The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-19
p. T. FOYE.

deal of each other" And she sailed eff
leaving her guest, who never dreamed
that she was expected to procure her own
invitations in a state of complete bewil-
derment and dismay-but she was quick
and clever, and proved her capability to
he a woman of fashion by grasping the
situation and conquering the difficulty.
AS her hostess was lunching out the
day after her arrival, she announced that
she would make some calls, and timing
her visits well, she found at home several
women of who's inequalities she had par
taken the winter before. To be stopping
with Mrs. - gave her the prestige she
knew instinctively 1t would. She return
ed home with sufficient number of in
vitations to prevent her seeming neglect
ed and on the whole her visit proved
agreeable.
But it might have been horrid," she
said afterward. IF l had not been what
my mother would have called decidedly
pushing. l would have been completely
left out, and might have Jared like one
of my friends, who was asked by her en-
tertainer after a few days of solitude il
she had no friends and who in very
self self-defense dined twice at a restau
rant during her visit"
What kind of a visitor are your"
frankly asked an up-to-date married WOO
man of young man acquaintance. Are
you the kind that always sits around and
expects TO be entertained. or do you look
out for yourself-join clubs, make your
own engagements and take yourself
about? If you are of the latter species
you may come and spend week with me
in August at Newport If you have nothing
better to do. 1 like to have people in
the house TO use them when 1 want them
but l cannot stand catering for their
amusement"
Why do all writers and takers on beau
ty conspire to neglect the most prominent
feature? We hear, says the Philadelphia
Times. a great deal about eyes. complex
ion, lips, hair, expression, even ears, but
very rarely anything at all about noses.
The heroine may have the most glorious
orbs in the world, but who would look at
her IL she hadn't nose? Whereas. IL
she had a good nose what an amount Of
sympathy she would command II she had
the misfortune to be blind as well. The
fact is THAI a person without a nose is
simply disgusting When Gaspard &c
Tavannes said 10 Queen Catherine de Nc
dlcis that at a word from her he would
ont off Diane de Poitiers' nose. he knew
what he was about. The favorite's reign
would not outlive this reduction Of her
charms Therefore, lea there be no more
Injustice to noses. Their prominence
should be recognized.
The Boston Daily Advertiser gives the
following account OF the diagnosis which
DR. Mary Halves made OF her own case.
She was a physician in the City Hospital
at Cincinnati:
Eyes. l will look" said DR.. Mary Halves,
as she stood before the keenly polished mi
croscope yesterday In the laboratory Of the
City Hospital.
There was one little drop of sputum on
the glass side. To put her eyes to the mi
croscope meant TO this delicate young wo-
man who had long since consecrated her.
self TO science, the story of her life-or
death. She had labored tirelessy In the
consumptive ward and her own symptoms
became suddenly startling. Bacteriology
was her speciality; she had passed upon
countless cases Of tuberculosis without an
error. She had by her experiments and
diagnosis answered the question OF life or
death for hundreds OF consumphve pa
tents.
Then came her own weakness, pallor, fe-
yer. dough and pain. She had resolved 10
test her own case for herself. The drop
~ sputum was as carefully adjusted on the
sIide as II Il had been for the humblest
natIent. The light was 1u.. right, the
lenses were adjusted---it only meant a look
10 tell whether she was doomed or not.
She looked.
There was no tremor Of her honds, no