The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-05

lengthen the eyes by cutting the COR
ners. This is done very early. at the
age of ? or years, the outer corner
being deity slit with a lancet about
the twelfth part of an inch.
While the wound is healing the lids
are drawn outward every day. and
when it is quite cured the eye is still
submitted to The drawing process every
day for long time, with the result
that il becomes long and narrow.
The story about Nine. Hading pro-
ceeds TO declare that her father was in
Turkey and saw this practice, and de-
termined to try it on his little girl, then
about 3 years old. Whether the story
is true or not. one thing is certain.
that the admirers of the actress declare
that she has the most beautiful eyes
on the stage.
A company of thoughtful people
were talking the other day in my hear
ing-rather speculatively than practi-
cally. yet not f1ippantly-of marriage
as a civil contract. In the opinion of
some. says the Philadelphia North
American, this is all that it really is
all the law contemplates when it al
lows contract made by law to be
broken by legal enactment.
By-and-bye the youngest man pres
ent spoke for the first time:
Those of us who have been mar
ried by religious ceremony should
take graver view of the compact.
One can take no more solemn oath
than that which he utters In the
sight of God and these Witnesses If
anything upon earth-I may say in
heavens binding, it is the marriage
VOW"
TIKI.
all controversy. Furthermore, we have
fathers of our flesh because we we're
born to them. The relation was none
of our choosing. We do choose our
partners in marriage. and freely, even
eagerly, take upon ourselves the obli-
cations of that state. Hence, we are
the more strictly bound to be true to
these obligations.
1 am working gradually up to one
conclusion. These things being So the
parents who fail to do all in their
power to cement the bond between a.
married child and that child's husband
or wife are guilty of a great wrong
against nature and Gods laws. ODE
dience to these would put an end to
scurrlous talk of too much mother
in-law." The mother of the foolish
woman-who let's impatience with a
weary mans ill-temper over a badly
of her marriage covenant to "cleave to
him and him alone. for better or for
worse"-should throw the weight of
her influence into the son-in-law' s
scale. Instead of encouraging the pet
fish, because petted, creature to pour
the tale of her grievances into her ear,
the mother should give her to- under
stand from the first that a husbands
very foolish foibles should be sacredly
confidential between him and his wife,
and not to be breathed to the mother
who bore her.
One mother-in-law, dearly beloved
by her daughters husbands, let me
into the secret of their loyalty:
When differences of opinion have
arisen between my girls and my sons
in-law, 1 have invariably taken the
husbands side. if called upon to join
in the argument. 1 knew that the
wives would not forgive me, when the
heat of talk cooled down, if I had VEN
tured to intimate that their sponses
were not always in the right, and the
husbands would have no jars or fric-
ton between themselves and me to re-
fleet upon"
She was wise in her generation. If
more of the much criticised class were
of like mind and action, many house
hold would be happier.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia