The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21


ever, for the carriage whisked her quick
ly home again after she had seen the
young lady inside and helped her off with
her wraps, because there was a great deal
of sewing to be done and the time of "A
long opera performance could not be vast
ed. She had blouses to remodel, skirts to
be re-edged with VelVeteen, laces to smart
en- up and make moderate wardrobe put
on good an appearance as an elaborate
one. There was always sewing TO do
When ii was time for the opera to close
she was whisked back again to act as
maid for her young mistress Other times
she performed maids duties were when
there were young women coming as guests
to the house. Then the common little robes
de chambre of the young lady of the
house, more shabby than those of the
little maid herself We're packed away out
of sight there was an elaborate one
brought out for the occasion, and the little
maid brushed her mistress hair, undress-
ed her, put her into the elaborate robe
de chambre, after the manner Of an ac-
complished lady's maid and in a way that
made the guests consider her a posses
sion to be envied. She was, undoubtedly,
If she could have been kept. She stayed
two months and a half, earned $50, which,
with little help from friends, purchased
her a nice little wedding outfit, and now
she is in the period of living happy ever
after.
She never regretted her experience.
though she worked hard to gain It, as
well the money. It was a revelation of
the effort some people make to keep up
a good appearance with the many demands
upon the purse any degree of social life
in New York necessitates. II is said that
there are many people i'm the city living
in that way Ii is not generally known,
of course, for theirs great effort in life is
TO keep it from being Known Some peo-
pie would not think the effort worth while,
but If these do and are willing to pay
the price of a continual struggle, no one
else surely need complain.
The pretty woman has her woes as well
as her palmer sister
do you know, | think that plain wo-
men have the best of it after all" remark
ed woman who Is SO uhdeniably pretty
that she can afford 10 talk despondently
about it. Take the woman in business,
for instance. Who would worry about
pretty Woman's success? A man admires
her for her appearance or else doesn't
think about her. His sense of chivalry
isn't troubled, because he thinks every
one else will be nice and considerate to
a pretty girl. AS far as business is con-
cerned, he doesn't think about her at all.
He considers, on principle. that a pretty
woman isn't useful or clever. On the
other hand, a very plain woman, who has
neither beauty, style nor manner, is apt
to rouse his sympathy She may not want
it, of course, but he unconsciously thinks.
We'll, here's a girl with odds against
her. I'll give her a chance If she proves
clever ii doesn't come as much a sur
prise as when the pretty woman proves
that she is not entirely devoid of intel
ligence. Then men dstrust the pretty
woman and women envy her and she al
ways gets credit for being designing aud
vain, whether she is or not. All of this
does not render her position In life very
genial, if she is poor and comparatively
Q ore in the world, and If she adds graces
of mind and charm of manner to beauty
of face and figure she is not apt TO make
many well meaning friends"
Seems to me you are rather bitter this
morning." observed the pretty woman's
friend. (which 'spiteful cat has been
eriticising you now, 1 wonder?'
None. They don't bother me very
much. 1 was just thinking of the trials
and woes l have had which are directly
traceable to what people call my piquante
face If ! were handsome it would be
different l could be majestic and awe
inspiring then, but am only just orna-
mental enough 10 look useless in an Of
flee or a schoolroom and not sufficiently
dazzling 10 pose as professional beau
ty. l don't care to be a typewriter or
go on the stage, and in all other profess
sions good looks seem TO be drawback.
l mean II. They may enable one TO get
positions easily. But do they help one
10 keep them? I tried teaching small chill
dren once Their mother accused me OF
flirting with her husbaud-Aa short, stout,
apoplectic man of j0-because he remark
ed in her hearing that | was a fine-look-
ing girl. Men-the most of men whom my
sisters have married-don't marry really
pretty girls. They marry plain girls with
pretty points, girls whose looks depend a
great deal upon the way they dress their
hair or put on their clothes. The average
man fights shy Of a beautiful wife ]
shall probably end by marrying an old
gentleman who wants an attractive per-
son to preside al his dinner table"
And then she sighed and put on her hat
without looking in the mirror.
One gets an idea sometimes. saws the
New York Times, that only women do stu
pid things in travelling around the city.
In all the stories told of unreasonable
people women, are the chief performers
But man did "A stupid thing the other
day. and he considers it funny enough to
tell the story on himself, He is a Brook
Ign man, and, attending an entertainment
In New York, II was between and in
the morning when he reached the bridge
to take a car for home. The bridge Is a
busy place all night, but from 2:3O to $3.50
II Is as quiet as II ever Is, that being the
time when the people who have been
spending the evening In New York have
gone home and before those who work all
night begin to get around. During that
short time tho cars do not run regularly
and no one Is quite sure about anything
in the way of transportati ton. That night
there were three cars on one track, but
none of them the one the man wanted.
However, a conductor told him TO board
hfa car and ha would ba transferred. He