The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-02

lent sailor, and is the only member of
the Russian imperial house who bears
the rank of an admiral in the Russian
naVy-a unique honor bestowed on her
by the Car Alexander
The favorite amusements of Queen
Wilhelmina are skating and riding, but
as a child her hobby was the keeping
OF poultry. Her majesty Is devoted' to
animals and is averse to sport, as she
cannot bear to think OF the animals in
her preserves being slaughtered.
Like Queen Alexandra, the German
Empress hobby is photography.
Somebody has been collecting data
on husbands who are never kissed, says
the Philadelphia North American. 1t
appears that in various parts of the
civilized world there are men who have
been married for years and never once
have been kissed by their wives. 1t
is a remarkable tale, but is vouched
for by reliable persons. More remarka-
BILE still is the fact that the men still
live to tell their sad experience. Wo-
men similarly treated would have pinned
away and died from sheer neglect and
disappointment.
A notable case of an unkissed man
comes from Prague, Bohemia. The
wife has just died, and the story is
told. She was sought In marriage
while still mourning for her first hus-
band.
She compromised with her conscience
by promising her sutton she would be
his wife, il he would neither ask nor
expect any expression of affection on
her part.
Ele readily agreed to the proposition,
believing manlike, that he could read
lily induce her to change her mind after
marriage. 1t was with amazement he
learned she could and would hold him
to the contract. Never once did she kiss
hm. She has just passed out after
Fifteen years of welded life.
Another case comes from Pennsylva-
mia, according to the authority on this
subject. She was Quaker, her entire
family having scruples against kissing.
The couple made an agreement the
night before the wedding that when
they wished to express mutual affec-
ton a squeeze Of the hand should take
the place of the kiss. This resolve was
carried out. The two lived to a ripe
old age together, and never kissed each
other.
One girl, who married friend of the
collector OF kissing data, had no OBJ
lection to being kissed by her husband.
but she did not believe 1t was woman's
part to kiss in return. Hence her other
half goes down In history as another
unSissed man.
Some years ago colony was formed
in South America, the members of
which pledged themselves to abstain
from all endearments. Husbands and
wives never kissed each other. This
fact probably explains why the colony
failed to prosper.
The fashionable garb of woe is not
the gloomy thing 1t once was, says
an exchange. The dense, disfiguring
stuffs once used have given place to
sole diaphanous textiles whose delicate
tuckings, drawn threads, and dull silk
needle work are an agreeable change
from the former trimmings of English
crepe. This disfguring and unwhole-
come emblem, indeed, has been ban
ished with other things which have had
their day. Except to trim the gowns
Of old-fashioned grandmammas and
other DANES of settled" tastes, 1t is
now but rarely seen. the most fragile
nuns veilings and dull finished chif-
fons having taken the place of 1t for
bonnets and wells.
Even the widows cap, that some
what too ostentatious rim of white
about the face, is now, so to speak
on the shelf. Elderly women may
wear these caps II they wish, but for
the bereaved ones whose years suggest
the possibility of future consolation,
they are tabooed. "A young widow
should wear nothing which makes her
conspicuous. explain the fashion
mongers in defense of this restriction.
Nevertheless, little collars and cuffs
of sheer white lawn are allowed, and
those who run may read their meaning.
Half-mourning, as 1t is now known.
Is often a combination of black and
white that anybody might wear. For
example, a radiantly charming gown
Of square meshed net may be built
upon foundation of dull finished
white taffeta.
A very effective frock for deep
mourning is of the thinnest nuns veil
ing, with tucks two inches wide for
ornaments. These. In a closely massed
band OF seven, border a deep circular
skirt fiounce, and make a band around
the middle OF the bodice and at the top