The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-16


cook book.
Slsnt I"nellSon ....''............. 1000
Cotillon favors ................... 1000
Electrlcal work in ballroom 49,. 1000
champagne ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2,160
Cuner wines .-..-........-........ 500
invitations NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 600
Automobile for carrying favors,
special design for evening 49,. 1900
Cut flowers, palms and greens =. $500
Music ......-............... $50
Extra carriages .................. 200
Tips and bonuses to Sherry's
men, police, detectives, etc =. 1000
Total ..................... $25,s1O
For days and perhaps weeks the
electricians are at work preparing for
a 'coming-out party" putting up the
wires for electrical Examinations that
take the shape of blazing crosses,
stars, wreaths and flowers. When the
electricians have finished their work
the carpenters and decorators come
in, and after them the florists Final
ly. the caterer prepares the feast and
all is ready for girl and gown and jew
els to be placed on exhibition.
Mrs. Dubois, wife of the Senator
from Idaho, is an enthusiast on the
subject of child culture Before her
marriage she was a kindergarten, and
she has made child culture her life
study.
when we were married." she said
recently to a friend, 1.-The Senator and
I made only one ante-nuptial agree
ment."
what was that?" asked the friend
eve agreed said Mrs. Dubois, that
after we were married he should never
talk politics to me and | should never
talk child culture to him. And we
have kept that agreement sorupulous-
ly ever since" she added inpressively.
''You are an exceptional couple to be
able to keep such an agreement" was
the comment.
"But we have kept it," said Mrs Du-
bois; that is, we have kept 1t to this
eNtent-the Senator never talks poll
tics to me-"
Across the Pew.
Across the pew with complaisance
And eyes that with Loves sunshine
dance,
MY little sweetheart smiles at me
She is the only saint l see;
The sermon passes in a trance.
The painted figures gaze askance;
Down from their CLASSY vigilance
On this our tender heresy
Across the pew.
All! little sweetheart, the romance
Of life, with all its change and chance,
Is but a sealed book to thee
When opened may its pages be
AS fair and sweet as thy bright glance
Across the pew.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Nearly every country has its super
stitions about babies, some of them
exceedingly absurd and others laugh
able. The people of the Isle of Man
believe that it will dwarf or wien
baby if anyone steps over it or walks
around it. In some parts of England
people bind the infants right hand so
that it may have, riches when it grows
up In Yorkshire a newborn babe is
placed in a maidens arms before be"
ing touched by anyone else, in order
to insure good luck.
In South America a book, piece
OF money and a bottle of liquor are
placed before the infant the day it is
che year old to ascertain it's bent in
life.
In Scotland a baby is considered
lucky if it handles it's spoon with its
left hand, and it will be perfectly
happy and successful if it has a num-
Der of falls before it's first birthday.
In the north of England when a child
is taken from house the first time
it is given an egg, some salt and a
small loaf of bread and occasionally
piece of money, to insure it against
coming to want.
In Germany it is considered neces-
sary that child should "go up" be-
fore it goes down in the world, so it
is carried upstairs as soon as born.
In case there is no upstairs the nurse
mounts 4 table or chair with the in
FAINT.
"Wen, another season is over" ex-
claims a fashionable girl, to repre-
sentative of the New York Tribune,
land what have l to show for it? For
four winters 1 have considered my So
ciety obligations paramount to all
others. l have attended almost reli-
giously, might say have done it
so OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES function to
which 1 have been invited. l have
slept, eaten and exercised with the
view to keeping up my health, and
therefore, my looks. l have tried my
very best to be a social success, and
have not altogether failed, and yet
what has been the good of it all?
have spent more money ON my clothes
than ] like to think of. >There is no
use denying the fact that my life is
wholly selfish one l do little per-
functory charity work, which l can
not conscientiously feel does any real
good. At home nothing is expected of
me. / feel, too, that even if l at
tempted to attend to any household
affairs it would bother mamma, who
likes to have things just her own way,
and there seems nothing ahead except
the same old society treadmill.
"'You should marry, says my
mother, who has no patience with my
complaints. You should have a home
of your own, and a husband and fam
lily to. look after. 1t is that which is
making you so restless and discon-
tented All very well if the prince
comes along; but supposing he
doesn't? One ought not to marry just
for the sake of getting married, ought
one? Why not take up some particular
branch of study and interest yourself
in that? advises papa, who imagines
that he loves books and that he could
be perfectly happy if he had the leis-
ure to devote himself to them. (Of
course he would be horribly bored in
a fortnight if he had to, but that is
neither here nor there.) Anyway his
suggestion does not appeal to me.
1.-THE other day l was talking to an
experienced man OF the world about
NV outlook and he, like mamma,
seemed to think matrimony was the
hest solution Your clever well-to-do
women are too half-hearted really to
succeed in anything he said. 'Neces-
sity is the only thing that ever makes
feminine work successful. The remedy
for the state of things you speak OF,