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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10
HE SAW HER FATHER, BUT

81 saw your father this morning" he
said, as she led the way to the parlor.
Ibid you?'' she exclaimed.
He had been calling regularly, says
the New York Press, for six months
and once he had held her hand after
they had said good night. He was very
shy, and she loved him. Her heart was
a-flutter with expectancy.
Yes" he resumed II thought per-
haps he might have mentioned it to
you"
NO" she answered as she took a
seat by his side. papa has not yet re-
turned from the city. He evidently has
been detained
"Wen," he went on, "he probably
will speak to you about it, so 1 thought
ought to tell you"
Yes" she answered, looking visit
fully into his eyes. Il suppose he will. !"
There was long silence, broken on
ly by two or three soulful signs from
the tender maiden.
Il met him on the train" said the
young man, Just after we had pulled
out from the station and when the
conductor came along | discovered |
had left my ticket and my money in
my other clothes SO your father let
me have a dollar. Will you please hand
IL to him when he comes homer"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10
FLOWER GOWNS IN LONDON.

The smartest dressmaker's shop in
London, says the New York Sun, has
invented a novel way of exhibiting
gowns. The customer goes into small
room which is dark when she enters.
II will show you now" says the
saleswOman, 1.-THE dress we call the
Poppy"
AS a tall. dark girl enters the room
shaft of reddish light falls on her
The gown is of various shades of red
silk wolfe. The wearer, who is black
haired and of the type to which red
is most becoming, walks languidly up
and down the room.
or if you prefer to see something in
yellow" the saleswoman suggests, I'VE
have the Jonquil."
The lady in red fades away and the
light is extinguished. Then from be-
hind the draperies there comes
shaft of yellow light to illumine the
figure of a tall, willowy girl clad in a
diaphanOus SILK in various tints of
yellow
In the same fashion other gowns are
exhibited on these sublimated show
girls who come and go to display in the
most attractive way these essentially
English dresses.
This new shop, elaborate as it is, has
none of the daintiness and beauty of
the smarter places in Paris and this
city. But the idea is said to have met
with success and the shop has pros
pered.
1t was from this same establishment
that the practice of naming gowns
came. All the dresses that the firm
sends out are provided with names, us
ually those of flowers. On the bills they
are described by these names.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10
MONEY SPENT BY WOMEN.

The American woman. says the New
York Sun, is an undoubted worshipper
at Fashions shrine; but, though she
may spend $1,000 on a single gown, she
is careful when she drives bargain
with her dressmaker.
Slavishly as Englishwomen follow
the dictates of fashion, says Emile
Marshall in the London Express, they
are not afflicted with the same feverish
passion for novelties that consumes
the average American woman. Jew
eled stockings, hand-painted wells, and
shoe buckles scintillating with gems.
which attract American women by the
score, are but little temptation to Eng
lish buyers.
To be fresh as a daisy and spick and
span as a new pin is the American
woman's object, and this love of crisp
ness is marked in the dress of all
classes of American womenkind. Gloom
would settle on Paris and Vienna were
American women to cease crossing the
Atlantic to scour the continent for a
new idea in chiffons.
Some revelations have Just been
made of the amounts that American
ladies really spend on their. clothes
The following is said to be the expendi-
ture of one we'll known Chicago wom-
an, whose pin money is no less than
$50 900 a wear.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10
WHEN PET NAMES
GO TO SEED.

1T is a great mistake, in my opin-
ion" remarked a young married wom-
an, to the New York Tribune, for hus-
bands and wives to call each other by
any term of endearment. 1t generally
begins in the first part Of their mar
ried life. They feel it is rather nice
to say dear and my love-, etc, in pub
lic-it emphasizes their sense of pos
session. Later on habit makes them
continue the epithets, but they become
meaningless; they might Just as well
be Molly or Billy as far as senti-
ment goes and the simple Christian
name sounds. to my way Of thinking,
in better form. When especial names
have been adopted, as is sometimes the
case, they are obnoxious in the begin
ming and later on become absurd 7
know man who began by calling his
wife Baby They have been married
now for several years, and he keeps
ii up through force of habit, but it does
sound ridiculous. | was playing bridge
the other day with a quondam pair of
turtle doves, who have have become
quite peckish with a decade of mar
red life behind them, and 1t was fun
ny to hear the old names used with
marital sharpness. They were playing
together, and were losing, which made
them quite cross. You should never
have taken that trick he said sharply.
Honey A baby could have played
that hand better, "Ducky,"' she re-
taliated, and so on. Neither one of them
seemed aware of the incongruity of the
epithets Honey and 'Ducky' with
their irate voices and expression"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10
THE PENALTY OF LARGE FEET.

When the girl with No. foot. saws
the New York Evening Post, tried on
her new shoes. the girl with the No. :
declared they We're the prettiest shoes
she had seen this season.
IF you don't mind" she said, Il will
get pair just like them"
The No. girl said she didn't mind in
the least. "On the contrary, I am glad
you like them well enough to COW
them she said. They are quite rea-
sonable shoes, too-only 81"
The next day the No. girl went
downtown to buy her shoes. She Sc
lected a pair of the desired make and
style; then, as mere matter of form
she asked the price.
Five dollars" replied the clerk
oh, but that can't be right" pro-
tested the No. 5 girl. This kind of a.
shoe sells for 81 l have a friend who
only 81" f''-N
What size does she wear?" asked
the clerk.
mo. 3"
Then that explains the difference in
price" was the reply 1--WE get lots of
complaints on that score. Nobody
seems to take into account that the
size OF shoe helps to regulate the
price. They consider it unjust that the
person with big foot should be taxed
more heavily than one with a small
foot. Really it would be unjust to the
manufacturer to disregard the size. It
takes more material and more work 10
turn out No. 5 shoe than No. 2. In
high grade shoes the difference in price
between large and small sizes is 50 or
SO a pair, in the medium grades it is
generally a dollar, and in the cheaper
lots, % to so cents"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10
THE BEWITCHlNG
SUMMER GIRL.

Year by year, says the London Tel
egraph, the summer man" seems to
the wondering uninNiated onlooker to
grow smaller. This is only by COM
parison, however, as the observant
known. II is the summer girl who
grows larger-larger of hat and high
er of heel, louder and more cheerful of
voice. The American summer girl is
athletic. She bathes-in the sand. She
golts-when the men are nice. She
climbs mountains-when her style is
especially suited to a mountain cos
tune. In any event, she has the real
ly important features of athletic enjoy
ment thoroughly mastered She has
golf skirts and swimming toys" by
the score. She has everything that is
becoming in rowing clothes. She is
passiOnately fond of bathing-on the
beach. The surf she finds disheveling.
A maiden dripping with brine is only
attractive in fiction. In real life her
hair-and the brine-get into her eyes,
which makes her weep, from the smart
and from modification. She finds it
much more beguling to run Just a
little way into the water, wetting
portion of her bathing skirt only, and
then to fly shrieking back to her ad-
mirers on the sand. These, with the
discernment of men, rate her beauty
the more highly, since-eVen in the
water?-it has not come off" Sand
ing" which is her particular form of
surf bathing, thus takes up the sum-
mer girls morning, if she be that per-
feet type the seashore girl; for though
the summer girl is universal in habi-
tat, she is found in the most perfect
varieties at the seaside.
From breakfast at until luncheon
at the conscientious summer girl de-
votes her hours to sanding" There
may be other maidens who consider
tennis and golf, riding and autoing as
part of the mornings diversions, but
these at the seaside are considered out
side of the pale of the truly summary.
They are under the ban of the too, too
strenuous.
Next to the beach the hotel veranda
is the arena of the seashore girls ac-
tivities. After dinner there is pain
full preponderance of papas and man.
mas and younger fry. 1t is when the
evening begins to grow late that the
summer girl has her hour When the
hotel porter may be heard fluttering on
the outskirts, anxious to put out the
one dim light which still makes the
veranda possible, and to close the great
front door; when the older resorters
have sought their rooms with a dis
approving last look at the audacious
young persons who will not go in;
when buttons" is expected any mo-
ment with a note from mamma saying
that "Dottie" must dismiss her caller
and come in al once-then it is. among
all these perils that the summer girl
gets in her batch of season engage
ments.
one swallow will not make a sum-
mer. Neither will one engagement
make summer girl. One she much
have, two are only ordinary, three or
four place her i'm the class of the real
~ successful. Not that they mean any
thing, these summer enga gements. The
end of the summer, more often than
not, means the end of the romance.
with no hearts broken and a perfect
friendliness on both sides. They are
things Of moonlight and warm wealth
er, but the summer girl shows none
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10
0LD-TIME BINGHAM APRONS.

The little bingham aprons that they
Wore.
Those dainty queens of sunny days of
Vore-
One was aren't where flowers tumbled
through
Upon the bare feet padding in the
dew.
No bannerets of glory ever yet
Fashioned by the cunning hand of
Can hide the signal flag I'll meier for
get.
No silken sheen and satin ever will
Displace the modest, sometime latter
ed thing
The little Bingham aprons that
they wore.
All! queens beyond the ransom of
king!
All! vanish gingham aprons of the
yore!
Dear little bingham aprons Of the days
OF sandy paths and primrose scented
ways;
There is a glory in each string and
check
Heart gathers from the fiotsam and
the wreck
They used to scurry Ger the messy
stile.
They used to sway upon the grape
vine swing.
All, me! there was no sophistry or
guile
In cen a puckered rufle or a
string.
I close my eyes-and see the merry
train
Anon come trooping down the sun
ny shore:
The bare feet paddle in the dew
again
And flowers drift through the rents
the briars tore.
From the New York Sun.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10

form Of affection which is ever busy
saying: Why don't you do this?
Why don't you try that" that fails
to help.
But let us remember that any awful
bereaVement-such as the loss of a
truly beloved husband or wife-seems
for the time TO leave the world empty
Of love. Every token of fond and
faithful remembrance is of use in fill
ing that great vacuum It does not
replace, it does not make good. it does
not satisfy, but it does help: let no
one doubt that.
Words-we say that they are futile
and OF no value; but this is not true.
When they are simple. uninterfering.
spontaneous expressions of affection.
they are dear indeed. Not words
which bid you not to mourn. nor those
that are like salt pressed upon a wound
by trying to explain the inexpIicabla
or to define the will of God. which no
one, not even the angels in heaven"
comprehends; but natural. true. rest
tul utterances from a full heart And
let no one be afraid to try. One whose
GRIEF is eYer-fresh received these words
on an anniversary: 81 just wanted Won
to know that ] am keeping the dav
They came from young girl. she had
never seen, and We're truly a solace.
We forget these simple WAYS
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10
MARTYRS TO THEIR
Y0UTHFULNESS.

Speaking OF prolonged youthfuIness, "
said a fashionable matron, to the New
York Tribune. 81 know woman who is
seventy, and looks about twenty five. -
Impossible" exclaimed her compan-
ion
81. assure you it is a fact" returned
the other but, then, heavens! what
an existence she leadsl Her one
thought is to keep her remarkable iu-
venility, and everything she does has
that particular end in view. She eats
only certain kinds of food at stated
hours. She is bathed, massaged.
anointed, according to a prescribed for
mula. Her hair. hands and feet are
all attended to by specialists. and she
keeps her figure by having a profession
al acrobat put her daily through a GER
tain set of movements. She is so busy
about her poor old body that she has
no time or thought for anything else,
and her one reward s when she finally
appears in public 10 have every one
say how wonderfully young she looks!
The game is not worth the candle in
my opinion. I would far rather look
my age and have a full life"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10
FOUR AGES OF WOMAN.

Little Margaret, says the Brooklyn
Eagle, had a loose tooth which her
father wished to remove. but she OBJ
jected so piteously that he postponed
the operation.
Some time later the child's mother
heard her tell a playmate that it was
not the pain she dreaded so much as
the loss of the TOOTH for she did not
know that another would grow in it's
place.
why, Margaret" said the playmate,
with a touch of scorn for her COM
panion's ignorance, don't you know
that everybody grows four sets of
teeth?"
do they?" Margaret asked, in glad
surprise.
"Of course they do. First, they grow
their baby teeth, like yours; then they
grow their second teeth, like Brother
Charley's; then they grow their wisdom
teeth, like mammals and then they
grow their false teeth, like grandma's."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10

the less zest in bringing them about.
She is the devotee of the little god
during all the warm weather, and,
whether beach or ballroom. be the
hunting ground, the summer girl new
er loses sight for an instant of her
quarry-man.
For proprieties and conventionaIities
the summer girl has no respect what
ever She has come from all parts of
the United States to the summer re-
sort, to meet in the course of the sea-
son thousands of persons whom she
will never know again. AS to who they
are and whether the accounts they
give of themselves are true or not she
knows nothing. She is not afraid of
new and unvouched-for acquaint-
ances, although many a summer girl
has found herself is most embarrassing
situations through this free granting
of acquantanceship. She takes it all,
however, as part of the riotous Joy of
the summer Any one in the hotel, any
one in the resort, may be introduced
to the intrusion of the most objection
able. What risks she runs in this way
are more than compensated for, from
her point of view, by the absolute free
dom, the actual license, which she en-
joys. The summer is not only a sea-
son for making engagements; it is to
her prominently a season for making
friends. If the enga gements are not
apt to last over the autumn parting,
she is able to weed out from the vast
list of friendships some few to carry
back to town with her. Her interme-
diary before this altar of new friend
ships is a parsonage who is, oddly
enough, a survival of old Bath. The
master of ceremonies" and erstwhile
dancing employed by the no.
tel, is at the command of the SKINNER
girl who wishes to enlarge her circle
of acquaintances Himself without
credentials, he is yet the only guardian
of her interests in acquaintanceships
with perfect strangers. For the par
ent, save of the most Exclusive classes,
ventures not to interfere with the sum-
ner girls inclinations.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10

oh, you needn't get so spunky."
said the top-fioor girl. TT has han
pened before, under circumstances fully
as propitious as these. Once I went
on pleasure jaunt down the bay in
care of an escort, who, to all appear
apces, had money enough to carry us
through all kinds. of emergencies. It
seems however, that I overestimated
his afffuence. Fortunately I took nv
own pocketbook along, not as a mat
ter of precaution, but from mere force
of habit. Just before we started home
Mr.. Jinks began to eye my purse COW
etously.
what is the matter?' I asked. Are
we stranded?'
Mr. Jinks confessed that we were.
"A fellow spends so confoundedly
much at these places he said. went
broke before I knew it.
change with me. We can use that to
get home on
And we did. Since then I have
made it a point to carry my own pock-
etbook. When people go to those
dreadfully expensive places I think it
well to provide for all possible contin-
gencies beforehand. Don't your"
The nice young man looked depressed.
Eyes, 1 do" said he. Presently he
added: will you excuse me a. min
ute? L want to run in here and get a
bunch of cigars before we start
The pug nosed girl waited till the
nice young man had got out of sight
and hearing before she said anything.
"You shouldn't have told him that"
she said then. ut worried him. I
shouldn't be at all surprised if he has
gone to try to borrow some extra
money from somebody"
81 know he has," returned the top
floor girl serenely. IT meant him to.
That is the reason I told that story.
I always tell it. I don't want to take
any chances on getting stranded
again."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10
WISDOM FROM TOP FLOOR.

What did you bring your pocket
book for?" asked the nice young man
when. according to the New York
Press, he and the top-floor girl and the
girl with the pug nose started to Coney
Island. II can put your key in my
pocket"
Il didn't bring It on account of the
key" said the top-fioor girl. II have
IS in here. l thought we might need
IT before we get back"
'Well"' exclaimed the nice young
man. He looked as If he would like to
say more. but was prevented from fur
Their utterance by sheer indignation.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10
HELP FOR THE "HEART
BROKEN"

II is a frequent. almost a universal,
feeling that it Is out of human power
to bring relief to those who are, as
we express It. heart broken" But
there is no other channel exeept the
secret blessed influences of the Holy
Comforter, by which help and healing
can reach those whom we designate
by this pathetic phrase. but that which
another human heart can fill by gem
une love. and the gentle, retiCent
delicate assiduity It uses.
often we are not respectful enough
to grief. We can frequently do best
by keeping away from intrusion upon
the special topic of their bitter pain.
We can give a draught of clear. fresh
water TO one whose thirst is visible
to us, without tormenting him nv ask
ing how long he has been without a
drink and why he had been deprived.
Let us be silent in the presence of real
affection and busy ourselves In find
ing ways 10 bring diversion to minds
which seem concentrated on one OBJ
ject without the power Of detachment.
Amusing the truly sorrowful is a pro.
fitless project: you cannot amuse
grief. Persuading them 10 travel. to
study, TO do any merely mechanical
thing. or follow any pursuit discon-
nected from humanity, is a baseless en-
deavor. If you have love and under
standing enough 10 reach 10 the core
Of the wounded heart and tact enough
10 wait the gradual opening of its Sc
cret chambers-you have a blessed gift.
DO not be impatient, but stand ready:
your voice, your glance. your touch.
II happily they do their work without
any effort TO inquire and propose may
be as the dew OF Hermon" to the tlr-
ed, arid heart.
DO not despair II your hands and
brain seem empty OF any form Of re-
storative virtue. II love, real love. is
there. and willingnessLrar gift-to
believe that each stricken soul knows
its own needs-you may be assured that
you cannot serve IN vain. II is the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10

People seem to imagine that pro-
longed youthfulness is a development
of modern times" replied the woman to
whom she was speaking, but / re-
member, when was very little girl
in the SOS, seeing my aunt, who was
a woman of s.. dress for a dinner.
She wore a decollete gown and l re-
member how they praised her neck.
She took a beauty sleep every after
noon before dressing for dinner, and
would never show temper. because it
made her ugly, and brought out wrin-
kles, which. on the whole, was good
thing for the family, whatever the mo-
tive. She was the most placid person
I ever saw. and they say she even died
with a perfectly smooth, untroubled
countenance D."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10

How does this compare with the eX-
penditure of an English society wom-
an? Unfortunately for the purpose of
making strictly fair comparison, the
American millionaire's wife who does
Europe with a dozen Saratoga trunks
crammed full of new Paris gowns
while her husband remains at home
piling up the dollars, has no equivalent
in English society. French ladies
have ceased to dress. They leave it to
the deni-monde," caustically observed
Partisan dress expert the other day.
English ladies. it may be said with
equal truth. do not need to dress for
the mere sake OF dressing; but the
daughters of New York and Chicago
millionaires have to purchase their
footing in society, and in the land of
the almighty dollar elaborate dressing
il one of the pleasantest ways of gain
ing social distinction, though in New
York as well as in London there are
inner circles to which a dress allow
ance of $4,000 a year would not give
the entree
1t is not possible to find parallel in
English society for the American wom-
an who maintains her position by eX-
traVagant dressing,
Another important point to be re-
membered in comparing the relative
expenditure of English and American
women is that the latter has often to
pay IS on Fifth avenue for what an
English shopper buys in Bond street
its London equivalent-for about $3.50.
From inquiries made among the mil
liners and modistes who clothe the
women moving i'm English society to-
day, the following account of wealthy
woman's expenditure on dress has been
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10

Furs are not enumerated in either of
the lists. A wealthy American woman
is said to give as much as $685. 900 for
furs alone, and large amounts-though
not so large-are paid in this country
also.
The following account has been
drawn up by an American woman as
the way in which any well-to- dol man
ufacturer's wife with moderate ideas
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10

On the heels of the De Valencsy d.
vorce another marital tangle has
shocked Partisan society. This is the
suit Of Nine. Maurice Ephrussi, who In
her youth was one of the most sought
after girls in Paris. She was the youns
er daughter Of Baron Alphonse De
Rothschild and her marriage portion
tempted the mobiles Of France. Ephrus-
81 was a dashing youth from Odessa
and In some way he got away with the
prize. Ephrussi has been immensely
popular and was involved in row
with Marquis De Breteuil. a brother
in-law OF the first Mrs. c. oliver lse-
lin Of New York. That feud was
nine-day sensation. II is said none
tary affairs are Al the bottom OF the
Ephrussi separation and the former
Mile. Rothschild and her venerable
parents receive general sympathy.