The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-06


first 90 a cousin of mine, a girl of that
age when one is sure of many things up
on which later we become less confident.
of course they are! she replied emphati-
cally; what a stupid question! 1T is not
my question: interrupted; 1T Is the ed
itor's.' L don't care whose II is, she re-
torted: AS If he could not see it for
himself, the silly mani q am not excus-
ing her; she has been brought up that
way; it is nothing to do with me.) why,
it is quite nuisance at times-you know
what mean, people worry you, won't let
you alone. There is such lot of things
1 wanted to do this year-study Italian,
read Goethe. 1t is so silly of them, be-
cause really the plain girls are just as
nice. Men are very silly in that way.
If 1 were a man l would rather talk 90
plain girl
IT asked a married woman next, the
wife of a professor of mathematics. She
considered the question for while in ST.
lence, and then answered: With men,
yes; but with her own SEX no. They are
very curious in that way she continued,
women. Now with me, IL is different.
like a pretty woman and generally
speaking, they are nicer. A plain woman
is generally a bit warped in her mind
She knows she is plain and broods over
it. Then that, of course, makes her en-
vious. Now, there's Mrs. -; well, I
won't mention names-you know her. l
dare say. She would be really very nice
woman If 1t were not for that. l am sure
1 Try to be as agreeable as 1 can be to
her. but she positively hates me-
"Going up the scale of age, l next cor
nered a widow. Said she: 4 think such
discussions do harm. They lead silly wo-
men to believe that the only thing to be
considered is personal appearance. 1 am
convinced that in reality it plays a much
smaller part than we imagine. / always
think of what poor dear James said to
me only day or two before the accident.
1 remember the occasion very we'll We
were sitting on the balcony of the hotel
overlooking the bay; it was a moonlight
night. Tell me, James, I said, do men
marry merely for beauty? Often he
answered, and live to regret lit. And
have you regretted il, JamesY 1 asked.
''No, Mildred" he answered. never. But
if beauty had been your only charm l
might have. Your face attracted me, /
admit; it is your mind and heart that
have helped me-" These are the most
important things continued my widow
friend-'mind and heart 1 have ques-
toned other ladies also, but these three
replies here set forth embody the wisdom
that 1 have thus gathered on the subject,
and which, summarized, would seem 40
be this Ladies, you should thank God
you are pretty, but not be conceited on
the subject. 1t is no credit to you per-
sonally that you are beautiful. 1t Is a
free gift from heaven, for which you
should be grateful, and to it you should
endeavor to add goodness and virtue"
From the time the beautiful and bril-
liant Madame Jumel had been a young
girl. and when Aaron Burr was only a
captain in the American army, she had
been more than once under the spell of
his strange fascination" writes William
Perrine, in the January Ladies' Home
Journal Burr had introduced her to the
celebrated Margaret Moncrieff had des-
perately firted with her. and had i'm
planted within her an admiration which
was still alive when he was an aged social
exile. She had written of him in earlier
days that he appeared to her to be the
perfection of manhood that his figure
and form had been fashioned in the mould
of the graces, and that he was as famil-
lar with the drawing-room as with the
camp. In a word she said he was a
combined model of Mars and Apollo. His
eye was of the deepest black and spar
killed. with an ineomprehensible brilliancy
when he smiled; but if enraged it's power
was absolutely terrific. Into whatever fe-
male society he CHANGED by the fortunes
of war or the vicisSitudeS of private life
to be cast ne conquered alb hearts with
out an effort; and until he became deeply
involved in the affairs of state, and the
vexations incident to the political arena,
1 do not believe a female capable of the
gentle emotions of love ever looked upon
him without loving him. Wherever he
went he was petted and caressed by her
sex, and hundreds Wed with each other
in a continuous struggle to offer him some
testimonial of their adulation. Suisse
quently Madame Jumel was married to
Burr who was nearly eighty and she
nearly sixty. The marriage was not a
happy one, and the two soon separated"
On thing a bride seldom remem-
bers; her husbands duty to his
friends, and also that he owes
a portion of his time and affection to his
parents and family Recalling the unin-
terupted devotion of his evenings to her
during his courtship it seems hard to
have him run away to give his mother an
hour, and the proud desire to show his
home and wife to his bachelor friends
breaks into those long tete-a-tete hours
in which the world was lost to both lover
and sweetheart.
Nothing could be more selfish than to
rob your husband of the faithful friend
ship of his young companions, and show
regret when they appear. Let a generous
sense of the value of true friends fill your
heart, and not only make them welcome,
but delight your husband by being as at
tractive and lovely in their eyes as posi-
Bile, says the Ledger Monthly
And to your husbands family exercise
the uttermost limit of generosity. Urge
him not to neglect or dsappoint the old
mother who SO sadly misses his morning
and evening kiss and who has lost from
her home and life all that you find dear
in him
Whatever may be the merits of any dis
agreement, let unselfishness keep you
from criticising your husbands relatives
and welcome them with open cordiality
and feel that every little attention shown
to them is indirectly shown to your best
beloved. They are his family; make them
yours also.
Never did San Francisco mothers and
sisters, says the Chicago Times Herald,
take keener interest In a child than they
are now evincing in Dorothy Creede the
Titan haired 6-year-old girl who made
happy the last days of Nicholas c. Creole
and to whom he bequeathed his millions
of mining property. stocks and bonds.
Romantic as 1t was for the hardy miner
after many years of rough life 90 be-
come attached to the 1-year-old youngster
he saw playing in a garden next to his
home, those who knew him best thought
it even more interesting that he should
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