The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-23

piece, not having heard the maternal
Introduction, the tot replied: IT
mustn't, cause my mamma says 1
can't die just YETI
Salmagundi and OIlapodrida parties
are in high favor this spring with
young and old. Interspersed with
music, cards and recitations, are games
of all sorts and kinds, including what
is known as MY lady's toilette" which
has superseded the oldtime fun of
pinning the tail on the donkey. You
buy the requisites, ready prepared in
highly-colored paper. A pictured lady,
in fluffy petticoats and elaborate COR
set-coVer, is fastened to the wall at
one end of the room and the rest of her
apparel is distributed among the blind
folded guests. One by one, they are
led before the lady" turned rapidly
around two or three times, and then
left to perform their mission. 1t is the
funniest thing imaginable, and when
all are through, the lady's toilette is
wonderfully made-perhaps with a
necktie on her nose, a shoe on her head,
the whole wall strewn hap-hazzard
with various articles of dress, not one
in it's proper place.
The Newsboys' Home and the Junior
Republic have also furnished society
with lively frolics in the guise of char
ity. Yesterday the topmost circle
wendell it's way to the big brick Home
for the Aged, where st. Joseph, the
patron saint of the institution, was
honored by the two hundred old people
within it's walls, who are cared for by
the Little Sisters of the Poor. The
Little Sisters" were sent here years
ago from their mother house in France.
The Home for the Aged is under the
patronage of the French Embassy,
which is annually represented at the
feast of ST. Joseph by it's ambassador
and attaches. This year, dignified,
stately M. Cambon was master of GER
emonies. and NJ. Jules Boeufve, chan
cellor of the embassy. in his capacity
of head waiter, saw to it that all the
giddy young diplomats wore their white
aprons and performed their duties
properly as. walters and sarvers. There
were not enough of them to serve with
dispatch the two hundred inmates, and
many guests in the four great dining
rooms, and so their ranks were rein
forced by a dozen society bellies.
What a beautiful chance the girls
are going to have when a popular and
fascinating bachelor holds the portfolio
of the Navy Department! Only think
of an unattached cabinet official and
the possibilities that will float about
Representative Moody after May /.
Marriage to a man of high official
standing has always been the ambi-
ton of the Washington society girl
and since the Patten-Corbin match,
with its brilliant social aftermath, Of
fetal alliances are sought more eagerly
than ever. Mrs. Corbin's position is
most enviable. She is courted on every
side and is thoroughly charming in her
role of matron. Gen. Corbin is i'm
mensely proud of his pretty young
Though not especially given to billing
and cooling in public, their manner to-
ward each other is plainly lover-like
on all occasions. During the last run
of sleighing, Mrs. Corbin accompanied
her husband one morning to the War
Department. When the latter alighted
from the sleigh, at one of the Seven
tenth street entrances. the street
seemed deserted, and after a hasty
lcok up and down, the General slipped
close to the back seat, Mrs. Corbin in
clined her head,> and a lingering
kiss was exchanged. Then the sleigh
drove rapidly away and the middle
aged General ran up the steps blithely
as a boy in his teens They did not
dream that "A chiefs amang We TAX
in notes and, faith, she'll print en-
Everybody knows that the new Con-
gressional Library is one of the most
magnificent buildings in the world and
contains perhaps the largest and most
valuable collection OF books. But