The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-21

black sheep in an imaginary flock that
was jumping an imaginary fence.
AT least, they should have jumped,
but they did not.
They one and all SHE'D at the fence.
and the expressions on their meek and
foolish faces were so funny that the
woman laughed aloud, as If it had
been 2 o'clock in the afternoon instead
of in the morning.
At this point a rooster crowed some
where. and the woman said, Goodness
gracious!" and went and leaned out of
the window and took three long breaths
of the fresh air, a thing she had read
somewhere would act as a soporific.
Then she went back to her pillow and
began to reckon up If all her uncles and
aunts and cousins had died and had
left her a small amount of money, how
much she would be worth at the age
of IS.
This didn't prove amusing, and at 8
o'clock the woman filled her hot water
bag and placed it at her feet. with
some sort of an idea that it would rem
der her drowsy by drawing the blood
from her head.
At $3.50 she discarded the hot water
bag and got up and read a chapter in
the Bible, a procedure followed with
success by many sufferers from in
sornnia.
Then she wrote letter, walked
around the room, and again went back
to her pillow. This at 1870.
What happened next the woman does
not remember, for it was morning
when she again Enclosed her eyes.
"And I'll never know" she says re-
ftrllv IN M en- nf her
miserable night, whether it was the
Bible or the letter or the promenade
that cured me-"
Surprising as 1t may SEEM" said a
woman who has just returned from
Newport, in the New York Sun, 1.-The
women who are best dressed are not
the women who are most conspicuous
in society. One finds better dressing in
places that are not so very smart So
cially than at Newport, and the reason
is not difficult to discover. Women at
Newport are too much occupied with
other things to devote to the question
of dress the amount of time necessary
to excel in it.
'T might as well say right here that
the real leaders of society who are
constantly in the eyes of the public are
not by any means the best-dressed wo-
men. Others with not so much money
to spend, but with more time to de-
vote to dress, may be much more in
accord with the standards of dressing
in the best sense.
zone need only to go to the races to
realize that. The best-dressed women
there will not be the richest or the
most conspicuous socially.
Women whose time is taken up by
society to the exclusion of nearly ev-
erything else come. TO acquire a con-
tempt for clothes. The gowns must be
changed so many times day that wo-
men acquire a contempt for them. /.
For the same reason the women o6
the stage are rarely well dressed.
Clothes are to them mere tools of
trade.
Sarah Bernhard wears any old
thing, so long as it is loose, save when
it is necessary for her to dress up.
Eleanor Duse is about as Indifferent
and carries her contempt for dress even
to the stage. When she was here the
first time she arrived with such a lot
of rags that her managers had more
gowns made for her here.
"Maude Adams, who dresses well
enough on the stage when Aodern
dress is required, is most Indifferent to
her appearance ordinarily in private
life. Annie Russell is almost the best
dressed of any of the serious actresses
off the stage.
Anna Held in life looks almost the
same, so far as the conspicuousness of
her dress goes, and Lillian Russell
who dresses with great care off the
stage, is rarely strikingly arrayed. She
affects quiet shades in her clothes and
relies for contrasts on her hair and
complexion. But, as a rule, the wo-
men of the stage come to look upon
dress as nothing more than part of
their trade.
80 it is with the women of society
who go in for it at all extensively.
They have to change their gowns so
many times, to wear SO many different
kinds of gowns in a day and to make
somany changes for evening, that they
lose all interest in dress for its own
sake. And when that happens, they
are not going to be the best-dressed
women"
Bella Relish, a pretty, dark-eyed New
York girl was last week taken to the
insane ward of Bellevue hospital. Her
lelusion is that she is surrounded by
hundreds of boys, each of whom is try
ing to kiss her to death.
She is II years old. The youths of
her neighborhood threw themselves at
her feet and next threw themselves
upon each others throats, Many a
duel of fists was fought over the riv-
alries.
Presents were showered upon her
and she wore clothes that made the
other girls glare at her with envy She
imagined she was married to everyone
she knew and thought they were kill
ing her with violent kisses. Her cousin
DR.. Max Behr. treated her for nerv-
BUSINESS and she conferred her insane
ideas on him.
II am not Miss Reish." she would
say when addressed. 81 am Mrs. Behr-
Dr. Max'S wife, you know"
Finally, fearing that some harm
might come to the girl, her sister call
ed a policeman, who sent for a Belle
vue ambulance. Bella was made to I'M
derstand that the change was for her
good, and she willingly went to the
hospital.
Don't strike her. dear, good doc
tors walled Mrs. Solomon. her sister,
who shares the general belief in the
lower east side that to go to Bellevue
is certain death. Don't starve her on
bread and water. Spare her life. She's
too beautiful to be killed"
In a shady corner of the piazza, the
In a shady corner of the piazza, the
Widow was talking to the girls about
men. They listened eagerly, hoping
says the Philadelphia North American
to possess themselves of some inside
information on this old, but always
interesting subject.
1.-THE belief is prevalent" she was
saying, that the wise young woman is
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