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The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27
LAvISHNESS IN BEDROOMS.

II do not know that I think a great
display of wealth in ones bedrooms al
together in good taste, remarked a
transatlantic visitor, according to the
New York Tribune. "In England in
the best houses of the old regime you
find everything in the world that really
adds to your comfort. The finest of bed
linen, delicious towels, and all that one
really needs on the dressing and writ
ing tables. But nothing fancy-hem-
stitched linen sheets, perhaps, but no
lace, no incrustations of uncomfortable
embroidered crests or monograms on
the pillow cases, only smooth, fragrant,
shining white linen.
81 have never seen such display of
luxury as you have over here. In one
house stopped at the lace in the bed
room must have cost a fortune! Real
Irish point, such as we would only put
on gowns, was used to trim the sheets
and pillow cases and the drapery on the
dressing table. You felt how costly ev-
erything was everywhere you turned.
Why, even the leather binding on the
books was colored to match the tint Of
the Japanese silk margins on the wall
There was a medicine cabinet filled
with remedies, which struck me as very
funny, and various kinds of toilet wat
ers in the bathroom. The latter, / must
admit, was ideal. Never in England
have l seen such luxury provided for
ones daily bath, and how / was to re-
concile myself to tin tub again, which
is all l can hope for on my English
visits, do not know. Certainly, Amer
leans are a luxurious people, snd they
remind one not a little of the ancient
Romans in the days of their opulence"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27
AS TO cos METICS.

A German once eS ,imated, from data
American women pay for cosmetics
each year would paint 10000 houses, al
lowing $75 for each house. says an
Exchange. But the modern American
woman is not the only one who used
cosmetics. Cleopatra used every cos
metic known to her time. and also
wrote a book on the care of the skin.
When Ovid wrote about women and
their ways he said that a fancy for
looking i'll and delicate and playing
on the feelings of the men had taken
possession of Them. and that it was a
smart thing TO get a fetching pallor
on their faces by white lead and other
stuffs.
In the ruins of Thebes an entire toilet
case was found. with bottles of per-
fumery, jars of powder and tubes Of
paint, with brushes and cloths, evident
ly showing that the belle of that day
was not unaware of the advantages of
artihcialiatY in color.
The bellies of Nineveh were willing to
suffer to- be beautiful They had their
skins made smooth with birthstone and
then they We're enameled!
In 1879 the English Parliament-it
always protec is it's men-considered this
bill: IAN women, without distinction
as TO age or rank. maidens as well as
widows, who should deceive the male
subjects of his majesty and lead them
into marriage by means Of paint, salve.
beauty water. false teeth. false hair.
Spanish wool, ,corsets or padded hips,
should be punished under the provis-
ions of the law against sorcery. and
the marriage shall be declared null.
The bill did not pass.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27
MEN THAT MOTHERS MAKE.

Show me that boy who nightly bows
at mothers knee to pray;
Who wears her golden precepts in his
heart;
Who lays his hand in hers and seeks
her counsel day by day;
Whose path in life from hers lies
not apart,
And thus his horoscope I'll cast
His name will live among the last"
Show me that youth whose good right
arm encircles mothers form;
Whose lips fear not to kiss her faded
cheek:
Who lives for her: to shield her and
protect her from all harm:
Who comforts her when she is old
and weak.
And in the coming years / see
A man for all eternity.
Show me that man whose life is pure;
that man who claims success:
Show me that man who treads the
ways of fame:
That man whose deeds adorn the name
of truth and uprightness:
Whose soul knows not the furnished
blush of shame,
And in his glory thus arraYed
Behold a man that mother made.
Lawrence Porcher HeXt, in New York
Press
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27
OLD MAIDS SCARCE.

There are fewer old maids nova
days than in former times. says an
Exchange. A woman does not now
become an old maid at as early an age
as thirty or forty years ago. The imag-
mary line at which a member of
the gentle sex becomes an old maid is
being set farther and farther back
until there have arisen grave doubts
If it will not disappear entirely. Once
Is was the limit to girlhood. Now it
is 30. And 1t means little or moth
ing.
once it was supposed to mean that.
being passed, It became bar to mat
rimony. No novelist chose q heroine
over 25 OF course, he intended to
marry his heroine to his hero, and mar
riage after rs on the woman's part was
something to be avoided as something
which did not find counterpart in real
life.
1t will be observed that among the
fiction heroines of the present day will
be found a number who have gone to
the 30-year limit. 1t was recognized
long ago that a woman did not lose
her attractions because she had gone
over this imaginary line, but the set
ting back of the line waited long after
the recognition.
BaIzac has laid down the theory that
a woman at 30 is at her most fasclnat-
ing age. She probably will not have so
long a train Of admirers. She may have
fewer partners at a ball. Once in a
while a young man may make her feel
like a grandmother by coming to her
for advice in his own love affairs.
The setting back of the imaginary line
has followed the practice Of late mar
riage. IL a young man married at the
age of n and a young woman at the
age of IS then the young woman of %
would have been waiting seven years
and probably 1t would be justifiable to
consider that she would not accept a
husband.
But when marriage is the last thing
Of which a girl of IS and a young man
of Fl are thinking and when 30 on the
part of the man and rs for the woman
is closer to the average age at which
matrimony is updertaken, then neces-
sarily the age limit goes back 1t
should be set back still farther to IS,
IL it should be considered as existing
at all.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27
STEALING SOUVENIRS.

Walters at the fashionable hotels and
restaurants have an opportunity Of
noting many petty thefts on the part Of
guests that are never brought to the
attention of the public at large, says
the Chicago Chronicle. The head waiter
at one Of these places was complaining
the other day about the frequency with
which the women guests with whom he
has 10 deal carry off the silyerware
and table DECORATE tons. These petty
pilferers." he said. ARE not the second
rate people or the third, for then we
wouldn't mind dropping on one or two
Of them and making them pay for
some Of these mysterious disappear
ances. No. us the smart folk who
think there Is nothing immoral Ia taxi
ing a spoon (even II Il happens 20 be
solid silver. liquor glass or a mum
neer. They call them souvenirs and
take them - remembrance o. the
hotel.
The walters used % be made an
swerabie foF Ell such losses. Dul 90
Alarming has fhie petty pilferng IN
creased that II if now found impossible
~ sBforce auy such rule. u the pro-
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27
THE VACATION CURE.

The man who, when asked if he were
going to take vacation this year,
said, ooh, yes: my wife leaves on Tues
day and won't be home till the LIST of
October" and then wondered at the
smile that went around, was yet not
perhaps SO far afield, after ALL At
least this is the drift of certain re-
cent magazine article by a we'll known
feminine writer, says the New York
Tribune. I'VE need vacations from each
other" she writes, land even those
whose relations with each other are
closest and dearest-perhaps 1 should
say particularly those whose relations
are such-require respite.
"A we'll known woman, one who is
also a charming hostess ard model
wife and mother, says that she is NOR
ally certain neither friends nor home
folk would find her so agreeable were
it not for the fact that she makes it a
point to take periodical vacations from
all of them. 1t is impossible she says
frankly, for human beings made after
the average pattern not to bore each
other to extinction if they have to look
into each others faces 365 days out of
the year. A woman is infinitely more
attra ctive to her husband if he hasn't
seen her for little while, and a man
is far more lovable to a woman If there
is some variation in the periods of his
Homecoming.
Certain it is that any woman who
has wrestled with the servant question
for a whole year. who has thought up
one thousand and ninety-five regular
meals and several hundred irregular
ones, who has had to cater to fastid1-
Gus appetites on a quick lunch basis of
expenditure, that woman without doubt
has earned a vacation from servants,
appetites and eaters of meals, and all
of these will fare the better If the va
cation is taken.
UNINTERRUPTED matrimony can be-
come the greatest bore on earth. In
six months a man has told his wife
pretty much everything he knows that
he has any intention of telling her.
and has listened to her opinion on every
subject under the sun times without
number. and the best thing they both
can do is to go foraging for three
months for something new to think and
talk about, and give absence chance
to make the heart grow fonder. III
people were married only three days IN
the week instead of seven there would
be fewer divorces.
stSomebody says that the reason many
a man is able to endure his home is
that he has the business day respite
from it to brace him up, and that the
insane asYlums are so overcrowded
with women, married women, simply
because their lives are crammed so full
of the same people, prejudices and
points of view day after day.
"The summer hegira Is distinctly a
.6rst aid to domestic peace This is
possibly not the conventional vacation
noint of view, but it is unquestionably
one that commends itself to the seeker
after things harmonious as well as the
student of sociology At least 1t pc
hooyes the homemaker to consider the
vacation recipe as cure Tor the COMES
~ distaroner that sooner or later seems
- - ot4anlr the average family"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27

on top of pan of dough that his wife
mad rolled out for the purpose of maxi
ing a dried-apple pie.
NOW you know the kind of a wife he
mad. do you not? A woman who will
iced her husband on dried-apple pie
deserves to be married TO two or three
inventors, doesn't she?
And so he put the pumpkin and the
dough into the oven, asserting that he
would harden it with the heat and pro-
duce a solid sheet of gold. and be so
rlch that he could afford to run for
Once on reform ticket.
But, bless YOU! when the pumpkin
ana the dough came out of the oven it
was not solid sheet of gold at ALL
out a rich, golden, tantalizing section
of goodness.
And the poor inventor was hungry
so he bit into 1T.
A few moments later several of his
creditors broke into the house and
came upon him, crying, Look here!
where is all that gold you were 60
ing to get for us?"
And he never even looked I'D at
them, but kept right on eating, saying,
VINO cares FIR gold? (Bite. bite O-o-o-
ohD Who cares FIR gold? Men, l have
discovered pumpkin pie?"
ana the creditors sat down also and
ate and they, too, were happy ever
after.
so now. when you eat pumpkin pie
you should be glad that the poor inven-
Tor did not succeed in making gold Of
Inc pumpkin. For if he had the pump
KIN might never have gone further than
TO NIL your teeth.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27
THE MODEL GUEST.

A really fine specimen of the guest
who does his best has a spirit which
cannot be broken by weather or weari-
ness, says the London Outlook. He can
manage to talk to anyone, even If he
should discover with shock that he is
knows how to come into any discussion
and how to keep out of it. He does not
seek his own amusement, yet he never
fails to show that he is amused. He
is tolerant of every opinion, and though
he may have many convictions of his
own and may state them so as to do
them justice, he never tries to prose-
lytize.
His visit is not a mission, and he new
er for a moment fancies himself on the
hustings, in debating society, pulpit
or a court of justice. Above all, he has
a good opinion of himself. Good wine
needs no bush. He has no desire to
boast, but he is certain that he will not
be sighted. If his hostess assigns to
him a dull job he is sure it is because
she thought he could do it well and il
he feels it to be really below his powers
he takes her mistake into account not
while he is under her roof, but when
he next receives her kind invitation. He
is not plagued by that craving of the
over-sensitive to be like their company,
nor does he belong to that race of born
dissenters who would always rather be
different.
But, alas! conscience and talent do
not always go together. There are some
high-principled guests who are terrible
bores. In their solicitude to be agreea-
BILE they never stop talking, but pursue
their garrulous ideal like dog follow
ing carriage. To every interruption
they give immediate but momentary
attention and run breathless on.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27
COMING SEASONS coLoRS.

While blue and rose and white are
to be the popular colors it can not be
denied that brown is creeping in and
that there will be some lovely gowns
of brown linen, or brown cheviot, of
brown canvas and of brown in all the
other shirt waist materials before very
long, says the Brooklyn Eagle.
Brown is universally becoming and,
what is more, it is a change. There
have been so many blues and so many
grays, so many tans and so many vio-
lets and heliotropes that one turns
toward the soft pretty cigar colored
stuffs with a feeling of relief that they
are not blue.
In the new browns there are all
shades of Havana, of coffee. of burnt
bread and burnt biscuit. There are
all colors in brown, from the deep
wood brown which is the color of a
dead old tree to the bright cafe au lait
which is one of the prettiest tones that
can be found in the winter time, and
each brown has it's welcome and ap-
proprfate place.
The secret of good shirt waist max
ing is to have the back snug, so says
a famous shirt waist maker, and to
have the front loose and inclined to
blouse at the waist.
There is a new way of making the
shirt waist belt, a way which is seen
upon the new and expensive waists
but not upon the cheaper ones. This
method is called the split belt waist.
The belt is cut at the sides and the
back is set upon a band. The skirt
of the dress is pulled up in the back
so as to cover this shirt waist band, but
the front of the waist, which is upon
- 1@I
the skirt of the dress to a long point
in front
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27
L0VESICK MAlDENS.

We had fondly hoped. says a writer
in the Philadelphia Enquirer, that all
the lovesick maidens were no more;
that they had gone the way Of the
lachrymose heroines who figured in
the popular novels of the last genera
ton. But, alas!
At a certain mountain resort, this
summer of 1903, the lovesick maiden
rdlppeared. II was not generally
known that she was lovesick, Of course.
Many people supposed that she was
dyspeptic, and a few surmised that
she was merely hateful. BY her most
intimate friend the true inwardness Of
her ailment was disclosed to a select
few.
She was something of a nuisance. To
begin with, she had a bad cold. and
she seemed to rejoice In II. When
people gathered round the table. full
Of unthinking merriment, knowing no
better than 10 enjoy themselves. she
would spoil their appetltes by cough
ing and smiling. Her cough, though
sufficiently unpleasant, was not Of the
graveyard variety, and this was a dis
appointment 10 her. II Was under
stood BY the few mentioned that she
declined 10 take any medicine Tor n.
and hoped IL would get worse.
She had also a bad color. Among
the other people who whoiesOinely
gioWed from the combined effects ~
sun and air, she was an eKsgGcra-
ton Of aallOWnesE.
Her facial expression was an insult
70 everybody, Her lips Fneered her
eyes were dull. but defiant. her manner
iietlefE. Her state ~ mind seemed 81
~ one of perpefual resentment direct
- against ne pfsesmpia9na atoms ~
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27
ODD INVENTIONS
IN FURNITURE FOR
THE Chatting DISH

Furniture inventions are often a mat
ter of accident.
Il got tired OF fetching and carry
ing on the occasions of my wife's chat
ing dish parties. and so contrived
a table for her where everything should
be ready, said a well-known furniture
manufacturer.
Hence the small cabinets and cup
boards and three-cornered pieces
which At snugly into the corners OF
rooms and support many a choice or
nament besides the ubiquitous chatting
dish.
One style Of cabinet Is low and
rather small. n has a square table
top, with q more Or less Ornamented
drawer beneath. and about a foot or
more below this follows "a shelf With
d second sbelf az the same distance
below n and near the floor. Some
times the whole lower portion Is IN
cased in glass, bur more often the
two shelves form the TOP anG bottom
N a glass cupboard which Is shut 81
by pretty llfiie ieaded panss 81 by
single plates ~ glass These dainty
Affairs are n nne quartfreq oak ~
mahogany enq aheHs q bright array
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27
STARVATION BREAKFASTS.

The 'flone woman of the unprogres-
sive, old fashioned type has a trick
of trying to save money and trouble
at the expense of her feed. says the
Chicago Record Herald. Nothing could
be much worse or more harmful from
a hygienic standpoint.
Economy in food is right and reason
able up to a certain point. but after
that it becomes absolute folly.
Especially is this the case with young
women who get their own breakfast
before starting out on their days work,
and who come back at night too tired
to care for anything but cup of tea
and a piece of bread-if it rests with
them to prepare it.
This may be economy for little
While but let a woman's system once
get run down-nothing in the world
will accomplish this sooner than not
being properly nourished-and there is
no limit to the list, of ills that lie in
wait for her.
The actual money cost of having
enough to eat is so small that COM
paratively few workingwomen have to
deprive themselves of the necessities
in their raw state.
1t is the trouble OF PREPARATION that
seems to be regarded as too great for
a family of one.
If two or three workingwomen can
club together in their housekeeping.
there will be a surprising saving, not
only of expenditure but of time and
labor as well.
The same fire. the same kettle. the
same filling of it will make the tea for
three as we'll as for one. and the Gi-
vision of labor makes each members
part seem easier, even if she actually
does more than if she were alone.
There is much help in mere compan-
inOchin
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27
SHE HAD TEMPER.

That marriage is a lottery is a. very
old familiar aphorism. and the follow
ing true story proves that, in spite of
caution and care. it is so in many cases.
says the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
certain young man was attracted to-
ward a handsome girl and determined
to win her, but there were indefinite
whispers that she possessed a most yio-
lent temper. He was a man of cautious
temperament and he determined to test
ner. They both happened to be invited
just tnen TO very stylish reception and
he offered himself as escort. When the
evening arrived he found her ready, ar
rayed in beautiful, tasteful attire; her
raiment was indeed of costly material.
Thls was his opportunity. While helping
her into the carriage he managed to rub
her elegant dress against the muddy
wheels IN such way as to ruin the
delicate fabric. He called her attention
to 1t by slight apology and expected
some flash of temper. To his surprise
she accepted his excuse very sweetly
and said: 1T does not matter much ex-
cept for the delay, as l can readily
change my dress" Her wonderful COM
posture so captivated him that he pro-
posed before the evening was over, was
accepted, and they were married soon
after. 1t was not long, however, before
the bad temper he had heard of assert
ed itself. One day after an outbrust
of it he said: How is it you can get
so angry about such a trife when the
night / ruined your dress, such a lovely,
costly gown, you We're as calm as the
balmy evening itself?" She replied:
Calm! You thought 1 was, but if you
had seen me jam a hatpin through
the eyes of your photograph when L
reached the toilet table where it stood,
you would not have thought me so plac-
id. And l think this explosion that
jars you so much is just the reward
you deserved for an act that 1 know
now was Intentional" History is 81
lent as to further development.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27
THE ORIGIN OF PUMPKIN PIE.

Once upon a time-a long while ago,
children-there lived a wise old man
who was always trying to see what he
could discover, writes a contributor to
Judge.
Having made several perpetual-no-
ton machines, and one or two airships,
he was walking through the fields to
avoid his creditors, when he came
upon u pumpkin.
'@This." he said to himself, bending
down and feeling of the yellow orb, lis
a vegetable growth: but l firmly be-
lieve that it acquires its hue from
small particles of gold which it ex-
tracts from the earth"
So he put the pumpkin on his shoul-
der and took it home. telling all anx-
ious inquiries that he was going to
discover how to extract the gold from
it.
AT home, in spite of all his wife said,
he cut the pumpkin up, and put 1t in
q. not and boiled it-only he argued that
he was melting it,
When at last it was pulpy mass,
he poured it out of the pot and right
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27

of such things as may be needed with
a chatting dish.
Young men-especially college men
whose rooms are not open to the raids
of the feminine members of their
households-like tall, spindly cup
boards that may scarcely be desig-
mated as such, so ornamental are they
in manufacture.
Upon the top may stand a chafing
dish or ornaments Of any sort, while
a charmingly wrought door in wealth
cred oak opens upon a small square
cupboard compactly arranged with
metal stands, clamps and rings hold
ing an array of cut-glass bottles, de-
canters and glasses that do not con-
tain eau-de-cologne nor minister to
shaving. An open space below the
cupboard is followed by a shelf in
tended for the chatting dish. This shelf
forms the top of another cupboard, in
which are plate and cup racks and
holders for all the small chatting dish
accessories. These are arranged in
space so small as to make a housewife
marvel at is convenience.
While any of these pieces of chatting
dish furniture might serve in a home
or apartment where space is an OBJ
ject, the chatting dish is also provided
with a little sideboard of its own to
place in a dining-room. This is a
| under drawer below the fiat top and
with or without a shelf near the floor.
The chatting dish also has square
box into which it folds up and fits
into hamper stored with every hing
| necessary for cooking picnic meal
and serving 1t properly.
The craze for everything Orient al has
resulted in bamboo and mattinga furni-
! ture pieces for the chatting dish
Indeed, so pronounced is this faC
for japanese materials that e Verythinl
except the heaviest furniture is being
made of them. The passio for Bull
garian styles in dress has also led Il
almost as general a pre- ,duction o.
rattan furniture in Bulgal ian red and
( blue.
TO the pronounced tendency to irni.
tate English styles maT be ascribe(
the pretty little muffin Stands of reed
bamboo or grass with their shelves
for hot mullins, which are handed
around in these old-fashioned stand
at afternoon tea upon the lawn
| Dutch flooring and furniture ar
| enjoying such reign Of popularit,
that a new article in THIS line come
at something of a surprise. This
an ivory colored old Dutch sideboaru
etched with Holland scenes in brown