The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-02
effect, She is always a finished pic

long horizontal drifts through the air,
while the postman's fur cap and coat.
which left only his jolly red face vis-
IDLE, were one mass of icicles.
Here's your spring flowers" he
said, ironically, as he thrust his mail,
consisting of a huge floral catalogue
with cover gay with gorgeous
blooms, into the hands of the house
mistress who opened the door at his
whistle. He then ran quickly down
the slippery steps to his patient horse,
who stood awaiting him in the teeth
OF the storm. An hour later the eld-
est daughter entered the family sitting
room and found her mother busy with
paper and pencil, while the enticing
catalogue, lying open beside her, be-
trayed her employment. She looked
rather conscious as her daughter came
in, and the latter laughed outright.
Hope springs eternal, doesn't it,
mammy dear" she exclaimed. do you
remember last year how we planned
a garden from just such a prospectus.
which, by good rights, ought to have
been a. mass of bloom, but which turn
ed out such scrubby little specimens,
and how you said you would never
again lay yourself open to such dis
appointment? and here you are as
full of faith as ever with your lists
made out months before you can plant
anything"
yes, / know" said the elder wom-
an, alphabetically, but it is of no use,
L simply cannot resist a floral c1ta-
logue. Look at that % cent offer
she added, warming into enthusiasm
as she showed a page of brilliantly
colored sweet peas. ITO think that you
can get by mail in this wintry wealth
er a package of dried up looking little
pellets, that will turn into those lovely
e 4I.s. 44.,1r 40
means. The wonderful life that will stir
within them, the upspringing through
brown earth of the tender green stem
or tiny leaflets, and the gradual de-
velopment of the plant in the sweet
summer days, until it eliminates IN
the light and sweetness OF beautiDut
towering. And il you wish to be utilt-
tarian," she continued, look at these
tomatoes. Can't you imagine what de-
dilcious, appetizing salads they will
make! And this corn-ean't you fancy
it standing brave and strong and rus
Ting in the south wind?"
Eler daughter smiled affectionately,
albeit rather sceptically. Even If you
never have flower or dish of veg
etables, NANNY. darling" she said.
who would begrudge you the pleas
ure you take in your annual spring
catalogues-whfch make you feel that
yours to commando"
A writer in the March Woman's
Home Companion gives the following
interesting facts about the wife and
children of Gen. Palma the first Pres
ident of Cuba:
The family of Gen. Palma is an In
teresting one. He has six children
four boys and two girls. Sonora Es-
Jo rlx h
the strain that the wife of a lighting
patriot is always under. She has no
fads or fancies. Her world is tbs four
story frame house in Central Valley
that has sheltered the family for eight
cen years and seen the birth Of five of
her children. Whether or not there
is some sentimentality attached tc this
latter fact, the truth is that Sonora
Estrada would rather remain in this
unpretentsous home than occupy the
palatiaI palace in Havana and shine
as the First Lady of Cuba. She pos
sesses to a great degree those Latin-
race Observation-Disclosures to hus-
band and love of offspring. The great
social responsibilities that will devolve
upon her in the position she Is to oc-
cupy after May l she fears may inter-
fere with her share of bringing up her
children as good men and women. The
latter are good-looking and sturdy
children lose, the oldest, is i9 years
old. He was born in Honduras and
came here when a year old He Is Il
law student at Columbia University.
When at home Jose acts as secretary
for his father Tomas. r., is II, and
attends a school at Newburg, as does
his sister Candelaria, who is fourteen.
The three youngest are Carlos and Luz
twins of Z years-and Rafael, 6, who
the father refers to as his baby.
Gen. Palma became acquainted with
Senorita Guardiola, whose father had
been President of the Republic of Hon
duras twenty years ago. She was his
prettiest daughter courte1 and feted
and with the proverbial thousand auIt-
ors at her feet. Senorita Gua~iiola was
a sympathetic listener to the tales OF
hardships under the Spanish rule,
which the brave General narrated.
Even to-day, in talking of these tran
quill days of his wooing, following the
years of conflict, he quotes, "She loved
me for the dangers l had passed, and
loved her that she did pity them.
The New York Sun deals with a GU
rious fad as follows:
You wouldn't expect to find women
cultivating rnustaches, would you?"
Sixth avenue beauty doctor asked the
Sun reporter.
The reporter said she had heard that
those very things, when beautiful, had
strong attractions for some women.
"Oh, l don't mean mems nustaches."
responded the beauty doctor with very
great scorn. II mean feminine mus
taches-of their very own, you know"
1t had to be admitted that 1t was
surprising.
We'll, there are some women who do
their very best to raise d mustache,
said the beauty provider. Eyes, Amer
lean women, brunettes usually. don't
mean that they want oristles; nothing
of that kind All they desire is an
alluring little growth of soft down just
above the corners of the mouth.
You know, all real Spanish beauties
have just that, and it's a fad with dark
women now TO look Spanish and pre-
tend to have Spanish blood in their
veins. The mustache is part of the
evidence, as they say in court.
I'm CASTLE. l believe, a woman is
accounted a beauty exactly in proper
ton to the amount of seductive down
upon her lip. ] know lot of women
who are not counted beauties at all
here who would be reigning bellies in
Spain under that rule. But they would
actually, if they could, part with what
a Castilian would consider a cherished
possession.
THE fact is, there's a disagreement
among women on the lnustache ques-
ton. Those who have mustaches try
to get rid of 'em, usually producing
worn-out shoe brush effect unless they