The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-11

ways been more or less of family sitting
ROOM condition of affairs which l have
always encouraged as giving a homelike
cheerful aspect TO a room that In most
houses generally looks dreary in its order
ly primness. So, although | continually
told the children that / was always pick
ing up their litter l allowed them from
their childhood to bring their work and
games into the room | occupied. Suddenly,
however, this carelessness of theirs, which
was really the result of my own indpl-
gence, began to be a grievance, and When,
in spite of my remonstrances, they still
continued with the thoughtlessness OF
youth to give me trouble. | felt that
was a regular martyr Several times, to
the fdmily's CONSERVATION and surprise, l
burst into tears and said i did not know
how l coul&stand the various burdens az
my existence
We'll, the doctor declared l needed
rest, and l thought so, 100, and in spite of
my fixed conviction that the family would
go to pieces without me ! was sent off
with a trained nurse to Lakewood. Oh
the dullness of those days? Never Will l
forget them How l longed for the many
interests of my usual life. But it was
little incident in the end that really clear
ed my mental vision and made me feel
that could turn my cares into actual
benefits if / would only exercise a little
philosophy in the matter.
lone day as / passed through the hall
of the hotel where l was staying noticed
the housekeeper who was quite the great
lady in her bearing and manners, buslly
brushing the furniture. You are certain
ly energetic, Mrs. smith, | remarked. l
had no idea that you welded the custer
Yourself 1t keeps me young and timber.
Mrs. * she answered. That Is what ] al
WAYS say myself when / have TO WORK.
Why. If / were rich woman and lay back
in INV carriage | would lose my figure am
nayhap my health, too. Works just spieh-
did for the constitution
" Now that is just what | Ought 70
have thought / said to myself when |
went back to my room--that my work lin
hered me up and kept me young. l GER
tainly do not want my family 70 CONSIDER
me superannuated, and never would be
eontented to delegate my Responsibilities
to others. As for those dear, unddy
children of mine. / shall feel hereafter
every time l pick up their various belong
ngs that il is as good as calisthenlcs anu
capital for the constitution"
The New York Press prints the follow
ing reflections of a bachelor:
The funniest thing in the World Is
woman who thinks she is.
The marriage of convenience has no
| love in it, but the love is generally Walt-
| ing Just around the corner.
woman generally keeps her Ideals
tin she mskes up her mind that she
doesn't want to welt till she gets TO
heaven to get married
When the women of town make up
their minds that two people ought to get
engaged they report it around that they
have IAN understanding.
man who thinks much, and observes
much, says The Pittsburg Dispatch, once
| told me that one essential difference be
tween mans work and woman is that
he grasps general principles while she
gives her attention TO details.
man. according to his authority is
an impressionist painter, handling his
brush boldly. dashing in broad effects of
light and shadow, while woman finishes
each object carefully, sometimes, after
manner of the Dutch school of painting,
showing the very hairs upon the brawny
peasants arm.
q may be excused in saying, in pass
ing. that, being a woman, ! founded upon
his general principle the particular moral
that one sex supplements the Other, and
that the Creator meant the work of the
world to be done by them In concert)
He had turned from his desk to talk
with me, and while speaking looked rue
fully at any inky forefinger.
II should keep some pumice stone or
aectic acid, or acetate of soda or ammo
7
Il always spin ink in filling my fountain
pen"
A box of matches was in a pigeon hole;
a wet sponge, used for stamping and seal
ing letters was closed TO the Ciisfigured
hand | babe him wet the match and rub
1t upon the stain until 1t disappeared--tbe
work of a minute. The sulphur in the
ever-convenient match acted upon the
black spot without roughening the skin,
whereas any one of the four detersives
he had mentioned would have left a hard,
disagreeable sensation upon the cuticle.
He was all right as 10 the principles. The
one driblet of practical wisdom was Tor
the moment worth them all.
The richest woman In the world, says
McCalIs Magazine, is a Chilean, Sonora
Consino. who runs a close race with John
| d. Rockefeller for the position of the
wealthiest of ali u ng milionaires. The
Sonora is said to Oe worth 81, 300, 900, 600, so
that she might give away or spend her
| own weight in gold every day for the next
| fifteen years without exhausting her cap
| tal and find at the end of this period of
prodigality her accumulated interest still
left her the richest woman the world has
ever known
Every morning the sonora awakes to
find herself $4,000 richer than when she
retires to rest. Sonora Consno who is a
widow, Is as generous as she is rich and
spends her money layishly IN hospitality
and charity. She is mistress of lands vast