The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-21

the fashion of engraving the fac-sim-
lie of the owners signature.
The Atlantic City Summer Girl, says
the New York Press. is responsible for
new fad. 1t is represented by what
she calls the paraluna, in contradistinc-
| ton to the parasol. The paraluna, or
rather the particular brand of it af-
fected by the Atlantic City Girl, is
Japanese paper umbrella, and her ex-
cuse for using it as a moon shade is
that some one somewhere once discov-
cred that moonbeams were as bad for
the complexion, If not worse, than sun
beams. And so her outfit now includes
two shades-a dainty thing of lace to
| keep off the suns rays and the fetch
ing Togo San affair to guard her
from the moon.
These moonshades are very much in
/ evidence just now, and it has been OBJ
served by mean man that they APP
pear regularly upon the board walk
even when the moon is taking few
days off.
That stuff about the moon running
the complexion is all rot" says this
mean man. THE girls will tell you
that the moonlight makes their skin
sallow and green. If that is so, then
l ought to be as green as grass, for
have slept for weeks at a time in sum-
mer camps in the South with the moon
shining in my face. There is a saying
in the South that If you sleep in the
moonlight you will get moon blind.
That is another fallacy, for my sight
is better now than it was before l be-
gan going to the summer camps. These
paralunas are mighty handy things to
fiirt behind-a heap better than a fan,
and almost as good as a japanese
screen. Find an honest girl and she'll
confess that's why she carries the
thing"
why, the horrid creature" ex-
claimed a young woman to whom this
conversation was. repeated. Hes a
nasty suspicious man. The idea-firt-
ing with moonshades 1 wish you
would point the wretch out to me-"
He was pointed out that he might be
properly punished for his sins. And the
very next night he was seen strolling
along the board walk carrying that
young woman's paraluna for her, and
from whatever side a person approach
ed them the moonshade would be aim
ed in that direction like a gun. He
confessed afterward that they had been
having heated argument about moon
beams, but has not repeated his re-
marks about flirting under paralunas.
Lapeer dispatch in the New York
World, has begun to write the last
chapter in a real romance more novel
than any to be found upon the book
shelves.
1t is a tale in which there is much
irony, not a little humor and consid-
cradle pathos. Material is offered the
novelist in extenso who would make
story out of real life that would have
all the charm of imaginative fic-
tion yet be true.
This latest chapter has to do with
the marriage Of Mrs. Grace Briggs
Robinson to David Goodlander in Flint,
Mich.
In the story the woman plays the
leading role; while the leading man is
simply suggested, fitting back and
forth like a vague shadow on a screen.
Eleven years ago there was no pref
tier girl in Lapeer, Mich, than she
who was destined to be juggled by the
gods in the car to make a newspaper
story. Then sixteen years of age, a
blonde, with great brown eyes, she was
the most attractive girl in the town.
She met one day George Robinson,
the so-called mining king of the fam
Gus Fisher district in Montana. Love
sprang UP between them and they were
married, despite the difference in their
age, for he was much older than his
bride.
The entire courtship had been accom- F.,
plished by mail and Uncle Sam had
been the Cupid in the case. After the
marriage the couple went to Montana
to live.
Robinson was many times a million
aire, and he showered Inquiries which
she had never been accustomed to into
the lap of the bride.
But by and by in the wealth of these
she began to tire of the life, of her
ease and of her husbands affections.
Last November she left her husband,
taking $4,000 worth of mining stocks
with her. Her husband discovering his
loss telegraphed the police throughout
the East to keep an eye out for his
wife. In Cleveland she was arrested
as she was making her way to her
home.
An investigation officially carried on
proved beyond doubt that the stocks
she had taken were part of many her
husband had given her for wedding
present. In all humility he sought her
out here and twice endeavored to effect
a reconciliation, but in vain.
Robinson some time later began suit
for divorce. which was granted him.
No cross bill was filed by his one time
wife. She asked only that she be left
alone and that he stay in Montana.
She meantime met Goodlander, an
assistant freight agent of the Grand
Trunk, at Flint, for whose services
the road pays $50 a month.
So, last week Robinson was married
again to a school teacher whom he has
taken into his fine home.
And at the same time Mrs. Robinson
married Goodlander, who has taken
her into home not so sumptious, but
that it may be maintained on SIS a
week.
Friends of both couples are now
waiting to see what the denouement
may be of this novel in real life.
At her second ball of the winter (the
first had not entirely fulfilled her ex-
pectation) Miss Ingenue Debutante
says the New York Tribune,
turned to her partner with the earnest
request, will you do me a great IA
vor? 1 want you to tell me truthfully
how 1 could improved"
Imagine a man replying candidly to
such a remark" exclaimed a matron
who had overheard the above. And
yet what an advantage it would be to
a girl If some kindly disposed person
would enable her TO see herself as 9TH
ers see her!'
she would not be able to bear the
shock" laughed her Communion. land