The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-04

ing. But this is not all, for it wouldn't
be expected of neighbors to rejoice with
one, but even the woman's husband is
sometimes bewildered by her calendar
of events.
This is an anniversary, Fritz" she
will say to her liege lord at the break
fast table. Did you know it?'
Know it? OF course 1 did," Mr..
Fritz responds, knitting his brows.
Let me see-July l. OH certainly. it's
your birthday"
IT'S nothing Of the sort" says his
better half irritably Il should think
that any man who had been married
to woman three years would know by
this time that she was born in October,
but have to tell you so every year.
We were introduced to each on July /.
Now, do try to remember it always"
Il SHALL" replied Fritz obediently
but he doesn't. He gets the day that
they met mixed with the day that he
first called her dear" or with the
date upon which they became engaged,
or the one upon which they had their
first quarrel or that upon which he
placed the engagement ring on her fin
ger.
The goVerness is not an American in
stitution. Even the rich families of the
large cities, says the New York Sun,
do not depend on a governess for the
education of the girls. Sensibly enough,
the children are sent to a private
school, where they are not only taught,
as rule, by more competent. teachers,
but have the advantage of proper dis
ciplfne and of association with other
girls.
In England the governesses are
fhiHLSar
families cannot forego that luxury. The
governess herself works hard and
earns little. One who gets $500 a year
is in luck. Here is an instance to show
how much less a good many of them
have to put up with. The principal of
woman's college received a letter
from a rector saying:
we want a refined, ladylike and
well-educated governess for our little
girl. May I ask if you think Miss X
would be equal to teach the usual Eng
lish subjects, also piano and violin?
She would be required to look after
the little girls wardrobe, as to mend
ing and so on. We offer a salary of $50
year and refined home in a beauti-
full country"
The principal wrote in reply:
Dear Sir: l am sure that Miss ks
father had no idea what salary was
offered or he would not have applied"
This brought the rector's wife to the
front in the following letter:
Madam: Our advertisement in the
CHRISTIAN, fully stating salary and re-
qulrements, was answered by Mr.. x.
among some forty others in a gentle
manly and straightforward manner.
Therefore your curt and insolent reply
to my husbands courteous INQUIRIES
respecting Miss X is totally inexcusa-
bic. Your opinion with regard to salary
was neither asked for nor required"
1t would be interesting to know how
many replies and of what nature such
an advertisement would get in this
country. How many young women are
plnlng to take charge of child, teach
her the usual branches, the piano and
the violin, mend her clothes land so
on" for 800 year?
kindergarten teachers, by the way.
receive from $400 to $500 a year in Eng
land. The average annual salary of a
mead mistress in an elementary school
under the London school board is $3.50
and of assistants about $3.50. Juniors
receive very much less. Salaries in the
regular day schools begin when there
is no degree or certificate at $500 and
scarcely rise above $500. For those
who have a degree they begin at $500
sometimes even more. The head mis-
tresses in these schools receive from
$l,O0O to, in very few cases, s., 900 a
year.
Fashionable women who once have
an acknowledged position, says the
New York Tribune, can do pretty
much as they like that is, they can
deviate from conventional ideas in
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caste, and be a law unto themselves
as long as what they elect to do is
merely an eccentricity of taste When
Mrs. Jack Smart announced that she
was tired of renting a cottage at a
watering place and intended keeping
her Fifth avenue home open all sum
mer, and that she and her two daugh-
tiers would practically pass the season
In town, her friends declared that
there was no reason why she should
not suit herself. In fact, the women
applauded the idea when they found a
luncheon table always attractively
spread with cold dainties in her large
darkened dining room. cooled with
electric fans, when they ran up to
town for days shopping. The men,
who were obliged to spend the week
in Wall street, were welcomed to din
ner, and were sure of finding cooling
drinks or her Sideboard during the
evening, and a comfortable cushion on
the front steps. Here Mrs. Jack and
her pretty daughters held small
court during the long, hot evenings
or would pick up their trains, pin on
their hats and stroll with favored
SWANS to the nearest soda water foun-
tain. The house itself looked charm
ingly comfortable. The rugs and car
pets were all rolled up, and the polish
ed floors were cool and inviting Fresh
chintz, with an especial pattern for
each room, covered the furniture, while
Venetian blinds excluded the glare
from the curtainless windows. Flow
ers were everywhere. Great bowls or
roses, minionette, carnations, hello