The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-31

promise never, never to tel. 1 laid nv
cigar on the table while we were
smoking just now, and burnt a big
hole in Mrs. Midas thousand dollar
cloth. Isn't it horrible? No one else
saw 1t, and as we all change places
after you leave, it can never be dis
covered who did it. for 1 lust covered
it over with a, plate and then took
another place. 1 saw 'Dickie' NJ
take my seat" he chuckled, land as
ne stayed there the rest of the time
and talked to Mr.. Midas, who was op-
poslte, | trust he will have the credit
for it!''
Quite apart from the cost of the ar
tlcle that is injured or the trouble that
II involves to replace it, every careful
mouse mistress has a veritable love for
her housefurnishings. No one who has
ever seen her affectionate little pat
after she has finished her inspection of
a well set out dinner table, with its
oalntliy decked dressing table freshly
arranged for some respected visitor
can doubt it, and it seems too bad
that the Indifferent guest (for both
girls and men alike are equally care
less in such matters) should destroy
ner pretty accessories by sheer care
lessness, leaving unsightly ink stains
on the newly covered writing tables.
tearing pieces out of the pretty blot
ter, dropping cologne on the highly
polished wood of the bureau and
thereby leaving great white blotches
on the varnish, and many other icono-
clasms that destroy the lares and pen
ates dear to the heart of their hostess.
1t goes without saying that the offend
ing guest is generally quite uncon-
sclous of his offenSeS and perhaps
sometimes he wonders why this season
he has not been invited to Mrs. As
where last year he made a long visit,
not realizing that these trifles, seem
lngly light as air." have prejudiced
his hostess against him.
Camphor put in drawers or trunks will
keep away mice, says the September
Woman's Home Companion.
Rub hinges with a feather dipped in
oil, and they will not creak.
A small bag of sulphur kept in
drawer or cupboard will drive away
red ants
Boil three or four onions in a pint of
water, apply with soft brush to gilt
frames and flies will keep off them.
A spoonful of vinegar put into the
water in which meats or fowls are
boiled makes them tender.
Equal parts of ammonia and spirits
of turpentine will take paint out of
clothing, no matter how dry or hard
the paint may be. Saturate the spot
two or three times, then wash out in
soap-suds.
A little charcoal mixed with clear
water thrown into a sink will disinfect
and deodorize it.
The odor of sweet-peas is so offensive
to flies that it will drive them out Of a
sick room.
a fever patient can be made cool
and comfortable by being frequently
sponged with water in which a little
soda has been dissolved.
Brass work can be kept beautifully
bright by occasionally rubbing with
salt and vinegar.
A man of much observation. says
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in the New York
Journal, has given me a rather inter-
esting problem to solve. He has made
a memorandum of some dozen divorces
which have occurred in recent years
among well-known people, and writes
me as follows concerning them:
''In the last few months l have been
struck with the curious fact that most
of the notable divorces and separations
in society have been where the wife
was a notable beauty, not merely ordi-
nary average handsome women, but
women who were conspicuOusly and
generally admitted to be of unusual
and striking beauty, and who were
great bells from the moment they
came out-women who had endless adj
mirers at their feet, and when finally
the announcement was made Of their
engagement everybody sighed and said
'Ah. lucky man.
Nov, these brides represented ev-
erything that man could hope for or
dream of in charm and loneliness, so
far as physical beauty is concerned
and yet, for some reason, they did not
wear we'll as wives.
"The old maxim is that nothing
happens without a cause, and of
course there is moral underlying this
situation. What is it that makes the
conspicuous beauty of her day an al
most fater failure in matrimony? For,
preposterous as this would seem, illog-
ical as it sounds. it proves so in this
twentieth century. Why is it?"
It does not seem to me that one need
seek far for the explanation.
The young girl whose beauty is the
theme of all tongues, from the cradle
to the altar, is as handicapped in the
race as is the youth who is born to
millions.
He has no opportunity to develop
those spiritual muscles which make
character and which need strife with
the world to bring them into play
She has no opportunity to develop
the qualities Of unselfishness, sacrifice
in small matters and consideration of
others which are important factors in
a happy marriage.
The girl who is born beautiful may
possess all the unselfish and loyal
qualities of women who have made
glorious wives, but she begins to think
of herself so early in life, and her adj
mirers and lovers so persistently Gull
tivate her selfish and all-accepting
qualities, that by the time she is mar
ried she is incapable of that continual
forbearance, amiable patience and
considerate unselfishness that alone
make marriage a success.
I recall once meeting a wonderful
beauty at a reception. Her physical
allurements were SO wonderful, so pa
tent so commanding, that / felt sub
jugated and awed by their supremacy.
She affected me- like a glorious sun
rise, symphony, an epic, like all great
things in nature or art A man of
the world to whom l expressed my
feelings remarked coldly: God help
the man who feels as you do. That
woman is so in love with her own
beauty that she will never be able to
love any one else. All her life she
has worshiped her own reflection. 1t
is her god!' 1 thought him unkind,
cynical. But the woman has been twice
divorced since then-and she is still
young.
The girl who has known what it was
to be lonely and heart hungry, to long
for a pleasure she did not have, to