The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-07

question il they wanted to have any
thing left for laundry or those little
jaunts that add so greatly to summer
pleasure.
After securing the place with the
point objective, "a bathroom" in view.
their search was rewarded by finding
on an attractive and respectable thor
oughfare a room in a house which
boasted a porcelain bath tub and open
plumbing For this room and gas they
were charged 81 a week. In dozens of
other places they had been offered
lamps and told that when bath was
desired the ocean was adjacent. As
no objection was made to cooking over
the gas, their cup of happiness quite
overlooked though the little wife had
determined that they would not have
a constant diet of eggs, fruit and
baked beans, and so made arrangement
for their dinners at IS per week. This
gave them one excellent hearty meal
a day. as that the fruit, egg. tea and
cocoa diet that it was possible for
her to serve with the assistance of a
gas fixture that held tea pot or small
frying pan was sufficient for the other
meals.
With "a left, they drew up sched-
ule for the other two meals, which,
with trhing variations, they carried
out most satisfactorily:
One pint of milk every day ...... rs
Two pounds sugar per week ...... 10
Tea, per week .................... 10
One dozen eggs ..................... 22
One can baked beans .............. 10
One pound butter ................ 2S
ffult .....-..........-. ---....'...... 90
Bread, cake and cereals .........., 81
$500
Many weeks one-half pound of but
ter was found sufficient, and one pound
When cereals were used there was a
saving on eggs, so that frequently $3.50
was al-sufficient, for the breakfasts,
and suppers of the two.
The problem of food and lodging dis
! posed of, the question of laundry was
the next to be solved. Diligent search
! resulted in securing woman who
would do big and little pieces at sew
enty-five cents per dozen or make
special arrangement of 81 per wash,
no stipulation being made as to the
number of pieces to be sent. AS the
| young husband had a goodly array of
negligee shirts and his wife boosted
numerous shirt waists and shirt waist
| suits, this latter arrangement was
| adopted N
| Their wardrobe by this means had
an air of perpetual freshness which
/ waS~a distinction.
/ The prosaic details disposed of, they
! began to amuse themselves. On Tues
| day, Thursday and Saturday nights
! the city of Newport furnishes in it's
| parks band concerts as enjoyable to
music lovers as those at the Casino
| where an admission fee of twenty-five
cents is charged. These parks are
! within walking distance of Mill street
Then there was the beautiful Cliff
walk, bathing at the beach, where ten
! tickets, emitting one to a commodious
/ bath house, could be secured for 81, and
! occasional drives In the public convey
veyances that take you to the very end
of Bellevue avenue for ten cents. On
| this drive every show place is feat
| ured. To sit in Jones Park and watch
! the celebrities drive by was. pleasure
| the wife enjoyed, but which the hus-
! band had to forego, as his duties kept
J him busy during the day. The ferry to
jamestown brought another diversion
which reach. The piers jutting out
! into Narragansett Bay, with the fleet
of yachts and their twinkling lights,
offered an evenings diversion. that
made them forget that So was their
| limit.
Almost every house in Newport is
fitted up with an observation tower or
a fiat enclosed roof from which may
be obtained superb view Of the bay
with its picturesque shore, The house
in which these young folks had their
81 a week room was no exception, so
that many an evening this home roof
garden was substituted instead OF
| pleasures further afleld
When there was a surplus on the
breakfasts and suppers the couple dom
| ned their smartest attire and took in
| a Casino concert and an atmosphere
! of wealth so pronounced that they felt
quite of 1t, and having grown familiar
with the names and faces of the lead
ers in the social life of Newport chat
! ted glibly of Astors, Vanderbilts, Oel-
! riches and Lehrs.
Freebody Park with it's entertaining
and inexpensive vaudeville, was an
other amusement center that their in
come permitted. 1t would take a long
! time to exhaust the resources of New
port even on this limited schedule but
once done Narragansett Pier can be
visited, a trolley ride of sixty miles to
Providence is also available and costs
J only fifty cents, or a breezy spin to
| Island Park, past the Vanderbilt farm
at Portsmouth, can be substituted for
even less money.
Chivalry will not die SO long as there
| remains the woman with the baby" re-
marked the philosopher to the New
York Herald. "Woman's pet grievance
against men at present is being obliged
to stand in trolley cars while the pigs
hide behind their extras.
This nonsense about the pretty girl
! always getting a seat is mere twad-
die. Just look Through any car you
are in and you will see the pretty girl
with the modish gown standing, and
the dresmaker's errand girl with the
| long box will be seated.
THE prettiest girl in New York
| doesn't stand the ghost of a chance if
she enters g. car by the side of a wo-
man with a baby. Makes no differ
| ence what sort of a woman she is,
/ either. That baby is her passport to
a seat.
"In a Madison avenue car the other
day, two young women, who looked as
! if they would have been more at home
! in a hanson, entered the car, and not
a seat was offered. At the next cross
/ ing a miserable looking woman hob
bled in. She was fat and ugly and dir
! ty, but she carried a baby-a red
| faced, equint-eyed baby, too Imfnedi-
ately a gentleman arose from his seat
Not only that, but he grasped her ell
! bow and steadied her when the car
started off.
'I'II het those two stunning girls I'm