The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-19

nrSt physician VINO dropped in 10 look, too.
"Bacilln tuberculosis" said he, coolly.
thinking IL only the examination for a pa
tient in one of the hospital wards.
Another inferno happened into the labo-
ratory.
Look at this" said Miss Halves. offer
ing him the microscope.
Tuberculosis" sold the second expert
laconically. ready to hurry away to his
duties.
This is my own case" said Miss Halves.
Il shall resign at once and so to Denver.
Then only did the doctors realize the
young woman's nerve. II had been left
for her to diagnose her own case. She
knew what she had seen through the mi
croscope. and she simply wished for con-
| firmation Tomorrow she leaves for the
dry airs of Colorado in her fight with the
scourge that has killed more men and wo-
men than all the cannons Of all the armies
of the world. She is perfectly calm about
1t and will study her case in the hope OF
saving her own life; if she does not she
will try TO leave valua BILE ideas 10 poster
ity for the guidance of physicians in fight
ing the malady
Miss Halves is a physician who was
graduated with honors from Laura Me-
mortal College. She stood high among her
competitors for a place in the City Hosplt-
al as inferno, and won. She spent her time
with the consumpuves. She contracted
her ailment there.
Every physician in Cincinnati hopes she
will recover DR.. Mckee contracted the
disease year ago, and was cut off in his
prime. DR.. Beeson, who succeeded him IN
the tuberculosis ward, was warned in Tune
and went to Mexico before 1t was too late
The following nonsense about baby's
nails is from Notes the Folk Lore
of the Northern Counties of England
| Henderson:
The baby's nails must not be cut till he
is a year old. for fear he should grow up a
| thief, or, as they quantity express 1t in
Cleveland. light fingered" The mother
must bite them off, if need be, and in the
west of Northumberland it is believed
that if the first parings are buried under
an ash tree the child will turn out "a
top singer" The mention of the ASH Is
curious. for has it not been from very
ancient times sacred tree supplying in
its sap the first nourishment to the Gre
clan hero, as now to the Celtic High
lander? Nay, according to Hesiod, Zeus
made the third or brazen race of hard
ash wood-pugnaeious and terrible-aS
Yggdrasil, the cloud tree of the Morse
man. out of which he believed the first
man was made, was an ash.
When the year of infancy is past and
babys nails may safely be given up
to the scissors. care must be taken not
TO cut them on a Sunday or Friday.
Friday, of course, is an unlucky day, and
as for Sunday, the old rhyme says;
Better a child had ne'er been born
Than cut his nails Sunday morn.
Another variation of the verse runs
thus:
Friday hair, Sunday born.
Better that child had ne'er been born.
And yet another;
Sunday shaver, Sunday shorn,
Better hadst thou ne'er been born.
| Or at greater length:
Cut them on Monday, cut them for
health;
Cut them on Tuesday, cut them for
wealth;
Cut them on Wednesday. cut them for
news;
Cut them on Thursday new pair of
shoes;
Cut them on Friday. cut them for sorrow;
Cut them on Saturday, present to-mor-
| row;
But he that on Sunday cut his horn
Better that he had never been born.
| 1t was at that AdamIess Eden the
| Margaret Louisa. There are all sorts and
| conditions of nice women, young, Old,
| and middle-aged married and single,
but, says the New York Times. probably
more often single, and the greater num-
Der of the self-supporting in one way
or another, who go to the Margaret Lou
| lisa for luncheon and dinner. There are
| dressmakers, miliners and stenographers
and there are also many artists and writ
ers, trained nurses, and other professions,
more than one can mendon in a breath,
but nice looking women almost without
exception, well dressed and well bred. So
1t was impossible to classify the three
| women who were talking over late
| luncheon one day last week.
There is nothing like good-sized fam
| ily" said the eldest woman, whose hair
| was snow white and made her look older
| than she probably was. ITO be married
| and have no children is a misfortune.
Don't you think so?" she added after a
pause to the small woman who sat at
| her right.
| The small woman was dressed in pref
ty little muslin gown. She was prepar-
ing herself for "a dinner at Travers ISL
| and that night eating a hearty luncheon
not to disgrace her host with too big an
appetite, she said. She finished one egg
and called for another before she an
swered.
yes" she said, hesitatingly and then,
Frightening up, but it's lots easier to be
an old maid
"Oh, no. said the youngest Of che three,
deprecatingly, think Of the respect that
is always given a married woman"
But think of the unmarried woman
who has all her own money to spend"
returned the httle lady in muslin, defend
ing her theory. She has lots more clothes
| than most of the married women l know
| and liberty to do as she pleases.
mo" said the white-haired woman de-
cidedly, there is nothing more miserable
than to grow TO middle age and be called
| Miss"
VERY WELL" said the little lady lightly,
chen all you have to do is to call your
self Mrs "
The debate was growing interesting, hut
just then the maid appeared with the lit
tie Iady's second egg, and the converse
| ton turned 90 a deep consideration OF
whether It should be melon, ice cream, or
Washington pie for dessert. 1t was enough
7 TO show, however, that the Margaret Lou
isa Ewes are not all Ahamless from prin-
| ciple.
At one time it seemed likely that the IA
nous Dowager Duchess Of Aosta, Letitia,
would reach the summit of her ambition,
the throne of Italy. Rumor had her be-
trothed to the young Duke of Aosta, who
| later became her stepson, and who was