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WOMAN’S
WORLD.
In the vacation schools opened lost week
children and young people are being
taught how to cook. sew, swim, dress
the baby, care for the wounded and a
dozen other matters of practical import
ance.
Every year,says Margaret Holmes Bates
In the New York World, some new ? sub
je tis added to the course of study. Why
not engage a staff of dompetent matrons
to open a vacation school for lovers? If
such a school were patronized as it ought
to be Madison Square Garden would be
too small to contain the class.
president Elliott of Harvard believes
that business should be taught in col-
and President Tucker of Dartmouth
recently said that every college should
have a shalr of politics.
If, therefore, we are to include business
and politics in our curriculums why not
teach also a science of courtship? It
would do infinitely more good by adding
immeasurably to the happiness of married
life.
It !s a common mistake to suppose that
young people between the ages of seven
teen and twenty-five are old enough to
manage their own love affairs.
The truth is that all lovers are children.
Love and reason are like a pair of horses
that can be driven single, but not double.
No matter how worldly-wise and clever
a young man and woman may be, the mo
ment they fall honestly in love they be
come fit pupils for a kindergarten. Most
lovers know only the pleasure-loving side
of each other’s character before mar
riage. After marriage the serious, work
s-day sides of their lives makes different
human beings of both of them.
If ever there is a time when young peo
ple need common sense and have so little
of it is when they are in love for the first
time.
Watch a pair of lovers as they sit on
the beach and touch hands in the soft
sand, or as they coo by moonlight on a
bench in a secluded corner of a park.
What do they care about rent, or rates
of wages, or the price of Ice or the gas
bill? What do they know about laying
carpets or stopping leaks in refrigerators?
What to them are the subtle laws of tem
perament, upon which four-fifths of do
mes<ic happiness depends?
Ae they whisper the old, sweet, silly
questions and answers, do they realize
for a moment that a time will ever come
when love will become a matter of course,
like one’s meals, and when the only sub
ject of conversation will be the toughness
of the steak or the weakness of the cof
fee?
No. there is no place in love’s young
dream for practical calculations. Every
thing Is gilded with hope. Even the S2O
--month flat with a geranium in the win
dow is transfigured into a veritable bow
er of delight. The young lovers move in
an unreal world of their own. as widely
different from the actual work-a-dav
world as “To Have and To Hold’’ differs
from the multiplication table.
Yet these young dreamers are making
decisions that will affect their whole af
t*r lives for better or wo r se.
Not many days ago a young Hebrew
was engaged to be married to a eirl who
was a devout Roman Catholic. His par
ents objected to the marriage and made
the young lover’s life so miserable that
he bought a revolver and ended his life.
This is one case out of scores where a
little sympathetic instruction might have
prevented a tragedy.
Half of us become engaged and married
before we are acquainted with ourselves.
When it is too late we discover that wo
have made what Mrs. W. J. Bryan has
called “a horse and cow marriage.’’ We
have chosen for our life companion one
who likes what we dislikt and dislikes
what we like, and so we go pulling and
jerking and jangling together througt
the remainder of our lives.
Of course, the divorce court Is always
open, but it can only change the future,
not the past. And so we come back to
the original proposition, which is not as
foolish as it first appears—why not have
a vacation school for lovers?
Conventionality, says the New York
Tribune, is in a great measure a tiling
of the past among fashionable people,
who, secure in their own position, do as
thfy please and defy the cut and dried
traditions of gentility which to be
the unwritten laws that governed society,
and which our grandmothers not
have dreamed of transgressing. Fancy
one of the latter receiving a visitor, who
was a comparative stranger, in this man
ner: "Madame is taking a bath." ex
claimed the French m?id, who came down
to the caller after the footman had taken
up her card to his mistress, "hut if
mademoiselle does not mind ze wailing
madame Mill descend in an instant." The
"instant" stretches out to several min
utes, but in a wonderfully short time,
considering the clrcums.ances, "madame"
ap eared, clad in a fcalh robe—a glorified
hath robe certainly, dainty with silk ruf
fl n? and embroidery, but an unksirable
sortie du lit" and no tea gown intended
obviously for company. "Madame" was
o-.e who could well s-and such deshabille.
*'■ l doubthSi she kr.cw it. She was a
fresh, rosy creature, and around her
white forehead and neck clung little wet
r gs of curly hair, the rest of which was
tl and up on the top of her head, ala Chi
mis.
I really wanted to see you," she ex
chimed with frank kindness to her visi
’or, "and, of course, could not think of
keepog you waiting, so I iump°d out of
my tub and put on this. I hope you do
no- mind." Ard then, with The adapt
t'h 1 tv of a woman of the world, she ap
parently forgot all about her unconven
tional garb, and talked of this and that
In the asiest way imaginable, and bade
he:- caller goodby without any further
reference to the subject.
Japan has recently issued anew series
Cl f P stage stamps that will he of great
I'iterest to philatelists. They commemor
* '* the recent marriage of the prince im-
P f, riai. which was described in these col
umns s veral weeks ago Tn the oval
frame is pictured a low Table spread with
' • er the place where all Japanese mar
•hhii: are solemnized. The table is doc
,,r t 1 \v th bamboo stalks and plum
nd blossoms, and at each corner
• i spray of pines. The pine and the
a i o being evergreens, represent that
' w hich there is r either var'ability nor
1 w of Turning; the plum, on the other
1 ml. stands for that which buds, blos
* hi? and fruits for the good rf man. The
*' orations of the paper table cover are
r-rane and the tortoise; of these the
' lr, l is symbolic of 1,000 years and the
* p 1* o'* 10,0 0 years. Here st th rt bride
J, ml bridegroom and pass each other cups
sakl to the number of nine and so
* ' ’ are marrifd, for the nine drinks to
rrf fT symbolize The perfect Japanese
fhftiTiage.
in Japan is the embb ni of wedlock
ft 1 for that reason It has b n reproduced
m tho commemorative stamp issue on the
doing of the crown prince. At Just
table sat he and his bride, and
b •• bilks of bamboo and sprays of pine
nr, l the b ooms of tb<* plum all Joined In
*Hung them both all health wealth and
U ‘ pn ss wlthcut ehang ng. and the
r " a ue and th* l turt e fixed a son of gen
f n us time ]| m tt to all the pood wishes by
*KRost:ng that It might posdbly come
' an . rul r.OOO or 10 000 years hence.
I,lnt is the way the Japanese set forth
nv-nnlng of the picture on the new
* Qrn r> and for confirmation they point to
'• ,r *end, which They stoutly aver Is a
dement of the name of the prince and
the princess and the date when they sip
ped the nine cups of saki.
Manufacturers and says
the Millinery Trade Review, are anxious
to place their new productions In satin and
velvet brocaded, warp-printed, and velvet
striped ribbons, which are extremely rich
in design and varied in combinations of
color. That they will be adopted to an
extent by some mlllinere, there is very
little doubt; still, the majority may
continue to give their preference to plain
textured ribbons.
There is a question of moire ribbons
coming in again, but milliners have
not yet had their say in the matter.
Ribbon velvet Is in considerable demand,
and gives every promise of remaining m
favor. Rather wide widths are asked for.
and this branch of business is decidedly
flourishing, whereas milliners are shy of
ordering wide-width fancy ribbons in the
present uncertain state of fashion in re
spect to them, as the really handsome ar
ticles are sold at a very high figure, and
if there is a question about the best qual
ities, there is little or none about the in
ferior weaves.
A good plain ribbon pleases far better
than a second-rate figured article.
I am informed, on good authority, that
the coming season promises exceedingly
well for the velvet trade.
The girl who is everybody's favorite is
generally a girl of average attractions.
She is not wondrously beautiful nor as
tonishingly clever, nqr so wise that she
knows other people’s business better than
they do themselves, yet she is beloeved by
all, young and old, and she will be sought
for when the pouting beauty, with her
matchless hair and eyes, is left alone, and
the student who can tell you all about the
things of science sits moping in a corner,
while the all-wise person is shunned as
the plague. This universal attraction is
a gift which is born with one, and, al
though I will not say that It could not
possibly be acquired, it is not often the
result of education.
We see babies who toddle into our hearts
with their first trembling steps, whose
dimpled hands hold our fondest, warmest
love as firmly as they clutch our hair.
They may be among the dearest things in
the world to us all through childhood to
maturity, and some day w*e awaken to find
that the laughing baby was developed in
to the beloved woman, whose voice is mu
sic in all ears, and who has fond hearts
scattered so thickly along her path that
the whole road seems colored.
The old people regard her as a sunbeam;
the young think no gathering so complete
or enjoyable without her. and the children
bang after her with adoring eyes and
hearts, which are not the least of her tri
umphs. She can always get what she
wants, and the paradox is that she doesn't
want things half as badly as other people
who are never gratified. She Is content to
take what comes her way, and she never
sighs after the unattainable, which might
as easily be hers, if she wished, as the
most ordinary, everyday things of life are
owned by other mortals, says the Pitts
burg Press.
This girl is a puzzle. The girls wonder
why she is so beloved by their brothers
and cousins. “Of course," they reason,
“she is a dear, sweet, little thing, but then
there is nothing extraordinary about her,’’*
never dreaming that it is Just that qual
ity which is admired end loved. Extra
ordinary things are all very well when we
go sight seeing, or take a day’s Journey
into some curiosity cabinet to see the
queer articles which are in the world, but
for the everyday purposes of life we want
something like ourselves, something not
above sympathizing with our ills, ailments
and tempers.
Woman's influence in China, says the
St. I ecu is Globe-Democrat, is greater
than is commonly supposed. Records of
the great Flowery Kingdom are full of
examples of women famous for their
learning, nerolsm and high principle.
Sometimes women achieve absolute power
over the household, for there is a popu
lar paying, ''She eats rice with her hus
band,” which is used to express the rule
of the female tyrant. The most aston
ishing instance of feminine power to-day
is. of course, the career of the Dowa
ger Empress, Eszi-Chi. It is said that
to-day the greatest mandarin of China
would far rather face the Emperor
Kwangsa than the secluded lady whose
firmness has often been tried and never
been broken. She is still the power which
rules the colossal country of 300,000,000
people, a country subject to colossal dis
asters of Hood, famine, epidemics, earth
quakes and insurrection, and which Is now
in the thi-oes of revolution and warfare.
As an instance of the Empress Dowager’s
strength, it may be recalled that she de
posed her strongest vizier, Prince Kung,
in 1865, by a mere decree in the Pekin Ga
zette, because “he overrated his import
ance." In common with all other nations,
the women of China represent the most
fervent religious element. They are said
to indorse enthusiastically the Boxers’
movement, and to be fighting with pas
sion to help rid the country of the detest
ed missionary.
That the women of China do not lack
courage is proved by the fact that they
sometimes seek suicide as belief from un
happy marriages, and uncongenial hus
bands would frequently be murdered
were it not for special punishments, "ig
neminous and slow,” devised for all wo
men who should attempt homicide. The
mere existence of this law proves the ne
cessity for it. Again, not long ago, fif
teen young girls of Canton threw them
selves into the river to escape from mar
rying the husbands chosen for them.
Two other recent examples prove the
heroism of the Chinese women of high
degree. A daughter of the Chinese min
ister to London, Kwo-Sung-Taon, was
married at the age of 17. When her hus
band fell ill and all food failed to nourish
him she cut a s.ice off her own arm and
put it in the broth. When he died she
tried to commit suicide, out of grief, and
would eat nothing but gold leaf, to induce
death. It tailed to poison her, and she
then starved to death. Her sister-ln-ilaw,
Mrs. Kwo, a sister of the Marquis Tseng,
tried also to follow her husband to the
land of spirits, but the use of quantities
of gold leaf failed, and she finally took
compassion on her children, agreed to
live, and managed her father-in-law’s
property while he was In London. Li
Hung Chang penned a memorial to the
Dragon throne, requesting that these two
wom<;n should be awarded a sign of im
perial approval.
Notwithstanding the degraded condition
of women of the lower classes, the female
Idea Is high In China, and the annals of
(he past show a long series of virtuous
and heroic women, who have made an In
delible impression upon the national
mind. The mother of the great sage,
Confucius, is held as a model, for, os his
father died when the child was 3 years
of age, his training was accomplished by
his mother, who. It Is said, gave him the
foundation for his great moral maxims.
The next philosopher of importance, Men
cius, was also indebted to his mother for
the foundation of his character and mind,
as well as Ills philosophy.
Woman s lot In China Is, however, not
an enviable one. She Is r.ot received Into
the world with Joy and Is given very lit
tle education. At 12 6he Is banished from
all companionship, to become "the young
girl who sits In the house," until her mar
riage, when she weds someone she has
never seen. Then she must obey her hus
band and her mother-in-law; she may not
come Into contact with men In the out
side world; and, as o rule, she cannot
rca d She may, however, receive ladles
and return their calls. The patrlarchlal
system Is so universal that the father Is
a despotic ruler over the family, and a
married woman becomes so entirely a part
of her husband’s family that she has to
yield her duty and her obedience to her
husband’s parents, who frequently treat
her more as a slave than a? a dnughter-
In-liw The doctrine inculcated In the
Chinese classics Is that a woman has
thtee stages of obedience; first, to her
father; second, to her husband (after sh
W married!; and third, to her son (If her
husband dies), when he reaches manhood.
The old proverb goes; "Men wish their
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boys to be like wolves, and fear lest they
should be timki; their girls they’ wish to
be like mice, and fear lest they should
have the boldness of the tiger." The laws
established 2,300 years ago are In favor to
day. and among them no rules are strict
er than those which provide for keeping
the women in bondage.
Chinese books of instruction for girls
consist chiefly of exhortations to dis
charge their duties a© daughter**, wives,
mothers and daughters-in-law. The “Girls’
Four Book*?," to which two famous Em
perors wrote prefaces, contains the beet
idea of how the female tnind and char
acter must be trained. Modesty, gentle
ness, self-sacrifice, wisdom, respect for
ekiers and a virtuous dlsposhion must be
a woman’s equipment for life. There is
no pressing need for intellectual educa
tion. However, about 100 in every 10,000
women read, and that means read with
understanding the great books of philos
ophy and literature, the works of China’s
sages and poeis. Such cases are found
among the aristocratic classes, and men
of letters frequently teach their wives and
daughters not only the art of reading, but
that of writing, and go so far as to pub
lish their literary effusions.
All the women at the church social, says
the Washington Post, had acknowledged
their utter inability to manage their hus
bands, when a timid looking little mat
ron who had been ignored by the rest was
observed fidgeting In her chair. At last
she spoke, at first with hesitation, but
growing bolder as she progressed. “My
system is an old one," she said. “It’s bas
ed upon the natural horn contrariness of
the human male biped.
“We will suppose that I am just perish
ing for a new’ tailor-made dress, although
I have one that Jack thinks ought to see
me through the season. Very well. I
make up my mind to have anew tailor
made dress and 1 hunt around among my
women friends to find out w r lio has recent
ly acquired a stunning tailor-made dress.
I tell her my little scheme and she
comes and visits me while Jack is home
and she wears her new tailor-made dress.
She looks tremendously fetching in it, of
course. When she goes I don’t say a word.
I wait for Jack to say what I know he’s
going to say:
" ‘By Jove, my dear,’ he’s bound to re
mark, ‘wasn't that a swell rig, though,
she had on?' Say, I wonder how much
those togs cost—anything within reach?’
” 'Oh. X say, 's4s or so, but I wouldn't
care for a dress like that; 14’s too tight
and too conspicuous, don't you think?’
“ 'No, I don’t think anything of the
sort,’ my brave Jack is almost bound to
say. 'I think It's Just the real thing, and
It's a wonder you wouldn’t dress the way
T want you to dress, tny dear. Now, I
like that dress, and I'm blamed if I'm not
going lo have you get ones Just like it,' etc.
Result: 1 get the dress, which is just ex
actly the kind of dress I’m perishing for.
"Another case: Supposing I am partic
ularly anxious to see some theatrical star
who is going to be in Washington next
week and I feel that Jack isn't very en
thusiastic about going.
“ 'I see So-and-So's going to be here
next week. Jack,’ I say casually. ‘I never
thought much of his—or—her acting, did
you?’
"Jack drops his paper and regards me
from a very great height Indeed.
“ ‘Now, my dear, that just shows how
vitiated you have permitted your theatri
cal taste to become,’ he will reply in nine
cases out of ten. 'So-and-So’s 'way at
the top In my estimation and I wouldn’t
miss seeing him—or—her next week for
anything. What's more, I’m Just going to
take you along to see if you can't learn
to appreciate,’ etc., etc. Thus I go to pre
cisely the theatrical attraction next week
that I’ve been waiting to come around this
way all the season.
“Still another Illustration; Supposing I
want to go to the seashore this summer
Instead of the mountains. I begin about
now attacking the seashore to Jack—not
violently, hut In n mild sort of way.
" 'I think it’s stupid at the beaches,' I
say to him, and I keep on saying similar
things until he hursts out with:
” 'That’s a queer way to talk. Isn’t it?
If it’s stupid at the beaches then there
must he millions of stupid people In this
country that have all kinds of fun at the
seashore every summer. I don’t know
where vou're going this summer, but I’ll
tell you one thing, I’m going to put In
my vacation at the seashore.' Thus that
Is accomplished.
"The poor human male biped can't help
It- he's born contrary, but he's so dread
fully, hopelessly easy when you know
how to make out of his very contrariness
a tool wherewith to manage him.”
Every now and again. It happens that
twins grow up with such a strong resem
blance to each other than their best friends
are often deceived as to their Identity,
while strangers find it impossible to dis
tinguish them from each other. This, says
the New York Tribune, naturally gives oc
casion for amusing mistakes, out of which
the principals derive great entertainment.
Sometimes, however, the cases of mistak
en Identity are more serious, as one of a
pair of well known society men from a
neighboring city found out not long ago.
Hut as all's well that end well, the affair
is now regarded by all parties concerned
as a fortuitous Incident, as well as an ex
cellent joke.
The B— twins, who were good looking,
clever and socially desirable, scored a suc
ce*B wherever they went. At school, col
lege and afterward in their world they
were immensely popular, and It was im
possible to decide which was the favorite.
In character, however, they were decided
ly different, one being altogether what Is
called a man's man, while the other was
devoted to the fair sex. and had contin
ually some serious flirtation on hand, to
one of which, to the great dismay of Ms
twin (as a marriage would involve a sep
aration for the first time In their lives),
he succumbed and became engaged. Even
having a ligilimate owner, however, did
not entirely cure our young man of his
flirting propensities. U happened that on
one of his business trips out West he met
a certain charming young woman, and as
he was thrown almost dally In her Society
he became, quite unconsciously on his
part, seemingly quite devoted. To hl
surprise and embarrassment, however, lie
found himself, for the first time in his
life taken seriously. Here was a dilemma!
He could not In cold blood Inform her that
she had misconstrued his attention, and
that he was already engaged to another
attractive young woman whom he loved
devotedly, nor could he make up his mind
to go away and leave her to suppose he
had l>een trilling with her affections. The
girl herself was all that the most exacting
person could desire-good, beautiful and
clever—and with a sufficiency of this
world's goods to moke her in the estima
tion of Mrs. Grundy un excellent match.
“There Is only one way out of It," he
exclaimed hopefully as a happy thought
struck him. “I must make Harry lake my
places It will b* • capital thing for the
old fellows, for he will never have the
courage to make a start for himself; he
ought to be grateful to me all his life if
I can secure this awfully nice girl for
him,’’ with which Jesuitical reason he jus
tified his subsequent proceeding, for, if the
truth be told, he carried on his vicarious
courtship with a good deal of energy, and
left the young woman quite at ease re
garding his “intentions.” The next step,
that of convincing his brother that he
must take the good the gods, or rather he
himself, had provided required considera
ble tact, but he found the former quite
melancholy over the idea of their ap
proaching separation, and a he was an- in
tensely shy man and unused to women’s
society it was not altogether difficult to
persuade him finally to accept the charm
ing bride provided for him. and to keep
the appointment which his brother had
made in his name and return a fortnight
later.
The subsequent proceedings were easy
enough, for, like men of his temi>erament.
he fell hopelessly and completely in love
at first sight, and he became the slave at
once and forever of the lovely Westerner,
who on her part never detected the ex
change, and treated him with the sweet
familiarity of an old friend.‘From being
an exceedingly timid man the supposed
woman hater developed into an ardent
wooer. Matters were hastened up. The
double wedding day was appointed for an
early date, and it was not until he had
his wife safe and sure that the substitute
brother made his confession and received
absolution, “particularly.*' said his wife,
half in mischief, end half in revenge, “as
I am such a gainer by the exchange!’’
The woman of 45 who owns to her age,
says the New York :Sun. and could there
fore presume to give advice to others wn*
talking seriously to the comparatively
young woman of 30.
“Don’t ever allow yourself to reach tha
stage of affability,” she was saying, “at
which people will call you a good fellow.
I know that many a girl likes to have
that reputation and men are all likely to
be attentive to the sort of girl who is
called n good fellow. She is generally
sure of having a good time. Mon will
take her out, always he glad to have her
In a party, be very attentive to her at
dances, and make her seem like n belle.
All these rewards come to the girl who
is a good fellow. But I have rarely heard
of n men who wanted to marry her.
“Of course some man usually does mar
ry her. been use the girls who are good
fellows usually find husbands. But the
demand for them ns wives is not relatively
so great as- their popularity with men.
Girls with half the amount of attention
that the good fellow gets are going to
be married first. Men don’t want for
wives the women who are companions.
They want women who appeal to their af
fections. not to their sense of what is
agreeable socially. I have seen good fel
low girls who waited for years to marry,
even -when they had more men around
them than the other type of woman who
was married at the end of her first year
out.
“Don’t get the reputation of being a
good follow, whatever men may think of
you. I dont mean rot to he fast. I do
not take that into consideration at all,
because that Is vulgar, in the first place,
and the cocktail-drinking, loud-talking
type has nothing whatever in common
with the sort of girl I meant "when I spoke
of her as a good follow. The type T meant
lias nothing in common with the girl who
is rapid. She can be as good form, as
well bred, and as modest ns the most
shrinking type of Intensely feminine wo
man.
“The popularity of the girl w’ho is called
a good fellow' can usually be explained.
I heard a man say. the other day that he
would always rather be with a woman
than with a man. If he goes out to din
ner. he prefers to be with a woman, and
if he goes to the theater, feminine society
is more agreeable to him. He confesses
frankly that Jhe principal reason for this
preference is hi ability to do as he
wants to. when his companions are wo
men, whereas he would be compelled to
do as the rest of the party wanted, if
he were not with women. If he goes to
dinner with a woman, he selects the res.
taurantg that he prefers and orders what
he cares to eat. A man may do that
adroitly, even while pretending to consult
a woman's taste most assiduously. If
he goes to the theater, he selects the play
that he likes, In the majority of cases,
and the woman has to like it too.
“Now the good-fellow girl is likely to
find a good many admirers among men
of this class. who wrant a woman compan
ion merely because they have things more
their own way than if they go with
men. But it is not worth w’hlle, for the
sake of any. pleasure to be got out of it,
for a girl to acquire the reputation of be
ing a good follow. I is likely o interfere
with some of her more important aspira
tions for the future, and you know matri
mony and a good husband will compensate
a girl for missing a great deal In the way
of a good time before the wedding.*’ 4
Mrs, C. W. Wood of Madison, S. D., says
the Chicago Inter-Ocean, is the possessor
of a valuable diamond ring which has an
Interesting history. About a year and a
half ago the ring disappeared. The house
was searched from top to bottom, the ash
heap was placer mined, and every nook
and corner of the premises thoroughly in
spected, but the jewel could not be found.
Mrs. Wood gradually forgot her loss. She
Is. however, once more In possession of her
ring. About a year after the disappear
ance of the Jewel Mrs. Wood sent a bed
steed to a second-hand store to be sold. A
farmer named Merrlam, living several
miles from Madison, was the pruchaser.
The bedstead was taken to his home and
placed in position for use.
The otehr day a brilliant object In a
crack of the panel of the bedstead at
tracted the attention of Mrs. Merrlam,
and, plucking It out, It proved to be a dia
mond ring. The Merrtams, instead of
keeping their discovery quiet, at once com
menced a search for the owner. They vis
ited the second hand store where they had
purchased the bedstead, when they were
infermd that the bedstead with the dia
mond setting had been the property of Mr.
and Mrs. Wood. They called on Mr. Wood,
and when he had been informed of the
object of their visit, he stated that he be
lieved he had "heard something” about his
wife having lost a diamond ring a year or
two ago. The Jewel was given to Mr.
Wood, who suitably rewarded the farmer
and hit" wife for their honesty.
He wore the ring home on his finger end
ate dinner without attracting Mrs. Wood’s
attention to it. After dinner, while In an
argument over the Chinese war. and while
making many sweeping gestures, Mrs.
Wood caught sight of the ring a nd soon
hastened to tell her neighbors of h*r
good fortune.
How did the ring get lost In the panel
of the bedstead? It was Mrs. Wood’s cus
tom to take off her diamond rings at night
and place them under her pillow to pre
vent them falling Into the hands of bur
g'ars. The ring evidently slipped from lie
place under the pillow to the crevice in
the panel of the bedstead, where It re
mained concealed far a year and a half,
until accidentally discovered by the far
mer’s wife.
Apropos of housekeeping, says the New
York Times, there Is a story of the Quern
which Is being told by the English papers
which Is Interesting. It Is, of course, un
derstood that Victoria R. Is a devout be
liever In housewifery qualities, and In
every woman her own housekeeper,
though a Queen. The Queen looks well to
the ways of her household, so, as the story
goes, In passing through an unused suite
of rooms at Windsor one day she found
the place undueled, and one tuble In par
ticular white with dust.
The Queen understands not only the big
hut the little practices of housekeeping,
so in silent dignity, as a compelling re
proof. she wrote In the dust with her
finger, "Victoria R.”
But, alas! this subtle rebuke was wast
ed, and the following day when Her Maj
esty passed through the room she saw
the dust a trifle thicker and her name as
she had written tt the day before. Per
severing. the Queen then asked the name
of the untidy housemaid, and learning it.
wrote that also below her own.
This last effort was rewarded with suc
cess. and the third day the dust and the
names had both disappeared, "and,” as
the story goer*, “the silent rebuke from
her sovereign was never forgotten by the
neglectful maid."
Outsiders do not, of course, understand
the workings of Her Majesty's household,
but to almost any one it would seem that
though the maid may have been culpa
ble. there must have been some superior,
that much boasted capable English house
keeper whose business it was to see that
the maid performed the duty of dusting
if it were hers, and if a table could have
remained long enough untouched to ac
cumulate dust In sufficient quantity to
serve Her Majesty for an autograph tab
let it would wem time for the housekeeper
to be reduced to the ranks.
Another way to look ut the story is to
consider the Inestimable value of that ta
ble after it h;.d been honored by the
Queen, its further value to the maid with
her own name upon it. and what a won
derful relic it would have been preserved
under glass to snow not only Her Maj
esty’s handwriting, but her frame of
mind. And ell swept away with one
whisk of the dusting cloth! What would
they not have giver* for such a relic in
one of the Fourth Avenue Antique shops
in this city! What an object for domestic
science school pilgrims it would have
made!
Hartley Davis, in writing of Newrport In
Munsey’s Magazine, says: "All summer
homes In Newport are called cottages.
Even that magnificent palace built by W.
K. Vanderbilt, Marble House, which rep
resents fin expenditure of perhaps $3,000,-
000, is called a cottage.
“Everything in Newport Is measured by
the scale of millions. Even the flowers
preach the gospel of wealth. Nature
made It the most beautiful summer resort
in the world; man ha mad© It a monu
ment to his colossal vanity. But it has
the merit of being a beautiful and mag.
nittoent monument.
“For about six weeks In the year New
port Is the society center of America. The
gathering Is even more representative
than can be. found In New' York during
the opera season. A majority of the cot
tagers are New York millionaires, but
Boston. Philadelphia. Chicago, San Fran
cisco and other cities semi their most
fashionable folks to take part in the fes
tivities. It has popular as n sum
mer resort for a century. It has always
been aristocratic and exclusive, although
the aristocracy is largely that of wealth."
No woman Is pleased at the thought of
growing old. But age is not Indicated cllh
er by wrinkles or gray hairs. Both are
frequently visible upon girls of 20, while
the woman of .V) can sometimes claim ex
emption. Aids to beauty have obliterated
the marks that once told tales, so thnt
even mirrors with their reputation for
truthfulness don't "give one away"— n.v
ful phrase—even to herself.
There are, however, ways hv which a
woman knows she's growing old. FV>r In
stance, when Miss Jones refuses invita
tions to picnics and all-day excuisions thai
she once considered great fun, preferring
a wrapper, n hammock and a novel to an
hilarious crowd, melted butter and buss
of all sorts in edibles of all kinds, she feels
a qualm, for she knows old age is descend
ing upon her.
Again, when she hesitates between an
organdy that will not launder, hut that Is
“too dainty for anything,” and a gingham
that’s as much more serviceable as It Is
less beautiful, and finally chooses the lat
ter, she rushes home in great perturbation
of spirit to look 1n her glass and see If
this proof of advancing antiquity is con
firmed there.
A desire to learn new patierns In fancy
work and to talk about servants are also
deplorable symptoms, and the woman who
works out directions for a lace in a pa
per may take it as |x>*ltlve proof that
she's growing passe.
There are other signs, such as losing
the Idea that lee eream is the ne plus ul
tra of delight in diet, and choosing rather
for a steady regime the substantial sand
wich, but any one of these is serious and
should be looked to at once, for they are
all, in the vernacular, "give-aways."
A certain young man In Washington,
D. C., society was very fond of discussing
sciological and moral questions, arid once
started in this hobby could scarcely he
headed in any other direction. He had
been quite devoted in his attention to one
young woman for .as much as six months,
but she had been unable lo tiring him to
his senses, though she was willing to con
fess that she had tried repeatedly to do
so. Of eouise, she had done It In the deli
cate ways women have in those matters,
but what he needed was a club.
Not a gr, at while ago he was calling, as
usual, and as usual he was neglecting
sentiment for something that only make
a girl tired. This time he was moralizing
on the temptations of life and the prone
ness of people against them in whatever
form they might appear.
"However," he said, In conclusion, dis
playing a commendable spirit of charity
for the weak, "it is a very difficult thing
for anyone to say 'No.' ”
Here was an unexpected chance for her.
"And conversely," she responded slow
ly, so he could get the full force of It, "It
should be very easy for one to say
‘Yes.’ ”
He looked her straight In the eyes at
last, and a hush fell upon the scene.
"Um-er-um, ' he hesitated, "Miss Kate,
am Ia chump?" ■
"It Is very difficult for one to say 'No/ ’’
she said with a pretty little smile, and
later she found It quite easy to say
"Yes.”
One of Philadelphia’s most distinguished
portrait painters asserts that tho necks
of American women are becoming longer
and more slender year by year. The high
collar, he declares. Is responsible for It.
All the life studies and portraits of wo
men seen at students’ exhibits demon
strate this. "I know a man," ho said the
other day, "who took a tape measure to
the last exhibit at the Academy of Fine
Arts and succeeded In getting data for
a comparison of women’s necks painted
ten years ago, five years ago and at the
present time. He claims that the average
feminine neck has become elongated to
the extent of nearly an Inch during the
last five years. Remember, this Is his
claim, not mine, although It doesn't seem
altogether unreasonable when you come
to think of it.
—At the present time the United States
have more warshp tonnage under con
struction than ever before In the history
of the country In time of peace, The new
vessils building or authorized. Include
seventy of all classes, twelve of which
are battleships, six armored cruisers, nine
protected torpedo-boat destroyers, fifteen
torpedo-boats, seven submarine gunboats
and one lake gunboat.
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CO~
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A CYCLONE OF BARGAINS
The Summer Goods are doomed to go. We must make a
clean sweep. We disregard all values and marked
them at Prices That Will Please the Closest Shoppers.
A DROP IN CHINA SILKS.
45c Black China at 33c
50c Black China at 39c
60c Black China at 44c
(>sc Black China at 49c
85c Black China at 59c
90c Black China at 69c
2 Cakes Buttermilk Soap 5c
13 cents Quality White Corded Dimities at 7 cents
15 cents Black and White Printed Lawns at 7 cents
15 cents White Satin Stripe Fine Lawns at 7 cents
15 cents Solid Color Lawns and Organdies at 7 cents
15 cents Odds and Ends of Printed Lawns at 7 cents
15 cents Clean Fresh Infants' Mull Caps at 7 cents
50c l ;r Shirt Waists 25c
25c White Dimities at..lsc
8c White Lawns at 5c
12c India Linnon at 8c
15c India Linnon at 10c
20c India Linnon at 14c
25c Batiste Mulls at... .19c
35c Batiste Mulls at... .25c
10 Yards 24-inch Diaper 55c
$2.00 Clean White Shirt Waists, now Half Price.... SI.OO
$2.25 Clean White Shirt Waists, now Half Price $1.25
$3.00 Clean White Shirt Waists, now Half Price $1.50
$4.00 Clean White Shirt Waists, now Half Price... $2.00
$5.00 Clean White Shirt Waists, now Half Price.... $2.50
Colored Shirt Waists Recklessly Slaughtered at.... 25c
sl£ ? Dress Goods al 50c
15c English Percales at 10c
10c Dress Ginghams at 6 %c
60c French Challies at 39c
No Fake Here! Every Article As Advertised!
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN & GO.
MID-MET
FIGURES PREVAIL
-AT
. . HOGAN’S . .
Inducement* in every ilriwrtinrnt. Greater reduction* to meet the de
mnml for good good* cheap. A positive moving on every Item. This I*
the cool ■ I ore—Cool ear* top nt the door. Yon save money and dis
comfort when you shop here.
SI MMER DRESS GOODS.
10c Colored Dimities 7Vic.
15c Colored Lawns and Dimities 10c.
Imported Madras Cloth and Gingham
25c and 30c grades, at 19c.
65c Grey Homespuns at 45c.
63c Black China Silks 49c.
25c Black Serges at 50c.
White Striped Madras, suitable for
walats, 20c, Instead of 30e.
LACES AND EMBROIDERIES
AT VERY LOW FIGURES.
Machine-made Torchon Laces and Inser
tlngs—assorted patterns.
Fine Valenciennes and Point de Parts
Lores and Insertings; large variety of
patterns.
Cambric, Swiss and Nainsook Edging
snd Inserting; neat and open work pat
terns; choice collection,
LADIES’ HOSIERY.
Special bargains In Misses’ Black Riche
lieu Ribbed Hose 16c; worth 30c.
Bargain Ladies' Black Lisle Lace Hose
26c; worth 35c.
Bargain Ladles' Black Lisle Lace Hose j
69c; worth sl/0.
Bargain Ladies’ Black Lisle Hose, silk \
polka dot, 47c; worth 7T>c.
Bargain I-adles' Polkn Dot and Fancy I
Striped Hose 19c and 26c.
DANIEL HOGAN:
The corner Broughton and Barnard Sts.
Ribbon, the latest, best and cheapest.
All-llk, heavy satin und taffeta, assort
ed colors. Write for samples and prices.
No. 1 Baby Ribbons, lc yd., 48c spool.
No. 2 Ribbons, H-ln., 2 Vic yd., 29c bolt.
No. 4 Ribbons, Y*-ln., 5c yd., 38c bolt.
No. 5 Ribbons. 1-in., 5c yd., 45<- bolt.
No. 7 Ribbons, IV4-ln., 5c yd., SOo bolt.
No. 9 Ribbons, lVi-ln., 8c yd., 75 twit.
No. 12 Ribbons, -21n., 10c yd., 90c bolt.
No. 16 Ribbons, 244-In., 12'/jc yd., sl.lO licit.
No. 22 Ribbons, 2%-in„ 15c yd., $1.35 bolt.
No. 40 Ribbons. 3V4-ln.. 17‘F yd., $1.60 boR.
No. 80 Rlblions. 4-in., 20c yd,, $1.85 bolt.
No. 100 Ribbons, 5-in., 2.1 c yd., $2.25 bolt.
All above run ten yard* to boll. Wo
mall ribbons free all over L’nitcJ States.
IF YOU WANT GOOD MATERIAL AND WORK ORDER YOUR LITHO
GRAPHED AND PRINTED STATIONERY AND BLANK BOOK!
FROM THE MORNING NEWS SAVANNAH. GA.
1 40c White China at 29c
50c White China at 35c
60c White China at 44c
65c White China at 49c
75c White China at 59c
$1.25 White China at.. .89c
30c Colored Dimities.... 19c
Irish Linen Lawns 19c
30c Imported Dimities.. 19c
35c Silk Ribbons 19c
40c Embroideries 19c
30c French Ginghams .. 19c
30c Ladies’ Hose 19c
! 60c Men’s Shirts at..... 39c
69c Men’s Shirts at 44c
1 75c Men’s Shirts at 50c
UNDER.WEAR CHEAP.
Ladles' Silk Vests in white, pink and
blue, 75c quality for 50c.
Ladles' Little Vests, 40c quality for 25c.
Ladtee' Lisle Vests, 26c quality for 15c.
Ladles’ Out Size, 26c quality for 19c.
Ladles’ Ribbed Knee Pants 26c.
SHIR/IT WO REDUCED.
36-tnch Wamsutta Bleached Shirting
1044 c.
Splendid S-4nrh White Shirting 644 c.
RED SPRE ADS AT COST.
White Summer Bed Spread 68c.
Splendid White Bed Spreads for SI.OO.
Splendid White Bed Spreads for $1.25.
BEST TONVEL IN THE CITY.
Fine Large White and Colored Borders
Damask Towels for 2oc.
MEN’S SHIRTS.
Special line Men's Madras Shirts 15c;
regular $1.25.
60 dozen Colored Shirts, regular 69c, 500.
MEN'S UNDERWEAR,
MEN’S NECKWEAR,
MEN’S HALF HOSE,
AT ABOUT ONE-HALF ITS VALUE.
Gent*' Half Hose, regular 50c, this week
25 cents.
Gents' Half Hose, regular 35c, this week
19 cents.
Gents’ Fancy Half Hose, regular 30c,
this week 13c.
Wheeler & Wilson No. 9 Ball-Bearing
Sewing Machine, guaranteed to be the
lightest and fastest running, easiest and
less trouble with threading and filling the
bobbin, and can do more work in a day
than any other sewing machine made, at
prices never heard of before.
Listen: We will give you a $53, S6O and
$65 Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine at
S3O, $35 am] S4O for next 30 days. Tills is
s saving of $26 on each machine.
Don’t fall to call and see those ma
chine* at 14 East Broughton street.
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