The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-20

I1er languld lips are SWeeter
Than loves who fears to greet her
To men that mix and meet her
From many times and lands.
There go the loves that wither
The old love with wearied wings;
And all dead years draw thither
And all disastrous things;
Dead dreams of days forsaken,
Blind buds that SHOWS have shaken,
Wild leaves that winds have taken;
Red sprays of ruined springs.
From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be,
That no life lives forever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea-
-Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Man. says Dorothy Dix, in the New
York Journal, is the prize conundrum
that woman spends her life trying to
guess. He is made up of as many con-
trasts in sweet and sour as a salad
dressing. He is as full of unexpected
turns as a vaudeville show. He pre-
sents as great a range from fineneSs
to commences as a department store
He is at once luxury and a neces-
sity-one of the things we may not be
happy in possessing, but are miserable
without.
He is our greatest blessing and the
source of nine-tenths of our woe, and
both he and we are happiest when he
is kissing away the tears he has made
us shed.
He is as brave as lion in the face
of actual danger, but he is scared to
death If he has the headache, and keeps
doctor and three sick nurses on the
jump trying to stanch the blood from
a pin prick.
He has discovered all the new coun-
tries and the Utmost secrets of science,
but he can't find a pocket handkerchief
in the bureau drawer unless 1t hap
pens TO be on top of the pile of cloth
ing.
He will face the enemy on the field
of battle without tremor, but he lives
in mortal terror of the cook and makes
his wife discharge the laundress.
He can hold a nation under military
rule. but he can't boss his own baby
He will heroically endure martyrdom
for an opinion. but he hasn't the cour-
age to wear a last years style hat.
In his dealings with women he is a
paradox. He is woman's most relent-
less critic. and satirist, yet he never
loves her so we'll as when she justihes
his gibes.
He prides himself upon being guided
by reason and logic, yet in the most
important event of his life he throws
judgment to the winds and marries a
girl because she has rosy checks and
blue eyes. The qualities he admires in
his sweetheart he abhors in his wife.
He chooses a girl because she is
butterfly and then feels ill-used be-
cause she isn't a domestic grub.
He will cheerfully work himself into
nervous prostration for his family, but
he won't bring home a package with
out grumbling.
He trusts his wife with his name and
his honor, but not his pocketbook.
At 20 he falls in love with a woman
old enough to be his mother, and it
fiatters him to be addressed as ''old
man." and treated as If he was a man
of the world At so only debutantes
are young enough for his taste and
he likes to be jollied by being called a
boy. He complains of the matrimonial
moose, yet as soon as he gets his neck
out of one halter he sticks it into an
other.
He derides a woman's logic, but
adopts her conclusions
He bemoans the senselessness of her
dress, yet he admires her most when
she is a mass of frills and frivols
In his general dealings with woman
he calls her an angel and treats her
as If she were an idiot.
In theory he admires the sensible wo-
man, who is reserved and self-con-
tained, but he marries the little goose
who weeps on the second button of his
waistcoat
He can be as strong as hero. as
wise as seer, as patient as a saint
about other matters, and then fly out
into a childish tantrum if dinner is
five minutes late, or his collar button
rolls under the dresser.
He spends his time and money seek
ing love, and thea trusts to luck TO
keep it,
No woman ever understood a man
any more than a man ever really I'M
derstands a woman. That is what
makes the sexes of perpetual interest
to each other. The guessing is the fun
of the game.
Mrs. Paget is better and the royal
family breathes easy again.
During the three weeks of her seri-
Gus illness Queen Alexandra wrote !
daily and the King sent her each aft |
ernoon one exquisite American beauty |
rose. thus paying her a beautiful and !
double compliment.
That Mrs. Arthur Paget of London, |
wife of Lieut.. Col Arthur Henry Fitz- |
roy Paget of the Scots Guards, will re- |
ceive token of royal favor on the |
great day in June is well understood.
Mrs. Paget, says the Chicago Chron- |
icle, is an American woman. Her |
mother was the popular Mrs. Paran |
Stevens, a great society leader and the |
woman who organized with Ward Nc /
Allister the famous and original 400
To Mrs. Stevens belongs the honor
of having named the 400 and to her must
be given much of the credit for the es-
Establishment of American society on an
basis. The great charity as
sembly and other annual and we'll in
stituted balls of Gotham were given |
by her efforts.
In such an atmosphere was Mary |
Stevens born. When she went abroad, |
the wife of Col. Paget, she was re-
ceived at once in royal circles. The
Colonel had been q page of honor to
the Queen and his wife was introduce
ed at court, then entertained at din
ner. then made one of the royal FAM
lily, in a great measure.
1t is claimed that Mrs. Paget is the
only woman who can drop in at any
time upon Queen Alexandra. 1t began
thus When the latter was Princess of |
Wales and lived in Marlborough house
she once sent for Mrs. Paget. Why"
said the then Princess, do you not call
upon me?"
II wait to be summoned, your high
ness replied Mrs. Paget.
"rhen wait no longer" said the roy
al lady, but call often. And do not call