The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-19

WORLD.

thy of the passersby. Some one stop
- and kindly asked what her trouble
,cas She then told them that she was
.hirking that one day she might get
,,ayried and have children, and, Sob
hing more bitterly than before, she
hurst: "Oh, what if it should be a
girl
There are careful people who always
,ake their precautions long in advance,
cows Max O'Rell in the New York
roprnal. and are ever prepared for the
worst but the worrying woman invents
annoyances at pleasure and revels in
Gloom. She ever frets and fidgets and
errr0unds everything with the most
;ntr!cating imaginary difficulties.
When she begins packing her trunks
for journey, she feels quite sure that
she will never be able to put all her
things in; when they are all in, she
cannot lock the trunks; when that is
done. she is afraid the transfer man
viii come too late and she will miss
her belongings When She arrives at
her destination.
If her husband is five minutes late
returning home, she begins to fear that
something has happened to him or she
wonders where he may be; if he re-
turns earlier than usual, she rushes up
TO him and hopes he has not been
seized with illness that caused him to
leave his business in a hurry.
When she gives a party, for days
tbe house is in a perfect state of COM
motion. She is sure verything will go
wrong, and she bothers the servants so
much that there is a chance they will
do their worst. If she gives a dinner,
fnII
into the soup just at the moment when
her guests arrive. If it is a garden
party, she is certain it will rain, which
will spoil the whole thing. When the
dinner party is going on, she is sitting
on thorns, needles and pins. Her eyes
are all over the place, and she has no
ears for the two poor men sitting each
side of her, who speak to her and try
10 entertain her with stories and anec-
dotes She smiles at them in an absent
sort of way. She is trembling every
time a new course is brought round
sne keeps her eyes on sthe candle
shades, on each waiter. She is going
through perfect ordeal BY the time
dessert comes, she begins to wonder if
the artists will be in time to entertain
the guests she has invited at the re-
cepti0n that will follow the dinner
whether they will sing well and give
pleasure. She is not even quite GER
tain the piano is in tune
When her chilren are a little pale she
is sure they are going to have diph-
iberia, scarlet or typhoid fever. 1t sell
dom enters her mind that their pallor
may he due to a little surfeit of jam
or pudding
Fortunately for her she is not in
business, for she would never sell stock
without being sure it will afterward
rise in price, or buy any without feel
tui N at ttriU I,Ntr-,
As rule, she is a nice little woman,
with a good, tender heart, full of de-
votiOn and unselfishnes. If she would
only keep quiet and not always worry.
But she cannot help it, and there is
no cure for it She is not to be bullied
cut Of it, nor will kind words improve
her although they may comfort her.
With a good, consderate husband, pos
Scssed of a cool head, and who only
laughs at her little failings, she may
get along and be happy.
She requires care, a kind treatment
and constant application OF soothing
attentions.
Speaking of kleptomaniacs," said
the woman with the blue eyes" to a
reporter of the New York Sun, 81 was
one once. No. Don't go out of the
room, all of YOU 1t was purely acci-
dental.
1T happened in this way I went
shopping. There were a lot of things
wanted. I had them all down in a lit
tie memorandum book. The first item
was a belt. I asked the fioorwalker
where to find the belts.
Go down this aisle said he. until
You come to the handkerchief counter,
lnan follow the aisle to the left. Keep
right along in that aisle until you see
the necktie counter, which is the third
reom from this on the same floor. Go
into the fourth room walk along the
second aisle of that room until you
come to the leather counter facing to-
ward the fifth room and there you will
lind the belts
You have read fairy STORIES haven't
You, when you were children? These
directions were something like those:
Keep right along a little path till you
come to wood, then go right along
through the wood and you will see a
little house. Knock at the door of the
mouse and a fairy will come out and
give you a wand. Then you keep
right along to lake. On the lake you
viii find a lot of beautiful white ducks.
wave the wand and say: "Huddle
duck, huddle duck, huddle duck!" Then
the ducks will all huddle together and
you can get on their backs and go
across
lOlloWed the instructions as falth-
lully as possible and in about an hour
and half brought up at the leather
counter and found the end of the coun-
Ter facing the fifth room and the
Nather belts. Before the counter stood
many women in double rank and fie.
Ihey were unwinding belts. measuring
them with their eyes, winding them up
again and laying them back on the
counter.
The shopgirls volunteered a remark
now and then to those waiting women
Wnlle they busted themselves with SELL
Jug belts to a few favored ones who
ldo arrived before breakfast and re-
used to leave uutil they got what they
wanted. ! stood outside the row until
al last somebody went away. Then /
self. 'N -'
/ should like a patent, leather belt
WIN silver buckle, said timidly to
ole % OF the shop girls, who passed at
Udl moment. She was waiting on
some one else.
We had special sade of patent
liner belts the day before yesterday
Salu she, and sold them all out. We
"un have any more till the middle of
oAl month. Ca-s-s-s-s-s-s-sh! Cas-
s-s-s-s-shl herev
was not much surprised. 1t was
yGSl about my luck. l invariably ar
,Neo two days after a special sale or
INC week before.
r nave you a green leather belt.
ba,n' murmered, more timidly than
'.,ote, with a gold buckle?'
. NO we haven't said the girl. Our