The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-23

since, so many of the people associated
With 1t had passed away, and, as he
thought of it all, the tears rose to his
eyes. The ceremony proceeded, and
the mourners at last passed up to the
front for last look at the face of
the dear one. The man, his eyes still
moist, stopped suddenly, for a second
as ne looked upon the quiet face, and
tnen ne looked again. He had not seen
Aunt Jane for a long time, but he
knew her well enough to know that
while this was a woman of about the
same age and evidently the same name,
1T was not Aunt Jane. He drew a long
breath as he passed down the aisle and
out into the street. and now he does
not attend funerals without a previous
investigation.
His Answer
why love your" Hard the task.
Because to find to such a why
Will it answer what you ask
That you are you and 1 am I?
If tell of eyes and hair,
Make lists of charms, long, incom-
plete,
Time will come, mark each less fair
Eyes and lips, sweet hands and feet.
But love takes little heed of time,
And so you see there is no why
But reason and some sort of rhyme
If you are you and 1 am 1!
Dear! Be content to have it so!
Leave pedants their insistent why,
And count it wisdom just to know
That you are you and am l.
K. NJ. in the Westminster Gazette,
The London Globe gives the follow
ing account of a phenomenal honey
moon: A newly married couple were
on their way from Antwerp to Paris
when one of their fellow passengers
cut his throat with a razor in the rail-
way carriage in which they were trav-
cling.
Another shock awaited them in Paris
A visitor in the hotel in which they
were staying was killed in the lift in
their presence.
On Sunday they called on a friend
living in Paris, who had invited them
to lunch at his house. When extend
ing the invitation the friend observed,
laughing, You will not find any
corpses with me-" but when they ar
rived at the house their host greeted
them with request to have the lunch
put off, as his servant had died that
morning in a bath from heart dis
ease
who tainted and then went into hys-
terics.
The couple subsequently took the
first train back to Antwerp.
The field in which the women of the
present day may roam is not circum-
scribed by any particular bounds.
Whatever they find to do that offers
means of employing their time or re-
plenishing their purses they attempt,
and generally successfully. The latest
and in some respects the most cu-
rious field for their activities has re-
Gently been opened in New York and is
direct Importation from London It
is that of dinner tasting, the gastrono-
mic expert being employed at elabo-
rate banquets and dinners to taste
each dish before it goes to table.
The idea is undoubtedly to be at
tributed to the desire on the part of
the fashionable world to increase the
luxury of living. The menu must not
only be elaborate, but ii must be as
palatable and in all respects as perfect
as modern experience can make it, says
the Philadelphia North American. OF
course hitherto the dinner tasters''
duties have been performed by the
cook, but as the cook is often better
fitted to prepare the dishes than to
produce the exact fiavors demanded
by the guests the dinner taster's"
services were called in merely to sup
plement the work of the cook, and, of
course, without any idea of supplant-
ing it,
Often a dish can be improved by
the injection of the various flavors and
condiments known to the culinary art,
and when such are required or when
the dish can bear a little sweetening
or thickening or thinning, as the case
may be, it is the duty of the expert to
suggest it to the cook.
The pay varies with the character
of the feast, as we'll as with the ex-
tent of the work to be done.
The occupation is followed mainly by
cooks who have lost much of their
cunning as far as the preparation of
the cooking itself goes, but whose ex-
perience is extremely valuable in the
new capacity which they can now FILL
Many of the smart set who have be-
come reduced liz circumstances are
also to be found employed in the new
work. and as there is really no manual
labor connected with it, it is not half
so uncongenial as it might on first
thought appear, and even a woman of
culture finds little in 1t of which she
might feel ashamed.
One cannot help wondering, says the
New 1ork TRIBUNE, where the tendency
to make every social function later and
later is to stop. During the last hun
dred years the dinner hour, for in
stance, has moved steadily onward
Our forefathers dined and wined at
o'clock-a barbarous CUSTOM as every
one will admit, and it seemed wholly
sensible that the important meal of
the day should gradually be postponed
until the cares Of the day were over.
Six or o'clock was, therefore, a de-
cided improvement, and the fashion of
dining at that time lasted for years.
During the last decade, however, din
ners have become later, year by year,
until now it is generally nearly 8
o'clock before a fashionable assemblage
is seated at the table.
1T is on account of the dances be-
ginning so very late that l have had
$3.50 o'clock put on my dinner cards
this winter" said a hostess lately
People hate waiting for a couple of
hours before they can go on to the
next place, and 1880 o'clock is the ear
Hest one can put in an appearance at
a ball.
This condition of affairs is obva-
ously wrong, considering that we are,
and will probably always remain, a
commercial nation, and that a large
ma iOritV trf the men WIN are o1IeefS