The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-31

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center of the dining table and filled with
the entire fashionable bill of fare pre-
pared for the occasion. Gratefully we
row acknowledge. such proceedings to be
bad form" and in SO doing pronounce
ourselves two centuries removed from the
table manners of swine and one point
away from that brute, no matter how
similar to him our turn of mind may re-
main in some other respects.
You who have been wearing coats and
vests since childhood have perhaps never
stopped to consider the nick in the lapel,
says the New York Herald. A controversy
is now in progress on the other side of
the Atlantic as to how this originated.
The following ingenious explanation has
at last been offered:
1t is said that when Napoleon first felt
the sway of ambition he tried to implicate
Gen. Moreau in Pichegru's conspiracy.
Moreau had been Napoeon's superior and
was exceedingly popular, but under the
circumstances with the Man of Destiny
in power it was not safe to express pub
licly sympathy with Moreau. His admir-
ers and supporters quietly agreed to nick
their coat lapels to show their fellow
ship, the outlines of the coat after the
nick was made, forming the letter M.
Moreau was exAed by Napoleon and lived
in Morrisville, Pa.
One of the common complaints among
married women. says the New York
Press, is that after marriage sudden
frost seems to fall upon their husband s.
lovemaking. Indeed, the attitude of
man on this subject may be said to be
fairly representative of the before and
after taking remedies. He discontinues
the delicate compliments with which he
jollied along his sweetheart in the days
of courtship. He bestows upon her cheek
the perfunctory peck of duty instead of
the warm kiss of devotion. lie expects
her to take his affection on trust instead
of assuring her of it thousand times
an evening, as has been his won't
Women who have this grievance, and
who hold to the cherished belief that you
can't have too much of as good a thing
as love, will be interested in learning that
a wife in Philadelphia has been compel
led to have her husband agraigned before
the court for loving her too we'll. The
woman, it apears, goes out TO service 8
a cook, and her husband was so devoted
to his dear little wife for supporting
him so comfortably that he insisted on
following her to her place of work and
there overwheling her with demonstra-
tions of his affection, which so interfered
with her duties that she had to have him
arrested and bound over not to keep the
peace, but to leave, her in peace.
Keep your children busy If you would
have them happy, says writer in the
Womans Home Companion. When the
occupation is some daily labor which has
been wisely allotted, see that 1t is accom-
| plished as well as 1t is possible for the
child to accomplish it under existing cir
| cumstances. But whether it be in work
| or play, let him understand that no mat
| ter how well he may have done to-day
| and do not be chary of; your. praise-he
has within himself that which viii make
| it possible for him to do still better to-
morrow. This treatment. instead of dis
couraging will encourage, by melting the
| child toward ever better work. and will
early implant that spirit of divine dis
| content which allows of no absolute sat
| isfaction in that which has been accom-
| plished until the achievement reaches
| perfection. This is the discomfort which
Emerson breaches and which is holy If
doubt is not allowed to creep in to mar
| the aspiration.
| The girl was told by her teacher the
| other day to write a composition upon
! the value of history says the New York
| Times. Tel US what histories are most
valuable" said the teacher, and the girl
| put on her thinking cap. 1t did not take
| her long to decide upon the general out
lines of her composition,
| 81 don't know anything about the value
| of history" she said, decidedly, land l
am not going to write anything"
| Then she hied herself to the book shops
| and there she took down the names of all
| the histories she could find and the prices
| of each. She copied them neatly, and
when composition day came, she read
out her list clearly and distinctly, to the
| surprise of the teacher and delight of
her school fellows. 1.-THE most vaiua-
BILE histories she said in concluding her
| composition, ARE usually those which
cost the most"
Princess Victoria of England, the I'M
married daughter of Edward VII, has the
| most curious hobby of any in a family
that has several unusual fads. She is
| deeply interested in bookbinding
How she happened to choose that par
ticular hobby nobody seems to know, but
for several years she has devoted great
deal of time to learning how to be an
expert bookbinder, and at last has become
one.
A few months ago several book covers