The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-06

lovely tashlight snap of you just now.
Go on. dearest; my heart trembles with
anticipation; let your tongue fashion
the eloquence OF your heart; you had
got to, Darling. will you"
But let's draw the curtain on such
touching confidence.
Charming manners. says the New
York Tribune, are often held to be in
olcatlVe of superficial character by
those who either envy the popularity
they evoke or who really disapprove
OF the little ways" that they deem
unworthy of a higher intelligence,
whereas it is really the clever woman
who adapts herself to others, and her
detractors are the stupid ones, being
too dense to see that the discussions
they provoke and the arguments they
take delight in starting are frequent
ly boring and tiresome. 1t really re-
quires more brains, did people only
Know it, to subdue ones opinions, and
make them fit in tremendously. so to
speak, with the general trend of con-
Versation, than to hold ones own in
discussion or be pronounced in ones
ideas.
Mrs. A is a delightful woman.
but there is nothing to her" said Miss
b. who rather prides herself upon
her "Dralny' talk.
is there nothing as you call 1t, to
Mrs. B-?' he queried. Now, I
think you are mistaken. 1 consider
her an extremely clever person"
The mentally short sighted woman
laughed scornfully. why, she has no
convictions!" she exclaimed
That is wherein she is clever" he
answered.
She has no opinions. She cannot
carry on an argument" she continued
No, thank heaven" he exclaimed
fervently, whereat the "brainy" wo-
man looked at him suspiciously and
changed the conversation.
Argumentative women are not pop
ular with men. 1t is fatiguing to be
obliged to defend ones opinions.
In find it fatiguing to be obliged to
have any in summer" remarked a man
who was off on his vacation, land l
would go ten miles every day to es-
cape from a woman who is eternally
| discussing something
1t is curious how some of the minor
(and what must be our purely ac-
quired qualities become, through edu-
cation and temperament, veritable pas
sions) that are stronger even in death
than our natural instincts. The old
woman who refused when she was dy-
ing to let the doctor come into her
bedroom until they had put on her
false front and cap was no extraor-
binary example, for it is safe to say
that there are any number of women
who would consider their appearance
to the very last moment or would be
incapable of emitting every prescribed
form of courtesy at any crisis. Con-
ventionality, for instance, amounts al
most to an instinct with some women
and certainly becomes second nature
so that it is quite impossible for them
to transgress the unwritten laws that
have been instilled into them by GUS
tom. Weak min&Rd women are fire.
quently the mos bstinately conven-
tional, as their fSBhilies know by ex-
perience.
Mamma would rather we all had
pneumonia than be made to light the
furnace fire before Nov. &c." said the
daughter of one of these set" little
women, land if the thermometer re-
NAMED at 100 we would have it going
until May 15."
At least one hundred foundlings-
that is, technically, children less than
five months old to whose parentage
there is no clue-are picked up every
year in the streets of New York, says
the Sun of that city. They used to be
shipred off to the infant asylum on