The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-26
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS SUNDAY OCTOBER 2e 1902.

nSdu. ana Denolu4 a curve OF CHln
resulted. The hair. soft at the ears.
showed chestnut under the sweep of the
plume. and the same chestnut cleaned
in the eyes, except where they sparkled
with a CLINT enhanced by the paste
buckle. The frivolity of color, plume
and paste seemed only relief from the
demure darkness of the Mousie gown,
and. adjusted. the pretty pink impossi-
bility became the desirable, the suit
able-nay. the inevitable. SO Mrs.
Mousie, all in a fiutter, gave up
eighteen plunks and fled home, the
string Of the bandbox cutting her FIN
gers, for she had not dared trust the
hat TO be sent home.
She had some doubts as she united
the box ito show Fred" She did re-
member that the hat had fiickered
Impossible" until It had transformed
itself upon her head into the trium-
plant eXploiter of her own charms.
She had decided to put II on in pri-
waite and then call him in to see. When
she sat in front of the glass she hardly
looked at the hat in the box. but shut
her eyes, put IL on, and then, all OF
fiutter again. consulted the mirror. OH
May be it was too far in front, or a
little more around might bring the
feather right. The buckle never show
ed like that Was the hair too pulled
at the sides? Oh. dear! The curl
hadn't kinked out that way. Why
was she as red as a beet? And every
bit of color was out of her hairl She
looked like yesterdays poached eggl
Perhaps it was on hind side before
perhaps-boo! boo!
And Fred. the brute. only said
Eighteen for that? Martial" And he
always calls her Matte.
This story has a moral. Don't try
on hat by pink-shaded electrics. And
do you yourself put the hat on IL you
don't want to be hypnotized.
1t is one of Toms customers who
tells the story of a rough, but kind
hearted citizen in a small town in
which she once lived, who was also
subject to Toms conversational weak
ness, says the New York Times. There
had been hard winter. and 1t became
known that poor widow in the town
was suffering for lack of fuel. The
sympathies of the warm-hearted but
profane citizen were touched He had
load of coal put into one of his own
wagons and himself drove It to the
house Of the unfortunate woman,
dumped 1t, knocked at the door, and
as the widow made her appearance,
cried gruflly:
BLANK you. now see If you can keep
warm
Mrs. George Corvallis West. an
American by birth, has been compar-
ing the women of England and Amerf-
ca, says Western paper. She will
spend a part of this winter in New
York, after visiting Lady Smith in
Canada, and will then have a fine OPP
portunity to make further study along
the same lines. The result may be of
interest.
There is a decided difference in
point of view between the English wo-
man and her American friends" de-
clares Mrs. CornwalllsWes "This
arises, naturally, from the radical dis
tinctions existing between the political
and social systems of the two coun-
tries. While the American woman
may exert her influence for her hus-
bands benefit the sphere of this in
fiuence Is more or less limited where
as, in this country IL a woman have
the ability, she may make herself felt
in very wide circles.
There Is much more scope for wo-
men in England, so far as mixing in
political affairs is concerned. The
English woman takes herself very Sc
riously, indeed, and does much more
work than her American cousin. All
English women of prominence engage
in some kind of work in which their eff
forts may be felt among a large class
of people. They take the keenest in
terest in all political questions that af-
feet the home, the school and the con-
dition Of the people.
"In America the conditions are diff
ferent. The Americans have not been
brought up to this work, and the
American system differs from the Eng
lish."
Turning from political to social
topics, Mrs. West said: II think the
advent of Americans in English so
ciety has done much to make the latter
even more exclusive than hitherto"
Nov what would you have done?"
said the woman who was telling the
story, according to an exchange. You
could have done nothing but what /
did; treat the woman as If she was a
bosom friend. 1t seemed a great
pleasure to accommodate her. 1t was
in the waiting room on the Fifty-eighth |
street elevated station on the Sixth |
avenue road. The woman was of mid |
die age and respectable appearance. |
The only popularity about her was |
that she was eating her luncheon from |
a paper bag. She commented on this |
to me when l appeared upon the |
scene, not in an apologize way, but /
in a friend to friend fashion.
4 did think of eating my luncheon /
in the park she said, casually, but /
then 1 thought l had better eat it |
here
ITO this / replied with a cheerful |
smile. What else could / do when |
she was so friendly?
Gould you let me have cents to |
take a car when l go down stairs?' |
she continued, still in the same natural
and friendly manner, as / reached for
my purse.
ut will not inconvenience you at
ALP she went on. You can spare it
quite WE'LL?
''Oh, yes l said with equal friend
illness and cheerfulness. and If she had
asked for more 1 should have given it
to her. am sure. / am proof against
beggars of ordinary type and If she
had begged i should have refused her, |
but her friendly assurance overpower-
ed me.
Was she a real beggar with a new
method. and could any one have resist
ed such natural and friendly ad-
vances?"