The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-25

selves from the tyranny of churchgo-
ing, the led still carry some links OF the
broken chain. Very smart women can
struggle 10 an IL 80 service where the
music is good and the performance
does not last more than an hour, and
the reign OF the popular preacher is not
yet quite at an end. But 1t does not do
for the preacher to strain his authority.
An incumbent of a proprietary chapel
IN Mayfair ventured TO ask a single wo-
man who was the richest member of
his congregation whether she could not
manage with fewer than three footmen
under her butler and give the cost of
the discarded John to a fund for the
sick and poor. Disdaining to submit 10
priestcraft in any form the good wo-
man removed her hassock" and dis
continued her subscriptions. The in
cumbent. no longer able TO meet the
expenses of the chapel was forced 10
resign. and is now meditating on the
dangerous consequences of allowing re-
ligion TO invade the sphere of private
life.
Every woman, says the Chicago
Chronicle, can make reliable weather
predictions. II reliance can be placed on
the statements of certain La Sale
street insurance man. He was dining
at his club the other evening with
some friends and over the cigars con-
versatton turned on the hot spell and
the government prognost icators. Talk
about your oarometers. rheumatisf.
goose bones. and corns as weather
prophets" said the insurance man,
they are simply not In II with my
wife's hair. | would rather have her
promise as to weather any time than
that of the best and luckiest weather
bureau observer who ever engaged in
the predicting or weather torecasting
business. Long ago ! found out that
my wife spoke truthfully when she
told me rain would fall. or that the
day would be fine. and she never made
mistake once in 100 times.
And her predictins were always for
the day only and never for the night,
and often when we went out at night
we wereecaught unprepared by rain.
On these occasions I frequently twit-
ted my wife with being a false proph-
et, or rather a bad one. but l could
never get her to venture a prediction
on the weather at night.
"All these years the matter has been
a great mystery to me and / was
never able TO fathom 1t, but a few days
ago she explained how she was able
to so closely tell what the weather
would be during the day, and her ex-
that ! wondered why the solution of
what l thought a mystery. or the pos
session of second sight on my wife's
| part, had never occurred to me before.
| Like many other women my wifes
hair is not curly and, like many 9TH
er women, she puts it up in curl-pa-
pers, or kids, when she retires at night
and brushes 1t out curly in the morn
| ing. When her hair emerges from the
IN q N nd CT nd
heavy she knows there will be rain
and plenty of it before night. When it
Is trif1e damp she knows there will
be showers or some rainfall, but not
real rainy day. and when she brushes
! out her hair and it is dry, light and
I fluffy she knows to a certainty that
the day will be a fine one"
One modern ailment, which, like ner-
vous prostration, affects only those
wealthy enough to afford it.. is known
among it's victims as the traIned-nurse
| habit, so say q writer in the New
York Sun. 1t may be acquired by its
victims in various degrees. The wealth
Ter a person is, the oftener will She
| it is usually she-have trained nurse
| in the house. With the cost-$25 a week
it will be seen that the habit is in
deed a luxury. When the victim lives
| in hotel the expense is proportion
ately greater. Expensive hotels have
often been recommended as the best
means of curing the worst cases of the
| trained-nurse habit when the trouble
was so deeply seated as to be cause
of anxiety to the patients friends and
| family.
| The disease is always to be diagnosed
from the desire of the sufferer to have
a trained nurse on the least provoca-
| ton, and to keep her beyond the time
| she is needed. The most aggravated
| cases of the disease are seen when the
| patient has a trained nurse regularly
| in the house. 1t Is usually found in
these cases that the victim is young
| mother who needs or thinks she needs
the care of the nurse for her small
children. In this class of cases the
| amount of wealth is usually sufficient
to make the attack very aggravated.
This disease has bene known to take
| such hold upon it's victims that in per-
| feet health they still retain their nurse
on the pretext that she may be need
| ed at any time for the members of the
| family. The luxury of such a member
| of the household staff is not to be de-
| MED, and the habit that keeps her in
| the house leads to comfort under nearly
| all circumstances.
The trained nurse fortunate enough
| to find employment in one of these
| homes OF the rich Is indeed to be con-
| graduated. The work is light and the
| payment regulated by the regular tar
| if; thus II is necessary to be i'll In or
| der to get the full value of the money
| paid to the nurse.
| Many women when talking about
their chances Of success as money max
ers should necessity, compel them to
earn their bread assume that if the
worst emergency arose they could al
ways get place as housekeeper. Most
| incapable women who have never been
| educated in the first principles of home
making calmly assert their ability to
| take charge of strangers house on
| salary when they would be entirely in
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