The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-23

erty. Just what the others girls did I
don't know, for when they tell of it
they don't seem to have a clear idea
themselves, for all happened in less
time than it takes to read of it, but
what Emily did is sufficiently estab-
lished. She fairly leaped after the thief
and caught him by the collar.
Il say" she commanded, "you give
me my own pocketbook, and be quick
about it,"
AS can't answer for the mans feel
ings III not presume upon his thoughts,
but what he did was to reach hastily
TO a side pocket, take out Emilys purse
and hand it to her Let go!" he NUT
tered, and she did so. He Immediately
darted across the avenue and ran
around the corner into Twenty-second
street. Somebody chirped feebly for
the police. Emily was counting the
contents of her purse
Its all right. girls" she said
calmly, though there was a slight flush
on her cheeks. II ought to have held
! him for an officer, l suppose, but 1
wanted my money too badly to think of
that. The moneys all here. Let's go
and look at those silks advertised at
And they did so.
What is known as absence of mind.
says the New York Sun is a most un-
accountable psychic phenomenon 1t is
Tar from denoting any want of intelli-
gence, for it is often the cleverest. and
IN other respects the most practical.
OF people who are afflicted with this
curious forgetfulness that causes them
to commit the extraordinary blunders
which afford so much amusement to
others and embarrassment to them
selves. The very dignitied and stately
Mrs. M, richly dressed in velvets
ana furs, attracted a great deal of at
tention on Fifth avenue the other day.
At first, being rather accustomed to ad-
miration, she did not particularly no.
tice 1T when the passersby stared at
her. but when the inspection continued,
and some even turned to look after
her, she began to think that there
must be something unusual in her ap-
pearance. She looked herself over,
however and could see nothing wrong,
and was about concluding that she
misconstrued their glances when a boy
passed, looked at her head with a
grin and gave long whistle Invol-
UNFAIRLY she put up her hand and
found to her dismay that she had for
gotten her bonnet, and that she had on
her head a Martha Washington cap
which, as it was very becoming to her.
white hair, she rather affected for
house wear To go home after she had
made this embarrassing discovery or
even to enter an omnibus, was impos-
sible. She looked for a cab. OF course
none was in sight; but she was near
! the house of an acquaintance, to which
she hurried. rs. Mrs. x in?" she
asked the man who came to the door,
He regarded her curiously. Mrs.
X is hout," he answered rather
rudely. Are the children in?" she
queried ingratiatingly. 81 would like
to see them" She could see that he
looked suspicious, and trembled for his
answer, for she could not face the pub
lie again in her Martha Washington
lace cap and she longed-oh! how she
longed-for him to open the door and
let ner in.
They are hout," he repeated, but she
saw deception in his eye and she pushed
past him into the hall. Tell Mrs.
KS nurse that 1 wish to leave
message" she commanded, with her
grandest air, and the man retreated.
There's a crazy woman a-wanting
of you down stairs, Jane" she heard
him say at a door on the floor above,
and then came a whispered parley, and
the nurse came hesitatingly down the
stairs. Fortunately, however, she knew
Mrs. M by sight, and the latter's
troubles were soon over. Before Mrs.
ks glass she replaced the objec
tionable cap with a decorous bonnet
and returned home, resolved to make it
rule never to leave Che house again
without last critical look in the mir
ror.
There would be a tempest doubtless
in many a New York family of high
social rank, says the Bess of that city,
if their heads were to learn that their
romantic young daughters, so carefully
reared and guarded, had acted as mod
els for well known artists. But
that these parents remain in compla-
cent ignorance of their daughters lit
tie escapades does not alter facts.
There is hardly an illustrator of note
in New York city who had not had
pose fore him girls who, by right of
birth, belong to the upper stratum OF
society.
The much written about admiration
which girls visit upon celebrities of the
stage has it's lesser counterpart in the
feminine admiration which is given to
celebrities of the brush. In the case OF
actors this admiration is practically
limited in expression to anonymous
| notes. But different circumstances and
requirements govern an artists work.
He must have the assistance of others
models. And here the romantic young
woman discovers her opportunity or
seeing what the man is like whose
name she had noted with such fire.
duence at the bottom of popular draw
ings.
To visit an artist in his studio ana
to ask for permission to pose-this is
a deed of great daring to the young wo-
men who have lived all their lives with
conventionality. However, as con-
cession to the proprieties, on these
visits they always bring with them a
maid, or a friend, who temporarily has
the office of chaperone, and who Is
doubtless sworn to inviolate secrecy.
The preferment of the request is usu-
ally embarrassing for the girl, for the
little speech she had prepared is apt
to desert her at this, the most critical
moment to the, to her, daring affair.
But she manages to tell the artist how
much she has admired his pictures and
to ask him IL he would not please let
her sit for ane of them-one or the pest.
If he only would-please!
Now. your artist can give NO
readily enough to professional model
asking for an engagement. But the re-
fusal doesn't come so easily when the
suppliant is faultlessly gowned and
smiles and fushes and is filled With
pretty ingenious lconfusion-and
through 1t all shows bit of imperious-
ness. or course, the artist yields and
let's her sit for something at once, or
tells her when she may come.
Sometime these models are most
welcome, for they always wear clothes
of the latest cut-and good clothes
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