The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-28

| be properly or presumably worn without
stout, short and very flexible stays. that
! lace up and have not bit of metal about
! them.
! Though 1t is perfectly safe to predict
! that white bathing dresses will outnumber
! all others, none the less will many COL
ored ones be worn. Startling bright red
! and Yale blue, black and orange, scarlet
/ and white are some of the fiamingo and
4 parrot-like studies in color that the fair
| amphibians will patronize, and there is
| a very marked inclination toward the in
! PRODUCTION of vivid Roman stripes and
| bold Scotch plads in the more snowy
| gowns Roman stripes are prominent in
! the majority of the flannel and Turkish
toweling bath wraps, without which no
| well equipped bather pretends to con-
! slider her sea-going toilet complete.
Professor Caesare Lombroso, distin-
! guished Italian scientist, is probably a
| crusty old bachelor. At any rate, he has
undertaken to rob the youth of the world
of their most blissful enjoyment-that of
| kissing-by undertaking to prove that the
| practice is of heather origin and is most
| in vogue among savage peoples. Accord
| ing to the professor, the kiss, as token
| of affection, was unknown to the old
| Greeks and neither in Homer nor IN He
rod do we find any mention of 1t. Hector
| did not kiss his Andromache when he
babe her farewell, neither did Paris press
| his lips TO those of the beautiful Helen
| and Ulysesses, who was more cosmopoii-
| tan than any man of his day, never dream
| ed of kissing the enchanting Circe, and
| when, after long wanderings, he returned
| home to his spouse, Penelope, he satisfied
| himself by putting one of his stalwart
arms around her waist and drawing her !
to him.
The people Of TERRA del Fuego, says
Lombroso, have taught civilized nations
the origin of the delightful art of kissing.
| Drinking vessels are unknown in that
| country, and the people, when they are
! thirsty, simply lie down beside brooks and
drink the water as it flows by them. 1t
| Is evident however, that infants could
not satisfy their thirst in this primitive
| fashion, and therefore their mothers have
| for ages supplied them with water by
! filing their own mouths first and then
letting It pass through their dips into the
! expectant mouths of their little ones In
| some places the banks of the brooks ana
rivers are so high that water cannot be
obtained in the usual manner, and the
mothers in such places draw 1t up
! through long reeds.
Birds feed their young ones in SINH
| lar manner. They first fill their own
mouths with water and then transfer 1t to
! the wide-open mouths of the little ones
! This very ancient maternal practice Is
| according to Lombroso, the only source TO
which the modern practice of kissing can
| be traced. The custom of pressing one
mouth to another originated with the wo-
| men in TERRA del Fuego, who could only
| supply their infants with drink in this
manner, and it is presumable that they
! learned the lesson from the birds, Fin
| ally, we are told that kissing is an evil
dence of atavism and memorial of that
early stage of our development during
which the wife had not yet triumphed
tor
| 81 know two girls of nineteen" remark
| ed a woman, who had been discussing So
| cial ethics with a representative of the
| New York Tribune. Both are good look
| ing and healthy, and have presumably the
| same desire for youthful pleasures. one
| is as cheerful as the day is long. She goes
| about the house with face like a sum
| beam. She is always neat and attractive
looking, and apparently never gets out of
| temper. The other girl. VINO lives in the
| same house, is by no means happy. She
| is continually finding fault with the condi-
| lions of her life, and although her natural
| love of excitement and change keeps her
ever seeking for pleasure and distraction,
she INDUCES constantly in what she calls
fits of the blues, but what are really only
the outcome of selfshness and egotism.
| One of these girls has all that seems nee
essary to make life pleasant-kind parents
| a charming home money enough to graft
| fly all reasonable desires, and plenty of
recreation and gayety in the way OF So
| ciety The other is separated from her
family by the broad Atlantic. She is very
poor She works hard, whether she is
| feeling well or i'll, from morning until
night. Her future is precarious, her pres
ent round of monotonous duties, and she
| seldom if ever sees a friend Which OF
these girls is the happy one? Naturally,
rInf
rounded by all the conditions of an en-
| joyable existence, rather than the latter,
| whose lonely position and life of toll GER
| tainly do not seem conducive to good spir-
its, but oddly enough it is the one who
| has least who seems to enjoy existence
the most-the little Swedish servant, who
| has nothing, not the young woman of the
house. who has so much, to make her hap
py 1 was visiting at the house recently,
and could not help being struck by the
| contrast. The little maid brought me my
breakfast every morning on a tray, and it
was a pleasure to see her pretty, smiling
countenance and trim little figure in its
neat, fresh cotton frock. Between and
10 o'clock the other girl would saunter
into the dining room in a dressing gown,
generally in one of her moods, as the
family called them, which consisted of an
unpleasant display of snappiness and irri-
liability, and fun OF her own plans and
| requirements LOT inc gay. w HlCH Oh lilc
two would you call the higher type of
womanhood and which fills the best place
I'm the worlds economy-the mistress or
the maid? Although the former attends
service every Sunday, and is charitable in
her way / think old Bishop Hober, who
tells us that sweeping a room can be made
an action fine IL done with cheerful con-
scieutiousness, would not take long to de-
eide"
The sharp nosed man, says the New
York Herald, looked obviously after the
retreating figure of the stenographer. IT
am in a quandary what to do with that
girl" he said. II don't know whether to
fire her or raise her salary. don't know
what to make of her. She is the quintes-
sence of either innocence or deceit can't
figure out which. Anyway. she's got me
into a pretty pickle About two months
ago some misguided member of a certain
benevolent society sent me two tickets
for a charity ball to be given at well
| known hall in Harlem. l was surprised
TO get these tickets, for 1 supposed that
everybody who knew me knew my senti-
ments in regard to charity.
II don't believe in Il. / don't believe in
| giving things away. / have TO work for
every cent have and expect other peo-