The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-09

"A householder in London recently no.
ticed that mis- cook had stuck up in her
kitchen map of South Africa, with the
British possessions colored red the Trans
vaal brown, the Orange Free State yell
low, and Portuguese territory green. do
you take an interest in the war, Mary?'
he asked. NO, sir" replied the cook
but 1 mean to ave a skirt like that
brown bit, and blouses dixie them other
colors; and I'm just keepin' the map to
match the patterns with when 1 get a
hevenin hoff, sir!'
1t is the custom in Cincinnati to ring
out the old year and ring in the new year
by tapping the numerals of the years on
the fire bells. On the evening of Dec. 81
all prepare tions had been made to carry
Out the custom and the firemen were wait
ing for midnight. Then some curious per-
son asked how the men would ring 1900
Everybody was stuck. After a good deal
of puzzling over an apparent impossible
ity, the desperate ringers decided to ring
one, then nine and then ring the bells too
vigorously for any very particular person
10 count the stroke.
Another deprivation that must always
be sadly felt" writes an American woman
in Manila, lis the lack of fresh fruit ana
sweet milk. There is not such thing as
a berry of any sort, cherry or any small
fruit The insipid banana, The mango APP
pie and mango stems are plentiful, it is
true and in the way of vegetables lettuce,
tomatoes, cucumbers and poor quality
of sweet corn may be had. and, as mat
Ter of course, anything and everything
that is canned, but what woman who her
self puts up her own fruit, or superviseS
it, will eat timed denominations or is will
ling to use condensed milk? Nearly all
tales of foreign countries leave one in the
same frame of mind that characterized the
Scotchman from PEBBLES, who. after Wis
iting Glasgow and Edinburgh said: "They
may be gran, yon cities; l dinna doot it
but PEBBLES for me! "
A dispatch dated New York Feb. 2,
says: Milton Rathbun. Fourth avenue
merchant, who believes in fasting as
curative agent for many ills, has not tast-
ed food for twelve days and to-day an
nounced his intention of continuing his
fast until March /. According to Mr..
Rathbun the brain, and not the stomach,
is the source from which a human being
derives energy, and his fast which is the
second one he has undertaken within
year, is intended for the double purpose
of reducing his own weight and demon
strating to the medical world and the gen
eral public the value of an occasional fast
to restore the body to healthy conditions.
In his first fast Mr.. Rathbun abstained
from food for twenty-eight days, begin
ming April %, 1899, and reduced his weight
from 210 to l6S pounds, a loss of forty two
pounds He declared that he felt no i'll
effects from his experience. He said to-
day: Il began fasting on Jan. %. This
IS the twelfth day. 1 have not taken
nourishment of any kind, have not touch
ed stimulants and the only thing that
passes my lips is water. l lose about
two and half pounds in weight each
day but l regain some of that at night
from the water / drink"
Going back into the history of shoes
one reaches the sandal, with all its varia-
tons, as worn by the Greeks and Romans,
and the primitive boot or buskin-fore-
runner of the laced boot of to-day-some-
times made like a sandal with a leg
piece, and sometimes covering the foot;
then come the hide shoes with leather ties
and fancy fronts. Early Britons wore
shoes of raw hide. with the hairy surface
outward. The Anglo-SaXons showed an
advance, for they were black and laced by
leather thong; then came what might al
most be termed the bag-shoe of the Me
rovingian period tied round the ankle,
similar easy sort of covering obtained in
| Germany, and so by gradual stages from
| the medieval shoes to the poulaine shoes,
| a queer early German specimen, the band
| round the ankle being of engraved brass.
| The Irish shoe of early date is worthy
| Oh DOlt cS lOI many years lIG IIlSl went
not only bare-footed, but bare-legged,
| while their bodies We're most gorgeOusly
| arrayed, A reaction set in at last against
| the poulaine and Wide-toed shoes became
| the mode, carried eventually to such an
| outrag eOus pitch that they widened out
| side the sphere of their first name of
| ducks bill, and exceeded a foot in width
during the reign of Henry VIII, and con
| temporaneously in Germany. Longing for
| hight again asserted itself and found eX-
| preston in the Louis heel, which, during
| the sixteenth and early seventeenth cen
| turtles, once more sent the wearers on to
| their toe point. Yet they We're extremely
| pretty-these shoes. Some of them, how
| ever We're of a terrible extreme type.
! Travellers in the Lower Pyrenees know the
| curious peasant sabot and sandal; other
| wooden shoes and sabots are relics of
| wealthy bourgeois past in France when
| the middle-class DANES were as keen as
| their betters in their desire for pretty
things, sumptuary laws Notwithstanding.
! Napoleon's shoe, preserved in the Cluny
| Museum is representative of the fiat sole
of his time, al also is the curious heel
of the yellow silk slipper worn by Nine de
Pompadour, which demonstrates also a
transition period.
Mature is economical as well as wise
When she puts animals in dark places
where they need no eyes eyeless they are
There are blind fish and insects ana spiders
in Mammoth cave and in the Adelsbarg
cave in Carnola there is the ohm, a sin
gular reptile with queer punches of glls
three claws to its feet and minute and
eyeess eyes beneath the skin. Cave
dwelling animals also lose their cooring
so we have wonderful white beetles and
spiders, the last named curiOusly enough
still weaving their webs. An interesting
adapton is found in the case of the blind
crabs found in deep soundings. The stalks
that normally carry the eyes of crabs and
Holsters are in their cases modified into
sensitive antennae. Our own mole and
bat are usually considered blind but they
are not There is, it is true, a variety of
mole in the south of Europe which has
its eyes under it's skin, but in the mole
we know the eyes are minute simply 10
save it pain when it burrows in the earth
In like manner the elephant has tiny eyes
and so avoids scratching when lumber
ing through the jungle. As for bats no