The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-17

ried couple.
Now the question arises: How soon
after the wedding ceremony is over
should one of the two take the lead?'
1t may be taken for granted that,
when the honeymoon is ended, the law
of love will have a. good chance of
showing dts sweetness, for each will, in
things take their natural course.
Watch and study each other. and
events will soon happen that will de-
eide which is the fibter of the two.
Don't go in for self-appointment for
fear of dismissal. Let both man and
wife play their parts naturally. There
is sure to spring up good opportuni-
ty for self-assertion, first tribes, then
graver things and discussions which
will involve the settlement of whose
will is to be supreme.
Tears on one side, guinness on the
other, and a battle will have begun
which may last for many days. Happy
the young couple II they can keep the
struggle to themselves; woe to them
II they allow third party to interfere,
were it the tenderest of mothers!
There is no difficulty in matrimonial
life that a loving couple cannot easily
surmount there is hardly one, how
ever insignificant, that will not floor
them if they feel only indifference to-
ward each other.
The most dangerous reefs, in matri-
monial navigation, are perhaps the
hundreds and one little rocks of every
day life, rather than the big ones.
More than half the cracks which at
length become yawning assures can be
traced to the repeated indifferences to
many little pet hobbies and interests.
1t is often push by push. without
either meaning it, that husband ana
wife put themselves away from each
other until one day they discover how
possible it is to find certain measure
of contentment and even happiness,
one without the other.
Then all is over--marriage, that is
the binding, remains; union is gone,
So 1T is perhaps better that the lead by
one should be assumed at the very
earliest stage, so that he, or she, may
see that the boat is well steered.
Il have Just discovered a new adj
vantage in the ownership of the name
Smith," said the laxative stationer,
to the Philadelphia Times. The gain
derived from this possession is par
ticularly marked if the surname hap
pers to be John. And John Smiths
wife profits from the combination even
mere than John himself.
lone of my customers is a Mrs.
John Smith. Mrs. Smith buys books
and magazines from me, and has all
her calling cards printed here. She
has been buying her cards at this
store for the past five years. and
thought I knew her needs pretty well,
consequently I was surprised to no
tice, about a year ago. that there was
a wonderful growth in the size of her
orders. Now, know something about
this particular brand of John Smiths
personally, and was well aware that
the lady's visiting list, which had never
been large, had not been swelled
through the sudden acquisition of
wealth or fame, yet here was Mrs.
Smith multiplying her supply of cards
by twenty-five in less than no time,
and not thing to show as cause for
the sudden rush of business.
Il bore my curiosity in silence for
some time, but one day. when Mrs.
Smith came in for the second time in
one week and duplicated an order for
1000 cards, threw discretion and po-
likeness to the winds and asked her
how she happened to be doing such a
land office business in the call line
She blushed a little. and then said:
g oh, dear me! These cards are moi
all for myself-not nearly all of them
| looked up a list of Mrs. John Smiths
in the Directory. found those VIII,
were then out of cards, and who had
lest their name plate or had never ha6
one engraved and offered to let then
have the use of mine for a nomina
sum. This could be done easily
enough, considering ! never had my
address printed on my cards, and ir
cases where the other Mrs. Smith de-
sired the omission I struck a bargain
without any trouble.
You see, having once ordered a
Mrs. John Smith plate from you, you
ran off my cards at a very reasonable
rate. and resell my cards to the rest
of the Mrs. John Smiths at an ad-
vance of 10 cents per 100 cards. This
saves them the expense of a plate and
brings me in little money besides.
/, is quite scheme.
OF course we couldn't work it If
we weren't all the wives of John
Smiths. which makes the name some
thing to be desired, after ALL
Mrs. Smith looked rather sheepish
when she finished her explanation. I
hope, she added, with an apologetic
little laugh. that / am not defrauding
you by pushing my plan with so much
energy?
Il was in truth. a little miffed at
tne lnougnt OF all those plates / had
been fooled out of making, but, in spite
of my chagrin, ] brimmed over with
admiration for Mrs. Smith, Not at
all, said l. And I must confess that.
though I have met a good many
Smiths in my time, for pure enter
prise you go the whole family one bet
ter"
Is the normal Chicago woman a
bearded lady? Or, If she isn't now, will
she be so? asks the Tribune of that
city.
The answer is Yes" If the dernna.
biologists are to be believed. According
to their theories-as borne out by
their experience--the time is not far
distant when it will become the prac-
tice among Chicago women to wear
boards. for the reason that it will be-
come too great an operation to have
them removed. The faces of Chicago
women are becoming hirsute.
One not member of our profession
would be amazed at the rapidly with
which Chicago women are developing
this tendency" declared a State street
derlnatologist recently. "a few years
ago a man who made a living---or
wanted to make one--removing hair
from the face would have starved here.
To- day we keep several men busy at
1t in this single establishment In
New York, in Boston. in our other es-
Establishments we consider such cases
rare. In Chicago it is fast becoming
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