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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-25

As Many as Twenty Dozen Is Some-
times Used on a Bodice.

New York, March 29.-Before completing
ARRANGEMENTS for spring and summer
gowns it is we'll to pay some heed to the
new and exquisite buttons being shown
by fashionable dressmakers and at the
shops. They are very decorative and have
quite regained their stronghold of favor.
One of Worth's latest achievements is the
placing of six small buttons on the gown
of a New York woman, the value of
which is estimated at $50 These buttons
were very small, hardly more than half
an inch in diameter, and were miniatures
representing certain queens and favorite
beauties of France. They were set about
with very small and brilliant rhinestones.
At present good limitations of these little
gems can be found at the shops. The
heads are printed on porcelain instead of
being painted ON ivory, and are usually
placed on lapels where they are thrown
into prominence, or three of them border
each side of vest, running in a straight
line downward from the neckband.
Tiny satin buttons covered with net
work suggestive of a SPIDERS web are
used in great quantities on gowns, and are
bought by abe dozens, ranging in price
from to u cents. The best effect pro-
duced by them is when they are worn
to decorate the popular black satin zou-
ave jackets, and in connection with
many rows of white satin cord. Often as
many as from fifteen TO twenty dozen are
thus employed TO form large punches of
grapes.
The beautiful medallions which appear
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the next room are Lincolr's days and the
room next to that is filled with Grants
days"
Whats Grants day." asked Tod.
"Oh. that's a holiday that they haven't
begun TO use yet, but when they do they'll
find me prtpal cd"
Tod thought he'd like one Christmas and
he had 10 sooner expressed the wish than
he found himself and the Sunset Roy on
a cloud by themselves surrounded WITH all
the Christmas presents that a boy ever
wished for Guns, pistols, marbles, books,
skates, he sshall bats, footballs, fencing
foils, double lippers, wheels. kodaks and
big hand organ with a grinning monkey
sitting IN it,
And candy and fruit until you'd think
OF a doctor. He told the Sunset Boy TO
pitch in and all that day he ate and read
and rode and shot holes in dis clouds
and took snapshots Of the Sunset Boy ana
taught him how TO box. and by nightfal
was the tredest boy who ever visited
cloud, He had had enough Christmas to
last him three years.
The next morning he woke up in the
Fourth of July room, and he wanted TO
turn over and 80 to sleep, but the warrior
said that he must choose a holiday as
long as he had been so keen f,A it, So he
chose the Fourth because the warrior had
pulled one out of place and he didn't
want to disoblige him.
Al Slgnt or the heaps or nrecracKers
and Union torpedoes and grasshoppers
and fiery dragons and cannons his enthu-
siasm returned, and when he and the
Sunset Boy found themselves on a new
cloud with nothing to remind him OF
Christmas on it he set out to have fun,
but the premature discharge of a bunch
of cannon crackers set fire to the cloud
on which they were sailing, and when the
Sunset Boy had put out the fire with a
rain cloud he found that all the frecrack-
ers were wet. and so the morning was not
a s noisy as you might have supposed II
would be. In the evening Tod did thor
oughly enjoy himself. Every set piece
you ever heard of was there, and he and
the Sunset Boy hung them on the edge u
a great bank of clouds that looked por-
tentous and lowering until it was lighted
up and then 1t resembled fairyland. One
million rockets going off at once make
a spectacle that you don't see every day
in the year, and there were long articles
in the earth papers the day after telling
about the shooting stars that had come
ahead of time. But the astronomers were
able TO give good reasons for their APP
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No Public Spirit in China.

Mrs. f. Dorm, in Lesles Weekly.
Another thing the Chinese seem unable
10 grasp is our public spirit, this quality
Delng quite wanting in their composition
one OF their notices which well expresses
theif ideas on the subject is one Of which
the translation runs thus: Every man
for himself, and God for Himself" Out OF
the foreign settlements you never fni
roads, for the simple reason that Chin l.
man does not see the raison d'etre of keep
ing up and paying toward a public road.
Even In the treaty ports where there are
some exceedingly fine roads, oply those
are really free for traffic that are patron-
ed by our police. In Shanghai, for in-
stance some of the roads leading through
the native town are really a sight. Az
each side you see BARRIERS in dozens, wi n
all their accessories of basins and razorS
and small benches for customers to sit on,
set out with no regard as to whether their
paraphernalia In any way Inconvenience
the public traffic. Besides these you will
find butchers and all kinds and descrip-
tons Of vendors, and always in every roa
you see rag-man. These men make their
living by selling the most wonderful accu-
mutation of rubbish imaginable Win
their sense Of economy they find some use
for every old button, and piece of stun.
however small. with always come in foe
binding their shoes.
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as solid as it looked. In fact, it was a
cloud, and If a handsome little boy clad
in what looked like an autumn sunset had
not stretched out his hand and caught him
Tod would have had a bad fall.
Here. drink this and you'n be able to
walk without sinking" said the little
stranger He handed a golden cup to Tod
az he spoke and that boy was only too
glad to drink. for he was thirsty after his
three hundred-mile flight. The Hauid
tasted like all the kinds OF soda water
you ever heard Of. poured into one glass
and favored with essence Of orange flow
er. AS soon as Tod had drunk II he felt
a. light as a feather and walked on the
cloud as If II had been terra firma. which
my grandfat her told me, is Latin for solid
ground. Ask your teacher whether the
old gentleman was right.
Whats the name of this place and how
far is 1t to earth, and what's your name.
and what do you do up here, and where
can I get such a pretty suit? II looks like
the view from our veranda when the sun
is going down"
Il can tell you're from the earth bv
the questions You ask" seid the other
boy, laughing He was such a pretty
fellow. Very much Ike the cupids on
valentines.
Well I'd never learn anything if I
didn't ask questions. Where do YOU live
I'm the child of the sunset; but. saw
you haven't learned anything so far BY
asking questions. for you don't wait for
the answers. You only ask 10 keep your
tongue from getting lazy"
Tod laughed ana said: Il bet I can
beat you running"
Il guess not" said the sunset boy.
and with that both OF them began to
run as hard as they could, but al
though Tods feet hardly touched the
ground, so easily did he move through
cloudland, yet the other boy moved
twice as fast and soon vanished behind
high wall that surrounded huge castle
that looked like those cloud palaces that
rear themselves on June days when YOU
are lying on your back out I'm the fields
and wishing that the long vacation would
begin.
1t was snowy white and had towers ana
minarets and the wall OF salmon pink that
surrounded it changed its shape contiau-
ally.
While Tod was wondering what castle
it was and whether any giants lived with
in it a tall warrior. who looked exactly as
if he was fashioned out of silver cloud
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of them but to suck them to their dissolu-
tion Timotheus didn't get taste. They
came out of the candy store two happy
boys, Timotheus happy because he had
provided feast for his friend. and Tod
happy because the feast had been provided
without its costing him anything.
1t was when Tod was II years old that
his greed caused trouble to the whole of
the United States on two very important
days. Just what year Ii was cannot say,
but your great-grandfather may remem-
ber His parents took him to a balloon
ascension at Rockford Park, country
place where they hold fairs and poultry
shows every fail.
1t is not for me to say how he man.
aged to do it. / don't think he was ever
clear in his own mind how il came about,
but il is a we'll known fact that when you
cue the rope that holds a balloon to the
earth that balloon is going to escape If it
has spark of animation. l suppose the
oalloonist had gone to lunch, but wher-
ever he was he was not in the balloon
when Tod stepped into the basket to see
how the old thing worked, and as Tod was
a perfectly fearless and reckless boy. he
did not think of the moral or physical
consequences, but simply sawed away at
the rope with his jaekknife until the bal
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than another adds to the "dress-up'' of a
Martinique belle it is her embroidered and
ruffled white petticoat, which often repre-
sents more than she makes in a month or
two. The washerwoman, the women por-
ters and market women tuck I'D
the extra length of their dress
es under a string of handkerchief,
which is made to do duty as a glrdle The
women of leisure allow them TO trail or
gratefully carry them over their. arms
when the weather is unpropitious The
dress is admirably set off by brilliantly
colored slippers of polished leather or
suede, heavy with embroidery in gold
thread; or else a pair of high heeled col
ored boots, the edges of which are en-
broidered in silk of a contrasting color.
while the buttons are of still another col
or.
The love of dress and its indulgence
by the French West Indian women in
volve no excessive expenditures of money
by the male members of the native house
hold, for women provide their own
clothes; indeed, thousands of men. white
as well as black, are supported by the
women who live under their protection
In the hotel. lazy creoles are sitting
around the tables drinking; at the land
ing, men are asleep or lounging on benches
under the trees, while the women are load
ing a steamer with coal AT Fort de
France | saw women carrying seventy or
eighty pounds eacn IN great baskets on
their heads up the steep gangplauk They
walked with elastic STEP neither looking
to the right nor left. At the top like an
automatic machine, the woman coal nor
ter gives the basket a tip and the coal
disappears into the hold. The next mo-
ment she has Joined the line descending
to refill. I've seen a transatlantic liner
at ST. Thomas coaled by twenty-five or
thirty women, aged from Is to So in three
hours.
French West Indian Washerwomen.
You walk along the street and observe
that all the little shops and stands are
presided over by women, while men lean
up against the structures smoking and
arguing; take to the high road along the
beautiful Suzanne du Fort, by the Ri
we're DIES Blanchiseuse and you encounter
the market women; descend by the stone
steps to the rocky edge of the gurgllng
bubbling stream and you find hundreds of
women and girls pounding and rubbing
away on the soiled linen of the commun-
ity's idle half
Washerwomen in Martinique are made
not born. The strength health and con-
stitution required for their calling is not
necessary in any other. A habit OF stand
ing for days In the cold river is culti-
waited from childhood. II is only by being
brought up In the water at the feet of her
mother and grandmother that the girl In
tended for a blanchieseuse or washerwo-
man can endure the eyer-changing tenn
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who put the old style away and introduced
the new. For it was in Martinique that
the empire gown" was born, and there it
still reigns supreme, simple, exqu site
Madras in brilliant, harmonious colors
purple, orange, blue and violet plads, is
a favorite material the coquettish foulard
without which the poorest is not dressed,
being thrown over the shoulders. Imag
inc this costume, worn to perfection by one
to whom the corset is unknown. whose
graceful lines, natural symmetry and erect
carriage have not been effaced or weaken
ed by compression or false support, and
you have mental picture of the French
West Indian woman.
Notwithstanding the inexpensive mate
rails used, endless work Is expended On
the shocking tucking and shirring of the
tiny yokes. If one thing more
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TALES Of YANKEE
ENCHANTMENT.
TOD AND TIE STOLEN HOLIDAYS.

This Explains for the Very First
Time Just What Became of the
Missing Christmas and Fourth of
JpIy That Upset the Calculations
of some small Boys II Few Years
Ago.
Copyrighted by the author, Charles Bat
tell LoOmis.)
Ii would have been easy TO discover good
qualities in TOD Pendleton. He was kind
hearted and brave and good-humored. but
he was also greedy. AS an illustration OF
this later quality let me tell an incident
connected with his boyhood. My grand
father told me. Years ago there was a
kind of candy known as the jackson
ball" 1t was as large around as a crab
apple and as hard as a stone pavement
is when you fan headlong on il. Well. one
day Timotheus Pauncefort found a cent in
the road, and as he was most generous
little fellow, he Immediately invited Tod
10 go with him to the little candy store
on the corner, and he'd treat him to what
ever he wanted. Most boys would have
chosen taffy as being easy to divide, but
Tod, never thinking about TimOtheus, said
he guessed he'd take a jackson ball, and
Timotheus bought one-they came one for
a cent. But as there is no way TO dispose
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the negro blood has increased since
emancipation in 1913 the white population
has decreased, the influence and interest
of the whites have grown less year by
year home and social life has grown mar
rover, prejudices have grown stronger
and more numerous, and there is little
likelihood of lasting improvement In any
direction.
Strange Social Conditions.
Speaking generally. shame is unknown.
modesty not comprehended in Martinique
and Guadeloupe The material prophecies
OF life are utterly disregarded. Marriage
is almost extinct. But there are thousands
upon thousands of bright, handsome. tai
ented octoroons who preside over the es-
whose protection" they live. 1t is all
public, unconcealed.
/ have met any number of nice young
men in the islands who are not only re-
conciSed to these facts, but protest that
even with a reasonable chance to court
her they wouldn't marry white girl who
puts cushion on the window sill, leans
on 1t and looks out, studying the same
old pavement the same people. all day and
day after day; who may not be spoken 70
after sunset without violating the customs
of the people, and who can't ask young
man to call upon her; who never goes out
in the daytime. even to shop, but sends a
she fancies she wants something.
have met lot of young girls, tall
ented, clever, bright and original, who,
when I could get at them, inspired con-
fidence and encouraged good old girl
chat. In the proper atmosphere they
might become good fellows" If not new
women" but every one of them Is likely
to fade on the stem in the hot houses OF
conventionality. and topple over without
ever having known the joys and sorrows
OF the struggles of life. The women and
men are agreeable and entertaining in
dividually; but put them together and they
are like the sensitive plant that covers the
sides of the mountains, and which, II you
touch 1t. shuts up tightly and resists all
efforts TO resuscitate It.
The one all absorbing topic with the wo-
men. high and low, white, black and mix
ed. is dress. Nor can you wonder at II
much, for their costumes are the most
picturesque and dainty imaginable. The
seductive chemise and the graceful cling
ing "1upe," the folded turban, with its
weight OF solid gold ornaments the rings.
earrings. bracelets and strings of enor-
NOUS gold beads. are no longer worn.
They exist only as cherished souvenirs of
departed reign, TO be brought out per-
haps for photograph or fete, or as wit
nesses OF past prestige
The Empire Gown.
II was Josephine. their beloved country
Yoman, whose memory they all eherish'
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in a small house about two miles from
Fort de France. The house stands quite
by ITSELF browning the top of a hill. re-
mote from all else, overshadowed by trees
and guarded by little chapel at the foot
of the hill. His Majesty lives in peace,
because he is not allowed to fight and in
plenty because his needs are few. He does
not care anything about bejeweled crowns,
ermine and velvet, chariots of state or
liveried courtiers. He has his minister
(whom he can beat whenever he wants to-,
his two wives and four daughters. The
royal ladies' know how to cook TO His
Majesty's liking, and that's all he re-
quires. saw them prepare a meal
which, fortunately, I was not invited to
share. If had been am afraid should
have refused, even at the risk of offending
a real live king, for the mode Of prepara-
ton was not very appetizing. The royal
ladies were airily clothed, wearing simply
a couple of yards of cambria twisted
around their bodies below their armpi's.
One of their majesties stirred the royal
soup that was boiling in a pot set on their
fat stoves while the other ground up some
vegetables and seeds. The Precipitation
rolled down their shiny foreheads in great
drops as they worked over the banquet
dishes.
When the cooking was completed the
favorite wife poured the mess into a huge
bowl and kneelng, served IL to her lord,
who squatted on the floor. His Majesty
helped himself with his fingers while his
wife held the bowl for him. When 1t
was all over Her Majesty received from
the hands of slave, who had been our
10 purchase It, a bit of soap. This filed
my soul with delight, as I thought she
was going to use II, but the little black
girl who interpreted said: only His Ma
jesty uses soap" As il didn't seem to be
course dinner, and 1 was assured the
King would be in better humor for gossip
after dinner l hung around and waited
until after II was over. One of his wives
lit his pipe and placed 1t in his mouth
The other wife always stands like q sem
tinel with an open umbrella over his head
something that in doors or out of doors.
and at all times His Majesty demands It
is only recently that he has come to real
ize that he is a prisoner, not a king, that
the guards are his keepers instead Of
slaves. The unfortunate minister who
undeceived him was nearly killed for his
pains and sent 10 the hospital for repairs.
His Majesty's greatest comfort Is count
ing over the people he has killed. lie
killed his mother just before being de-
throned IN order that she might convey
an important message 90 his dead father.
His son, a sensible lad OF fifteen or six
teen, now a student at the Lycee. is his
greatest hope. He firmly believes tho.
some day the desire and the means will
be his to assert his claims as the son or
Behanzln and obtain his rights as the
King OF Dahomey. Frances Drake.
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pearance and not a soul imagined that
Tod was at the bottom, or rather the top,
of the display.
The morning after the Fourth Tod had
splitting headache, and said he was sick
of holidays and he'd like to go down 10
earth.
His two friends babe him good-bye ana
he stepped into the basket of the balloon
and thanks to a little help from a heavv
| wind cloud that he fastened under the
basket, he reached the earth in A few
minutes, and in the midst of a terrific
wind storm.
When the third of July came the newt
month it found people everywhere max
ing preparations for the celebration of
the Fourth, but greedy Tod had
already celebrated it up in Cloud-
land, and there was no Fourth.
People everywhere slept through that dav
and there were some who would have
blessed Tod, but the small boys were fu
rious. They could not explain
IT,; They went to bed with
all their ammunition within reach
and when they woke up they realized that
somehow the Fourth had come and gone
and they hadn't fired a shetland vel n
had all disappeared.
Tod slept with the rest. but when the
Christmas season came long he hoped
that he could celebrate 1t. His adven-
ture was now six months back and six
months in a boys life are good deal
more than half year. He made his prem
arations for Christmas as usual in com
mon with all the rest of the bovs
who make much of the great holiday. bit
1t was all to no purpose. AS your grand
parents may have told you, everybody
slept over the glad season and woke the
day after with much better digestions.
but deeply regretting that they had lost
a Christmas that they could never regain.
And Tod felt worse than anybody else
and realized what a pig he had been. He
really cultivated his generosity to good eff
feet for the next few weeks.
But the following years all the HOLIDAYS
went OFF with a bang and I've heard nv
grandfather say that he believed il did
folks good 10 go without a holiday once in
a while. as they appreciated them better.
But l say place for each holiday and
every holiday in Its place.
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with little flashes of opalescent fire run
ming through him, came to an opening In
the wall and said: what is your name,
Earth Boy, and why have you come to
the storehouse OF the holidays?"
Before Tod could answer his friend,
the Sunset Boy, popped out from behind
the wall and said He's all right. He
can run half as fast as 1 cam
The warrior seemed astonished. "Why.
that is impossible. No one in Cloudland
can run a quarter as fast as you"
well, he did. leave it to him If he
didnt. And he's hungry and he wants TO
know everything. And say''-this in a low
er tone-"can't you give him seven or
eight holidays We have such a lot"
But" said the warrior who all this
time had been changing his shape like an
April cloud and was by turns a Polar
bear, a Hubbard squash, hippopotamus,
q load of hay and an apple tree, there
are just so many holidays. If l let him
have some the earth folk will have to do
without them"
Tod now spoke up: Say my father
says he wishes there We're no such things
as holidays He's so used to working that
he never knows what TO do on holiday,
and he gets awful cross. and he's al
ways glad when night comes. Last Christ
mas he said he wished Christmas had
never been discovered"
w ell, Sdlu lAt Wal AlOts VIM AbN ASSfN-
ed like the map of France. and moment
later like a teapot 'if that's the case you
can have all the holidays you want.
thought people priced them down there"
mo, indeed" said Tod. why, teacler
says they de-de-demortalize the boys, and
we never do as well the day after holt
day"
Come inside. then, and help yourself.
What days do you want?"
Tod SfPDOe6 into the cloud Dalace and
found himself in the midst of banks OF
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such beautiful colors as you never saw.
even when the sun was doing his prctti-
est. Bounding pillows of purple ana SAT-
from and green and crimson and violet
Tod was only a boy and boys don't go In
for that sort of thing very much, but he
told his mother afterward that it was al
so gorgeous that it made him feel like
crying.
take a header into the midst OF them
and you'll reach the room where the
Christmasses are stored"
Tod dived and "a moment later found
himself in room filed TO Overlooking
with Christmas presents and Christmas
trees and Christmas horns and sleghbells
and yards upon yards Of good viii.
Now" said his guide who mad become
another being Ike the Sunset Boy, cniy
older, take your choice. You can have
one Christmas or one Fourth, but you
can't have more than one at once. IN