situation with
which young and unsophis ticated girls are
not fitted to cope, and many a ones pros
poets in life have been blighted by the
persistent attentions of the man without
intentions. Every now and then we hear
attractive and charming girl has drifted
into old maidenhood She has always
seemed to be admired, and received much
attention from men, yet she remains sim
gle. while her less pretty and less agree
able sisters make good matches. In nine
cases out of ten the answer Is to be found
in the fact that she was the victim of
the selhshness of men who monOpolized
her society and time, and drove other
men away, but who had no matrimonial
intentions themselves whatever.
If the man without intentions would
confne his attentions to unattractive wo-
men no one would find fault with him
He might even be a kind of social mis-
slonaTy-a dispenser of sweetness and
light to those who sit In the darkness
waiting for the man who never comes
and so fill long-felt want But the
man without intentions Is invariably pos
sessed of good taste. Nothing but the
best is good enough for him. You never
see him singing out the wall flower at
a ball for a consoling dance You never
observe him leading the specialized spin
ster down TO supper, or imploring the
sentimental fat girl to sit out a dance on
the steps. On the contrary, he reserves
these courteses for the beautiful but
impecunious belle who ought to be maxi
ing hay while the sun of her youth and
good looks shines. and 1t is precisely here
that his meaningless attentions become
so mschievous 1t is her dance card
that his name fills up, TO the exclusion
of men with whom she might waltz into
matrimony. 1t is she whom he lures into
a secluded corner and for whom he pro-
cures the bottle and the bird which they
eat tete-a-tete, while the man who could
provide her with these delicacies for life
passes by on the other side. 1t is she with
whom he elects to sit sentmentally in
the shadow of the palms, while young
Coupon, gnawing his incipient mustache
in the doorway, grows green with jealousy
and flies to the smiles of her rival where
he Is connforted and caught
There is exhibited, says Ainslee's Maya
zine, in the drawing room the wonderful
golden cradle in which each first-born son
of the house of Marlborough is rocked dur
ing his infancy. In this cradle, which is
perhaps the most beautiful and costly
thing of its kind in the world, the present
little Marquis of Blandford was placed on
his christening day, when he mad been
given the name of John Albert Edward
William Churchill. TIE little heir, by the
way, is named for three well-known per-
sons John, for the great Duke; Ebert
Edward for the Prince of Wales, one Of
his godfathers, and William. for his
grandfather and godfather, William X.
Vanderbilt.
The two children are very closely guard
ed in the nursery, which consists of the
most charming suits of rooms in the pai-
ace Here the young Duchess, who is a
most proud and devoted mother spends
much of her time with her babies When
they go out in their blue and white per-
ambulators for exercise they are wheeled