The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03


played il escapes the fisherman. l have
seen girls amuse themselves by putting
petty tyrannies on a man, and make him
the victim of their Wins and caprices just
10 snow their power l have seen them
hirt with other men simply to make him
Jealous. No man of spirit will submit to
being played fast and loose, or allow him
self TO be led about on a string like a pet
bear, that must dance at somebody else's
pleasure. 1t is a dangerous game, girls.
People who play with fire generally get
burnt. and many an engagement has
gone UP in smoke because a silly young
woman pushed her powers too far.
If your betrothed lives at a distance, and
you are under the necessity of commun-
cating with him through the mails, l be-
seech You 10 write as though your letters
would one day be read aloud in a breach
Of promise case. Don't for heavens
sake. plaster them all over with terms
of endearment and slushy terms of devo-
ton. There is never any telling who will
read letter. and men only too often have
absolutely no sense of honor about show
ing their sweethearts' letters. Even when
they don't intend any breach of conf
dence, they leave them around in old
coat pockets. Say what you please. but
don't write it, Just think how such ex-
pressious as Your little Tootsey- Woot-
sey," or Your Fifty ducky daddie''
sounds to people who read them in cold
hood, and forbear. Talk, telegraph; bui
don't write sentiment.
Furthermore, beloved, don't spend all
The time you are engaged in telling each
other how much you love Come down
10 earth, and try 90 get acquainted. FIND
out what you really think about every
day living.
Don't get married until you can make
man a comfortable home, It's just as
much crime for a girl to marry until
she can keep house as it is for a man to
marry when he cant support a family.
Don't get married in church. with a lot
of expenses. unless you can afford IT,
Don't board Keep house, If you have
to begin in your big trunk. Start a little
home where peace shall reign, and thrift
have it's abiding place. and you will start
on the road to prosperity and happiness
Motherhood
/ wonder so THAI mothers ever fret
At little children clinging at their
gown
Or that the footsteps when the days are
wet.
Are ever black enough to make them
frown.
If 1 could mend broken cart to-day,
II l could kiss a rosy, restless foot,
And hear it patter in my home once
more:
If could mend broken cart to-day.
Tomorrow make a kite to reach the
sky.
There is no woman in Gods world could
say,
She was more blissfully content than I.
But ah the dainty pillow next my own
Is never rumpled by a shining head;
My singing birding from its nest has
flown!
The little boy 1 used to love is dead.
But now it seems surprising strange to
me
That while I bore the badge of moth
e!ho@d
l did not kiss more oft and tenderly
Ny little child, who brought me only
good.
Mary Clemmer Ames.
II wish I knew what makes a girl
'opular!' is an ejacu alton one often hears
ighed forth by young society women. all
y whom are naturally anxious to score
J success in the social world. OF course,
'ays the New York Tribune as every one
realizes, popularity is an intangible quail
ty, and it is difficult to analyze the exact
reason why one individual is persona
grata in every assemblage and why an
other, who makes even more effort to
Jlease, is less considered Still, there are
certain persons who are naturally pleas
Eg yet fail to make the best of them
selves. They are left in the background
chiefly by reason of their own want of
perception and too much difIidence. To
such a little advice might be helpful, and
therefore the views of a woman of eX-
perience on the subject are given.
at is a great mistake" she says, 90
iepreciate ones own powers of attraction
aither to ones self or to others; the for
mer renders you constrained and self
,onscious in your manners, and as people
are very apt to take you a your own val
uation, it is equally bad to run ones self
Town to others. A modest assurance, If
one can combine the two qualities, is far
better. This is far removed from con-
,eit, which, of course is odious. frank
ordial manner is the best social quality
a woman can possess; but here again
comes distinction. An overeagerness to
please reuels instead of attracts. 1t
must be a natural, kindly manner, and
frankly bestowed on all corners. Many
a growing preference has been nipped in
he bud by adverse criticism. A snub may
10 infinite harm, and have known women
who were anxious to be popular fail be-
7ause they made enemies OF men whom
hey deemed insignificant.
There is no use mincing matters" this
extremely frank woman of the world went
on 10 say. What every society mother
desires for her daughter, and what every
society girl hopes for herself. is good
marriage; therefore a girl who is not
natural belle must study how 10 please:
she must note those who have charming
manners and endeavor to copy them.
Above all, she should remember that to
be charming cordial manners cannot be
occasional and put on for effect. She
should practice at home in her family
with her brothers and sisters, with the
servants, and should make it her natural
manner. She should not underrate the
good opinion of any one, even If it be
a kitchenmaid. Any pretence, however,
is vulgar, and easily detected"
To the ordinary housemaid the falling
of a house plant into a violent paroxysm
of coughing is naturally dlsconcerting.
Yet there are plants which will do this
when the broom or the buster begins to
make dust fly. This singular plant is the
coughing bean" known to the botanist
as the Eutada tussiens. 1t is a native
of warm and moist tropical countries.
and cannot and will not stand dust. When
dust settles upon the breathing pores
in the leaves of this plant and chokes