The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-28


| thought that was what you meant.
81 was furious, but I saw the benevo-
/ lent society had the drop on me and I
| paid them the $40. The worst of 1t IS,
! the girl seemed so sweet and innocent
and sorry that haven't had the courage
either to discharge her or deduct the
money from hef salary. 1 can't make up
my mind to this day whether she really
thought 1 meant to make her a present
| or whether she notified the society to send
me the tickets and then deliberately work
| ed me for good time. But. whatever her
motive there is one charitable organiza-
ton in town that is now growing fat off
$40 of my hard earned money"
| All right-minded persons, says the st.
Louis Post-Dispatch, must be shocked at
the news that young girls have been so
foolish to commit suicide for fear they
may become old maids.
Being an Old maid is by no means a sad
lot. No one but an old maid can get the
| fun enjoyment nature intended us to get
from keeping pets such as dogs, cats, par
| rots and canaries.
Now, this may seem a little strange,
and yet we know that many persons in
captivity have gladly made pets of rats
! and spiders. So the old maid, with lib
erty and the opportunity to keep dozen
| pets, is highly blessed.
The old maid does not have to get up
dozen times in the night to administer
paregoric or rub liniment on a childs
bumps. She is in no danger Of losing the
| sight of an eye as a mother did few
days ago from being poked by baby's
finger.
Old maids are spared the misery of help
! ing to fill the number of the q, Az divorce
cases that are granted in the United
| States in a year.
Consider what opportunities an old maid
has for joining clubs, for growing flowers,
for reading for travelling and for gossip.
Max O'Ren has discovered only two
countries where men are in leading
! strings-his own and the United States.
The French woman, he affirmed, in a
recent lecture in London, is supreme in
the politics of matrimony. She knows it is
a question of remaining, not beautiful,
but interesting; hence her little busting
ways and her varied manner of doing her
! hair. In this country he said, marriage
was looked upon as the end of love-mak-
ing. but in France, after marrying your
wife. YOU had to win her-a process very
pleasant. If so many kisses were not in
dulged in before marriage in this country,
| there would be more afterward. In France
not more than one man in every 500 be-
! longed to a club. AS for momen's club
ugh!
American girls Mr.. ORell praised with
out stint. The animation of their features,
the brilliance of their conversation their
freedom from affection, the picturesque
ness of their language-oh, they were glo-
| rious and unique, he avoWed The Amer
! lean girl of II or IS was allowed almost
every liberty and she took the others.
In conclusion, Mr.. O'ReH enthusiastic
ally remarked that if he could be born
anew, selecting his sex and country, he
/ mako a AnnpTj-
| lean woman"
The wife of Gordon Highlander says
Tit-Bits received some time ago an in
vitation to visit him at the barracks in
| Scotland She did so, taking with her
their little 6-year-old girl. When they
arrived, as id happened, the husband was
engaged on, sentry duty, and so they
| could not approach him.
The child eyed her daddy with a sor-
rowful but amazed expression, as he
paced up and down the square shoulder
ing his rifle and wearing kilt. She had
never before beheld him thus arrayed,
and for few minutes che spectacle SEEM
ed to be quite beyond her; but for no
longer could she keep silent.
| Mamma" she said, In a voice that be-
| trayed a trace of childish covetousness,
"if daddy finds the man what stole 'ees
trousers will he gimme dat little frock?'
The following interviews with distin-
| guished writer and observer appeared in
the New York World
do you think that, in addition to bring
ing a taller, stronger average of women,
the new century will produce women with
better complexionsa'
mo; most decidedly not. There are
many women now whose compilations it
would be impossible 20 improve upon.
! But I think that the average will be
| higher
| THAT all women will improve I believe,
but above all am 1 confident that our
| American women will continue to lead the
world, as they do now. Say what you
will about Old World culture, the Ameri-
can woman is the highest type known
both physically and Intellectually. That
she is the latter one can read in the splen-
did forehead, which practically every
American girl has"
In one respect, the American type is
different from all that have distinguished
past times. 1t is democratic.
Foreign observers in New York or Chi
cago often remark upon the aristocratic
| bearing of women who would be slow to
claim the adjective for themselves. 1t is
a product of the American spirit. What
will it bring forth in a century-not in Sc
lected specimens, but in the average-the
| type?
The latest undergarment designed for
fair women, says the New York Journal
seems really all things in one. It's the