The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-29

"As rule we think they showed more
pluck than the men, O leading citizen
said 20 me.
Marvellous Escapes.
Two women We're sitting on different
stoops on different days. In each case a
shell fell near by and exploded in the
street One an Engishwoman, looked on
rather amused than otherwise, and went
out and gathered the pieces to give away
as mementos; the other, Dutch woman,
died of fright.
Two Kafir women were walking in the
main street side by side. A shell came,
killed one and did not touch her compan-
ion.
DIR. Ashe tells of lady who walked or
rode out with her husband every day,
shells or no shells. Plenty suffered dread
full deaths Plenty enjoyed amazingly
narrow escapes, mainly while at their
daily work in their homes. One young
lady hid in shell-proof pit until it was
time to dress for dinner, and then went
to her room and was killed. That is pre-
cisely how death came to George La
gram, the mechanical wizard, who made
a big gun for the town. Another shell fell
under bed on which a baby was sleep
ing, but it did not explode. Another shell
fell under a bed on which lay a Hindu
mother with her newly-born child. This
shell did explode, and set fire to the bed,
but mother and child escaped injury.
Again, shell came to the breakfast ia
BILE of the family of a volunteer who was
on duty on the towns border 1t burst
and killed a six-year-old child, broke the
arm and leg of a younger girl, and badly
wounded the mother.
What DR.. Ashe calls the most wonder
full of the many narrow escapes was one
which l will nalrate in detail, because it
carries a profound moral with it, 1t
shows how far men go out of their way
TO prove themselves absurd when they
venture to criticise the eccentricities of
feminine fashion in dress. A lady was
lying down, fully dressed, on her bed,
resting before dinner. A maid came in 10
say that she had found a man with fire.
wood, (Which was very scarce) who want
cd certain sum for load. The lady
turned over on her side, to get at the
pocket in the back of her dress, and just
as she rolled away from the side of the
bed a hundred-pound shell came and
bored its way through the bed In exactly
the place where she had been lying. 1t
went through the bed and the floor and
into the foundation Of the house without
cXplording; but it would have cut her to
pieces had she been dressed as men are
clad and been able to put her hand down
at her side and take her purse out of a
pocket there.
Plenty Of women who stood the smaller
Smelling very well found their nerves at
the breaking point when the Beers
brought the lO0-pounder to play on their
homes. That was when, as II by common
consent. the servant girls used to dive
under the beds whenever she alarm was
sounded to announce the coming Of "a
big one"
When first the town was put on ratlons,
the tenderly-reared women had sorry
time. The business was so badly bungled
that Indians. negroes, servants and hood
lums all struggled together IN the line,
and the ladies were shOuldered out OF a.
Their husbands were away their servants
were not well served. and they had - go
themselves or 20 without meat ana SOUP
Very many tried 20 content themselves
with that great staple Of the Siege. bread
made ~ wheat and corn hour and fried
IN lubricasing ola pure sweet OIL made
from lard. After a time The system Of