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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15

To the novice in Washington's official
life, society for the first year is a mad
dening, mystic maze in which she is
perpetually coming face to face with
the least desirable reflections in the
mirrors. During the second year, she
succeeds in Strengthening out to her
own satisfaction and, incidentally, that
of her guests and acquaintances. the
question of precedence. And just
about the time that her husbands
term expires and they drift back to
their native city, she discovers that
all this While she might have been enc
of a delightful and independent clique,
if only she had known the ropes.
Social life at the national capital
divides itself along two distinct lines
officially and temperamentally. The
official divisions are determined by
certain unwritten laws handed down
from administration to administration.
These must be observed at all func-
tons of an official nature, but, having
done her duty in this respect, a won-
an is free to make such friends as
she elects. But woe unto the woman
who does not observe first these Off
cial distinctions, or who, through mo-
tives of personal friendship, gives
precedence of a civilian when rep
resentatives of official life are also
her guests. From the President him
self to the department clerk, all are
slaves to these social laws.
The woman who is experienced in
Washington life, whose husband has
served more than one term, knows
her social code so thoroughly Chat she
dispatches all official duties by routine
and has ample time to enjoy such re-
taxation as appeals to her sisters in
private life.
Washington Divided Into Small
CIiques.
Custom and the inordinate clamor for
rank and the right of precedence have
separated the smart set of official life
into various small sets, or cliques,
which entertain among themselves and
keep jealously aloof from all other
cliques save on such occasions as the
prescribed state or official affairs"
make appearance and ostensib1e cor
diality almost obligatory.
What might be termed the white
House set" consists of the chief execu-
tive and his family, the members of
his cabinet and their wives and daugh-
tiers, and the chief justices and fami-
lies. In addition to meeting at purely
official functions, there is likely to be
a more friendly feeling among them,
evidenced by informal dinners and even
simpler forms of entertaining.
The diplomatic corps forms another
small clique, marked by the most pro-
nounced forms and ceremonials' in the
capital. The representatives of the
monarchies in particular know their
etiquette as the Mohammedan his Ko-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15

often obtain a social footing and in
vitations where even the most eager
of some other set finds it Impossible to
break down the barriers. These young
ladies hear all the best music, go to all
the best shows, are carefully chaper-
oned on all occasions, and are per-
haps the happiest of all who partici-
pate in the queer social life of WASH
ington.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15

F. S. Flower. a prominent New
York broker and nephew of the late
Gov. Roswell P. Flower, is about to
wed Miss Hilda Clark the prima dom
ma who has achieved much popularity
of late both on account of her great
beauty and her musical talent.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15
COLOR WILL RUN RIOT IN
NEXT SUMMERS FINERY

Bodies Cut Low at the Neck for Everybody, Even the
Babies, Will Be All the Rage-Lace Will Be Used in
Profusion-Severa Smart Models Observation-Disclosures
DEGREES Wash Dresses for the Mother as Well as Her
Boys and Girls
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15

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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15
LIGHTS AND SHADES
IN MODERN HOUSES

The Heavy Chandelier Is Being
Abandoned for Artistic Wall
Brackets, Lamps, Candlesticks,
and Lanterns in Medieval Shapes
and of Such Materials as China,
Glass, Bronze, Brass and Silver.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15
WASHINGTON SOCIETYS
MANY CLIQUES

The White House Sets Consists Of the President the Cab
met Members the Supreme Court Judges and Their
FamiliesMrS RooSevetS Private Musical Coterie the
Most Enjoyable SetOld Westinghouse Compose the
Most Exclusive SetWhat They Do and How They Do It.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15

cry cuff band. Indeed never were
wash garments for small children sim
pier but sheer white materials and a
touch of needlework give them the
most elegant air.
Very neat wash frocks for girls
and boys of all ages are made of
colored chambrays with white piqued
bands. These, in astonishingly big
sizes, sell as cheap as S1.10, and so
good and varied are the styles that the
curse of the ready-made Vanishes.
Tucked lawn camps for them, with
collars and cuff bands of good embroid-
cry, sell for 40 cents; and since the
charm of all wash garments depends
upon their neatness, at such prices the
supply of school clothes need not be
stinted.
The wash tub will also make ac-
quaintance with such of woman's sum-
mer wardrobe.
Once upon a time light textiles were
almost a crime in the streets of New
York, but to-day it is otherwise. The
woman who really sins against the
world is she who wears dark, depress-
ing garments in the dog days; and the
public benefactress is she who lightens
them with raiment suggestive of cool
ing beverages and shaded dells.
The colorings of the new wash ma
terials, seen amid the snow and winds,
are almost too cooling. A green and
white gingham-white satin clover
leaves on a green background-tells
of the meadow and the purling brook
This was seen in the uncut shape in
shop window, wide white lace, ap-
pie green ribbon, and a green ging-
ham parasol going with it.
Keep your eye on the window
dressers, for they know a deal about
dresses. They always put the right
things together-and if you follow
their combinations you will never go
wrong.
Lilac blue, lilac gray, reseda, SHIN
mer- green-a changeable shade which
is almost white at moments-and jon
quill yellow are more of the new wash
colors. All of these are seen in the
muslins, chambrays and ginghams,
whose raised satin stripes and figures
make the homely title seem certainly
misnomer. Ribbons in the same
shade will be combined with them,
| along with the sheer lawn of embroid-
cries and even lace; for some of these
| ginghams are of a SURPRISING fineness,
falling in many cases with the DELI
cate softness of yelling. They will
be the aristocrats of summer attire,
| as they are dear, and many smart
dressmakers declare their intention
! of putting them over silk. To per-
nit the necessary cleaning, the lin
ings will be detachable, of course, as
well as the ribbon trimmings. But
don't forget one thing-a good laundry
for these, though you may expect to
pay quite SO for the bath. However,
it will pay in the end.
Trousseaux for spring brides en-
brace many charming frocks whose
materials come under the wash head
! Pongee and India silks are included.
with the practical shirtwaist model
predominating over more elaborate
styles, for shirtwaist dresses will con-
| tinue to be worn.
The bridesmaids costume for a
smart May wedding will be of white
linen and Russian lace made in shirt
waist style. With these charming
gowns bouquets of natural apple blos-
SONS, tied with pink ribbons, will
De carried. Mary Dean.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15
Bone Pains, itching, Soabby
Skin Qisaaea-

OUR GUARANTEE.
buy n large bottle for 81 OF any
drugR take as directed. Botnnlc
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15

ran. and in their limited circle are
wheels within wheel. the watching of !
which gives the humble outsider social |
NertiRO
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15

An edge of bias coral velvet, with four
pretty bows at the front, is the neck
finish.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15

Trousseaux for spring brides en-
brace many charming frocks whose
materials come under the wash head
Pongee and India silks are included,
with the practical shirtwaist model
predominating over more elaborate
styles, for shirtwaist dresses will con-
tinue IN he worn
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-01

above all thingsqto obtain accept the
new belief and are comforted.
The exigencyof the age makes some
such comfort a necessity. For it is be-
coming more and more the fashion to
live in the future In order to accom-
plish tomorrow it is necessary to an
ticipate today, and the feyerish at
mosphere thus created affects every
body. Each one Strives, not for honor
or deathless name, to be sure, but
for material gain that will bring him
into the worlds eye. Problems that
may come up tomorrow are solved to-
day, and when tomorrow is today other
problems Of the future present them
selves for solution The present is the
work shop in which not spiritual but
material futures are builded. In it men
work not eight hours a day, but twice
and sometimes three times that num-
Der. The strain incapacitates some
men, some it drives insane, others to
suicide. A few survive and succeed.
When, every now and then, there arises
some man or woman Of forceful person
absurdity Of all this strained endeavor,
but who does preach that what is
sought after may be gained iQ an easier
way, it is not surprising that a large
number Of people draw a breath Of re-
lief and follow
Could the people Of today be per-
suaded to resign tomorrow's tangle,
fewer false gods would be set UP for
the worship of the multitude. The old
spiritual forces that do not promise
material gain for life worthily lived,
but peace merely, would work once
more for the content of mankind. The
cheap sophistry and the ridiculous pre-
| tensions of modern cults would be es-
timated at their true worth. But so
long as men and women judge others
and themselvesyby the false standard
of material accumulation; so long as
they force themselves to struggle with
tomorrow's tangle in order that that
standard may be as high as their
neighbors', sticks will be burnt in honor
of those josses.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-01
OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON
SERVICE.

The Clio b takes great pleasure in
from Washington which begins with
dispatches published In this mornings
issue. The special news services of T h e
Glob outside Of the national capital
were already the best In the Twin
Cities. We do not aim to publish
large mass Of second-rate and fire.
quently second hand matter, easily OBJ
tainable at low rates from syndicates
and having nothing Of the character of
special news about it except the line
naming it Special"
The special service Of T he Clio
is real special service. 1t originates
with and for this paper. 1t is not
shared with anybody else except in the
is not faxed. It Is ordered and fash
Toned to cover the actual live news of
the day not included within the Asso-
ciated Press reports. There is not a
morning when the special advices of
T e G b from the Northwest, from
the centers Of the East and from prin-
cipal points throughout the country do
not carry more actual news than those
of any Of its competitors.
The Washington field is now covered
ably and thoroughly. The GIob
has secured the services as it's special
correspondent of Mr.. Walter E. Clark,
one of the ablest and best known news
paper men at the capital Mr.. Clark's
long connection with the New York
Sun evidences his professional stand
ing, and he is familiar and in touch
with every phase Of political life at
Washington.
We prefer to let Mr.. Clarks work
speak for itself, and invite all our read
ers to scan it daily and compare it on
its merits with the special service of
any other paper in the Northwest. OF
the many valuable and attractive
features that have been added to
he G o be, it's special Washington
correspondence stands among the first.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-01
for the future of a system Of public
lectures conceived and carried out upon
the highest plane.
A GLORIOUS GAME.

The greatest game of football ever
played in the West was witnessed yes
terday at Northrop field by twenty
thousand people, whom the magnificent
contest filed with frenzy of enthusl-
asm and delight We could have asked
but one thing more; and yet there is
satisfaction in a tie score after such
struggle. Neither of these splendid
teams was beaten, both can share
without disappointment or bitterness in
the glory of the day. And it can be
said fairly and truly that in the opin-
ion of experts who witnessed the game
as well as in that Of partial friends
and hackers, the Minnesota team out
played their opponents.
This is football at it's finest and best;
the sort Of athletic contest that sets
every nerve of the onlooker tingle
with excitement; the sort that makes
spectators understand why the game
has taken such strong hold upon every
lover Of manly sport; the sort that
makes a man who yesterday attended
game for the first time in his life a
devotee Of the sport thereafter This is
athletics that makes its appeal to skill
and daring and the power to plan as
well as to fleetness Of foot and supple
ness Of muscle. 1t was game to be
long remembered and cited in the an
nails Of the field.
We are glad to share the honors OF
the day with such worthy antagonists.
The Michigan team played great foot
ball, or they would have gone home
| with a decisive defeat for their score.
At all points they were strong; and
after that wonderful first half, when
neither side could make Roadway
against the other, they appeared to
have won the day by their great onset.
And then Minnesota's men gathered
| moments, matched the record Of their
| adversaries with such playing as could
come only from such time and such
| a crisis. The tens Of thousands who
read the account of this unrivaled
game as it is told by T h G o b this
morning will thrill with It's fiery inter-
est, and football will take and hold
| new place in popular interest and adj
miration because Of the great deeds
that were done in the browning battle
Of the year. For their glorious work
the Minnesotas deserve and will re-
ceive no less hearty congratulations
than If they had scored decisive VIC
tory. The laurels Of the day belong to
them.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-01

union, but preferred to spend his
evenings at home and let somebody
else run it.
On the other side is the enormous
aggregation of capital whose list Of d1-
rectors includes names honored all
over the country, not because they are
connected with great wealth, but be-
cause they are supposed to represent,
and do represent in ordinary transac-
tons, high moral character. Yet these
men have combined in a trust, half
of whose capital is fictitious, deem 1t
their business to see that dividends are
earned on the whole amount, to that
end hire managers who will bring in
results. and, proud Of the conscious
ness that their own fingers have never
system which requires their employees
to bribe, to swindle, to barter with
Parks and his like and to create them.
AS Mr.. Baker well says, ooh, it is the
old familiar American story Dragging
that we can govern ourselves and yet
not governing"
Something has been done toward a
cure when the nature of the disease
has been made apparent. There is
nothing in Parks, the labor boss, as
there is nothing in the political boss
and nothing in the system that nour-
ishes them both with increasing sup
plies Of foulness,. that does not bark
back to the fatal Indifference of the
average American citizen to his pub
lie and private duties; to his empty
notion that right can prevail and prog
ress be made by hiring somebody else
to do. his work for him. The whole
situation could not be better described
than by the closing words Of Mr..
Bakers article:
The time must come when the respon-
sibility for these dangerous conditions
will be placed where it belongs, upon the
stay-at-home conservative voter who re-
CARDS politics as beneath his honorable
attention; upon the stay-a home con-
serVatiye. union man who does not wish to
disturb his ease to take part in the tur-
MOL of a union meeting; upon the mil
lionaire stockholder in a corporation who
stays at home and draws his dividends
without knowing or wanting to know by
what trail of blood and dishonesty they
have been earned.
The deepest truth Of 1t all is in the
strikingly. apt, quotation from Ibsen,
with which Mr.. Baker commends his
whole lucid and logical exposition Of
a terrible phenomenon Of our time to
his readers: 'tAnd men still call for
| revolutions; for revolutions in politics,
in externals. But all that sort of
thing Is trumpery. 1t is the human
soul that must revolt"
e,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-01

tuition, must partially relieve the ankle
ty of a nation that has race problem
to solve. In his institute Mr.. Washing
ton has solved part of the problem,
and he has indicated to a nation the
method by which total solution may
be obtained.
There has been bitter opposition in
the South and in parts of the North
to system of education that teaches
the negro to despise manual labor. that
gives him an exaggerated idea of his
own mental attainments and that sends
him adrift in the world with no ade-
quate preparation to meet its require
ments. But Mr.. Washington's plan of
educating the negro, as everybody
knows, is something entirely different.
In the Tuskegee institute thirty-six
different industries are taught. The
labor of the hands is iignified. That
not one of it's six thousand graduates
has ever been convicted of a crime
seems a very excellent proof of the eff
fcacy of Mr.. Washington's statement.
But it is not the negroes alone that
need to be taught the dignity of labor.
There is large class of whites that
have an openly expressed contempt for
the work Of the hands. They enter al
ready overcroWded professions and
then, because of iucompetency, are
pushed to the wall. Their wall is that
the world has refused them a chance.
But the world gives everybody
chance, only it will not tolerate mis-
fits. ITO labor is to pray" once said
a very wise man who understood the
dignity OF toll. A "get-rich- quick"
nation is inclined to overlook the sig
nifcance Of his thought.
Mr.. Washington's institute is, there
fore, not only a help for the blacks but
a hint for the whites. There are too
few industrial schools in this country,
too little attention is paid to the train
! ing of the hands. The institution that
can turn out capable workmen, men
that are imbued with a sense of the
Importance and the dignity of their
| work and who have sufficient sturdy
self-respect to judge for themselves
when their labor shall be given and
when it shall be withheld is an institu-
| ton deserving a nations praise, wheth-
! er it instructs white men or black men.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-01
WOULD CORRECT
POSTAL METHODS
Auditor Castle Thinks He Has Found a
Way to Remedy Defects.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Oct. 31.-Va-
rious recommendations to cure defects
in accounting methods under which
abuses in the postal service have oc-
Cured are made by Henry A. Castle,
auditor for the postoffice department,
in his annual report to the secretary Of
the treasury and the postmaster gen.
eral. He says that the defects pointed
out make infinitely greater postal
abuses than those already disclosed not
only possible, but safe. The aggregate
transactions of the postal service dur
ing the fiscal year were $1,026, 731, 40S,
as follows: Revenue, S134,224, 443; ex-
penditures, $13S,7S4,48S: total money
orders issued, 1888, S65.584; money or
ders paid, 1864 ,856,S93.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-01
Contemporary Comment
As to Political Rewards.

1t is not easy for a mere politician
to be Folk, a Jerome, or Cleveland.
These men succeed because they do
the right and the brave thing. The pol
itician tries to succeed by doing the
expedient and the so-called prudent
thing. He lives in an atmosphere of
compromise, and deals, works by indi-
rection, and spends his whole time in
placating now this interest and now
that, till he gets himself tangled in a
web through which it is impossible to
break. There is nothing of Cleveland,
Jerome, or Folk in all this. And the
reward which these men won is not
Tor the politician. The lesson is so
clear that 1t is surprising that so few
men learn it.-Chicago Evening Post.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-01
ToMoRRoW's TANcLE.

Today religious systems, like mush-
rooms, spring up in a single night.
They make many absurd claims and
teach many ridiculous rites, but who
ever examines them seriously will OH
serve that the majority of them en-
deavor to impress on their followers
the necessity of being comfortable in
mind. They preach the don't worrv'
doctrine, and therein lies their power
over their followers. Naturally this
doctrine alone would not attract peo-
pie who have become accustomed to the
warnings printed in newspapers and in
magazines on the folly of Worrying.
The new systems win their proseJvtes
by promising much. Just calmly
think you will obtain what you desire
and you will obtain it" is the com
forting assurance they hold out as a
bait. And people who are anxious
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-01
ATTEMPT TO HOLD
UP A TRAIN FAILS
Bandit Who Fires at North Western
Trainmen Was a Poor Marksman. p


CHICAGO, Oct. 31.-Efforts to hold
up fast outbound North Western pas
senger train bound for st. Paul failed
last night, 1t is believed by the police,
owing to the poor craftsmanship Of
one Of the bandits Fireman Louis
Ernst was shot, one bullet grazed En-
gineer Harry Ebbels, and today five
dynamite bombs were found near the
scene of the attack.
There is no clew to the identity of
the men who did the shooting. 1t is
admitted by the railway officials that
the bullets must have been fired by
one or more persons who were riding
on the water tank or the platform of
the first coach. The unknown men es-
capped in the darkness. The life of the
fireman, who was seriously wounded,
was saved by his watch, which defect
ed one of the bullets.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-01
SUES FOR THE LOSS OF
HIS PRECIOUS QUEUE
Chinanan Claims That Ii Deprived
Him of His inheritance.

DENVER, Col, Oct. 31.-Wuh Lee
has come back to Denver from Hong
kong to even scores with three other
Cinnamon for cutting off his pigtail.
Wuh Lee will sue for $4,000, though he
affirms that will cover but one tenth
the damage he has sustained as the
result of their assault. Attorney w. H.
Hindry has been retained as Lees
counsel, and is at work on a COM
plant that is to be the basis of the
most unique case in the history of the
Colorado courts.
Lee insists that through the loss of
his queue ne was deprived of his in
heritance In his fathers property,
which he went home to claim.