The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-13


sailing, bathing and fishing were excel
lent.
The house was a large one, and above
their bedrooms the hight of the roof sug
gested a large attic. although there ap
| peared no communicating staircase or Wis
ible means of entrance Only tiny win
dow up under the caves at one end of th'
| house showed that there must be a light
| ed garrett under the peak. That the in
| closed space was inhabited by rats Oh
| squirrels there cold be no manner of doubt
a fact which accounted for many inexpli
cable noises which were heard from time
10 time, and to which a first they paid
| little attention.
| Half in joke and half in earnest, how
| ever, the sisters began to call it the
haunted attic, and when one of them ask
| ed Mrs. White if there was not garrei
| in the house and received an evasiYe re-
| ply, they insisted, laughingly. that there
| was certainly a mystery They never
! dreamed, however, that their romantic
| fancies had any real foundation. So the
| pleasant summer wore on, without any
| particular interest, until toward the end
| Of August, when one night the family
! were startled by Shrek from one of the
| girls and on rushing to her room found
| her sitting up in bed sobbing with terror.
1T was a face" she gasped, the. face
of a terrible looking mani saw him dis
tinctly in the moonlight, looking into the
| room through the open WlndOW!
He must have climbed the tree, she
added flor there is no other way he could
have got there"
In vain they tried to quiet her nerves
and to convince her that her imagination
had played her a trick. She insisted upon
the truth of her story and spent the rest
of the night in her mothers room on the
other side of the house When Mrs. White
who occupied a room next to the kitchen
on the ground floor, was told of the &C.
currence early the next morning she SEEM
ed greatly troubled. Her face turned
white and she astonished them by running
into her room and shutting the door in
the face OF Mrs. A, who had followed
her.
What does 1t all mean?" exclaimed the
latter, greatly agitated in her turn. The
explanation was not long delayed. In a
few minutes Mr.. White rushed out again,
seized the horn with which she summoned
her husband from the fields, blew 1t loud
ly and then sank in a chair in a state
of terror and exhaustion that was pitiable
to see.
1T is my son." she gasped. 'I ought
TO have told you he has been out of his
head for several years. We fixed him up
comfortably in the attic, and our boarders
never knew. He came down through a
closet in my room and took his meals with
US, and in the day time he generally work
thought he was hired man. Before you
came in the spring he had an attack and
tried to kill his father; since then he has
been quiet and good again! but / always
was afraid, and now he's gonel He must
have got down by the tree in the night"
1t was not long before the poor fugitive
was overtaken and captured, and consign-
ed to the asylum, where he ought to have
been confined long before. The AS, at
the earnest request of Mrs White. re-
NAMED for the rest of the summer, there
being now no reason why they should not
do so. Eventually they bought the house
from the Whites and altered it into a pref
ty modern villa, but they left the old tree
and the atcic, and take great pride in hav-
ing house with true story of hor
rors.
When a man is presented to young
woman at a dance, says the Ladies' Home
Journal, he usually says almost at once
May have the pleasure of this dance? p"
After dancing and walking about the
rooms two or three times the young man
may take the girl back to her chaperon
and plead another engagement-or better,
she suggests that he take her TO her place
near her mother or chaperon.
The lady is the one to first intimate her
desire to stop dancing
If a man hold a girl too tightly she
should drop her hand from his shoulder,
so as to bring 1t between her partner and
herself. If he does not take the hint
| let her stop dancing at once under some
preteXt so evident that he may realize her
displeasure or J1fsapproval
A chaperon should not be lacking in
personal dignity; nor should she dance
while her charge is unprovided with a
partner.
A girl should be attentive to her mother
or her chaperon, presenting her friends
to her and occasionally stopping to say a
few words.
Both young Taea and iiis;5eas should be
careful TO remember that their dancing
engagements must be kept.
A girl must not refuse 60 dance with
one man under some pretext and then
dance with another; neither should she
dance with the same man more than two
or three times.
A young man invited to a house should
tiers of his hostess and pay them every
possible attention.
The Heart of the Tree
What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants friend of sun and sky;
He plants the flag of breezes free;
The shaft of beauty towering high;
He plants a home to heaven anigh
For song and mother-croon of bird
In hushed and happy twilight heard
The treble of heavens harmony
These things he plants who plants a tree.
What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants cool shade and tender rain,
And seed, and bud of days to be,
And years that fade and flush again;