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The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08
THE NEAT LITTLE DARN.

81 love to see a neat little darn in
household napery or garments of any
kind" said an observant old lady to
the representative of the New York
Tribune. 1T always suggests to me
care and neatness and good manage
ment. Stevens never darn tidily or
take the proverbial stitch in time that
saves some useful possession. When l
was little girl nurse used to tell us a
story about a beautiful and rich and
altogether delightful and desirable
young man, who liked two sisters. One
was much prettier and livelier than the
other, and naturally, he rather pre-
ferred her to the quieter sister, but on
one unlucky day for her he took
walk with her. Her slipper stuck in
the road and came off, and he was hor-
ribly shocked to see a great hole in the
heel of her stocking. OF course, he did
not like her after that. And the next
day, by a strange coincidence, while
walking with the palmer sister, she,
too, in some way or other, lost her
slipper, and this time he noticed the
neatest, incest little darn Imaginable
on the toe of her stocking, and loved
her at once and always. Perhaps OUT
nurses tale has had something to do
with my liking for people who darn
their things neatly, but I think it
shows desirable characteristic" con-
cluded the old lady.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08
WHY A LONG ENGAGEMENT.

There is in one of the departments in
Washington, says the New York Times,
a handsome and still young widow,
who has made two matrimonial ven
lures already and is now engaged to
a bachelor business man of that city
A few weeks ago a friend asked her
when the wedding was to occur
ooh, not before next year." she re-
piled.
But why do you have such a long
engagement" the surprised friend in
quired.
For few moments the widow hest
tated and then replied: 'I'll tell you
the real reason, but you must solemn
ly promise never to repeat what 1 say"
OF course the friend, consumed with
curiosity at the mysterious manner of
the widow, promised as requested and
then told the story to all her confiden-
tial friends, which accounts for its APP
pearance here.
''WeI, you see," she said, when my
second husband died had fine mon
ument erected over his grace, and have
since been paying for it on the Install
ment plan. 1 will not have it COM
pletely settled for until the early part
of next year. OF course you will appre-
ciate the imposibility of my telling
Harry and asking him to finish pay
ing for it, and that is what 1 would
have to do if we were married very
SOON"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08

accent, while I was trying to recover
cordiality and the uncomfortable feel
ing of being overdressed. Several of
them were grandes DANES of the class
we bow down to and worship in Eng
land, and who extend us finger to
shape in return for our grovelling.
These Russian women probably did not
possess among them the practical
sense, sterling character and genuine
spirit of helpfulness which any one
English woman would have, but l
imagined a man might be in a dilem-
ma as to which of them he loved the
best.
A newcomer shook the snow from her
fur cap, hung it up unceremoniously
in the hall, then came in, kissed the
hostess on both cheeks, and embraced
her twice, repeating the ceremony with
each of her friends in the room. Some
men Joined us, and one of them, an
exquisite dandy, with three jewelled
rings on one hand, two on the other
and wearing the bright red trousers of
an officer in the Hussars, passed around
his gold cigarette case. Some of the
women smoked-one could not be
shocked. for could not one see the same
thing in London? AS we separated
1 felt thoroughly converted to Russian
feminity, and in numerous other ex-
periences have not changed my mind
Ones incursions into the realm Of
the Russian grande dame are inter-
esting, but not exciting. They differ
from those one meets in London and
Paris in being more democratic, how
ever. You, the stranger, must make
the first call, but few of them sit at
home, like many of our great ladies
in England, and arrogate to them
selves the privilege of receiving but
not returning calls. AS soon as they
know you at all we'll they salute in
the Russian fashion with kiss on the
cheek. They are not Countess, Princess,
or even madame to one another, but
Marie Vassilievna MARY, the daughter
of William). Natalea Tvanovna (Nata-
lea, the daughter of john, in the
affectionate and familiar Russian style
of address.
They come in to see you without
ceremony if they are passing your way,
and you feel perfectly free to go to
tea at 8 o'clock with the family around
the samovar.
A Russian woman has her shuba, a
long circular coat coming down to her
heels, without sleeves, but with a fur
collar turned up high above her head,
and lined with beautiful fur. Every
Russian woman has one, whatever her
condition, just as every English wom-
an has her grandfather's portrait-as a
matter of course.
The women put them on at the first
blast of wintry wind, weeks in advance
of the real cold weather, the skating
and sleighing, and thereby increase
their ample forms to unseemly proper
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08

fective picture. Then you must ra-
member that there are over 1.500 dis
engaged actresses at present in this
city, every one of whom has had ex-
perience and who are all more or less
familiar with the technique of the
stage. Wit hany one of that number
the risk would be less than with YOU,
Other managers of good companies
are likely to advance the same reason
ings, are they not?"
They are, but then there are a
number of good travelling organizations
IN which you might get a start. If
you succeed in getting an enga cement
with one OF them you will find the
work hard. You will have to have lots
OF courage, be not easily cast down
and mindful of your own business. 7
will say this, that if you succeed Won
Will f1nd it was all worth while.''
What do you think had best do,
Mr.. Crane?"
You tell me you have a good home
and adore your parents. who do not
wish you to go on the stage. 1 would
advise you to give up your ambitions.
remain at home, and some day marry
a good man."
The young woman arose to go. She
looked as if she wanted to cry.
II think" she said, and her voice
trembled, that I will take your adj
vice. But please answer me one thing.
If all young women anxious like me to
go on the stage should take your ad-
vice, where would the stage get its
actresses from?"
The question seemed to stagger the
comedian. He couldn't answer it, and
the girl knew it as the stage door
keeper let her out.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08
TIGHT LACING IN GERMANY.

The German Empress, says the New
York Sun, is said to be suffering from
the effects of tight lacing. This story
is easy to believe in view of the ex-
tent to which the practice prevails
among her country-women.
The German idea of a small waist is,
however, quite different from that pre-
present a small waist line to the view
of the person who faces them. The
German, on the other hand, draws her
corset string tight in order that she
may have small waist-line when one
views her in profile.
But this difference in the ideal of
corsetted beauty does not lead to any
less pulling on the strings. They must
be drawn as tightly as ever.
The mattresses in the south German
beer restaurants, who are compelled to
work from 6 o'clock in the morning I'M
til long after midnight, are apparently
not Inconvenience by the rigidity of
their tightly drawn stays, although II
is surprising to an observer that they
should be able to move about, much
less stand on their feet for so many
hours.
The German actresses, who lace
themselves with the same idea of look
ing narrow when they stand in pro-
file, are usually unable to move except
from the waist down with any degree
of grace or ease, so tightly are their
stays drawn. The servants in small
families are equally addicted to the
habit
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08

lions long before it is necessary. The
few ladies who walk in the streets
seem scarcely able to move in the long,
awkward garment, while their feet are
incased in big. fur lined shoes which
are positively ugly. The great ladies
ladies of Russia own wonderful jewels.
Upon every Easter since their marriage
the Emperor has given the Empress
an egg of gold, encrusted with jewels,
and containing inside some wonderful
mechanical device TO surprise and de-
light her. One of the court jewelers.
has, in fact, spent most of his time
in fashioning these eggs. The eggs
are most costly on account of an inn
mense ruby, diamond or emerald sur
mounting the crown at the top of the
egg.
There are a few Siberian stones
which one sees scarcely in any place
but Russia-nephrite of a dazzling
green color and one of the heaviest
stones in the world, the red orlotz,
aqua marine, topaz and alexandria.
The last is very rare in the large stones,
and only two or three of them are
found in a year. 1t is green in the
sun and soft rose color under the
electric light.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08

"One morning I went to a reception
given by friend. Some young officers
of the Uhlans came in. Bila Szabo was
among them, and that is how we came
TO meet. My father was not of noble
blood, but he was not poor He owned
many large hotels in Austria. When
Bila found where I lived he came to
see me, and after a while told me he
loved me and wished to marry me.
II loved him, too" said the dead
mans wife, with fearful frankness. II
could not help loving him. He was a
gentleman in all his words and actions,
but told him 1 would not marry him
because-we were different-you under
stand"
Several times in the course of her
narrative Mrs. Szabo broke down and
sobbed bitterly, for the young couples
happiness was just beginning.
But Bila was strong in his determi-
nation TO marry me-" continued the
young widow. He told my father So;
he told his own father; he told the EN-
peror-told the whole world, in fact.
The Emperor said it must not be,
Franz Josef, had chosen for him. For
answer Bila-my Bila-broke off the
engagement with this noblewoman and
said he would marry none but me
Rosa Menschiek, the daughter OF a Be-
hemian. The Count Szabo was angry,
and said he would disinherit him of all
his estates. Bila laughed. for he had
estates in hts own right. The Emperor,
too, was angry, and said he would exile
him. Bila laughed and came to me
and offered to marry me and take me
with him TO this country. said l
would go, but later Bila said that he
would go first and make home IN
America for me, then send for me. And
1 promised him 1 would come at his
command.
80 he came to this country twelve
years ago. 1 was only Is then, but L
was woman, and waited for Bila to
send for me. But when he wrote it
was to tell me how hard it was for a
gentleman who had led the life of lux
ury at court to make a living.
In the meantime my friends in Aus
tria laughed and said: He will never
come again. You will never see him.
l wrote and told Bila what they said.
He was angry, and cabled me to come
to him at once, so we could fight to-
gether. l hid the message from my
people and one night 1 stole from my
fathers house, sold all my jewels, and
set out for America. / arrived here
quite safely in November, 1908, and
there was Bila-handsome, gentle Bila
Szabo-waiting for me on the pier.
I'VE went straight to the City Hall,
and there we were married. Then he
brought me to these rooms, where we
have been so happy.
1T was only last Wednesday that he
took i'll. He had been teaching Latin
and Greek in a private house, and
caught pneumonia on the way home.
All Saturday-all Sunday, I sat with
my arms around his neck and he
made me promise that 1 would go back
to Austria and ask my fathers forgive
ness At 1 o'clock on Monday morning
he died, and I sat all alone with him
till morning-just as he had died--with
his head on my shoulder.
So ended the life and love of a man
who defied his King and kindred for
the sake of a Bohemian girl. He will
be buried at Calvary Cemetery on
Sunday, after which his wife will re-
turn to Austria to tell Count Szabo
and the Emperor how Bila died.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08
THE RUSSIAN GRANDE DAME.

When I set out for Russia, says q
writer in the London Daily Mail, nu-
merous kind friends in England, who
had never met Russian women in their
lives-and did not want to-warned me
against them. The advice seemed good,
for was not the Russian woman in
the book or the play generally the lady
william, with alluring, deceptive dark
eyes and a hidden past?
But what gorgeous gowns, what re-
gal furs, what magnificent jewels, they
always wore in the book or the play!
So when a countrywoman who had
married a Russian asked me one aft
ernoon in st. Petersburg to meet some
Russian ladies, l thought guiltily of
Mother Eve and the Apple of Knowl-
edge, then meditated upon the splen-
doris in feminine attire which 1 might
now see revealed-and accepted.
l entered my friends house in fear
and trembling on account of my mod
est attire. But soon a number of charm
ing women were clasping me warmly
by the hand and talking in my native
tongue with scarcely trace of foreign
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08
THE LAND OF REGRET.

There is a city whose gates are wide,
Its pavements pure and clean.
Where shadowy forms fit side by side
On the road called Might Have
Been"
But folks walk there with their heads
bowed low.
And heavy eyelids wet,
For ev'ry corner is haunted so
In this, 1.-THE Land of Regret"
They meet the ghosts of those other
years
In dreams of memory sweet,
And wet with passionate, frenzied tears
The graves which lie at their feet
But never, long as their lives shall last,
Can they again forget
Who once have walked with ghosts of
the past
In this, THE Land of Regret"
They feel the touch of hand grown
still,
It's fingers softly press
The tender passion of kisses thrill
Their own in a fond caress.
All, me!-but pity the folks who stray
Where long the sun hath set,
And walk with the ghosts who're laid
away
In this, THE Land of Regret"
Pail Mall Gazette
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08
A REALLY UNEXPECTED
PROPOSAL

When he proposed marriage, says the
Brooklyn Eagle, she asked for time
to think it over.
This is so unexpected" she said.
He gave her the necessary time,
and she finally decided that he fulfilled
all the requirements of the situation.
Then they reached a point where they
could discuss matters calmly.
"Of course" he said jokingly, cit
wasn't really unexpected at ALL"
'Oh, yes, it was" she replied.
"Absuredi" he exclaimed. "a girl al
ways says that. She knows what's COM
ing and when it's coming. because she
is just naturally an expert in such
matters
II thought 1 was but you fooled
me-" she insisted.
And it was complete surprise?"
at was"
81 don't understand" he commented.
"Well." she explained vigorously,
"you had overlooked so many splendid
chances that gave you for a proposal
that 1 had begun to think nothing ever
would give you nerve enough to speak
out, so it really was unexpected"
"Oh!" he said. and that was all.
There didn't seem to be anything else
to saw
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08
A COUNT ROMANCE.

When the volume of human pathos is
finally published page will be filled by
the story of the life and love of Bila
Szabo, disinherited son of Count Bila
Szabo, physician to the Austrian En-
peror Franz Josef, and of his sweet
heart wife. Rosa, for whom ne thew
away wealth and title, and in whose
arms he died on Monday of last week,
at their home. 26O West Forty-third
street, New York.
The romance is best told by Mrs.
Szabo herself, a beautiful woman. Just
as she told il last night to a New York
Times reporter.
"Bila," said she, twas born at Buda-
pest of a noble family. His father, the
Count Szabo, has long been the trusted
medical adviser of the Austrian En-
peror and the royal family. When Bila
was is years of age he went to the
University of Vienna and became an
officer in one of the cavalry troops Of
our Countrywide Uhlans.
when Bila was 20. his father, the
Count, with the approval of the En-
peror, arranged a match between my
husband and a noblewoman of the
court. Bila did not love anybody at
that time, so he agreed TO the engage
ment.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08
NOVELTIES IN DEPART
MENT STORES.

Another gigantic department store
was opened to the public in New York
last Saturday 1t is on the corner of
Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street,
and contains innovations which show
that department store enterprise may
yet be in it's infancy. Nurseries and
banks are now a necessary part of
the up-to-d date department store, but
it has been left to this institution to
introduce a children's playground. On
one floor is large hall with two stages
and comfortable orchestra chairs. The
Twenty-third Regiment Band played in
it all day to-day. AS soon as things
get running it is the intention of the
management to intersperse concerts
with variety turns. Opening from the
concert hall is a roof kindergarten for
the children. There is lake with an
island of sand for the little ones to
shovel to their hearts content. Then
there is q fully equipped hospital
in the store, and novelties galore,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08
MARRIAGE IN FICTION.

Miss Agnes Repplier writes with her
customary wit and felicity in "Har-
per's Bazaar" on Marriage in Fiction"
In the course of the article she says:
Small wonder that novelists con-
tent themselves with making matches
and refrain from examining too close
ly the result of their handiwork. They
would have more conscience about it
If 1t We're not so easy for them to
withdraw. They are almost as ire
sponsible as poets, who delight in yok-
ing unequal mates, as proof of the
power of love. Poetry weds King
Cophetua to the beggar maid, and
contemplation of the catastrophe
Shakespeare give Cella-Celia, with
her sweet brown beauty her true
heart, her nimble wit. her grace of ex-
quisite companionship-to that I'M
natural sinner, Oliver, and the only
excuse he offers Is that oliver says he
is sorry for his sins. So 1 suppose
Helen of Troy said she regretted her
indiscretion, and this facile repentance
reinstated her in happy domesticity.
But the novelist is not at play in the
Forest of Arden. He is presumably
graphing with the dismal realities of
earth. Nothing could be less like a
fairy playground than the village of
Thrums eff the Aud LIGHT parishion-
ers ever get to heaven" said DR.. Chal-
mers, they will live on the north
side of it,; yet 1t is in Thrums that
Mr.. Barrie marries Babbie to the Lit
tie Minister-marries her with a smile
and a blessing, as though he had SOL
we'd, rather than complicated, the mys-
FERROUS problem of life. The world of
the novelist is full of such strange
mishaps, and our sense of inquietude
corresponds with our conviction of
their reality. Mrs. Ward probably
does not expect us to believe that
Jacob Delatield and Julie lie Breton
lived happily and tremendously to-
gether. There is something as radi-
cally inharmonious in their marriage
as in the union of conflicting ele-
ments. 1t is not question of taxi
ing chances of happiness, as Sophia
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08
BARGAIN COUNTER FARES.

She was a short, stou woman. says
the New York Times. with numerous
parcels, and when she entered the
Grand Central Station she was putting
so audibly that a drowsy man on a
seat jumped up, thinking 1t was the
train he was waiting for. Reaching
the ticket window she stacked the
parcels on the floor, opened her money
bag and said to- the agent with
in:
''when does the next train for Sleepy
Corners leaVe?"
"At S.15, madam" replied the agent.
''How far is it there?"
about sixty-five miles,"
"What does a single ticket cost p
One-forty-nine, madam"
"One-forty-nine," she repeated. "ffow
does that happen?''
"Well, madam, I guess the price
is marked down from $3.50"
Smiling sweetly, she handed IN the
money and grabbed the ticket with
an eagerness that proclaimed her APP
probation of a bargain.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08
A RARE WOMAN.

It is presumably so rare thing that
a woman objects to being painted
younger and prettier than she is that
the fact deserves to be well advertised.
Amalie Kussner, the celebrated minia-
turist, painted Mrs. Claude watney, of
London, the price of $4,000 being agreed
upon. Mrs. Watney declares that the
artist has made her look like sweet
sixteen. and therefore ridiculous; and
that the portrait, although pretty"
is very unlike herself. Hence the re-
fusal to pay by the sitter and a SUIT
to recover by the artist. All of which
goes to show. says the New York
Globe, that an artist in painting
woman should be able to seize the
psychologist moment, when she looks
neither too young nor too old,
for to err in either direction means
failure.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08
CITY S0CIABILITY.

A gentleman in a representative
neighborhood descended the steps of
his house just as d lady living next
door did the same.
Upon impulse, say the indianapolis
News, he raised his hat and said:
"a very beautiful day, madam"
She replied:
Lovely"
They went their ways.
She thought:
How courteous and neighborly of
him."
He thought:
How pleasant and unusual to live
next door to family which is not up
pish! How agreeable life might be in
New York if all neighbors should be
on speaking terms after so short an in
terval as fifteen years."
Moral-Accidents happen between the
best regulated families.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08
AN ANSWER SHE DESERVED.

A popular commercial traveller, says
the Louisville Herald, attended a large
social gathering one evening, and af-
ter supper was over was promenading
with one of the guests, a young lady,
to whom he had just been introduced.
In the course of the conversation, the
said:
by the way, Mr. Scott. may I ask
what your occupation is?"
Certainly" he answered, IT am a
commercial traveller"
How very interesting! Do you
know, Mr.. Scott, that in the part of
the country where 1 reside commercial
travellers are not received in good
society?"
Quick as a flash he replied:
'They are not here, either, mad
am"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08
ADAPTED APHORISMS.

Better a dinner of herbs and content
ment, says Everybody's Magazine, than
a stalled" auto in a far country.
When an old maid frolics it is no
childs play.
You must walk a long time behind q
gander before you find a peacocks
feather.
It's an ill wind that escapes from the
tire.
Despise not a small wound, an insig-
nificant enemy or a pinhole puncture.
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but
1t loses rough corners and will in time
become a perfect sphere.
The most careful hen can't find
things where she lays them.
No circus is as big as it's painted,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08

Western takes with Tom Jones very
good chances, to my way of think
ing); it is a question of unalterable
laws by which the gods limit our hui
man low.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08

DEAR MRS. PINKHAM For years I
enjoyed the best of health and thought
that Iwould alwaysdo so. | attended
parties and receptions thinly clad, and
would be suddenly chilled, but l did
not think of the results. caught a
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nation of the womb and congested
Ovaries. 1 suffered excruciating pains
and kept getting worse. Ny attention
was called to your Vegetable Com
pound and the wonderful cures it had
performed, and Imade up my mind to
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felt much better, and at the close of the
second was entirely well.
al have advised a number of my
lady friends to use it, and all express
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The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-08

Miss Rose Hennessy, well
known as a pOetess and eIOcu.
ZIONIST, of Lexington, KY, tells
how she was cured of uterine
inflammation and ovaritis by the
use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound.