The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-13

occasion, no illness, no known cause
whatever that might explain how the
three ladies at the same time conceiv-
ed the idea of visiting their Ohio sis
ter.
Having decided very hastily on COM
ing, each lady started at once. and had
in view the extra pleasure of giving the
sister in Dayton a happy surprise.
There was an unexpected general sur
prise. Just as the Kentucky lady walk
ed into her relatives home the Massa
chusetts sister arrived Astonishment
was at great hight. Warm greetings
were not yet over, bonnets had not yet
been removed. when in walked the sis
ter from Florida.
The four sisters are Mrs. Elizabeth
F. Bradford, of Pensacola, Fla; Mrs.
DR.. Annie b. Campbell of Boston,
Mass, Mrs. Jennie Butterfield Smith,
of Cynthiana, KY, and the oldest, Mrs.
Wiley, aged "A years, of Dayton, o.
The four sisters had not met since they
were called together twenty years ago
at the deathbed of their father.
Woman" said an old codger to A
writer for Puck during one of his med
fNNeAN0 SPSiiSS 10 a pei pcludl
a chronic conundrum without an an
swer. an unknown quantity possessed
of peculiar potentialities, a conventicle
of characteristic contradictions and an
amaranthine aggregation of other at
tributes which are not alliterative.
She is mans greatest earthly bless
ing and the cause of most of his mis-
cry. She is his chief inspiration to the
achievement of all that is good, grand
and glorious in this world, and at the
same time labor saving device to help
him make a fool of himself She
soothes his tired nerves with the COO
of her gentle voice, but she always
has the last word in every controversy
with him, and incidentally about 81 per
cent. of the preceding conversation.
She brings him into the world and a
few years later talks him to death.
Most of mans trouble is caused by
woman, but so deftly does she pile. the
load on him that whenever his burden
of trouble Is lifted he wanders uneas-
lily about hunting for more; otherwise
there would be very few second wives.
She will cheerfully go to the stake for
the truths sake and lie about her age
without even being asked. She will
break her heart. because a man does
what she doesn't want him to do and
love him all the better for so doing.
'She scorns all advice in the selec-
ton of husband. but takes two other
women along to help her pick out a
hat. The less actual comfort to be OBJ
tanned from thing the more enjoy
ment a woman gets out of its posses
| sion. AT 16 she is young woman; at
| %, If still unmarried, she is a girl. She
will face the grim specter of death
without tremor and swoon at the
| sight of a mouse. The only time she
ever does what you expect her to do is
| when you expect her to do just what
| you don't expect her to do. The sole
| reason why she does anything is simply
| because she doesn't know why she
| does it. She jumps at conclusions and
| always lands on them squarely, for the
simple reason that when the conclu-
| sion skips to one side, thinking to avoid
| her, it gets exactly in her way. She is
| the dearest thing in all the world and
the most aggravating She is as she is,
and that's all there is to do about it.
| The only man who ever fully under
stands woman Is the man who under
stands that he doesn't understand her
and has got sense enough to let it go
| at that"
The strangest dinner ever eaten, SO
| lar DIS I6COIuS SuON, say
the New York World, was eaten recent
ly in Liverpool.
Both host and guest-the dinner was
served for two-were antiquarians, and
their fare consisted of apples, bread
butter and wine.
| But the astounding part of 1t was
| that the apples were at least 1900 years
old, having been taken from a her.
metically sealed jar unearthed at Pom
peii.
The bread was made from wheat loot
| ed from a recently opened Egyptian
tomb, the hieroglyphics thereon show
ing it to have been grown in the reign
of that Pharoah, who knew not JOS
| eph." and who afterward persisted, to-
gether with his armies, in the Red sea.
The butter, discovered on a stone
| shelf in an ancient and long disused
well, dated from the days of Good
Queen Bess," while the wine was old
when Columbus was boy, and came
from a vault in Corinth.
Less remarkable but far more costly
was the dinner given by Sir William
Curtis in London some years back.
The bill averaged $3.50 head but the
dinner committee revelled in wanton
expenses, even despatching a special
messenger to Westphalia to select a
nam upon the spot, ana another to the
banks of the Volga for pot of freshly
made caviare.
In 1897 the Viscomte de Viel-Castel
undertook for a wager to expend 500
francs upon dinner for himself alone
at the Cafe de Paris, selecting only the
ordinary viands, wines, etc, as set out
in the bill of fare, and paying the ordi-
nary prices.
He won his bet, the actual amount of
his bill being 54S francs so confines.
The time was midwinter, and the items
included - francs for plate of young
peas, 20 francs for dish of strawber-
ries and "a francs for pineapple.
Death dinners. as they were called,
were a gruesome fad early in the eigh-
ties. There is still living certain lady
of high rank, who, not so very long