The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-13


Wouldn't it inspire her to always try 10
DO that way? There's such a natural
human desire to live up to our blue china
and'be what people expect US TO be.
1t seems a pity, says the New York
tribune, particularly as America Is be-
coming socially as well as politically q
INST class Power among the worlds na-
tons, that we cannot adopt the kindly
German customs instead of the more for
mai and much more selfish English meth
DDS of entertaining. 1t certainly would
add greatly to the comfort of both sexes.
ana almost If not quite. do away with
the dread that timid girls experience.
with so much reason, before every func-
uon. For instance, in Germany it is the
custom for every man to ask to be pre-
scented to stranger of the opposite sex
That does not imply, as Il would over
mere, that he is obliged to stay and make
conversation, and in all propab;lit get
"stuck'-a word that carries terror to
men and maids alike. 1t is simply an act
or recognition and kindly courtesy. The
man is at liberty to withdraw as soon as
he has made his bow, and, if he feels so
inclined, inscribe his name on the Young
woman's dance card. This latter Is also
continental convenience that smooths
the pathway for debutante. After her
Saiu - iiieu, htiu III germany IL is always
very quickly written up, the young men
there being no laggards where the ter
psichorean art is concerned, she feels no
further anxiety about her evenings en-
Joyment, for she knows that each partner
will relieve the other when the latter's
dance is over. The suppers, too, at a bail
in Germany are very much more infor-
NAL They are by no means the ordeal
that the stately march into a distant
room and the uncertainty about partners
and congenial seats render them to many
a shrinking soul at a New York assem-
bly,. There small tables are brought into
the different rooms, where people are con-
sreSated, set as if by magic, and supper
Is served by the servants with the celebrity
born of long practice, while all evidences
or the feast are removed with the same
rapidtty after it is over. That some re-
form is needed in our social conditions
is very evident. Balls are becoming or
deals, when they should give unmingled
pleasure, and the restrictions upon wo-
men, which render them practically help
less unless they are asked by the men to
dance or go in to supper, are really alb
surd. 1t is this state of affairs that con-
gests society, so to speak, and destroys
the spontaneity and freedom that are so
essential to agreeable social intercourse
1t is a great pity that fashionable wo-
men do not try to correct this evil to ac-
complish which little concerted action
is all that is necessary.
"In the first place, says Harpers Ba-
Ear, what is the harm in asking men for
things in the way they like best? They
have favors to grant; naturally they grant
the best ones to those who please them.
ASK for it pretty is what nurses say
to children, and practically what men say
to women. No one likes to be approached
at unreasonable times and in objection
able ways. You have admitted that your
self in telling of the girls you don't like.
Sex has nothing to do with that part of
it, men and women are the same in that.
But men generally hold more favors In
their hand than. we, and that is why we
must be adopts in asking for them But
there comes a time when a man wants
favor of a woman
HE takes it without asking" retorted
the Girl, thinking of her brothers.
The supreme favor of ail-how does he
ask for that?"
You mean when man asks a girl to
marry him?"
Yes. Doesn't he go about that in the
most diplomatic way possible? He is
months preparing the way, scattering
candy, books, flowers cotillion faVors with
a lavish hand. His fiattery is the most
delicate and lingering; he is too amiable
to be disturbed; he uses every vile, both
honest and evasive. to lead up to the
asking. And we like it! We like it 50
well that we put off the asking to pre-
vent the end of the gratifying play. When
the question does finally come, we feel
amiabie enough to answer favorably."
In Her Eyes
He looked into her eyes, and all he'd
known
OF good and true and beautiful there
shone,
And all that he had thought that life
could hold,
In those clear depths he, raptured, saw
unfold.
He looked into her eyes-the sunny days
He lived long since, and all the glorious
ways
He'd wandered in, as in a mirror clear
lie saw with inner vision reappear.
Hopes, strifes, Misunderstanding his
soul
Had felt, or dreamed, or suffered, did
unroll:
AS drowning men seem in a flash to see
All things their lives had stored in mem
DRY.
He looked into her eyes. and instant
knew
How much, he lacked of being good and
true;
How far he'd failed in struggle and In
strife
OF being faithful to the best in life.
Yet shining back to him he still could see
Such loving trust, such boundless sym
pathy.
He felt his soul to highest hight could
rise
So long as he might look into her eyes.
From the Indianapolis News.
The following doubtless occurred in
Philadelphia as II is from the Press of
that city:
Mrs. Housekeep-why did you leave
your last place? p 81 ueAE
New Housemaid young and pretty
Well, the couple l lived with didn't
agree.
Mrs. Housekeep-Why should their dis
agreements bother you?
New Housemaid-Why, the mistress
didn't like me, but the master, was quite
fond of me.
The widow of an Arab who intends to
take to herself a second spouse naturally
thinks that her late lamented husband
would not approve, so the night before
the wedding she goes to pay him visit
at his grave. There she humbly kneels
and nraVs him not to be Jealous or Offend