The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27

saw your singular dining customs. You
men always eat first Hermanus, while
your wife cooks in the kitchen and your
daushter-for whom you bought that
amazing German melodeon that's in the
sitzkammer (stting room)-your daughter
moves about the table waving the flies
away with a cloth
Have you f1nished? you inquire In due
course. Then sit back"
Then the women come in and eat their
dinner from the mems unwashed plates
Very nice girls-who are young enough to
bother about trifes-will scrape the debris
OF the man S meal to one side of the plate.
Those who are absurdiy squeamish, and
want to put on side" will turn the dirty
plate over and eat off the bottom.
The ornaments in a house reveal the
taste of the family. and that suggests It's
degree or quality of polish, which is CIV
ilization.
l look at your ornaments with interest.
Hermanus. On the walls are abe patent
medicine almanacs given away at the
store, and some Autographed pictorial ad-
vertisements got in the same way. But
the real proof of polish in every burgher's
house is the wifes table in the sitting
room-you'll bear me out in that, Her
manus, won't you? This table carries
some yellow, blue and green sugar and
butter dishes, such are given away
with tea in the Old Kent Road. Perhaps
Their is also a tin dish or little tray,
washed over with brass. Whoever has
such a table need hang his head before
no burgher in the land.
1t is a Sunday evening and all are out
in the stoop when up rides young man.
From afar the sight of him makes you
all smiles-all exoept Miss Aletta, whose
cheeks turn scarlet as she rises and fees
into the house. It's Coos" Jacobus)
Vanderbilt, and he has come ACQUIRING,
as every one may see by the blue pugga-
rec wound around his hat and the splen-
did saddle cloth beneath him-an extra
long cloth bordered with embroidered
roses.
The hat band and saddle cloth form
the livery of Cupid in your country. Ell,
Hermanus?
Coos off saddles and salutes the family.
taking you aside to ask you If he may
court Aletta.
When shutdown comes and you and Pc
tronella take to your bed as usual, Alet-
ia and Coos sit UP together in the sitz-
hammer and only curtain In the door
way between you and them.
Maidenly modestly has led her to pro-
duce a very short biz of candle, which she
lights and puts on the table, knowing
that Coos must go to bed when II is burn
ed out. CIe Is not TO go home, for no
Boer travels at nighO.
Coos sees the candle and slyly whips
out bit of his own three times as long,
which he lights, and sets up, slipping
Aetta's maidenly bit in his pocket. He
draws his chair up 10 Alettas, and sits
with his shoulder against hers.
They both giggle. Coos has quarter o
a pound Of motto lozenges In one pocket
and bottle of scent In another.
He finds a lozenge marked II love you,'
and puts 1t in Aletta's lap.
She giggles. So does he. Then he gives
her a handful of lozenges for her to find
one with an answer to his declaration
Talking in sweets lasts an hour, and at
the end he gives her the bottle of scent.
There is much more giggling, a lttle
wrestling and horseplay, ending with a
kiss, and the candle Is at its last minute
Aletta slips behind the curtain into the
family sleeping room, and Coos goes to
bed or tho settee with its seat of crossed
leather thongs.
Very soon PetronelIa and Aletta will go
10 the store of Jscobsdal to buy Aletta's
wedding outfit--a black gown, a print
gown, cotton for a petticoat, a pair OF
stockings Ito be worn only on the we'd
ding day. and new pair OF boots.
Let us hope the wedding may not go
amiss like that Of certain neighbors of
yours Hermanus. You remember the two
couples that stood up together to be
welded, and the clergyman married the
to do II over again and make II right but
no said he could not; he would have TO
carry the matter before the higher au-
thorities OF the church. At this, you re-
member. the young couples and all their
relatives and friends said they could not
wait as the coffee and cakes were wait
ing to be eaten. The clergyman was firm
He declared that by himself he could not
undo the marriage. At that, you recol-
lect, the couples decided TO stay married
the coffee and cakes And they nave been
wrongly but happily mated ever since.
After that DO you still say yours are
not funny people, Hermanus?
AS / sat on your stoop ! thought OF
much more ti,an this space allows me 20
write. / cannot bring myself to like your
stepping IN your clothes or the way you
treat the Knfiirs whom you virtually com
mandcer to work for you.
Your morning ana evening prayers
would be eommendabe were it not that
after they are finished you are 80 opt 90
boast OF how you have tricted some one
la trade or plfercd something az the
store.
You are natural born horseman. Her
my, q natural born hunter. a good hater.
stubborn fiEhler, as long as you can
81 Inc hands Of your foxy polAicians. VINO
they par ~ ia game OF tails we lose
hnd heads tho other fellow wins"
am, ny deur licrmanuH. yours. etc.
Julian Ralph.