The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-29

lean woman who does not know some
thing and that something accurately, on
variety of subjects, ordinary and alb
struse Your partner will argue with
skill and acumen. never dogmatically, AMI
will end by making you as pleased with
yourself she very likely is with her
self.
Then the host and hostess do their ut
most TO make the conversation amusing
take all around. Whenever we drove
home from an American dinner party
there was but one remark. What de
lightful evening
American women love to congregate and
discuss matters dear and interesting 10
them. They never waste time or frivol.
A pretty story is told about the child
hood Of Princess Charles of Denmark.
When she was quite a little thing a lady
once asked her if there was any truth in
story which stated that the Princess of
Wales had once PUBLICLY boxed a street
n abs cars because he was i'll treating
kitttn n? The little Princess Maud replied
frankly: "Oh, no. l don't think it's true;
but it's just what mamma would have
wanted to do.
Too much polite attention, says the New
York Tribune, and an excess OF manners
are exceedingly tiresome, just as a sur
felt of sweetness is cloying to the palate
and there is a good deal of danger that
the little girls who are generally COM
mended for their pretty manners" may
grow up Self-conscious and rather bore
some.
81 do detest 'sweety, sweety girl ex-
claimed lively society woman recently
And it is easy to imagine the kind of
young person to whom the newly coined
adjective might have reference, and how
! the obvious efforts to please of such
society aspirant might irritate one OF
the frank hammered women Of the world
of to-day. On the other hand, rough, hoy
denish manners are undoubtedly even
worse and it behooves a mother who is
training her daughter 10 be a social sue
cess to steer clear of this Scylle on the
one hand and Charybdis on the other
rocks that might wreck her chances of
popularity if she swerves to either ex-
IRENE.
1t is apparent that society at present
resents self of every sort.
The old days of gentility and fine man
ners have been completely relegated 20
the past, and one cannot deny that their
substitutes-kindly franknesS an good
humored tolerance-are more attractive,
and the theory is that one should not
| have the veneer of good manners but the
actual manners themselves, which, of
course, is the correct idea, but one which,
owing to the selfishness and indifference
| of our mondaines, Is NOT always appar-
| ent.
But to return TO the subject, too much
manners on the part of a young girl is a
| mistake 1t is all very well to rise, for
| instance, when an older women enters the
room but remain standing or 60 jump
up whenever she moves IS annoying. Ex-
IRENE difference shown to women by 9th
| ers not much younger than themselves Is
often resented by the former as empha-
sizing a difference that does not exist.
At a debutante dinner recently the hos
tess literally could not get some of the
girls out of the room, as they had been
| taught that they should not precede an
older woman; they had not gained suf-
ner the hostess always goes last so they
stood aside and huddled together at the
| door with what they thought, poor things,
extremely good manners. In vain Mrs. A
| motioned to them to go forward; they
| c uld not think of going ahead of her, so
with a shrug of her shoulders and a com
Sical little grimace for the benefit of the
| Young man who had opened the door
| she walked ahead and left the overpunc-
| tlious damsels to follow IS best they
| could.
| What is that model" asked fashion
| able woman of a well-known dressmaker
| pointing to a shrouded figure standing in
| the corner. The French woman, says the