The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-22


field place and Marian was saying how
delightful ii must be for Helen Aubrey
always to see her mother looking like
a picture in a nice gown in the fash
ion, with her hair beautifully dressed
and some jewel or other on her, and
Sally said Mrs. Aubrey seemed twenty
years younger than she was, for her
bright ribbons, her bunch of flowers.
and she couldn't imagine Mrs. Aubrey
in one of mothers hideous aprons,
and Rosy added that to see the moth
er dressed so made it seem as if the
Aubreys' We're somebody, born of, peo-
pie accustomed to fine things, as if
their mother was lady and not just
nurse or maid of all work."
1.-THE ungrateful children!" s
"Oh, no indeed, they are not un-
grateful. They recognize fully all 1
have done for them and sacrificed for
them. They love me, but they are
ambitious and it is very natural that
they should like attractive things, a
comparatively young mother rather
than an unnecessarily old one, a pref
ty object rather than an unpleasant
one. 1t suits their vanity, their taste
and their affection, all at once. And
then, don't you think. somehow, to be
seen always dressed that way, looking
ones best, la HighfeId. with a rose
and ribbon, may make ones hus-
band" ,-r ~ r...,r
Yes, I know. Make hin, feel young
again and think you are
And bring back the old days and
the old ways
And the small attentions that are
half the joy of life, anyway. I de-
clare, 1 think you're right, Fanny. I
mean to try it too. -tnn SLY RI
$50, when it is a question again of
spending the next allowance 1 shall
just say to the girls that 1 have been
saving and sparing a good while for
them and going without myself and
now that perhaps it is my turn. that
l. they have youth and all the advan
tages of that on their side and will
| look just as pretty in simpler things
3and I really need othel more ,dressy and
expensive ones. And / know they
will be pleased and will wonder why
they never thought of it themselves.
And 1 am going to go to a hairdresser
once. or maybe twice. and learn how
to do my hair the way I look best. And
I am going to spend a little a very
little. money on some delicate per-
fumes and. nice handkerehiefs n If I
don't take the best and let the girls
| have the second best for a, little while
I am going to have an equal division.
I have really been injuring them in
creating and fostering foelishness. And
| I think the girls will not only be
| gratified, but they will give me a great
| deal more respect -G4.s. ~ ~
| Fanny, we will inaugurate a. reform
| among mothers. | am. going home to
| furnish up my old jewelry this min
| ute And then-I meyer, did know how
to take care of my hands--do you think
| it would be simply extrayagant? Do
you know the address of "a manicure?
i
Always before we move" said Mr.
| Billtops, 1--WE go through every
thing in the storeroom and Gull
out and throw away the things that
we don't want. If we never moved
don't know but what. finally we'd be
buried under the accumulation of
things which from time to time we
save says the Sun.
I'VE save tons of newspaper clippings
alone. and we always have a pile OF
magazines containing articles that we
want to read over again, but never 90
| We put away old clothes. and don't
know what not of things we've got
| through with that are of no earthly
use to us, but that we hate to throw
away. And how we do hang on to
some of these things. Why, say we've
that we've saved in that way that
we've been Juggling around for years,
| paying to have them moved and Civ
| ing up room for the storing of them,
that we never look into at all. We
| couldn't tell what was in some of them
without looking, but they are things
| we sort of hate to throw away, and
so we keep Juggling 'em around.
II don't want to drag in melancholy
thoughts in a cheerful conversation.
but l find myself wondering some
times. now. as grow older, what will
become of all this truck we save up.
! in this way when we die. 4 1t win all
be just lying there, and those who
come after us viii look at 1t ana won
der what under the CANOPY we saved
1t for and then theyfil ,throwSft away;
which / tell Mrs. Bflltops ws might
| just as well do now ourselves sand get
rid of 1t. There's nothing in the whole
blessed storeroom that we might not
| with perfect safety throw right out
without ever loking at it Oh. of
course, that is rather a sweeping as
sertion: there are blankets there. and
that sort of thing stored away for the
summer; but, nevertheless. IT is sub
| stantially true that all that miscellan-
eous array of boxes and bundles there,
! OF odds and ends Of one sort and an
! other. we might just as well throw
away bodily. and we lneyer'd miss 'em.
We had curious experience in this
way last fall. fft ~
wedding things out then in the
| usual manner. we set out of the store
room one day three big boxes of stuff
to look over. But somehow these boxes
! got mixed in with the stuff that had
been looked over and was ready TO
throw away; and away they went.
never looked at: and we never dscov-
cred II till the next day Then there
was a time! Mrs. Billtops wanted to
have me go right away and see Percy
Maggie. and find out what dump the
things collected on our block went to,
| and see IL I couldn't get the boxes
back. Our Oldest daughter, Lucinda,
was sure the green box contained all of
her very best patterns, and ] don't
remember now what other things or
tremendous value those boxes did con-
tain. but I STAYED the folks off, some
! how. from day TO day. and gradually
they felt easter about II and in a week
| they forgot n.
THAT was year ago. And do you