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


in the young mother is delightful
According to a family friend, Gov. The
| odOre Roosevelt has good reason to rank
himself in the list of mOther-made men.
| His father, who was a big, slow, silent
| man, something burgher-like in manner
and speech, left the control of the children
very much to his wife, a rarely beautiful
woman, black haired, blue eyed and with
| a complexion Of the most exquisite fair
ness. Prominently a social leader, she
| was, of course, very much occupied, but
| nothing ever came between her and look
| ing ever came between her and looking
| after her two boys, Teddy and Eliot. Even
when lessons were done and the family
away for summer holidays, she made them
Systematically study-not books, but
things.
Each OF the lads had to fetch her every
morning a composition describing some
| natural object, or phenomena, observed
the day before. She insisted not merely
| upon accuracy, but acuteness. Nothing
! was too great nor to small 10 serve as an
occasion. Once, when their summer home
was upon the Hudson, il had wide vine-
shaded piazza. The vines were the haunt
of many birds aud insects, whose doings
the young litterateurs religiously reported
Several Of the birds built nests in the
vines. When the other things had been
duly set down. Teddy undertook the nests,
III was then hardly 10 years old, but filled
several sheets. This bird built with bark
and straw, that one with stick and string
a third had a Partially for hairs and
wool, fourth used whatever came to
beak, while other very tiny fellows, waro-
lers and hummiug birds would have moth
ing but down and moss. He also noted
that some of the birds divided the weari-
ness of Breeding with their wives, that
others fed and sang to their mates upon
the nest, but did not relieve them. WHAT
struck him most forcibly, however was
the birds habit Of e-cleaning-of PICK
ing up and throwing out the droppngs Of
their young, so as to keep the nests in
good condition.
His mother read everything and praised
where praise was judicious. Otter she saw
things which made her smile, but she pr
The smile hidden from her little lads She
was very fond of life in the open and par
ticuarly Of driving four-in-hand. but her
coach had 10 wait no matter what its deS-
ination, If ii came TO the door before she
was through reading over the work of her
sons and giving judgment on it.
A great many papers are written now
adays with regard TO the decoration of
the home, and especially of the girls
ROOM She is told how to make curtains,
divans cushions, tides pillow shams and
bed quilts; how to dispose of knots OF
ribbon and how to cover her toilet table,
with bright trihes that make il seem
luxurious as possible. But the question
of how to take care of the room after
she has adorned it is too often lefS to
the individual perception of neatness and
order; and the individual perception, we
are sorry to say, does not always succeed
in keeping the room in an ideal state.
The very first essential for a girls room
is not decoration, but perfect purity and
cleanliness. There should be absolutely
nothing crowded into the corners of the
closet or tucked away under the bed.
Every girl should take some leisure hour
and eift out of the room all che things
that are not necessary to the daily life.
Soiled bed linen is none the cleaner for
being hidden under the lace Counterpart
or embroidered pillow shams. Avoid, if
I ossible, carpet upon the sleeping room;
# gathers lint and dust. If the floor must
be covered, let it be with mating, or
with rugs that can be easily lifted, so that
the floor may be wiped regularly and
kept thoroughly free from dust.
If the habit of keeping garments in
perfect order is acquired, the beauty of
that order goes all through the after life.
Have enough; not too much; no over
crowded DRIVERS or closets, with six gar
ments on one nail; no crammed boxes or
stuffy. crowded corners; no dirt or dark
ness. or disorder.
In taking about MIS-. Emmons Blaine
and the servant question the other day,
Miss Grace Dodge, says the New York
Times, dwelt upon her belief thai the
mistress needed to be educated, and then,
if she gave a proper consideration to her
enployes-sc netting more than hui
manitarian feeling, a real sisterliness-
there would be no servant trouble. Il
have been connected with several train
ing schools for servants" she said but
! have never had half the interest in
them that 1 have in training school for
mistresses. | have known girls who
have been well trained to have their in
struction brought to ,nothng by being
placed with incompetent mstresses. The
mistresses have no idea of the work
that is to be DONE and they ask mpossi-
BILE things of the servants. Servants are
also often improperly housed. I know OF
one family where all the servants sleep
in the rooms between the family, dining
room in the basement and the kitchen.
They have neither light nor air, and
don't know how they ever have chance
to battle ! believe in making things
plea ant for them, giving them pictures
and books and magazines and those
when they are new and not a month old,
giving them to understand that they may
take them If they will only replace them
when they have finished reading
Sleep defrauded of its rightful time and
place Is apr 10 assert ks lbNNi at iAAos9t III
convenient seasons. Every one knows,
says the New York Tribune. how Also
lutely overpowering is the exhaustion that
follows a continuous curtailment of Inc
natural hours of repCse and what agony
Il is to have TO struggle against the lead
en- fingers OF Morpheus which press down
our eyelids with irresistible power just AT
the time when we most desire 10 be alert
and interesting.
A rather amusing incident apropos OF
this happened at one of the favorte plays
of the season this winter. A man who
greatly admired a certain young woman
gave a theater party in her honor, takiog
one of the largest and most expensive
boxes that could be had for the purpose
| and invited only the persons she SUCCESS
cd For two or three consecutive nishts
| preceding the party the girl had been up
| until the "wee sma hours at a series Of
dances So naturally on this particular
evening she was completely tired out. At
| the dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria, which
preceded the performance, she felt st1pi l.
! bus IL was not until she had taken her
! seat in the box that the agony Of sleep al