The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-04

explained what they had done Together
they climbed to The loft, opened the door
of the chair and found the demure-look-
ing bride, long imprisoned and half-starv-
ed, but stil appearing TO her best advant-
age in her beautiful bridal gown The
| bride appeared to have known that she
was being carried backward and forward.
| but could not protest, because 1t is the
custom for brides not to open their lips
till the marriage ceremony is performed.
Hence all the trouble.
Dost thou true love me? Speak!
| While thy two hands in mine | hold
And bend my eyes thy two to seek
Brown eyes, shot through with gold
So deep, that, as | take thy kiss
| wonder with a sharp surprise
If other love has taught thee this
And left its shadow in thine eyes.
All. sweet, come back and take thy chair
And l, my DEAR win not distress;
Come. let me wind that mass of hair,
I will no more thy secrets guess.
Yet, if to me thou had'st been colder
Ia not now know this aching pain,
| But wish with wishing bold and holder
| The joy thou mayst not give again.
For, child, it is a wolnan's mission
To hold her lamp full far away.
And answer to loves sad petition
With promise of a dearer day
For if too soon loves hurt il ind
Mans breast grows chill to lovers signs,
And asks forever of the mind
If aught but pain in loving lies;
And when at last loves f8dlng dame
Burns low to dim andsdyins Aght.
He waits, scarce knowing its sad shame.
To see it flick and go out quite.
But, dear, come back and take thy chair!
We knew our spirits in duress
Come backF I'm waiting on the stair
And listening for thy dress.
Anita Fitch in the Criterion.
"And then best of an" she said. "you
don't have the horrible servant question
staring you in the face from morning IN
Ill night"
Il don't have what?'' exclaimed the
country mouse. II don't have what?"
ANY servant question" said the city
mouse, rather taken aback Il really
didn't think you did, you know. There
are so few people who want really good
servants in the wilderness that there is
not or, anyway, don't care what you say,
there ought not to be any great competi-
ton for them. And there ought to be lots
of farmers girls who are glad to have
employment in a nice house and to learn
| how to do things nicely"
The country mouse, says the New York
Sun, sat up very straight in her chair and
looked straight out of the window into the
distance, as though she We're in a trance.
She spoke not rapidly, but with terrific in
tensity.
Listen, please" she said Listen and
learn. Learn not TO speak lightly of sol
emn and unknown things Learn why we
are at this minute living in a New York
hotel, away beyond our income? Learn
the why and the whence of those two
hTf -l.T~g
OF the corner of your eye-all right my
dear, but please don't interrupt-out of
the corner Of your eye ever since | came
j 80 the room. Listen:
Just three weeks ago tonight we gave
a dinner Il was the first dinner / had
dared to try TO give for six menths, since
Bridget married the conductor of the
morning mail train. Since then I have
had nineteen girls and every one Of them
mas been the worst kind OF failure. I
Won tell you all the reasons 1t would
be too dismal. But at last Prudence came.
was a good deal more doubtful about
prudence than | had been about the 9TH
ers, any of them, because she was so pref
~ and | had noticed her at church will
three different young men ! had a sneak
ing idea that all she wanted Of me was
to learn, as you suggested Just now. how
10 do things in nice way, with intent 10
make use Of that information in the near
men.
But she was really very anxious TO
learn, and everything seemed to be very
easy for her She seemed so much inter-
ested that / didn't mind very much her
taking an unusual amount of interest in
household affairs in which she did not
seem 70 be directly concerned; or her APP
parent feeling that ! was interested in her
ahairs more than / really was
Il told Peter after she had been In the
mouse two weeks that I really didn't care
to put it off another week. She was too
good to be true. I said We must give a
dinner at once before she was gone He
was glad enough to do it. 1t Just hap
pened that Mr.. O'Shaw. who is the real
mead OF the firm that printed his last book.
was al the Taylors And Uncle Thomas
was coming up a day or two to see as
ne SAID II there were any more pickerel
IN the pond Uncle Thomas Is an old dear
If he is as fussy as he Is rich, and Peter
IL his only nephew, and you can easily
Understand that we wanted to please him
Il did plan a beautiful dinner You
haven't any idea how much you can do In
the wilderness when there Is a loug-die-
stance telephone in the house and when
your grocer in Boston can put things on
the train for you In the morning that will
reach you the same evening. Prudence
was an angel I was a little afraid
about her because, without realizing H.
had spent great deal Of time in the kitch-
en- while / was breaking her In. IL was no
unsual thing for me TO get up in the mid
die Of the soup to go back and see how
Prudence was getting along with the fish
and so on through the dinner. IL annoy
ed Peter terribly. He said that it was
making her dependent But didn't think
so. thought 1t was wiser TO make sure
that she never should learn because OF
my neglect 10 do anything In the wrong
way. And had planned this dinner with