The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04

to pose as a martyr because he seeks
elsewhere the pleasure he doesn't ma at
| home? II you shut yourself up IN your
| own interests, what earthly reason nave
you to complain because peop.e let you
alone? Nobody goes about pryng open
! clam. shells unless there Is at least a mint
| of something worth having inside
! If the various blunders that are made
| every season in regard to social functions
We're chronicled they would make an
amusing collection. Mistakes about dn-
! ners, says the New York Tribune, seem
| especially liable 10 occur, and many an
/ awkward situation has resulted from a
| trivial error on the part OF either the
| sender or recipient in the wording or
! reading of an invitation. The habit they
/ have in London especially of asking their
/ guests as much as four or five weeks
| ahead has been pitfall to more than one
| unwary American, who is not accustomed
! at home 20 such magnificent distances
| Sometimes however, a mistake Is not
| such a bad thing.
Il really owe my good time in Eng
land" said an American woman, "to a
| misunderstanding that mortified me terri
| bly, at the time, but that had the most de-
| lightful results. We had few good let
| ters TO people in London. and among 9th
ers one 10 the Duchess of -, which We
left with our cards A few days later
I
Duchess. together with a large, square,
| imposing invitation for a dinner II was
several weeks ahead, and / entered ID cor
rectly as 1 thought in my memorandum
book
Soon after we concluded 10 go over to
Paris and return later on for what socia!
functions We could succeed in obtaining
invitations for We did not expect how
ever. to have more than a glimpse OF
English society. In some way, in chang
ing domiciles several times, the card for
the ducal dinner was lost, but as l had
put down the date / did not worry about
it, On the night designated dressed my
self in my best Partisan gown, and We
proceeded to - House. Our courier rang
the bell and returned, as usual, TO open
the carriage door. and without any mis-
giving we ascended the steps and reached
the entrance just as the heavy portal was
opened by a footman. Something, per-
haps a want of light or the peculiar man
ner of the servant who half hesitated as
I swept by him into the hail, gave me
sudden feeling of fright
Surely this must be the right night
| said, apprehensively to my husband.
Whereupon the servant said, respec fully:
% 4 think there is mistake, ma am;
Their Graces dine alone this evening.
by this time our carria ges had left us,
and as stood there IN an agony of
confusion a man crossed the hall. took
in the situation, and came forward with
the k1naest courtesy. He introduced him
self as the Duke of -, and insisted that
we should remain for a family dinner.
The Duchess was equally kind and friend
ly. and not only did we have a delightful
dinner but returned for the formal func-
ton week later and were introduced to
a number of desirable persons. Finally
we were invited to visit the Duchess after
the family returned to the country. You
fea1ro 10 he r. a g1,fa taG
piece of good luck that would have hap
pened to us"
When a mistake occurs a guest as a
rule is more apt to be i'm fault than the
hostess. But Mrs. B. modification may
be imagined when one evening as she
was sitting down with her husband to a
plain leg of mutton dinner she was start
led by the arrival of Mrs. A, a compara-
tive stranger, whom she had asked to
dinner, as she supposed, a couple of days
later Like two Well-bred women of tho
world, they both made the best of the sit
VA ton. each feeling sure that the other
was in fault This doubt was SET a rest
however, by the invitation itself, which
Mrs. IL. forwarded to Mrs. 3. the next
morning AID which showed that the lat
ter had herself written the wrong date.
There's a colony of bachelor maids in
a fat uptown, says the New York Sun.
months of their existence as such, been
enthusiastic over their condition of free
dom. one of them has paused, as ii We're.
to reflect. She has not said anything. but
she has kept up dickens of a thinking,
and the other day one of her compat riots
discovered her in a brown study.
Hello" she exclaimed after the man
ner of bachelor maids. you seem 90 have
a weight on your mind.
Il have was the rejoinder
Anything serious?"
1T is 10 me"
What is it? l suppose YOU can tell me,
can't you?'
Certainly I was thinking how long it
would take for a bachelor maid to be
come an old maid. Have you any idea?
"Um-er,'' hesitated abe other girl,
well, no. haven't. l never quite thought
of 1t in that way before e.
At present that particular colony of 'b.
ms" is more or less perturbed in mind
There are certain qualities, says the New
York Tribune. existing in some people
that defy analysis. The talent or sue
cess. for instance, cannot be defined, and
yet it is well known that certain individu-
ais possess it. while others do not. Ia is
not dependent. apparently, on any partic-
ular ability or virtue Cleverness will not
insure it. Perseverance, thrift and in
dustry, although they may help, cannOe
create it-it is just a gift like the genius
for writing or painting, or anything else.
II is given to the few, aud withheld from
che many.
rhe talent for leadership is another one
OF these mysterious attributes for which
the why and the wherefore cannot b. dis
covered. What constitutes a leader Is as
impossible TO explain as to find The key
10 The secret Of success, Even at school
some one boy or girl will obtain this prom
iuence. although there may b. others ap-
parently equally we'll or even better fit
ted 10 hold the position. In later life peo-
pie submit meekly to bosses of every
dascription--political. social or financial
wondering at, while not denying their
power.
why is it," asked a society woman
from another city the other day that
Mrs. H. has obtained so much ascendancy
over you all? Granted that she IS we'll
born and is rich, but 50 are score or
more Of others. There seems really no
adequate reason for Il, yet you have put
her up on a pedestal and bow down be-