The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-14

of embroidery soon after he reached Chi
ma. but as they were packed ready fol
to send home the trunk was broken intC
and the embroideries stolen.
The white marble swimming pool of the
! Chicago Woman's Athletic Club says tbs
| New York Mail and Express, is one of the
most largely patronized places in thai
! town, now that warm weather is ap
! preaching. During the morning hours the
| bath is in constant use, and here may be
! seen many of the leaders of ChicaGo's
/ swell set, arrayed in gorgeous spring
| style bathing gowns, doing aquatic
stunts" copied from the mermaids The
most skillful of all these fair swimmers
is Miss STEELE Amick, the swimming in
| structor. At some time during every
morning the women pupils all sit around
the edge Of the pool with their feet hang
/ ing in the water, and watch Miss Amick
while she performs tricks which would
/ make even the fishes stare-if there were
/ any there.
/ Among her accomplishments is her abiI-
| ity to float on her side, which it is said
not one person in a hundred can do. She
can entirely submerge herself and walk
| on the bottom of the pool. One of her
| diving specialties is called eth sea lion,
/ because, instead of pointing her hands
| over her head in the usual manner, she
! keeps her arms a. the side. And when il
| comes to somersauts in the water she
| can Guido even the small boy on terra
| firma. Among her more humorous per-
formances is her imitation of a starfish,
when her arms and legs revolve in rapid
! succession about the body, and her imita-
| ton of a bicycle scorcher, only the head
| in strained position being out of the wa
| ter, while the peda.ing motions are made
| by climbing as it were, through the wa
| ter.
In Berkeley Lyceum, New York. the
other day. the League for Political Edu-
cation, composed exclusively Of women,
! engaged IN a debate on the question,
That the daily reading of newspapers Is
pern.rioas habit" Those who upp2rte ]
| the proposition made many accusation,
but were defeated by an overwhelming
majority at the close Of the debate.
Miss ACele Field opened the debate
with a chamber of horrors comparison.
She said that the morning reader of news
papers is filled with depression at the be
ginning of the day and that this spoils
the sweetness of his nature; that the
newspapers take up time which might be
devoted 10 the best literature and that
the newspapers minister to a dep @aved
appetite which develops into a desire for
more and more sensation.
Mrs. Mary II. Louis referred to the
physical side of the affirmative argument,
and especially to the effect which the
universal reading of newspapers in cars
has upon the eyes. This has grown to
be such a great evil. she said, that q
bill has recently been presented to a
legislature regulating the size of type.
She also said that the constant reading
or disconnected subjects, as in a news
paper. produces amnesi1, or a condition
of mind which might be described as he
mislaying OF things and the failure to
know where they have been put.
Mrs Bowson told of a cook with pas
sion for bloodthirsty tales. caused by
reading newspapers, and of a beautiful
wife neglected by her husband for his
her appearance. Miss Field advised the
rcadiig CT a periodical digest of the
news, which advice was Endorsed by her
sisters on the affirmative side.
On the negative side Mrs. Henry c. Coe
said that the newspapers provide the op-
portunity for keeping in touch with our
environment. Mrs. Phebe Hanaford also
spoke on this side, and Mrs. John De Ri
vera summed up.
Mrs. De Rivera said that looking at the
dancing signs and advertisements con-
stantly in cars was as injurious 10 tie
| eyes as he reading Of papers, and as for
moral injuries, all of the women present
had been reading papers for ten, twenty,
forty and some said sixty years, and were
| still repu table members of society.
you Teao of robberies." she said, 'but
II does not make you want to rob; of
| murder, but it does not make you want
10 murder. The man of the house." she
said. "rea DIS the paper at breakfast and
while he is getting ready to go down to
| business. The woman of the house glances
| over 1t and in a marvelously short time
| gets an idea of the days news. from The
discovery of a star to the latest things
on the bargain counter.
There are certain customers of ours
who buy flowers only for association s
| New York Tribune Il always look for
! them when their favorite flowers first APP
| pear in market.
You see those yellow primroses?
| There's TALL pale woman in black who
always watches for the first yellow prim-
roses. She is English. 1 can tell that
| from her accent, and she must have been
very pretty, in the English fashion once.
II don't know anything about her
but there are tears in her eyes sometimes
when she takes the primroses and holds
them up to her face before l wrap them
up for her. l always imagine they make
her think of some English country home.
They grow wild there, you know.
| Then there's a little old lady who
loves wall flowers. Now, why any one
| should throw a fit over wall flowers /
| don't know; but this slim, dried-up little
woman is as excited as a girl over a big
| bunch of wall flowers She positively
twitters, but she doesn't care a straw
for American Beauties or violets or or
| chids.
"A gray-halred man, with a soft wide
brimmed felt hat, drops in whenever we
| have Jasmine in the window and buys all
we have. I've never know him TO buy any
| other flower He's a stern-faced old
chap, and looks a trihe seedy; but he has
| the money to pay for lilacs, no matter
what price we are asking.
"Td like TO know the stories that be-
| long with those special Gus tomers. I've
an idea they would be interesting"
! Americans who go abroad armed with
letters of introduction TO persons of 6onse-
quence, says the New York Tribune. are
| apt to imagine that they have only 10
! present their credentials to enter society;
| but they will find themselves as far away
| as ever from their desired goal unless
| they can bring other influences TO bear.
| A newly arrived American in London has
| tens TO leave his letters and card on his
arrival Within the next day or two he