The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-11

| enough TO form a kingdom, of mines Of
| stlver rich enough TO support il. and her
| ieets carry her merchandise into all seas,
| Mrs. Lille Deyereux Blake says the
| New York Tribune settled the question
| of polygamy in Utah the other day. They
were having a discussion upon Mormon
| ism at the Society for Political Study.
| Most of the speakers had decided that the
| Mormons were q nice sort of people, quiet,
| and laW-abiding except in the one respect
| that they did practice polygamy. and that
| while II he'd been crossed off the Church
records TO enable Utah TO became a state,
| the elders countenanced it, and it was
| quietly practised, poygamous wives being
often called by their maiden names to
hide the fact that they belonged to a
| numerous family of wives. But it took
| Mrs. Blake to decide that poygamy is to
| be practice OF short duration.
| Why, 1t can't stand she said in her
| convincing tones There is a man and
a half to every woman in Uteh. There
| are not enough women to go around with
/ only one wife to a husband. aud when the
young men Qua there decide to get mar
ried and find there are no wives to be
had there is going to be a stop put 20
/ the selfish practice of one man having
half dozen better sixths. ."
This scarcity of women in Utah ac-
counts for the expeditions that have been
made by emissaries of the Mormon elders
, on PROSECUTING expeditions TO New York
| and other parts of the East. They have
! been interrupted at the barge office here
| when they have been attempting to con-
vert newly arrived young women. 1t is
! always women they desire 10 convert and
never men, This may be in the ecstacy
OF their religious zeal, because no woman
! wi a
husband to speak for her, and the mon
! can get in on their own rocognizance but
| it looks as II they We're afraid if they d'1
not imuort wives the bachelor young
men of their own part of the country
! would hove something 10 say as to who
should claim the few possible helpmeels
in Utah.
Tho masculine characteristics, as well
! as the feminine, says the New York Tri-
! bune, begin to show themselves at an
early age There are a small boy and girl in
the city who in a conversation the other
! day showed this very noticea bly, They
ere particularly bright children a little
sou end daughter of clever parents, who
! talk to the children very much as they
would to older people. So when in talk
| iro together the other day something was
| mentioned which they did not understand.
| tho children Immediately proceeded 10
discuss the pros and cons.
| The little girl is Z ard the boy a cou-
pie of years younger The former has
| habit while she Is dressing OF talking to
! herself. Arm. so in" she will sey. as
| she puts on one garment and Foot. go
in as she puts on another The small
boy had noticed this, and spoke to her
about it,
why do YOU say Foot go in and
Arm, so in?' he asked. Why don't YOU
say Me go in?"
why it isn't me that goes in" re-
| piled the small girl; lit is just nv foot
or my arm. What is me anyway" The
small boy thought earnestly for q mo-
ment
Why. me is your head and stomach"
| he finally answered.
No said the small girl 4 think me
is your head and heart" Which proves
positively that even in early years the ego
of the man is his stomach and that of the
woman her heart.
There is no denying the fact, says the
New York Tribune, that the gambling
spirit is rife in society in these latter DAYS.
Bridge whist, which is equal 10 poker in
its unexpected turns of fortune. has al
| most entirely superseded the scientific
game which depended on the skin of the
players for its interest, irrespective of the
stakes involved. The cid fashioned idea
that II was wrong TO play for money al
all has been changed In modern ethics 10
the more elastic code which merely seeks
TO impress upon the younger generation
that II Is wrong to play for what you can
not afford to pay Now even the young
est children require some excitement in
the way of candy wager to give zest TO
their round games.
Some discussion over trick arose
| among party of little ones who were
playing hearts" In an up to date nursery
a few days ago. The disputauts grew
eager and angry over the point at issue,
whereupon to the visitors great amuse-
ment, a tiny lot of five remarked philo-
sophically Bobby and Jennie are Stiles
to mind; we weren't playing for any
thing"
This spirit OF gambling, however does
not confine itself 10 cards alone. The &C.
tive stock market has tempted many socie-
~ women during the last year to try
| fnanciering, and at modern luncheon ia
bles the latest Information from the ticker
and the various losses and gains 10 their
acquaintances are discussed as eagerly as
| at the downtown restaurants
Il send my maid out every morning for
( the opening quotations." said a girl of 20
TO man who took her in to dinner the
other evening. Il study them all the time
while she is doing my hair. How have l
come out2 Wen, about even so far.
made a good deal a few months ago, but
lately have lost. 1t is the greatest fun.
have to do it all out Of my own pin mon
CIV. but Dot Of US have made pool. 50