The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19
WORLD


will invariably hunt around in her
purse for old money in paying for
purchase. Why this is so have never
been able to discover. but the excep-
lions simply prove the rule. Daily l
have examples of this trait in women
right here in this store, and when a
feminine customer finally does part
with the precious crisp bills it is with
some little ejaculation of annoyance
and frequently an attitude of indigna-
ton, as though had forced them into
spending their money against their
wills. On some occasions have actu-
ally known women to leave the store
sooner than break a new bill.
but 1 have been benefited so by my
different experiences with this pecu-
iiarity of the sex that I have learned
to take it philosophically, believing
there may be something yet to learn
So, when my patience is on the verge
of exhaustion, 1 gain new strength
from the knowledge of how much
money 1 have been saved from a wo-
mans dislike in parting with new
money. The secret is simple enough.
l always manage to carry my salary
home in beautiful, clean, crisp bills,
and the reluctance with which my wife
gets rid of them rebounds to my finan-
cial benefit. This is tip for other
married men. and 1 am certain they
would save money by adopting the sug-
gestion.
THE PEACE OF SLEEP.
Refreshed and vigorous may 1 awake,
To bear the burdens of another day
And wiser paths in thy great vineyard
make,
That follow Christ more closely all
the way.
o may the peace that so pervades
sleeps sphere
Hush storm of strife, soothe sorrow
plaintive wall
Heal wounded hearts and dry the flow
irg tear.
So love and mercy with good cheer
prevail.
I thank the love that rules this border
land,
Where blessed angels wait to serve
and stay
To lead us gently on. with helpful
hand,
Ger Hfe's uneven. dark and toilsome
way.
Beneficent and sanatory land,
| Where healing power these machines
repair
Machines so long in use, complex and
/
Yet so abased, worn out and wanting
care.
| The love divine that broods for mystic
sleep,
Which swee1y typifies our final rest
Shines through the pearly gates, thai
open keep,
Near sleeps kind vestibule to man.
sions blessed.
So, tranquil now. 1 lay me down t.
sleep,
And sink away from self into thy
Till morning dawn, no more to watcf
or weep,
For one is softly breathing: Peace
be still"
Boston Transcript.
"My dear" said shrewd matron tt
a newly married young woman, accord
| ing to the New York Sun, ''it is bad tC
let man know how little you car
live on.
IF in a time of financial stress vol
cut your household expenses to tn,
very last limit to help him, you will
find that thereafter he will always ex
pect you to get along on that minimum
amount upon which you managed t.
1
II don't know, but men seem to have
an idea somehow. that you can ge
along on nothing, and if you SHOULD
manage in some. way to furnish a gooC
table on money utterly inadequate fol
the purpose, it wouldn't surprise hin
at all. In fact, he never would Civ:
1T thought; for men seem to have al
idea that women can do with moth.
ing.
Don't forget that, as it is difficult
to recover ground yielded in business
social or other relations with anybody
| SO viii 1T be also with your own hus.
band with regard to your household
expenses. And So my dear, use some
discretion about these
IF your husband is in real distress
why, then, of course, you will sink
every other consideration in your de-
| sire to help him. But if he is in COM
| Portable circumstances in life it is bet.
ter not to let him know how cheaply
you can run the house, if you car
| avoid it,
The following story about the EN-
press Eugene is one that has hitherto
escaped publication. 1t was told in the
Paris Journal and translated for Liter
airy Digest, whence we quote it,
1t was one of the last years of the
| Third Empire, just after the close of
the 1867 exposition. The foreign sover-
eigns who had visited Paris had made,
| to the imperial couple, demonstrations
| of friendship the hollowness OF which
| was soon disclosed by events. The air
was file with runors of a general up
| heaval in the politics of Europe. King
| William of Prussia had come las a
| friend" to Visit--and reconnoiter-the
| city, the siege of which he was already
| contemplating. The internal situation
| was no less grave. Extremists of all
sorts were making themselves heard,
| and the republicans were beginning to
| raise their heads again.
| Napoleon III, already suffering with
| the malady which ended his life, was
| weak and vacillating. Italy was re-
| solved upon the occupation of Rome,
| then under papal dominion supported
| by the French troops. One faction in
| the government was in favor of the
| withdrawal of these troops, but the
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