The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-13

a sample of the goods.
| In few days she received a reply
| and inclosed in the letter was a new
! dollar bill that was genuine More let
tiers passed and Miss Saunders set a
| day and hour when she would leave
| home for New York. Then followed
! "come-on" Instructions, a Broadway
hotel to be the meeting place, and at
Harrisburg she was to leave the train
and wire Montgomery Mother and I
are coming" The trap was then ready
to spring.
Miss Saunders turned the letters and
the dollar bill over to Postmaster
Sowash and he sent them to the postal
department. From there they reached
the secret service operators. They
lost no time in arranging details for
the capture.
AT the New York end they cast about
FOR a woman to impersonate Miss
Saunders and one for the task was
found in 4 department store. She was
instructed how to meet the confidence
man and all was ready
From Harrisburg Montgomery got
the 'come-on" message signed by the
Irwin woman and at the appointed
time woman was sitting in the
Broadway hotel parlor, while a pair
of secret service men were near by.
Outside capper young man was walk
ing back and forth The next mo-
ment the young woman arose and went
to the sidewalk. AS she approached
the strange man turned, raised his hat
and said:
Did you rest we'll last night?"
"Oh, yes. considering my long jour-
ncy from Irwin
! This was the prearranged greeting
and the word of recognition, according
to instructions. The couple entered the
hotel and there Is where the arrest was
i made. The man was taken to the
Tonbs and the fictitious Miss Saund-
ers went back to the store, glad that
1t was all over.
Miss Saunders was summoned to
New York to appear against Mont
| somery. He waived a hearing and
was placed under $4,000 bail for trial.
Secret service men say that he is
an old offender. He was arrested some
years ago, but skipped his bail of 81
900. He ceased operations for a while.
but got back into the same old BUSH
ness and had eluded all attempts to
run him down.
1t is the difference between the mans
way and the woman's way The man
had to buy the wedding present the
other day He was not in the neigh
borhood of shops where such things
could be bought, but he did not worry
about that. He Enclosed a sum OF
money In a letter. sent 1t to a friend
in New York, with the following direc-
| tions:
Please get me a wedding present
! with the enclosed money Get IL at
Mr.. Silversmith's or Mr.. Artstore's. and
send 1t with my card, which ] enclose.
to Miss Blank" and there followed the
name and address.
The friend. says the New York
Times, received the request in the spirit
IN which 1t was given. He turned
over the commission. to the first wo-
man he met, with the indefinite direc-
tons he had received The woman
used her own judgment, bought what
she pleased and had 1t sent off as per
orders. Not one of the men saw the
wedding present, which had to be sent
~ something OF hurry to arrive on
the wedding day
woman would have put enough
nervous force into getting a wedding
present to have lasted her a month
under ordinary circumstances. 1t
would be ninety-nine chances out OF
hundred that in a similar case she
would have waited until she was in
me neighborhood of the shops she
thought suitable for buying the pres
ent herself If she had to walt until
the wedding was past and sent 1t as
an anniversary gift. She would have
been uncertain about the amount to
spend, and probably would have spent
in the end twice as much as she felt
she could afford. If she had felt real
~ Obliged to commission a friend or
Write directly to the shop, she
would have covered half
dozen sheets of letter paper
in giving directions, and then
1t would have broken her heart II she
had not seen the present before it was
sent. There is every reason to believe
that the present sent by the man
would be quite as satisfactory to him
ana to the bride as anything the wo-
man could buy, but they could NOT
change methods without changing nat
ures. When women break down In
business or In college 1t is not be-
cause they are more delicate in pro-
portion or work harder along Iegiti-
mate lines than men. but because they
put nervous strain on themselves in
a thousand unnecessary ways.
Strangely enough, says the Chicago
Chronicle, the one complexion SPECIFIC
which has received scant attention or
no attention at all, from writer's for
the beauty column is fog. And VET
most fashionable of all cosmetics. At
any rate, seine smart women In So
ciety Lave taken 1t up, and head the
list OF its most enthusiastic advo-
Gates. Having once tried fog, thew
say, none will ever again do with
out It.
Unfortunately fog is not put up in
packages, nor can it be bought by the
bottle Fun thermore, the only way to
get the best results from It's remedial
properties is to settle down for a two
OF three months stay at the seashore.
plan Of action which puts the price
of the fog complexion remedy pretty
high.
1t was at Newport last summer that
the adoption Of this recipe by the resi-
dents became so general as to create
fashion. Before the end of the sea-
son the fad was copied at many sea-
shore resorts Of lesser note and gener-
ally approved.
The American woman as a rule Is
not unduly modest in an estimate of
her own personal attractions, but
neither Is she so conceited as to re-
fuse to make use of any means where
by they may be enhanced She has
never envied the English woman,
either her gowns of her figure, but IL
may as well be confessed that she has
always been secretly jealous OF the
British complexion, which she dlscov-
cred long ago was due entirely to cH-
mate and not to cosmetics to fog
rather than to face massage.
As not even the purse of a Million
ARE can change the American climate