The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-18

Fifteenth. In the matter of dress
and jewels she can do no better than
to initiate the leading actresses of the
day
sixteenth. But in her general de-
pertinent she should show considerably
more go" than they do.
If these board rules are carefully fol-
lowed any ambitious woman not yet
in the smart set should be able in less
than a year to cut her best friend
dead and to be invited everywhere"
A woman with a sense of humor,
says the New York Tribune, may de-
rive considerable amusement from a
shopping tour, especially If she turns
aside from the dignified haunts of up
per-tendom and braves the crowds that
buy their wares at the quick sales
and small profits" establishments in
less fashionable thoroughfares.
THE implicit faith with which ma
irons of a certain class listen to the
voluable statesmen, who vaunt their
merchandise is very funny" remarked
one of these fortunate individuals who
can extract entertainment from every
situation. Il went down to rs the
other day in search of sundry bargains
in housekeeping requirements, and
while waiting for my change was
greatly diverted by witnessing the sale
of a cheap Ingram carpet to a portly
person who looked like a second rate
boarding house keeper.
This is a beautiful piece indade,
said the clerk, with a strong Hibernian
accent, unrolling an abomination in the
way of floor covering consisting of
crude tan colored ground covered wth
impossible red roses. Sure, and it's
an art treasure you'll get if you decide
upon this
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latent sense of fitness probably warned
her against it. The man saw she hesi-
tated, and continued with the greatest
dispatch:
How large is your parlor-2O by Is
feet, you say? Now, here is a most re-
markable coincidence; we have just the
amount you require, for a very rich
gentleman, whose name l do not feel
at liberty to mention, just purchased
a large quantity of this beautiful car
pet for the drawing room of his Elegant
house in Newport. Take it ALL says
/ to him, land you won't have any one
copying your taste But those million
aires are very careful with their
money, and he wouldn't take more
than he really needed
ut was evident that the customer
regarded the wretched ingram with in
creased respect. 1t does look fashion
able she admitted, but don't you
think those roses are too bright
Bright he exclaimed. they are
the correct art tones. Nothing could
be more natural. You'll not need a
flower garden with that carpeti'
My furniture suite is of green
reps she continued.
Now, that's queer he interrupted.
Green, you say? I was just about to
remark that you ought to cover your
chairs and sofa with green reps to &c
with this carpet to have an artistic eff
feet. You'll regret it all your life If
you neglect to purchase it
Finally his arguments gained the
day; the woman bought the ingram
and went away completely satisfied"
Little Dorothea, says Brooklyn Life
is one of those children whose silence
when awake is regarded as a certain
sign that she is in mischief. One day
when she was about 21s years old her
mother gradually became aware of a
silence which BODIED trouble. She was
about to look for the baby when Doro-
thea came in, her rosy lips still bearing
the traces of a feast.
Where have you been, Dorothea
What are you eating?"
Cheese" said Miss Dorothea.
Where did you get it, dear?" asked
her mother.
In the mouf trap" answered the de.
linGuent.
In the mouse trap!" exclaimed the
Mortified mother.
Yes"
Then the mother laughed. But
what will the poor mousies do? You
will brighten them all away"
'Dey wasn't bit frightened. nam
ma. Dey was two moufies in de trar
when I Gated de cheese"
, That the following view of a wo-
mans situation and feelings after the
acceptance of a proposal of marriage
is not fantastic there will be many a
reader to testify. 1t appears in Con
fessions of a Wife" in the Century. The
heroine writes to her accepted lover:
Dear what have we done? Oh what
have we done? Why did you make
me love you? 1 was quite happy be-
fore. All my days rose and set in
peaceful casts and wests-gray and
rose in sunlight colors. Now 1 am
caught up into a stormy sky dashed
with scarlet and purple and fire, and
swept along-I don't know where, /
don't know why-carried away from
myself, as 1 used to dream that I
should be if I let myself out of the
window and did not fall, but were
taken up by the wind, and borne TO
lHS tops OI lTe elInS-HeVer any nlgher.
so as to be dangerous, but whirled
along over the heads of people, out of
everybody's reach.
Now, we are swept along together.
you and l, and / am out of every
body's reach but yours. And now that
and my dream are one, / am afraid
of my dream; and 1 am afraid of you.
Why did you love me? Why did you
make me, why did you let me, love
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you made me do it. / didn't want
to love you. Haven't l entreated you.
by every look and word and tone these
ten weeks past not to make me love
you? My heart has been a beggar at
your feet all the spring and summer,
praying to you not to let me love you.
You know it has. You are not a stu
pid man. You knew didn't mean to
love you, Dana Herwin: or If you
didn't know it, then l take it back,
and you are a stupid man, and you de-
serve to be told so. OF course, you know
had to be decent and friendly, and l
didn't keep out of your way altogether.
How could l? If hadn't been friendly
with you that would have been telling.
Nothing gives away the secret of a
girls heart quicker than that-not to
dare to be friends with a man. She
might as well propose to him and done
with it, 1 think. OF course, had TO
treat you prettily.
but l didn't want to love you this
way, not this way. l didn't want to
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