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

suppose we've missed anything? Why!
Not thing. There wasn't anything
in those boxes that we really wanted
to use; If there had been we would
have kept on using it. But we had
hated to throw the stuff away.
Il tell Mrs. Billtops. as 1 said be-
fore, that it would be perfectly safe
to clear out the whole storeroom with
out looking at the stuff at ALL that we
never store cash there, nor title deeds,
says no, shed rather look things over
And 1 suppose that some of these old
things, anyhow, may have in old asso-
Citations a value that will make us
cling to them to the end
The visitor and the visited do not see
much of each other at Newport, says
the New York Tribune, and a hostess
who entertains a great deal almost
forgets in their constant succession
those who have been her guests.
You must come and stop with us,
Mr.. s." said a great lady graciously
to a young business man who was din
ing at the house of a friend.
mot again." he laughed, taking in
the situation. The fashionable woman
looked puzzled, and then she colored
with embarrassment. why, of
course" she said sweetly with saving
=
of a good thing. L must have you for
my dance on the4-th." But the fact
of thefmatter was she had entirely for
gotten that he had been her visitor the
/ fortnight before. Presumably the man
had been an eminently satisfactory
guest, for fashionable women are wont
to declare that there is nothing that
annDys them so much as to have
visitor on their hands who .loes not
know n a nf
regard the house whare ynu are stor-
ping as a sort of hotel, and TO make en-
gagements Independently of host or
! hostess lis one of the unwritten laws
of the new dispensation, which seems
to have completely. changed the old
! fashioned ideas of hospitality into a
sort of good natured, kindly indiffer-
! ence that would have greatly shocked
I the oVeranxious entertainers of fifty
years ago. Unless a stranger is 4 Iery
| distinguished person, VINO for mat rea-
son will be feted and entertained, he
| would do well to keep away from New
port. There is no loneliness like being
! alone in a crowd, and even the SER
wants covertly resent being obliged 10
! provide and serve meals when the
family is out for the guest who has
nowhere to go to-"
! II wonder why the Is have not asked
me to Newport this year, remarked
/ a youth in whom the quality of per-
1 ception was somewhat lacking. His
/ auditor, who had just returned from
the rs, might have repeated this re-
! mark. made by one of the family: I'VE
really ought to ask Willy NJ to stop
| with us, but he is such a bother; he
| never seems to have any invitations of
| his own, and is always hanging about
the house so that we always have to
take him with us wherever we go. If
! ne would only learn to look out for
| himself we would be glad to have him"
A half dozen women were seated in
their steamer chairs, says Youths
! Companion, well wrapped in cloaks and
rugs. on the deck of one of the great
ocean liners AS the long afternoon
! crept by they exchanged disjointed con-
fidences as to their plans for the sum.
mer in Europe.
1T is my first visit" said a middle
! aged, bright-eyed woman. Il have to
make real a thousand people who have
always been dreams to me, from
Charlemagne to Queen Victoria 1 am
going to stand in the houses where
Scott and Keats and Lamb and Thack-
cray lived. l am going into Savona-
rolas cell and Dante's garrett and the
hut which Francis of Assist thought
God had set aside for him at the be-
ginning of the world"
Dear mel" said a young woman
near by. Il am going over to get some
new ideas for posters. That is my
branch of art, and Paris is the place
to study it,"
Two women at the end of the line
of recumbent figures were also discuss
ing their plans.
my sister and l." said one, hope 10
| spend the summer in the great cathe-
dral towns. An hour alone in York or
Canterbury is more helpful to me than
any formal service"
II never took any interest in archi-
lecture" said her neighbor, a pretty
young girl. Mamma and l run over to
Paris every year to arrange our ward
robes for the next season. You really
cannot trust any of the dressmakers
with orders. / always superintend my
own gowns and hats. Notre Dame?
| No, / don't care for 1t. Gloomy old
place! / did the churches and galleries
when I was a schoolgirl. I've done
with them now"
There are more things in England in
the twentieth century, says the St
James Gazette. than are dreamt of in
all our PHILOSOPHERS. One of them was
revealed in bankruptcy court yester-
day, where a Worcestershire farmer
declared that he had purchased a.
neighbours wife for a pipe of tobacco
| Such things were common enough
when the world was three generations
younger and are common enough If we
are to believe all we hear in rural
England to-day. 1t is doubtful whether
an old custom ever quite dies out all
over the world and human beings will
be sold, no doubt as long as there
are human beings to sell them and hui
man beings TO sell them to. But we
may be sure that the trade in wives
will never be revived again in England
as II was a hundred years ago.
There are sere and yellow files in
Printing House Square which take us
back into n strange England which
none of us have ever known. and few
Of us can dream OF. Four years before
the nineteenth century dawned--in
| March. l796-the Times announced the
sale OF a wife I'm Sheffield for sixpence.
and a little while afterward the same
paper solemnly informed the public
that the price OF wives had risen in