The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-04

| den one self with heaNy taDrlcS.
| Mourning taffetas and muslins are also
very much worn.
Evening gowns for young married
women are cut very loYback and front
and deficiencies are supplied with a
! drapery of tulle.
The very latest corset is a comprom-
Use between the old model and the later
one with the exaggerated straight
front. The straight lipe is not con-
fined to the front entirely. but is dis
tributed all around, making the curve
at the back more natural.
In the heart of the rose the span worm
Nestles. (Ah, mel I know.)
And under the wreath of laurel
The sharp thorns press, 1 trow.
To the feet of the golden idol
A little clay must cling,
And over the gates of Eden
The swords of sorrow swing.
The burial train and the bridal
Oft in the roadway meet,
For this is the way Fate mingles
LIES bitter and its sweet.
Susie M. Best, in the Bohemian.
According to an historian, says the
Philadelphia Times, this is the way the
first silver wedding came about. 1t
was in the time of Hughes Caput. Two
of his most faithful servants, a man
and a woman, had grown gray in his
employ How could he reward them?
Calling the woman, he said: Your
service is great, greater than the
mans, whose service is great enough
for the woman always finds work
harder than a man, and, therefore,
will give you a reward. At your age
| know of none better than a dowry
and a husband. The dowry is here
this farm from this time forth belongs
to you. If this man who has worked
with you five and twenty years is will
ing to marry you, then the husband is
ready"
Your majesty" said the old peasant,
how is it possible that we should mar
ry, having already silver hairs?"
Then it shall be a silver wedding"
and the King gave the couple silver
enough to keep them in plenty.
Such was the origin of the silver we'd
ding, a custom which, spreading all
through France, subsequently became
known to the world.
"The girls treated principal and
teachers with an exaggerated respect
that they most certainly showed to no
other mortal in the world" writes
Mary Louise Graham of MY Boarding
School for Girls" in the Ladies' Home
Journal for August. "They could not
grasp the idea that they could talk to
me as they would to any woman of my.
age at their homes. 1 don't quite know
that l ought to tell what was the
opening wedge, the beginning of the
new order of things. / have never re-
GREETED it in spite of the fact that II
was rather shocking, and that I was
lame for days afterward. We were all
assembled in the school room for
prayers. I sat down inadvertently on
an optical delusion of a chair, and as
l reached the floor 1 exclaimed invol-
UNFAIRLY at the top of my lungs: The
devil' I wish to remark parenthetical-
ly that | am not in the habit of swear
ing, that / think it a most unladylike
custom, and l would advise my girls
against it If ever dared approach the
subject. In this instance my swearing
was probably a case af atavism, my
grandfather being a most ungodly old
specimen of a Puritan. But, to return
to that morning of the school room,
there was a silence which lasted about
two seconds: then one girl giggled.
Well, it ended with two cases of hys-
terics, and we didn't have any prayers
that morning. But the episode proved
that l was human, and so it was the
beginning of better things"
Absence
There is something sad in the swaying
pines,
There is something sad in the sea,
With you not there,
My own. my fair
Not there with me!
Will you not come, beloved, and bring
The gladness back to the sea?
To the pines the vernal mirth
OF the earth
And the old heart joy to me?
Clinton Scotland, in the National
Magazine.
"Sit down and rest your face and
hands, is the quaint language in
which one genial host / know invites
his friends to make themselves at
home. The words recur every time I
see a woman'S face full of unneces-
sary lines. II she had only rested her
face, If not her hands, what a differ
ence it would makel
Creams and lotions for softening and
whitening the skin, says the Philadel-
phia Press, can be made and bought
everywhere, and women can be di-
vided into two classes-those whe al
ready use them and those who cannot
be induced to do so. But do they fol-
low the simple preventive method of
resting the face?
Women who ride in the street cars
frequently need to keep their minds
on their faces. Talk of the bicycle ex-
preston! Look in the pane of glass
opposite you and note the heart-brok-
en- droop to the mouth, what a stern
concentrated frown of the brow char
acterizes the street car expression. For
beauty's sake read book, II your eyes
can stand it.; or talk to your next
neighbor. If she will let you; or get
out and walk If you are not going too
far, or, If none of tehse plans are
practicable, as soon as you reach rome
smooth your face, tired out with think
SURE TO ASK