The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-15

of visitors Without his comm nds to
back them up the family that attempts
the innovation invites and gets ostracsm
of the neighborhood for no short time. l
would not bethOught 10 decry the good,
sensible, self-denying neighbor nurse VINO
in almost all rural communities and in
homes of slender means everywhere must
supply the place of the trained nurse
when the homo force is not sufficient to
properly care for a patient. God alone
knows the extent of her usefulness or can
adequately reward her. Only cneertully
sympathetic society is a benefit to con-
valescents, and that kind like medicine,
only al proper intervals and in right
amount. In fact. so much dep5n1s vi on
the mood and manner of the visitor tfat
one might almost advise the patient to OBJ
serve the caution that IS affixed 10 some
prescriptions, Shake well before using
She was pretty, slender young wo-
man, says the New York Times, who was
having her picture taken" and he was
photographer of resources. She was wear
ing a decolletee gown. and in the picture
hat just a bit of the upper part Of the arm
would show. 1t was a pretty arm. but 1t
was just possible that in picture where
outlines would count largely in the effect
il would appear too slender.
Il just know said the girl, in the voice
of one who has a real grievance, that 1
shall look like a rail in the picture. l am
not so thin, but then I am not very fat,
of course, and my arm is sure to look like
a broomstick.
Not bit of it," said the photographer;
Gust take this and see the effect"
This was a soft rubber ball which the
young woman placed under the arm that
was TO be taken" and with a wee bit of
pressure ii pumped out the flesh on either
side beautifully, and now ali the sender
girls in that set are going to that photog-
rapher to be photographed.
Here is new veil for you, Annie."
exclaimed, says the New York Tribune.
well preserved good looking, middle
aged woman to her niece, throwing her
a fimsy bit of the fashionable gauze COW
cred with occasional large spots, which
are just now so much in vogue. Per
haps you can manage these cOquettish
dots, which are so apt to slip, giving one
an unnatural scowl knocking out a front
tooth, or accentuating in ridiculous
manner the end of ones nose. | must
confess that at my age I object to run
ming any risk of being made ridiculous
II bought this veil yesterday, thinkir z
that with my white hair it would look
quite chic. l put it carefully on before
the glass, getting every spot in O be-
coming place, and then went to Mrs. A 5
luncheon. OF course, l had to push up
my veil to eat and afterward pulled it
down and thought no more a bout it. From
the luncheon I went on to make soma
calls, and ended the afternoon by attend
ing several at homes. Taking it oil in
all. l saw about every one / knew. When
1 reached home l went up to the library
fire, and, as l have a habit of doing,
rested my foot on the fender to warm il,
and examined my appearance in the mir
ror above the mantel. smiling as l did
so at some remark of your cousin, who
was i'm the room. Well. l assure you
started back in momentary fright, Not
only was one tooth apparently gone, as
1 have said Qhe black spot giving the
exact semblance of a hole) bur another
spot covered the white of one side of an
eye. so that the result was to make me
look quite crosseyed. The illusion was
so apparent that when l turned 20 Nelly,
saying, tragically, Look at the effect OF
your "coquettish dots!" she went off into
shrieks of laughter, and on my Offering
to give it to her she refused, saying that
since I had shown her the possible re-
suits she would not dare to wear it.
thought it my duty to warn YOU, but per-
haps you can manage to fasten it in the
place it should stay. in which case the
big black dots will be really most becom-
ing"