The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-15

to the fire lines and cried out:
Save them On, please, mister. save
them! They'll be burned up sure if you
don't bring them outr
She began to weep and lament in heart
breaking fashion.
Where are your children. madam ,"
said one of the firemen. What floor are
they on and in what room?''
They're in the dentists office on the
second floor" sobbed the woman, "and
they'll surely be burned-boo -hoo-boo-
and was to have 'em for Tomorrow
boo-hoo-boo-to Wear EN- to church and
to dinner at a friends"
The tiremen stood amazed and for a
moment forgot that there was a fire.
Wear EN- to church and to dinner -
gasped one. Your children?"
Who said children?" demanded the
weeping Niobe. "They amt children
they're teeth; they're the set of false
teeth the dentist promised to have repair
Ell for me by tomorrow, and i must
nave them. Oh please save them before
| they're burned up"
What the tiremen said would not look
we'll in print.
A man who denies that he is prejudced
put claims that he is a good Judge of fem
mime beauty, declares that there is scarce
ly beautiful foot to be found among the
women Of to-day. The high heels, the ex-
ag8erated curve at the ball of the foot
the stiff heel stays and the pointed toes
ne declares, have distorted the foot in
painful and ugly manner.
The ankles are misshapen. In some
cases the bones are enlarged until they
bulge out 50 that ever bone is perceptiblc
Inc weight of the body thrown upon the
toes has caused them TO spread out
Crowded mir
in clusters of knotty corns
The foot should be as shapely as The
hand. ootwear Should fit as a glove fits
the hand. The perfect foot Is slender,
with an arched instep and toes that lie
smoothly and easily.
The first step toward acquiring a pretty
foot Is to wear shoes that fit it comforta-
bly,. The next is to take exercises that
Will render the toes strong and supple
Begin by spreading out the toes to the ut
most extent; then hold four toes still and
attempt TO move the remaining one. Ev-
cry toe should be distinct and able to move
separately. Every nail should keep its
shape just as fingernails do. The big toe
should be straighter and shorter than the
next one and the arch should be shapely
ara plant.
The FEMININE foot of to-day renders a
graceful carriage an impossibility. And
Gil DeCdbSt lame Il dSillO0 mas QeSNGSu
that short, high-heeled, pointed-toe shoe
is the correct thing in dressy footgear,
forgetting that there never was human
foot built that way.
In Nemaha county, Kansas, says the Chi
cago Chronicle, Miss Mile Daniels, who
| is described as unusually handsome has
adopted novel means of rewarding the
faithful and well behaved among her pu-
pills, and her plan has been approved by
the board of trustees who have just en-
! gagged her for another year. Miss Daniels
whenever student attends school one
! whole week without being tardy or alb
! sent, kisses that student, wheth mat
or female. If the student is tardy only
! once or absent once she allows that stu
! dent to kiss her All students who disobey
| this standard are ruled out of the kissing
! match. The kisses are given and taken
every Friday afternoon. Needless to say
the young men do not play "hooky" on
! that day.
There are sixty-five pupils at the Wilson
district school -Four years ego Miss Dan
| iels went there from Illinois. She was q
! good teacher, but the students, mostly
| boys were hopeless victims of the "hooky''
! habit. Try as she would the pref
ty school ma am could not keep them in
school regularly She arranged list OF
prizes to those who attended regu arly,
but they held no attractions for the coun-
| lry boys.
| Then she consulted with the school
board on the kissing question They were
willing if she cared 10 experiment that
way. Some of the school board said among
themselves if she did adopt the plan they
believed they would start to school again.
So two years ago she adopted the scheme
and it has worked well ever nee. Speak
l 81 lie
said:
II do not think am doing anything
wrong in allowing my young men stud
ents TO kiss me as prizes for obedience.
Indeed, I think 1t is a great reform or l
should not practice it. My pupils all re-
spect me. l have a good attendance. The
patrons of the district like me, for hav-
emit 1 just been given another two years
lob? do not mind criticism from outsid-
ers; my thoughts are about my school,
A young woman of Birmingham, Eng
land, became betrothed last summer to a
young solicitor, preliminaries were ar
ranged and the fond couple only awaited
| the arrival home of the bridegroom S
father from a lengthy sojourn in America
to be made one. In due course he came,
but when the bride beheid one who, while
he would have easily qualified for fiat
|
he once again beheld himself in'youth she
refused to fulfill her promise, and now
seeks a lover to whom the future does
| not threaten such ample proportions.
| Some years since a lady was engaged to
gentleman who bore the name and was
| relation of a certain gallant soldier,
| who, a month previous to the date ap-
| pointed for the ceremony. while on service
| abroad had the misfortune to meet with
a severe reverse. No sooner did the
news come to hand than the lady, a mem
| Der of whose family had been wounded in
| the disastrous action, declined, unless ne
| should promise to change his name, 10
become his wife. To this caprice the gen.
tlemen refused to submit, so the match
| fell through.
The woman in the seat behind was tell
ing her DAYS experience in the store and
dwelt eloquently on the bargains she had
seen without discussing especially what
! she had bought. Her voice was nasal
and penetrated the suffocating air of the
! train. Her face, says the New York Sun,
was flushed with the heat and she had
| a handkerchief tucked into the collar OF
her shirtwaist. Her persistent tax never
ceased. Occasionally her neighbors turn
ed and looked at her, but her voice con-
| tinued to sound stridently throughout the
car one woman sitting in front OF her
turned to her companion and remarked
that she would like to have that voice
under cultivation for a while.
"a voice like that" asked her friend
in establishment. why nobody in the