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The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08
THEY SELL THEIR JEWELS.

Not so very long ago. says the New
York Tribune, a woman would have to
be in dire distress and poverty before
she could bring herself to the point of
going to a dealer and selling any Of
her jewelry, and even then she would
conduct the affair with the most pro-
found secrecy and feel greatly ashamed
of the transa elton, often concealing the
fact even from members of her own
family. But we have changed all that
nowadays! Selling jewelry is a very
common way with fashionable women
of raising money to meet any partic-
ular emergency.
You would be surprised" said a
jeweler who negotiates such sales at
we'll known establishment, ito know
the class of women who are our best
customers. 1t is not only the reduced
gentlewomen by any means who bring
us their jewelry for sale. Rich women
are often temporarily embarrassed;
perhaps they have exceeded their al
lowances, or their dressmaker is press
Ping, so they have only to turn to their
well stocked jewel case. select some
ring or brooch that they do not par
ticularly care for and bring it to us.
Do they not have to sell at O. sacri-
flee? Well, yes; / suppose you would
call it so. But what do they care what
the article has cost as long as they
get what they need They drive good
bargains, too, and generally know the
value of their stones"
The up-to-date society girl has dis
covered that it is great fun" to sell
her old fashioned trinkets, and a num-
Der of luncheon and theater parties
have been given this winter on the pro-
ceeds of such sales.
This is my Grandaunt Sarahs
breastpin party" a girl announced to
her guests at Sherry's recently-the ex-
plantation being that she had sold the
brooch in question. and was enabled
thereby to give the luncheon.
II thought you would have to econo-
mize so tremendously after you were
married to Jack" said one of her init
mates to a recent bride, 'and yet you
go about in automobile cabs and han
SONS all day! 1 should call that very
extravaganza"
at doesn't hurt Jack" laughed the
other" I sold a lot Of my ugliest we'd
ding presents, and am just enjoying my
self with what l got for themi"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08
A HAPPY HOME.

A happy home says Mari Corelli, in
surest safeguard against all evil, and
where home is not happy, there the
devil may freely enter and find his
hands full. With women, and women
only, this happiness in the home must
find its foundation. They only are re-
sponsible; for no matter how wild and
erring man may be, if he can always
rely on finding somewhere in the world
a peaceful, well-ordered and undishon-
ored home, he will feel the saving grace
of it sooner or later, and turn to it as
the one bright beacon in a darkening
wilderness.
But if he knows that it is a mere
hostelry-that his wife has no pride
in it-that other men than himself have
found the right to enter there-that his
servants mock him behind his back as
a poor, weak, credulous fool. who has
lost all claim to mastership or control,
he grows to hate the very walls of the
dwelling, and does his best to lose him
self and his miseries in a whirlpool Of
dissipation and folly which too often
ends in premature breakdown and
death.
The charm of home depends, Of
course, entirely on the upbringing and
character of the inmates. Stupid and
illiterate people make a dull fireside.
Morbid faddists, always talking and
thinking about themselves put the fire
out altogether. Home is simple back
ground. against which the star of wom-
anhood shines brightest and best Our
home used to be model to the world
with a few more scandalous divorce
cases in high life. it will become a by
word for the mockery of nations.
The homeless man is the restless and
unhappy man, forever seeking what he
cannot find. The homeless woman f.
still more to be pitied. being entirely
and hopelessly out of her natural ele-
ment. And the marked tendency which
exists nowadays to avoid home life is
wholly mischievous. Women complain
that home is dull" quiet" ''monoto-
nous" lonely" and blame it for all
sorts of evils which exist only in them
selves. If a woman cannot be a few
hours alone without finding her house
dull her mind must be on the verge
of lunacy. The sense of being unable
to endure ones own company augurs Ill
for the moral equilibrium
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08
SHE BID AGAINST HERSELF.

There is an angry Madison avenue
woman this week. She is not simply
provoked; she is downright mad, says
the New York Press.
This wise little woman is an econo-
mist-in her own mind She attends
auction sales and things and buys
lot of stuff she doesn't want at some
thing above its real value.
Last week she was in a downtown
auction room and bid upon what APP
peared to be a real old Turkish rug
She started with $11.
Who will give me twelve?" sang out
the auctioneer. "Who will give me
twelve?"
The little woman heard only the word
twelve" and she grew excited. She
had determined to have that rug.
Thirteen" she yelled frantically.
Who will give me fourteen? Who
will give me fourteen?" chanted the
far back to hear plainly.
Fifteen she cried.
who will give me sixteen?''
Seventeen" shrieked the little wom-
an, by this time growing desperate.
And for twenty minutes she kept
bidding against herself, until the auc-
tioneer, seeing what was happening,
felt it would be like stealing to take
any more money from her, and knock
ed the rug down at $50.
When it came home it proved to be
the rankest, gaudiest imitation she had
ever seen. But the young womans
husband. who had watched the whole
thing, and later told his wife what
she had been doing. says it is the best
bargain she has ever made. 1t has
cured her of the auction habit
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08

is manned by a shot in the leg or
arm.
By ancient Romany custom, too, the
sighted girl has the right to be pres
ent and to decree in which Of his
limbs he shall be wounded. In prac-
tice, however, she usually elects to
stay away. thereby leaving the fear
full choice to him.
A maria geable Burmese girl, as
soon as she has completed her trous-
seau, places in her window the "love
lamb" and according to whether its
interfering beams, carefully directed
from behind with her own tiny toilet
mirror. shine on this hut or on that.
the gallant within knows that some
where a lassie's heart is inclined to-
ward him.
When one of the cigarmakers of
Southern Spain-who constitute sepa-
rate class by themselves somewhat
analogous to the French grisette-
casts her eyes lovingly on a likely lad,
she forthwith twists her powder-puff
into a pompon for his hat. If he wears
it at the next bull fight it is consider
ed a match.
The Andalusian peasant girl sends
a pumpkin pie to the particular swain
she affects. If he eats it. well and
good; she is engaged. If not she tries
elsewhere, pie following pie until sue
cess is arrived at.
Swiss maidens go a-wooing not al
ways and anyhow, but at stated in
tervals-the ewes. of the wedding of
their friends. Then is held what is
known as the feast of the love gar
lands" All the unmarried girls who
can claim acquaintance with either
bride or bridegroom assemble at sun
set at the latter's house, dance, sing,
and make merry. Then. when the
dawn is gray, they take their depart
ure. each girl bearing away with her
a posy gaily declxed with ribbon
This she hangs, on the way home,
upon the doorknob of the house where
resides the youth of her hearts de-
sire; or, alternatively, filings it through
the open easement of his bedcham-
Der.
She may select whom she will on
these occasions, provided she does not
stray beyond the limits of her own
canton.
For this latter is. according to Swiss
ideas, objectionable.
Should she be suspected of it, q
straw puppet is left dangling-pre-
sumably as a hint OF the fate that may
befall herself-Outside her chamber
window; while the young men of the
village whom she has Jointly and
severally sighted conspire together to
waylay and beat the unlucky stranger
whose offense and misfortune it Is to
have been the object Of her way
ward choice
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08
MRS. T0UCHY'S NEW POINT.

Il really think" exclaimed Mrs.
Touchy, Indignantly says the New
York Tribune. as soon as she and her
husband drove away from the Q's,
where they had been dining, that it
would be much better not to ask peo-
pie to dinner at all than to make such
a mess of it as Selma H. did tonight!
l, for my part, felt that it was really
insulting, and l took pains to let her
see that 1 saw through her devices"
But 1 thought it was a particularly
nice function" answered her husband,
who had greatly appreciated his post
prandial smoke with several of his old
cronieS. I'm generally bored stiff at
these dinners, but tonight I really
enjoyed myself, and the dinner it.
self was excellent. 1 do not see what
there was to complain Of"
"Oh, you men are always so Dense"
snapped his wife. Couldn't you see
that it was a second rate dinner? l
do not refer to the food-of course,
that was good enough mean the
people. She did not have a single one
of her smart friends there"
THE people!" exclaimed the puzzled
man with unworldly obtuseness, 'but
they were our best friends-the AS
and the BIS and the C.'s."
That is just what made it so nm
complimentary" cried madame 1--WE
We're all classed together, and 1 am
sure that every one of the others felt
just as l did about it,
Mr. T. recognized the futility of an
argument, and subsidized into his cor
ner of the brougham.
What queer creatures women are!"
he soliloquized.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08
THE WAY TO WIN A WOMAN.

1t is the fool who rushes in, not the
angel who fears to tread. who invari-i
ably wins a woman. 1 was in the
theater. the other night, when that
awful affair occurred which nearly
broke up the performance of the
Jewel of Asia" l remember hearing
a tumult of excited voices and then
seeing a young woman. very red in
the face, and two young men, very
excited and very mad" hurry down
the aisle and out the door. 1t seems
that the 'angel who feared to tread
had bought the theater tickets and
made an engagement with the girl.
The fool who wanted to rush in had
called on the angel while he was
shaving or trying on new waist
coat, or something equally absorbing
to the great masculine mind. and had
quietly obtained the tickets and gone
out first carefully locking the angel
inside his own dressing ROOM Then
the fool had let the girl into the
secret and taken her to the theater
in his friend, the angels" place.
And after it was all over says the
New York Press, what do you sup
pose the woman did? She walked
away with the fool and left the
angel to go back and make apologies
and pay the cab hire and get the hand
kerchief she had dropped and do a
few other errands.
Why do you suppose she did II? It
wasn't from a sense of humor. A
womans sense of humor seldom
bothers her to the extent of making
her lose her common sense. / believe
it was simply because she could not
resist the pleasure of being taken by
storm in that delightfully."- unceremon-
ious way. When the old Greek war
riors stole their wives from one
another they showed they understood
feminine nature. They could have
written more essays on THE Way to
Win a Woman" than Ella Wheeler
Wilcox. A maid who has never in
her life been successfully coaxed can
always be captured. Woman likes to
be mastered. The swain who sits at
the girls feet and signs may expect
to he trodden all over, dangled for n
while and finally thrown off. but the
man who goes in with a See the Con-
quering Hero Comes" air handles a
woman as easily as the cowboy hand
les a broncho. Both the woman and
the broncho need only know the man
is master. A woman's heart as well
as a mans is
| Like that delicate weed.
Which needs to be trampled on firm
ly indeed,
Fer II gives forth the sweetness you
wish to extract.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08
WORLD
WAS A SURPRISE TO
HIS YOUNG WIFE.

The new novel by E. Will Borus. the
struggling author, lay on the parlor
table. says the Chicago Tribune.
His young wife had just finished
reading it.
WILL" she said, did you have any
help in writing that book?''
No replied the struggling author.
staring at her.
Did it all yourself?'
Every line of it,
NO suggestions from anybody"
Not a sug."
She picked it up from the table and
opened it.
We'll, it's rather clever" she said.
Particularly that chapter next to the
last, where the hero, looking vainly for
the heroine through the brilliant
her at last in cushioned alcove. a
bay window, or something, and seats
himself beside her"
She proceeded to read it aloud
Ibid you think you could escape
me- he asked, banteringly. by hid
ing here? Why, child, would have
pursued you to the ends of the earth.
l would have followed you to Evans
tom
great gray eyes. but said nothing, and
he resumed, more soberly:
DO you remember that day. little
maiden. when L was beginning to say
something very serious to you, and the
girl at the piano suddenly stopped
playing and left me up in the air,
with an unspoken GRAFTON on hand
choked off just as I was coming to the
nub of it? Haven't entirely forgotten
the circumstance, have you? No, don't
try to jerk your hand away. because
I'm going to hold it. It's necessary to
secure your attention. You can't get
away this time. You are going to
hear the rest of the monologue, Miss
Bertha Blim. if the house takes fire.
do you think it is quite fair, Mr..
Hepperly-"
eyes; it's quite the fairest little
hand I ever clasped. Listen, Bertha
You need not pretend that you don't
know what 1 was about to say when
that girl interrupted me by shutting
off, the piano music. I was on the
point of making the most impassioned
avowal of love that ever fell from the
lips of mortal man, to the dearest.
sweetest, loveliest little woman in the
whole world!'"
She laid the book down.
You wrote all that. did you?"
Yes" replied the struggling author.
"Why?"
We'll" said Mrs. Borus, after per-
iod of reflection, 81 can't help marvel
ing that a man who can write like
that should have been so clumsy in his
own lOVema king"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08
Cupid's Good Eyesight.
From the BrookIyn Eagle

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
The poets of all times have stated
That love is blind.
To think loves blindness overrated
/ am inclined.
When first man loves he only sees
His sweetheart's charms, her power to
please.
The faults that others see with ease
He cannot find.
But I'm the days that follow marriage
He's sure to see
The traits that he must needs dispar-
age,
So changed Is he.
Where charms he saw i'm days gone by
Now only faults can he espy;
Her tem2er he must now decry,
Though mild she be-
And so ! hold that cupid's blindness
They oyerrate.
In view Of which II IL but Kindness
Herewith 70 state
a fact that's known 20 mortais bright:
Though Cppid's foresight may be slight
There y no doubt bis aftersight
IL very great
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08

The real heron every in homes Frequently
ever, mistaken and useless heroism.
Women listen every call of duty except the supreme
tells their health How
tasks become when arrangement of the female makes
every painful keeps the system unsng?
Irritay takes the happiness aaby
and suffering the place health strength As long they
themselves and
their household duties They have been led believe that suffering
necessary because they What a mistake!
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She has helped hundreds of thousands
foolish if do not her kind invitation.
For proof read the symptoms, suffering and cure
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08
TRIALS OF A HOMELY GIRL.

Think how quick-witted your are,
says the Philadelphia Ledger, "and
how much you can do" said the COM
Portable woman to the girl who was
complaining bitterly because she had
no claims to good looks.
That isn't a bit OF consolation" said
the girl pettishly. ITS the pretty girl
who always gets the best of things
She need not know anything. or even
be a good talker: n she's only pretty
she can have whatever she wants"
But" objected the first speaker,
pretty girls have been known 10 be
brilliant and well Informed and h0mely
girls have been known 20 be very at
traetiYe"
u know ali that, said the girl; but
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08
THE GENTLE SEX THE WooER.

In most countries. SAYS the Balti-
more Herald. it is the lads wAo do
the wooing, the lassies who are wooed.
But not everywhere. Among the gip-
sizes of Morav.a. fer instance. none will
dare presume TO court a maiden until
she has notified the young man Of her
choice of her readiness. This she does
by using a cake as a love letter, bak-
ing therein coin, and throwing Il
within his tent door at night when
he Is alone. He. OF course. Is not
bound 20 accept. But II he does II
behooves him 10 be faithful The
Romany Of Hungary knows nauRht
Of breach Of promise suits. Instead.
the relations and friends Of the lifted
maiden wait upon the inconstant lover.
argue with him. plead with him.
Then, n be stu remains ObdBrate, be
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08
SOMETHING ABOUT
INVITATIONS.

81 hate these long ahead invitations!"
said a much sought after and good
natured youth, according TO the New
York Tribune, recently. II think
may safely say that have not been
20 half a dozen dinners this winter that
/ really liked. When one Is asked 20
dine for some particular evening over
a month ahead" he continued, there
IL no excuse 70 give-one IL bound 10
accept. ana then Dleasanter invita-
lions come along. and there you are.
some asa wfiggle out Of their obllga-
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08
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re-
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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-27
Meeting Of War Workers.

MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK, Md,
Aug. 27.-Gray-haired men and women
whose names are now mostly unfa-
miliar to the public. but whose work
of peace during the war times OF thir-
ty odd years ago gave them q place
on the scroll of fame are gathered at
this resort to total Of several score.
They are the survivors of the sanitary
commission, the army chaplains. north
and south, Red Cross and other be-
nevolent organizations that became
prominent during the civil war. The
occasion Of the present gathering is
the thirteenth reunion Of their Joint
organization known as "The Good Sa-
maritans" Of the United States. Chris
tian commission. The president Of
the association is Bishop Falows Of
Chicago, who holds the title Of brevet
brigadier general, conferred by Abra-
ham Lincoln. Bishop McCabe Of Evan.
ston, ILL.,. IS another prominent partic-
ipant In the reunion. Today's proceed
ings were confined 70 welcoming the
members and TO an informal campfire
meeting at which stories of war times
were told again and "reminiscences
of the stirring days exchanged. The
reunion will continue through Sunday.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-27
Missouri Editors at St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS. Mo, Aug 27.-Promi.
nent editors of Missouri, members Of
the Missouri Press association, gath.
cred In annual convention in st. Louis
today and were told OF the wonders OF
the Louisiana Purchase exposition
and the part they will have in its sue.
cess. The gathering was called to or
der In Exposition hall at 10 o'clock
this morning and the editors were cor
daily welcomed by President D. r..
Francis Of the exposition and Mark
Bennett, superintendent Of publicity.
Later in the day the members Of the
association and their families were
shown about the exposition grounds.
Tomorrow the editors will spend the
day largely in discussing various mat
ters concerning newspaper making
and management and at the concln-
sion Of the convention the association
will leave In a body on an excursion
to Chicago.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-27
Romance Of columbia Professor,


PARIS, Aug. PA romantic court
ship reached the final stage today
when Professor Benjamin d. Wood
ward of Columbia university, New
York. took for his bride, Miss Gladys
Van Buren Piver, the California sing
er. Mr.. Woodward first heard Miss
Piver sing many years ago when, as
a child, she was member of a church
choir. Then he saw no more of the
singer
Prof. Woodward was sent BY the
United States government to the Pa
ris exposition for special duty and has
since lived In the French capital. Six
months ago his path and that Of the
one-time child-singer crossed. The
two fell In love and their engagement
speedily followed.
Today's wedding was witnessed BY
a large part OF the American colony
here, John Munroe and Secretary Wig.
maud we're the formal witnesses. Pro,
fessor Woodward and his bride will
return to America next month
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-27
Silver on the Up Grade.

NE WYORK, Aug. 27.-The sharp
advance in the price Of bar silver in
the London and New York markets
the past few weeks carried II to the
highest mark since November. 1901.
Representatives here of large smelling
interests say the rise is partly due to
the heavy demand from India, and II
Is believed there was recently heavy
short interest. 1t Is believed by some
that the British government is buy
ing silver. France is buying rather
freely and purchases by the United
States for the Philippine coinage are
also factor.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-27
New York stock Letter.

NEW YORK. Aug. 27-The list gen
orally is a shade easier coppers are
higher. There Is net much In the way
of news. All the statements on the
leading properties as they appear are
favorable. The whole market Is
awaiting developments of the corn
crop and the money market In the
meantime there is no pressure Of long
stocks, and whatever little selling
there is being done is by bear traders.
We do not believe they will succeed IN
dislodging any long stocks. As we
have previously expressed ourselves
we feel that Apprehension Of tight
money market Ii groaadless. The
weather on the whole ii favorable for
The corn crop ari VII even moderate
results: total ales l5f.eoO; money
closed / l-2a3i per cent: last loan.
/ IL
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-27
viii Extend Mission Work.

CHICAGO, Ills. Aug. 27.-A confer.
ence OF officers and leaders of the
American Baptist Home Missionery SO.
ciety in the west and northwest was
commenced In Chicago today and the
proceedings will be followed with
close interest by members OF the de.
nomination everywhere. The primary
purpose OF the conference is 10 settle
upon plans for carrying out the wide
extension Of the society's work as al-
ready decided. The society plans to
spend Ave years of special evangeli
cal effort al a cost of at least $25..
600 d year and 10 reach all the places
In the country where II Is thought
that Baptist influence will avail. The
beginning will be made in the cities,
but by the commencement Of the sec
ond year II is hoped 10 reach the
smaller towns, which is the particular
aim of The movement. The movement
viii be inaugurated and active work
got under way as soon as a sufficient
sum has been pledged 10 Justify a be.
ginning.