The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11

has been guilty of an unkindliness toward
| her own child which may be life lasting
| in its unhappy influences. Many mothers
will be ready to meet this argument or
course with the excuse that there will be
| plenty of time later for the study of
| housekeeping; but the later is very apt
TO prove too late for the thorough knowl-
edge that will insure home happiness.
New Brunswick ". j., comes to the
front with a new method of passing time.
1t is on the order Of an experience meet
ing at revival, save that the testimony
relates to matrimony and not religion.
The plan, says the New York Journal,
was originated by members of the Ep-
worth League, a religious organization
and the entertainment was given in St.
| James NJ. +. Church
Six young women and an equal num-
Der of young men were seated on the
| stage. The audience did not know what
they were going to DO, and the surprise
| was great when Miss Angie Wray one
| Of the most popular church workers in
the city, got up and announced that she
| was going to tell why she never had been
| married.
Her reason was that she believed that
she had higher and nobler mission in
| life than to be a shaving wife. Just what
| that mission is she has been unable to
| determine.
The observation of Miss Fanny Lyons
| led her to believe, she said, that all men
are tricky, and she did not propose to let
one of the tricky creatures entrap her
into marriage Miss Lyons seemed to be
| afraid that if she took some mans name
he would make her support the family
The man loved by Miss Anna Ficke had
| failed up to date to reciprocate. Miss
Mary Biles had a different experience.
She was loved by two, John and Charlie,
and hesitated so long about choosing that
John married another girl. Then Charlie
| up and died.
Failure to agree with her sweetheart
| about the color OF the wall paper they
were to have in the dining room robbed
| Miss Mamie Solomon of a happy home.
| Nobody ever asked Alice jackson to mar
~. That was her reason for being in the
! maiden class
| The young men We're disposed to be
| facetfouS Robert Lawrence puts a high
value on himself and has been unable to
| meet a girl he thinks would appreciate
| him. The fact that he has fourteen sis
| tiers has kept Edward Hubbard out of the
| matrimonial field. He knows women too
| well.
| James Quakenvoss had hard luck He
| could almost hear the wedding bells ring
ing when the girls papa stepped in and
| said, like the villain in the drama:
| Il forbid the bans"
Deep anxiety to wed has marked the
|
| males have not manifested anxiety to
| accompany him to the altar. The cost of
| sustaining family has kept William Ii
| tus a bachelor, and sheed inability to find
| a girl who would say yes was the rea-
| son for single blessedness given by Paul
| Strohauer.
AT this the young men proposed to the
young ladies en- masse and were accepted.
| The young people walked off the stage
| to the music of wedding march, while
| DR. Miller, the pastor, followed them. The
| six marriages did not come off as sched-
uled, but it is whispered that some we'd
| dings will result from the entertainment.
There is still living in Washington one
| who was the favorte child of the White
| House when her mother was directing the
! social side of the administration of An
! drew Jackson. This woman, says the New
| York Sun, although advanced in years.
| gave a whist party at her home in Wash
| ington a few evenings ago. The entertain
ment lasted until o clock in the morning
| and the hostess stood and babe her guests
| good-morning. She did not complain of feel-
ing weary. but on the contrary was as an
| mated in manner and conversation as her
| daughter.
Mrs. Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox is
| the daughter of Andrew Jackson Donel-
son, nephew of Andrew jackson. When
Mrs. Jackson was i'll jackson invited his
|
| House to live. While they We're there
| Mary Emily Donelson was born. She was
the second child born in the historic build
! nging; the first was her sister. She be-
came the favorite of Jackson, and was
! christened in the White House. 1t oc-
| CURED in the east room Jackson held
her in his arms and one of the Witnesses
was r. e. Lee, then a lieutenant in the
| army. After the death of Mrs jackson,
Mrs. Donelson was in charge of the social
| affairs of the White House until Jack
sons last adne istration closed
Mrs. Wilcox was known in Washington
society in her childhood as the Sunshine
| of the White House" That name was
| bestowed upon her by Jackson. She and
her sister had their places at the presiden-
tial table, and in order to get them there
on time Jackson restorted to a bit of
| strategy. He usually had a box of candy
al his pate and the first child to ger to
her place received the prize. The conse-
| queuce was that, in the words of Mrs.
| Wilcox, there was always a footrace 10
| the table
r When the cornerstone of the treasury
| building was laid Jackson, who selected
the site, contributed several artic,e9 to the
box placed in the cornerstone One was
| a curl which he cut from the head OF
| Sunshine" When Jackson returned to
| the Hermitage Sunshine" went with him
Speaking of her life there. Mrs. Wilcox
says: when Jackson retired to the Her
| mitage he received many newspapers by
| the daily stage. Me had a box on the
| road, some distance from The house, and
| the stage always stopped there to de-
| liver his mail. Some of the newspapers
| sent to him were still unfriendly. He
| told us which papers did not like him,
| and that we were not tON bring them to
him. / asked him what we should do
| with them, and he replied. oh, make
kites out of them and that was what
| we did"
| When Mr.. Donelson was appointed min
| lister to Prussia by President Polk his chill
| dren went abroad with him. They re-
| turned from Europe in 1851. and soon after
| Sunshine" married Gen. John II. Will
| COX, then member of Congress from Mis-
| sissippi. The wedding was to have been
| In The Mhiie House. but u was learned