The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-11

other men and particularly from her
| affianced is a question that has Deen
frequently asked me.
Regarding the engaged girls conduct
with other men it can be stated that
she should be circumspect and more
than circumspect. In addition to this
she should be kind in a way that in
wolves more than etiquette. She should
consider the feelings not only of the
one dearest to her, but of those who
come in contact with her.
The engaged girl who during the alb
sence of her betrothed refuses to join
small parties upon little summer eX-
| cursions, who considers simple games
| indecorous, who will not as much as
walk out, making one of group taxi
! ing a promenade of a summer evening,
makes a mistake. She is too proper by
far too absurdly decorous, too prudish.
The easy, pleasant camaraderie of
the engaged girl makes her a great
summer favorite and if she will take
her place becomingly in the society of
the summer city in which she is placed
she VIII find that belleship becomes
| hers when it could not belong to her
under any other conditions. Out of
the race, to use a vulgarism, she is
liked by the young women because of
her total absence of rivalry, and liked
by the young men because of her cheer
full companionship, without trace of
coquetry. For all she has a camarade-
RE which is delightful.
When the betrothed of the engaged
girl appears upon the scene all is
changed for her. She is now at IL
berty to go and to do, to lead and pc
led, she can dance and take part in a
conspicuous way, as BELTS her talents
If she have any, in every entertainment
in the house, and the engaged girl who
has been quiet and a little in the back
ground now comes forth conspicuously,
because of the fact that she has by her
side her chosen protector and the
things which she could not do as an
engaged girl with her betrothed absent
are now possible for her.
1t is at this stage that the engaged
girl is liable to err. Unless unusually
well bred she will make public exhi-
bition of her affection, be too devoted,
perhaps, too utterly exclusive as far
as the others are concerned, and not
sufficiently alive to the fact that
though engaged she is by no means
married and that between the two
from the standpoint of society there is
as wide a gulf fixed as in the home.
To know just how many loverlike
attentions to accept, how many moon
light walks to take alone, how far to
drive unchaperoned, for how long a
time the piazza tete-a-tete can be con-
tinued, these are questions which the
engaged summer girl must decide for
herself or they must be decided for
her by her chaperon.
1t is far from good form for the en-
gagged girl to drive day after day alone,
certainly the worst of bad taste to pro-
long the drives into whole day excur-
sions or to in any way bring down the
charge of seeking to seclude herself
from the rest of the company The
attitude of the engaged girl should be
that of a sister toward her affianced
she showing preference for his COM
pany, a wish to be agreeable to him, a
desire to accompany him, or to be one
of all parties of which he is part, but
beyond this very little more.
The engaged period is halcyon time,
but it is also a trying one. The en-
gagged girl does not know exactly what
she may and what she may not do and
in the deciding she is likely to make
mistakes which, while by no means Sc
rious, may bring down the word of
criticism which she would like to avoid.
Criticism is too sharp a word to ap-
ply to the summer girl who is away
from home in the society of her be-
trothed, for all the world loves lover
and all the world will be partial to her,
but at the same time she should, and
must, show caution or she will allow
her betrothed to devote himself to her
with an energy and devotional perse-
verance which is far from being de-
sirable.
The Kingdom of God
I say to thee do thou repeat
To the first man thou mayest meet
In lane, highway or open street,
That he and we and all men move
Under canopy of love,
AS broad as the blue sky above;
That doubt and trouble. fear and pain.
And anguish, all are shadows vain.
That death itself shall not remain;
That weary deserts we may tread,
A dreary labyrinth may thread,
Through dark ways underground be
led;
Yet If we will our Guide obey,
The dreariest path, the darkest way
Shall issue out in heavenly day.
And we, on divers shores now cast,
Shall meet, our perilous voyage past,
All in our Fathers house at last.
Richard Chevenix Trench, in the
New York Tribune.
Simplicity and kindness of nature,
says a writer in the Chicago Chronicle,
are the ruling characteristics of the
Duchess of Fife and her husband. I
heard a god story illustrative of this,
and 1 happen to know that 1T is per-
fectly true. A young man, invited to
tea in Portman Square, omitted to
put his card of invitation into his
pocket, and, vaguely remembering that
the house to which he had been invit-
ed was one of the teens, bade his cab
man drive to Is.
When the cab drew up the young
man, noticing nothing, rang the door
bell, and a man servant ushered him
in, took his hat and stick. and invited
him upstairs. Having given his name
the door was thrown open, and he
walked into the Duchess Of Flies
drawing rom, at the further end of
which were seated around tea table
Queen Alexandra (then Princess of
Wales), the Duchess and her two sis
tiers.
He has said since that IL was a most
uncomfortable moment, but the Ouch
ess came forward, he humbly protest
ing his wish to go away, and insisted
on his staying, and the Duke present.
ly joining the party, he soon recovered
and had a delightful time. On leaving
BREAKFAST ON DRINK.