The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-06

attacks of that tired feelin" will be
glad on occasion to use the wonderful
| elixir OF the French professor. A bot
| tie of it will be kept in every house
hold. The children will be given a dose
of 1t before they start for chool: the
mistress will revive her failing ener-
| gies with it If she has been out to a
ball the night before; the maids will
find 1t sovereign remedy for tired
nerves and muscles. and every member
OF the family will use it daily. Unless
the importance of Prof. Gautier's rem
edy has ben exaggerated he seems to
have discovered the long sought palli-
alive of the primal curse of man.
THEY MET.
Twas born in the breath of a certain
rose,
The first sweet fiutter, the stir,
The call and answer, the blush that
CLOVIS,
The faltering, slow demur.
1t passed as it came, though the charm
of song
Wooed It to listen and stay;
But the song and the rose to the holr
belong,
AS the morrow follows the day.
Yet its reign was planned against all
defense,
For how should the soul Withstand
The life. the grace, she ava kening
sense,
That came in the touch Of hand?
Pail Mall Gazette.
Mrs. Elizabeth Shuey Southwark of
minneapolis, Mimi, earns a big salary
by the rather curious work of organic
ing libraries.
The work of planning and cataIogu-
ing collections of books, says the New
York World. has been reduced to a sci
ence within the last few years. 1t has
dustry.
Mrs. Southwark is the first woman
10 constitute herself a travelling libra
ran. By several years of work she
mas won a high standing as an organ
lZer. When new library is to be
started In town or a college the SUI
perintendent sends for her and says:
We have so many thousand books
here in topsy-turvy state. We want
then indexed, arranged on shelves and
the whole library put into ship-shape.
What will you take to do the work?
Mrs. Southwark names a round sum.
and usually her terms are accepted.
Mrs. Sothward got her training in a
library school at Armour Institute, Chi
cago. After that she held the position
OF head cataloguer at the John Crevar
Library, Chicago.
she had mapped out a career for her.
self. when suddenly she changed her
mind and married. She settled down
to forget all about library science,
when one day she got letter from
the executors of the estate of the late
Bishop Perry of Davenport, Ia. The
Bishop had left valuable library,
-1,s,
put into proper shape.
Mrs. Southwark took the Job. Since
then she has worked at itinerant cata-
loguing. and earns more pin-money IN
a week than the average woman gets
in year. She always charges a lump
sum Tor her services and sometimes
spends as much as five months on one
book collection.
During the summer she manages a
training school for Librarians in the
University Of Minnesota.
a woman who expects to be a sue
cessful library organizer, says Mrs.
Southwark, must be an accurate book
keeper and accountant. If her ideas Of
figures are misty, no matter how much
of book-worm she is, she is not cut
out for managing libraries. She must
be quick, have a college training if
possible and read English, French and
German.
Aside ftom summer schools there are
four regular library schools in the
United States--the State School at AL
bany; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn; prex-
ell Institute, Philadelphia, and one at
the University of Illinois, in Spring
field.
Who ever heard of ants in the role
of matchmakers? Yet in the island of
Sulu, one of Uncle Sans recently ac-
quired possessions in the Philippine
archipelago, the maidens cannot find
husbands without their intervention. A
gentleman who recently visited the ISL
and has this to say Of the curious
state of affairs:
"A most curious custom is to be
found in that island. 1t obtains only
among some of the more savage tribes
of the far interior. called the Kakko-
hattochochka q won't swear to the
spelling) tribe. These savages are very
primitive people indeed, and very saw
age in all their manners of life. There
are not above 10000 Of this tribe, and
they live in the mountains of the in
terror The way their young women
are given in marriage is worth going
miles to see. l saw the ceremony last
month and l shall not soon forget 1t.
when a young woman comes to the
age of IA she is deemed marriageable.
A notice is given out by the town crier
that on a certain day the young wo-
man will be given in marriage. This
day is within a month of the fourteenth
birthday OF the lady concerned, and is
chosen by her, according TO ancient
custom. And the choosing of the day,
by the way. is all that the bride has
to say about the marriage. The crier
also, a few days later, calls out the
dowry OF the bride and proclaims her
charms aloud in the market place So |
all the population Is notified and a
goodly crowd of admirers gather to |
take their chance for the fair lady The |
near relatives Of the bride and the con-
testants-who have previously given |
their names in to the father of the girl |
and crowd Of perhaps 100 persons, |
IL the young woman Is the daughter /
OF man OF Importance, gather 70 see |
the show.
ION the morning OF the marriage the |
bride Is taken out by her maids and |
crowned with lilies and clad In white. /