The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-22

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until the end did his rivals for sum-
mer trade learn what he was doing.
You see,'' said the merchant, in ex-
planning his good luck, Great Neck is
one of the swell summer residence
places on Long Island. / guess we
have more magnificent summer homes
! here than in any other one place on
| the island. We merchants always ex-
pect to make a good profit out of the
| summer people, and on this account we
are always looking out for some new
way in which to please them. Well,
| one day this spring when l went down
to one of these houses for an order the
| servant who gave it to me asked If
kept Turkish cigarettes. l said that
l did not, but asked her why she
inquired.
Well she said the mssus wants
! to have some cigarettes on hand, and
| she has tried all over the village to
| get them, and there is no one that keeps
| them
This statement was light enough
| for me. l guess ii had been asked Of
| all the other fellows who called at the
| house, but they didn't seem to catch
! on. I inquired further. and 1 found
| that there were a good many cigar
| cites used in the house. l told the
| servant / would bring some the next
| time I called.
That day I went to the city and
looked up the manufacturers. 1 got
a number of the best samples, and the
| next day took them to this house and
left word to try them and see which
suited. I also said that l would bring
| as many as the lady wanted in the
| future. That was my beginning in
| that line of business.
| "At every house I went after that
left word that l could furnish cigar
| cites if they were desired. Do you
| know that / got an eye-opener? Why,
nearly all the women in these houses
| smoked some kind of cigarettes. I
learned that it is the custom for the
| women to retire after dinner to the
verandas of their houses and there en-
| JOY a quiet smoke. And the habit I
found was not confined to the ladies
Of the house alone. The women SER
| wants also smoked cigarettes.
| THE cigarettes 1 sold most of cost
| 80 cents a package. / usually took to
| the houses eight packages, and 1 got
| an order for that many about every
| other day. The orders for the cigar
| cites came as regularly as orders for
| tea or coffee or other groceries and
| supplies. / did not tell any one of
| my new line of trade and none of the
| other merchants here got onto my
good luck. That is why l made
| good stake out of the business. I am
| preparing to lay in a good supply of
| choice cigarettes for my next summer
| trade"
| Mrs. McKinleys Favorite Poem
| God gives us love. Something to love
| He gives us; but when love is grown
| To ripeness, that on which it throve
| Falls off, and love is left alone.
| Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace!
| Sleep. holy spirit blessed soul, ,
While the stars burn, the moons in
crease.
And the great ages onward roll.
Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet!
Nothing comes to thee new or
| strange,
Sleep full OF rest from head to feet;
Lie STILL dry dust, secure of change.
-Tennyson.
Two American girls, says the New
| York Press, were having shampoo
| in London. Their hair had been dried
and the last hairpin put in the couture
| arranged according to English conven-
ticn, when the attendant inquired po-
litely wouldn't you like a transfer
mation?'
Visions of spiritualistic performa noes
or other unoanny, wizard-like acts sug-
| gested themselves, only to be confuted
| by the presence of the stold English
woman waiting their pleasure with the
docility of her class.
I'VE should like to see one" they
ventured. whereupon a pompadour
ready to put on and attaching itself so
neatly to the head as to defy suspicion
of falsity was produced.
And this is the Transformation? ~
exclaimed the Americans
Yes; all the ladies in London wear
transformations" replied the attend
| an.
| Thereafter every Englishwoman they
saw whose hair rolled in fashionable
pompadour fashion from her face was
set down by the Americans as a
transformation"
Wives of men who are inclined to
kick" when the dressmaker's bill
comes in, says the New York Press,
should cut this item out and leave it
where their husbands would be sure to
see it. The train of the Empress of
Russia's coronation dress-tust the
train-cost no less than $4,000. And
suppose the man who grumbles had
married the woman for whom Georges
Pilotelle. the Paris man. dressmaker.
confessed that he once designed $40 900
worth of dresses off the reel" or the
Peruvian lady for whom Worth made
Single ITOCK costing $Z4,UOO!
1t is said by those who ought to
know that the woman of fashion
spends nowadays ten times as much on
her gowns as she did twenty years ago,
and that extravaganza in this line is
on the increase. Mrs. Sam Lewis of
London is possessed of a wonderful
beetle wing dress sent to her as a pres
emit by an Indian Rajah, in return for
some services rendered that potentate
by Mr.. Lewis. There are $4,000 of the
wing cases of an Indian beetle sewn
upon the material of which the dress
is composed which gives a peculiar
shimmerins green irdescence to the
flowing folds of the garment. The
value of the dress can only be guessed
at. but it is generally set down as $751;
900.
When women go in for lace there is
no end to the money they can squan-
der. The Dowager Queen of Italy has
a lace handkerchief 800 years old which
she values at $4,000, and Point Tresse
lace, which is made from threads of
fax mixed with human hair, is inn
mensely valuable. Even the modern
lace handkerchiefs which they make
at st. Gall, Switzerland, sell for $12
apiece.
Harriet Prescott Spofford makes an
interesting talk in the Chicago Chron-
icle on the subject that mothers should
not deny themselves everything for the