The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-08


TO those used for games; the once innocu-
Gus visiting card has also been perverted
from innocent uses and become quite fac
tor in misunderstanding.
DO the best you can for s. for that is
ali you will get" wrote an infatuated but
impecunious youth 20 a florist with whom
he was in the habit of dealing, and inclos-
ing another card, told the florist to send
it and the flowers to his latest inamorata,
but the cards got mixed somehow, and it
was the message written for the florist
which the young woman received and
read to her great establishment.
Thank you for your flowers, Mr.
Smith" she said that evening. Il think
he gave a good deal for So, don't you?'
and as the young man stared amazed she
walked off with his hated rival, while
the slow dawn of comprehension gradual
ly enlightened her unlucky sutton as 20
what had occurred. StiH more funny and
much more disastrous was the mistake of
valet employed by youth of upper ten
dom, who took the wrong box to the house
of sporting young woman with the en-
velOpe his master had given him, which
contained card. upon which was writ
ten: Please wear these tonight" But
what was the astonishment and indigua-
ton of the maiden upon opening the box
to find within it-a pair of trousersi That
the unfortunate donor naSltne0 80 explain
the terrible mistake as soon as he discov-
tired the blunder made no difference. The
story got about. Society was in convul-
sions of laughter and he was never for
given. Still another card story is the fol-
lowing:
"Wil you take my address. sir?" said
a popular hair dresser and barber, as a
customer was leaving the shop. The lat
ter pocketed the bit of pasteboard handed
him mechanically. with his mind on other
things, and freshly shaver and well,
groomed, proceeded on his way to make a
round of visits
said the footman, as he glanced at me
card given to him by this youth, but If
you will wait a minute l will see if it Is
all right"
'Deuced odd" soliloquized the visitor. as
he walked into the drawing room. A sec
ond after the servant reappeared.
'Win you Please walk upstairs; Miss
s. is in the front room,' he said. Think
ing that the sitting room might be up
stairs, the visitor followed the man unsus-
pectingly, and not until he was ushered
into prettily furnished bedroom and saw
a young lady sitting before a glass in a
pink dressing gown with her hair down
her back, did he realize there had been a
mistake. He had given the footman the
card which the halrdresser had thrust
upon him.
The indiscrinimate use of the word
lady in rejecting social distinctions is
well brought out in the following anec-
dotes. The first occurred in a dry goods
store in a Massachusetts town The daugh-
ter of a senator of the United States drove
one day from her fathers summer cot
tage TO a store in a city near by and
ordered some articles to be sent to the
house. When the goods were sent a mis-
take was made, and the senator himself
stopped at the store to correct it, The
proprietor called the saleswoman, and, af-
ter consulting with her, apologized for the
| mistake.
You see, sir he explained "the lady
! who took the order didn't quite understand
what the girl said
A somewhat similar story was told of a
remark made by a Yankee servant of the
! family of John Lothrop Motley the his
| tOrian. On one occasion, when the histo-
ran was at home on the ancestral estate
| near Boston, and when his brother James
was also there, an intimate friend of the
family who was sojourning at the house
| came out from Boston on a late. afternoon
train The family coachman met him with
a carriage at the station. On the way to
the house the guest said to the driver:
Did any one come out on the earlier
train?"
"Oh, yaas." said the ooachman, the
| was four; the was John and Jim and two
ladies'"
The guest knew that John and jim
were the historian and his brother. but he
wondered who the ladies We're Afterward
| he found out that they were a seam
stress and a new chambermaid
The most extraordinary use of the term
that we are likely to find any record of is
| related from England. The house surgeon
| Of London hospital, we are told, was
| attending TO the injuries of a woman who
had been badly bitten on the arm AS he
was dressing the wound he said:
81 cannot make out what sort of craa-
| ture bit you. 1t is too small for horse
bite and too large for dogs"
"Oh sir" said the patient "it wasn't a
hanimal-it was another iadyr'
In some of the New York department
| stores, says Harper's Bazaar, babes car
| be checked like so many umbrellas, while
| their mothers pursue the elusive bargain
| from counter to counter A small boy Is
detailed TO stand guard over a certain
| number of infants. The small boys and
the infants have not been asked an opin-
| ion, but the mothers are enthusiastic in
|
| system as applied to babies has appeared
| in new form. Rev DR.. Wiley of the Nos
| trand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
is the originator of the scheme, and the
mothers are once more gamers. A large
room has been fitted up with hammocks
| and cribs, perambuiators, and toys. Here
a volunteer committee of young womer
assemblies every Sunday morning, an6
here the mothers. who would otherwise be
kept home, leave their babies while they
themselves attend the regular church
service. The plan IS a novel one, bu
| promises, and deserves, 10 be popular.
In the valley of the shadow she hat
reached a trembling hand
To clasp one tiny blossom, the fairest In
the land
She feared rot though she journeyet
where the heavy shadows lay
For the halo round the blossom drove the