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The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
Women Will Grow Taller.

The petite woman has had her day.
says the Chicago Chronicle, and if the
prophets are to be believed she will
very soon be compelled to give way to
her sister who is "divinely tall" Ac-
cording to an eminent Eastern physi-
clan, 1.-The present century will witness
striking changes in the comparative
physiques of men and women. During
the two final decades of the nineteenth
century the average stature of the
American woman showed a gain of over
an inch. While it is absurd to think of
an indefinite continuance of this pro-
gression it is probable that within fifty
years the six-footer feminine will be a
common sight in our city streets, and
the average masculine stature will not
exceed 5 feet inches.
That the increase of woman's hight
has been due to her enthusiastic adop-i
ton of outdoor sports cannot be doubt
ed, but why mans stature should dwin-
die, instead of increasing or remaining
in statue quo, is not so susceptible of
explanation, writes Robert Webster
Jones in the April Housekeeper The
suggestion that, with woman's growing
predictions for a public life man has
become Of a shrinking disposition"
must be rejected as trifiing with sert-
Gus subject, for serious it is to man.
Equally unworthy of consideration is
the theory tHdl CAPcAAoco
keep a man short" Whatever the
explanation timely warning should be
accorded man that he is shortly to be
Cooked down upon" Whether high
heeled boots or other artificial aids can
be utilized advantageously by the de-
throned monarch to maintain his dig
nifty remains to be proved. 1t is the
condition of looking up to his wife that
confronts man-not the theory. And
It is a condition to which many hus-
band would take long time to get ac-
customed.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
MISTAKES THAT
BECOME FADS.

Fads are curious things. To do
anything out of the common that at
tracts attention in any interesting
way, says the New York Tribune, is
temptation to many women, who
adopt certain peculiarities for no other
reason. In handwriting and the va
rious addenda of notes this is espe-
cially noticeable, and fashions will be
started by some smart woman as an
idle within and followed by others as
being the "dernier cri." Sometimes
fad will originate in a mistake or mis-
conception, but that makes no differ
ence-it becomes the usage, all the
same. An amusing instance of this
kind happened some time ago. A
young woman who was socially ambi-
tious and liked to be up in the latest
ism" received a note from a person
of high standing, across the left-hand
corner of which was scrawled word
above the day of the Week which she
thought was most" Why it should.
be most Monday she did not stop to
consider, but she Immediately adopted
the scrawl, which she thought had a
chich looking air, and wrote at once
several notes to her friends, dashing
across the corner in her best style
Most Tuesday" AS time went on,
and she still continued the mysterious
wording, her friends began to notice it.
why do you alwys use the word
most?" they asked her again and again,
but as she herself had begun to have
her doubts as to whether she had
rightly construed the adjective, which
certainly seemed ratehr meaningless,
she kept her own counsel and affected
a mystery. II cannot tell you why 1
do 1t; ii has a meaning" she would
say, and her set begun to think it was
rather nice to have some individual
shibboleth that no one understood. So
the idea spread, and for a time 1t be-
came quite the fashion to have some
individual heading to the little billets
doux to intimate friends. In the
meanwhile the originator, who was
much amused at the outcome of her
mistake, for she had found out that
the word most was intended to be
this reading "This Monday" kept
her own counsel, for it is much better
to be initiated than to be laughed at
Making letters in some individual
and peculiar way is a fad much in
vogue with very young women, which
generally results in spelling their
handwriting and making II very illegf-
BILE mo one would imagine you in
tended that for a k" said paternal
critic, pointing to a letter in a word
his daughter had just written. II al
ways make my ks in that way" she
answered, with great complacency. Her
father laughed. Then why not your
as and BIS and c's2" he queried. why
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
SHE WORE A SWEATER.

There was trouble in a Manhattan
boarding house the other day, says the
New York Sun, because a young wom-
an asserted her right to smoke in her
room, and the dispute got as far as the
Police Court; but all that wasn't a
circumstance to what happened in a
Brooklyn boarding house a few days
ago when the young business woman
wore her sweater at the table.
There was really a. good reason for
wearing something warm. 1t was one
of those days when the hired man had
let the furnace run down, and old
winter sneaked in and gave last slap
just 10 let people know that he had to
be reckoned with even if there were
buds on the trees. 1t was also one of
those days when the hall bedroom
runs a race with the windiest corner
for the first prize in GOODNESS.
The young business woman shivered
while she was waiting for the dinner
bell, and by the time that it tinkled
she was desperate. Then she went to
her trunk and got the sweater.
1t was very handsome sweater and
she was a very handsome girl, so no
body had any cause to complain of the
combination. In fact, the young man
who takes the wall street terryDoat
home every evening was just telling
her how nice it looked when the wom-
an of the house came in and let out a
preliminary snort.
Does anybody think it's chilly
here?" she asked, in the tone of one
who expects no answer.
She got none except a smoker from
the young man who came by the Wall
street ferry. Then she walked out.
But the young business woman found
her waiting at the head of the stairs
when she went up. The boarders
heard it all, too.
The woman of the house said that
any woman who wore sweater at the
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
AN EXPENSIVE ARTICLE.

He always had been considered the
most practical and orderly young man
in the place. So when he came down
one morning without shutting the
door behind him, says the New York
Press, and left his hat on the radiator
to be fried, the facts were remarked
in the store. About IL o'clock the
chief clerk glanced over his shoulder
and was astounded to observe that he
was adding line of figures in an ac-
count book upside down. Then the Of
flee boy asked him if certain goods
We're to be sent out, and he replied alb
sently that the office boy might do
as he liked about them and be id"
He did not go out to luncheon at 2
o'clock as usual. and at half past four
he said he had a terrific headache.
When the clerk across the room srg-
gested that it was perhaps because he
had not had any lunch, he looked up
in establishment and said;
"Oh, that's So"
Then he went over to the Mushroom,
put the stopper in the basin and turn
ed on the gas.
Better try water" suggested some
body dryly.
He collected himself, turned off the
gas and turned on the water. Then,
without washing his hands, he put on
his hat and went out.
1t was about half-past six o'clock
when he returned to the store There
was a crowd around the door and the
janitor was there, saying vilainous
things. The hall was flooded two
inches deep, and more water kept
coming out of the door. which the
crowd was trying to batter down.
whats the matter?" he asked
calmly, and his partner replied ironi-
cally:
"Oh, nothing much. We're only dis
possessed. And there's nothing wrong
in the stock, only it's ruined. And
you didn't do anything but leave the
water running, flooding the whole
place, when you went out. And it
won't cost us more than seven or
eight hundred, apiece. And"
But by that time the young man was
banging away at the door himself. He
was the first to push in past the po-
liceman. He rushed over to his desk
and pulled at a lower drawer
Eyes. do get those papers out" said
his partner anxiously.
What papers?' he asked stupidity
Then he heaved a sigh of relief as he
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
THE TELL-TALE VEIL.

Where have / met that kiss before?'
remarks Thomas Q. Seabrooke in "a
Chinese Honeymoon" as he touches
the lips of his own wife disguised as
a Chinese lady.
The remark, says the New York
Press, is really no more humorous than
appropriate. 1t is entirely possible to
recognize kiss. A certain young man
here in town has a particularly strong
feeling on the subject. The certain
young man was very much in love
with an uncertain young girl-at least,
/ think it would be more accurate to
say that the young man was uncertain
about. the young girls certainty of
her own affections. He called regu-
larly on Tuesdays and Fridays and
found the young lady at home-irreg-
ularly.
One stormy Tuesday evening as he
was turned away from the door which
opened upon the zone girl in the
world" he put his hand mechanically
into his pocket in search of that COM
forter of the troubled-a good cigar.
He even tossed his head as he recalled
that "a woman is only a woman and
a good cigar is a smoke" But his
philosophy was short-lived. The cigar,
like the woman, was out" and his
fingers encountered only an empty
case.
Determined not to miss his bit of
comfort, he went into a tiny tobacco
shop near by and purchased some
cheap cigars. Even than fate seemed
against him, for the cigars were un-
bearable, and he gave them to the first
friend he met, with an astonishing
burst of generosity. Two minutes
later he had the pleasure of seeing
that friend admitted to the house
where he himself had not been well
come.
A week later he took the young wom-
an of the story to the circus. On the
way home she began to give him
things to stuff in his pockets; first her
glasses, then her handkerchief, then
her programme and finally her veil.
Perhaps it was romance that prompt
ed him to keep the veil and take it
out to look at it on his way back to
his own den. AS he did So a faint
penetrating, unmistakable, odor arose
from it, an odor that he had not for
gotten. 1t was-could 1t be the smell
of those cheap cigars that he had
given the friend who had been seen
calling on her last? He opened the
dainty tissue of the veil. From pre-
cisely at the spot which must touch
the lips of the fair wearer of veil
the odor of the cheap cigar emanated.
The next morning the young man re-
turned the veil with a note, which
read:
Dear Miss Gorham-It is unlucky,
/ believe, to kiss through a veil"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

table was nc lady. She intimated
strongly that she knew all about
ladies, too. Would the young woman
kindly see that it didn't happen again?
The young woman said that it never
would happen again, so far as she was
concerned, because
Because what?" asked the land
lady.
Let me tell you something" said
the young woman. Il wore that
sweater because l am living at pres
ent in a house where the people who
run it are too stingy to furnish heat
TO make the boarders comfortable"
You know no heat goes with a hall
bedroom" interrupted the landlady.
Il know none ever got as far as
mine" was the answer. II wore the
sweater to keep warm. Nobody at
the table made any objection to it,
and they are the people who are pay
ing the money here. Now, I'm going
to leave your horrid old place-and-
and / hope YOU choke!"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
ESTHER MORRIS STORY.

How many people in the East have
ever heard of Esther Morris? Her
story, says the New York Evening
Post, told by Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait at the New Orleans Convention,
is as touching as it is remarkable.
Esther Morris went to Wyoming in
1869 and settled with her husband in
a remote mining camp. There was
but one other woman in the town, and
during the long. cold winter, shut out
from the world, this woman fell i'll
and was nursed back to life by Mrs.
Morris. The following spring a move
ment was set on foot to admit Wyom-
ing as a territory, and the husband
of the sick woman was nominated to
the convention.
Before he left the camp" said Mrs.
Gait, Mrs. Morris went to him and
said: Mr.. Bright, you have often asked
me how you could repay me for
nursing your wife. You have offered
me money, and 1 have always refused.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
.WOMAN'S WORLD

my dear, that you should repeat this
scandal about Mrs. Smith and Mr.
Jones, but-er--uoy say Mrs. Brown ac-
tually saw them start out together?
HeaVens, how you women tear each
other to pieces, but by George, that is
piece of news that will make 'em
SIT up at the club" Did you never
near that! And what happens to the
dear, nice little woman who never has
any tidbit of gossip, and who discusses
philosophy instead of the affairs of her
IrlendsF Men call her blue stocking
dull. heavy-and they leave her to the
uninterrupted pleasure of a quiet even
ing at home with our best authors.
The truth is that men admire us for
our virtues, but they love us for our
faults. When we come up to their
ideal we do not fire their fancy, and
TINS explains the reason why women
are the foolish, unreasonable creatures
they are.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
THREE WOME

Three women started out to be
loved. The first woman. says Tom
Mason in the Philadelphia Ledger.
chose a millionaire. The second wom-
an chose a poet. The third woman
said: "I'n wait"
The first woman, having found a
suitable millionaire set her cap for
him. But the millionaire was willy
and, not to be won SO easily.
1T is evident to me- he said, from
this girls anxiety, that she is extreme
ly DESTROYS of marrying me. She has
set out with this idea in her head and
this very fact irritates me into an OBJ
stinacy that l shouldn't have under
other circumstances because she is GER
tainly very beautiful.
So he hung off until the woman gave
It up as bad job.
The second woman several times
thought she had found poet, but in
each instance was deceived, for he
turned out to be nothing but either
an advertisement rhymer or a writer
for the magazines, who could easily
make enough to support her. Final
ly, however, she found the real thing.
But the poet, who was a real poet,
would have none of her.
MY poetry" he said, lis too sacred
to be infringed upon. 1t is not at all,
you see, like the copyright law. In my
most enraptured moments you would
bore me to death. No, MOI"
So the second woman went off in de-
spair and sought the first woman, and
they wept together. until curiosity
prompted them to seek the third wom-
an whom they found, much to their
surprise, happily married to mil
lionaire, who had just published vol
ume of real poetry.
why, how happens it," exclaimed
the first and second woman, that you
are married and we are not?"
Easy enough said the third wom-
an, with a condescending smile, you
couldn't wait, you know, and l could
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

One of the hardest and most discour4
aging lessons to learn for those who
love their fellow men and desire to help
them, says the New York Tribune, is
the realization that thanks must not be
expected or gratitude looked for. In
fact, in many cases adverse criticism
will be encountered, and often direct
condemnation from the world at large,
while the objects themselves of the
philanthropic effort certainly do not re-
pay one by their appreciation of the eff
forts made in their behalf. One of the
first principles of humanitarian endeav-
or is to learn to work for the works
sake, and not for what 1t results in,
which is often disappointing and de-
pressing. A woman who has set a.
going by her own personal endeavors
more good work than any individual
multimillionaire has founded by his
money, said the other day to a young
girl whom she was consoling for her
apparently utterly wasted effortsa
why, my dear, you must never think
of the results; If you do, you viii give
up the work. You must only think of
what you want to accomplishment is
always stimulating. AS for being mis-
understood and your motives miscon-
strued, that is inevitable. Why, one
of my best friends said the other day
that 1t was a great pity that / was so
pushing, and she thought 1 would ac-
complish so much more if did not try
to make myself so prominent in every
thing. The remark was repeated to
me. and 1 only laughed; 1 did not con-
slider II worth while even to be angry
with her for so totally misunderstand-
ing my motives. All care about is the
work, and l do whatever think will
further the good cause, without any
thought of myself or what people will
say about it. Believe me, it is the only
true way. If you are supersensitive
you will never do for a worker, and il
you try to please every one you will end
by satisfying no one, not even your
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
Fibroid Tun1ors Cured.
A distressing case of Fibroid Tumor,
which bafaed the skill of Boston doctors
Mrs. Hayes, of Boston, Mass, in
the following letter tells how she was
cured, after everything else failed, by
Lydia E. Pinkhan's Vegetable Compound.
Hayes Appealing Mrs Pinkham for Helps

Hayes First Letter Appealing Pnkham
DEAR Mrs PNKHANI have been under Boston doctors treat
ment long time without relief They tell have brod
tmor cannot sit down without PAIN and the extends
have bearngdown pains both My
domn swollen and have had flowing spells three My
petite not good cannot walk length time
The symptoms of Fbroid Iumor given little book
craey describe write for advice(Sgned) Mrs.
T. F. HAYES, 252 Dudley st, (Roxbury Boston, Mass.
Note the result of Mrs Pinkham's advice-aI-
though she advised Mrs. Hayes of Boston, to take
her medicine which she knew would help her
her letter contained mass of additional instruc-
lions as to treatment, all of which helped to bring
about the happy result.
"DEAR MRS PKKHAM-S Sometime ago 1 you
and asked advice You replied and followed
all directions carefully, to-day well
expelled the tumor and strengthened whole walk
miles
"Lydia E. Pinkhams is worth five dol
drop advise all who afflicted with
female trouble of kind to give it faithful a"ignedl Mrs
E. F. HAYES, 252 Dudley st, (2oxbury) Boston, Mass
Mountains of could testimony take
the health PnkhamS
Vegetable Compound brought to Mrs. Hayes
Such testimony should be accepted by all convincing
evidence
without remedy for all the distressing ills women; all
ovarian troubles nammaons; falling dis
placements of the wob bacahe Irregular suppressed painful
mnstraon Surely the volume and character the testimonial let
doubt
Mrs Hayes her above address will gladly letters
which fuller information Illness
Her gratitude to Mrs Pnkam and Lydia e. Pinhams Vegetable
Compound genuine and heartfelt that she thinks trouble
to health happiness
Truly it said that it Lydia Pinkhams Vegetable Com
pound that ng other medicines don't
get this when druggist wants to sell something else
GEf11 EoREEI
WVUuU IgdiaE rnIha &odiCn .Lynn.M
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

completely. Say, old man, come with
me and help me to pack up. OF
course, can't make it now, to save my
life, even if l hired a special engine and
car, for the wedding is set for to-mor-
row morning at 10 o'clock
while he began pitching his things
into his trunk wrote out message to
his sweetheart and hurried it to the tel
egraph Office. My friend left on the
first train out and after his arrival in
Chicago he wired back:
"I It's all right. She has the meas
las
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

1--WE hear good deal about the busy
men of New York." said one of them,
to the New York Sun, but have a
friend in Wall street who has broken
the record.
"I was in his apartment few nights
ago after the theater, and he was chat
ting with me about the deals of the
day, and as he chatted he was running
over a bundle of memoranda. All at
once he stopped as If he had been shot
Great Scott" he exclaimed, I'm to
be married tomorrow to a woman in
Chicago and had forgotten the date
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

drew something fat and small out of
the rubbish and found that it was
quite dry. His partner peeped over
his shoulder, and saw the photograph
of a girl in a shirt waist.
Brand new love-" remarked the
partner dryly, sis the most expensive
article on the market"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

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The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

not reconstruct the alphabet and write
in hieroglyphics-I thought you were
supposed to use the English lettering
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-12
NOT YET READY.
Board of Health Doesn't Want North
Tnneka Peonle to Move.

North Topeka people will be advised
by the emergency board CT health not
to move back into their houses for some
time not until the houses are thorough
" dried out. the cellars and Easements
pumped out and cleaned.
tt may be several weeks until the
board Of health can place its official O.
X on North Topeka as q residence dis
trict il will al its meeting this evening
make a number of suggestions to North
topeka people as to how to make their
homes safe to live in. from sanitary
standpoint. Among other important
suggestions. the board advises that
stoves be placed in the houses and good
fires kept going for some time. so that
the walls and floors may become az dry
as possible. The board also advises con-
finuous and careful ventilation Of
houses.
1t will the business Of the board
this evening to take up and discuss q
report of a subcommittee on sanitation
which has been prepared The sub-eom-
rnittee is composed Of DR.. Lindsey, Dr..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-12
Where Is Dorm P

In compliance with a letter from a
New York attorney the Topeka postof-
flee is making an effort to locate one
George Dorm. who is an heir of the es-
tate of a rich New Yorker James M
Needer of Schenectady is the attorney
who is settling up the estate. He has
been unable to locate Dorm. who has
been away from the east for the last
twenty-five years. George Dorm is a
nephew of Nicholas D. Dorm, whose es-
tate is now being partitioned. In 1873
young Dorm wandered away from his
home in New York state and came west
He stopped for a year or two al Chicago
and in 1880 proceeded on out to san
Francisco. Not settling there he re-
turned as far as Kansas City a year or
so later and al Kansas City disappeared.
What his share in the estate viii be is
not known.