The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-15

was apparently paying no attention to
what was being said.
yes, 1 am" she answered. 'I could
tell you everything MIR. Blank men
toned" and she ran lightly over the list,
but in speaking of the key, instead of
saying it belonged to the Court House,
she said 1t was a postohice key. That
was a town where many people had lock
boxes in the postoffice, and the Court
House key was very similar to the one in
the purse.
It did not take a Sherlock Holmes to
make reasonable deductions from that.
But q detective was put on the case,
though matters were kept as quiet as
possible Finally the girl left town with
her mother, and was heard of later as be-
ing connected with large store in a
nearby city and evidently not mourning
to any extent her lost position.
One hears great deal about the de-
cadence of good manners, especially
among the young men of the period, and
wonders oftentimes where the fault lies.
After studying the matter carefully one
is reluctantly drawn to the conclusion that
it is the mother in most cases who is at
fault
No doubt there will be an indignant de-
mails of a charge of this kind on the part
Of mothers generally, but evidence is
against them, and they cannot deny that
they are a least negligent in training their
boys to the old-time courtesy, which every
boy and man was expected to show, not
only to women of all ages and conditions,
but 10 the elders of their own sex as
well.
There are some things which the mother
should not fail TO remember in her inter-
course with her own sons, from the earliest
time when their trainings may begin. 1t
&c h1r
simple rules of conduct for herself that
will have the most potent influence upon
The whole future behavior of her chill
dren.
She should never permit herself to for
get that if she treats her boy always as
a gentleman, she will go a great ways to-
ward making him one.
she should insist that he pay a proper
difference to her, to his sisters and to
every one with whom he comes In daily
contact, and that he should give the prop
er respectful and courteous treatment to
the domestics of the family.
She should never be so busy that she
cannot listen 10 his condolences. In that
way she viii keep them. No child will
seek sympathy from others if he can get
il from the mother
She should set high ideals for him. and
iustill into his mind a distaste for all vul-
garity and coarseness, and she should her
ser emDOIY mat ideal
The mother who carries out these prin-
ciples will find them reelected in her bows
She was what is known as a green"
girl. She had been in the country only a
short time but says the New York Times,
she was able to get around the city with
but little difficulty. and she was about to
take an advance step and so from Brook
lyn 20 New York by ferry. She had been
well directed. All she had to do was to
buy her ticket, put it in the box, and there
was the ferryboat and all she was 10 do
was to sit down and wait until it landed
She followed directions implicitly. The en-
ly trouble was that she sat down to wait
a little too soon. She waited and waiieI
and waited. As far as she could tell, The
boat she was in did not move But she
had been told to wait until New York was
reached, and so she did. At the end of an
hour, however she began to grow weary
People in the meantime had been passing
her at intervals, and going out through the
big doors at one side of the boat and she
began to wonder where they were going
She found courage at last to ask ore Of
the women who passed her
"Why l am going to the fertyboat"
said the women and then and MT unt I
then did the girl learn chat she had been
waiting all that time for the ferry house
to take her across the river.
Happily for US, says the New York
Tribune human nature has its virtues as
well as its frailties, and one of the most
noteworthy of the former is the cheerful
way the majority of people adapt them
selves to altered circumstances.
ut is really amusing" remarked a
former leader of society, who. owing to
pecuniary reverses has ceased to struggle
TO retain her position in the SWIM" to
meet other have beens' like myself in the
various economic establishments where |
try to make 81 do the work of S.
l went into a 10-cent store the other day
to replenish my kitchen utensils, and
there l found Mrs. Comedy on the same
GRAND. We both had to laugh. We were
not doing this fifteen years ago, were we p
she exclaimed. l do not believe either of
us knew then the difference between a
saucepan and a frying pan.
I'VE spent an amusing half hour to-
gether, nevertheless. seeing how much we
could get for a pttance.- l do my own
marketing now, and l often meet my ola
friends cheerfully buying their mutton
chops at the cheapest places. l must say
that / admire our adaptability, and II is
a genuine satisfaction to me to find that
l can actually be interested and contented
in occupying my time with what l should
once have considered the sordid details of
| life"
Says the New York Press: Adam and
Eve We're never really married but that
nothing against the snake
A man can make the woman who loves
him do anything he doesn't want her TO.
Most men are afraid of their babies, only
they are more afraid TO admit IL to their
wives
1t is probably just as well that the BIZ
BILE doesn't say anything about what Lot
said when he found his wife had been
turned into pillar of salt
only let girl have a cute little giggle.
and before marriage only one man in a
! hundred will care a rap whether she has
got any brains or not
-e-dN-s-
-"Of course" said the Publlclst, with
his hahitual hauteur. you wish TO hear
both sides Of the money question:"
The end of it. II YOU please" ventured
the Man OF Affairs timldly Puck.
New England Apprehension.-"W
reason DO you think that Boston girl Of
fercd for rejecting me?"