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WOMAN’S
WORLD.
The Occidental woman, newly arrived in
the Orient, finds hat her daily and do
mestic life differs materially from any
thing her wildest Imagination had pictur
ed. She had been told that she would be
free from the servant question, that con
stantly recurring question to which no
solution has been found in this country;
that daily burden which mokes the lives
of American women miserable. She had
been told that she had only to give or
ders and things were done; that she would
recline upon her easy chair and call upon
Boy to fetch and carry at will. But such
a state of affairs seemed too ideal, she
could not take it in; she never dreamed
how thoroughly she would be relieved of
that “old man of the sea,” who hangs
about the necks of American housekeep
ers.
It must be remembered, says a writer
In the Philadelphia Record, that in speak
ing of Europeans in China, Americans
ore meant as well as any other national
ity. To the Chinaman all white people
are alike, and all European; he cannot
grasp the Idea of any world outside of
China, except Europe; and this he does
in a very vague sort of fashion.
In Hong Kong, as in all the Orient,
there are servants galore, and good ones,
too, to be had for the asking. True, one
must be surrounded by a small army of
them, for It requires the services of three
to accomplish In a day the work of one
good one here, but the wages of the three
amount to not much, if any, more than
what is paid for the one here, and the
comfort of the housekeeper Is very appre
ciably augmented by having, not only a
place for everything, but a servant for
everything.
One of the first things a European wo
man must learn, and then learn to Ignore,
is the fact that Chinese servants have
little or no respect for womankind, Eu
ropean or otherwise. They will show
their disrespect In a variety of ways which
the uninitiated fails to perceive: for in
stance. they will come into their pres
ence with the queue wound around their
beads, which is most disrespectful; hut
they never attempt the like with a man,
for they stand more or less in fear of
men.
The women servants are not far behind
the men in this respect, but there are
so few of them that they hardly count.
Caste prevails to an alarming extent,
which accounts for the necessity of u
large number of servants.
The Boy Is the most important person
age in the family. A good one Is a treas
ure. for he oils all the wheels of the do
mestic machinery, so that there is never
a hitch or delay of any sort. He wears
a pair of full white cotton trousers, tied
tight around the ankle; they are so full
around the waist that they hang In folds;
over these he puts a pair of dark over
alls, without any seat, which makes him
a grotesque figure. When In the house he
wears a long white gown, immaculately
clean; a short dark coat, or several of
them, according to the weather, is worn
in the streets.
The Boy maintains a very dignified atti
tude toward the master, and never or al
most never offers advice or suggestions
regarding his work; his attitude toward
the mistress Is that of armed neutrality.
Occasionally one bursts through his
frozen manner, and gives the master a
"talkee. ralkee."
A striking Instance of this came under
my own observation. A gentleman and
his wife, my host and hostess, found,
when they came to compare notes for the
day, that they had both made engage
ments for the same hour, and thus both
wanted the chair-coolies at the same
time. The gentleman, like all good hus
bands, waived his claim, and gave way
to his Wife's plans.
As he was leaving the house the boy
came to him and said: "What for you
give misses chart coolies? You man, you
take coolies; missee woman, no count.”
It would require a whole page and a
volume of expletives, to which I am not
accustomed, were I to repeat the lesson
which the Boy received that morning. For
days he scarcely looked at madam, and
then out of the tail of his bias eye. but
ever after he was respectful and courte
ous to that same little woman.
When a bachelor marries, as one some
times does in the Orient, his Boy, who
may have been with him from time im
memmorial, immediately gives warning.
Ho will not take orders from a woman,
and the newly made benedict must find
another one who has been accustomed to
women.
The boy Is butler and housekeeper; he
takes all orders and repeats them to his
a ibordlnates, whom he has hired and who
are under his entire control. He receives
the complaints and passes them on to the
kitchen servants, and the last one un
doubtedly goes out and "kicks the dog.”
having no one else upon whom to be
etow It.
There Is a curious free masonry among
the servants by means of which all seem
to know what one knows, and that al
most upon the moment. The Boy feels
responslbl'lty and faces an emergency
without complaining to the mistre.*; he
borrows anything he may chance to want
in the most barefaced manner.
For instance, If a dinner party Is to be
given and he doesn’t find silver or glass
enough, he goes direct to the Boy, whose
people are to be guests, and borrows what
ever he may need. Thus It frequently hap
pens that, although dining out, one eats
off his own China and drinks his toasts
out of his own glass; everybody knows,
but nobody minds
if ihe family Is a large one, with small
children, there musi be an Amah, or
nime. for each child, and one who acts
os ladies' maid to the “grown ups;” there
will be two or three in the kitchen to
help the cook, who, as elsewhere, Is an
important personage. One, If not all of
these, will be what Is called "larn pld
geon;” that Is, a Boy who gives his ser
vices for what he can learn, like the old
time apprentice.
Then there Is a coolie who carries wa
ter for the morning baths, though what
ever else he did I could never find out.
Perhaps his caste would not allow him to
perform any other service!
Most families keep a dhoby, or wash
man, for the hot climate necessitates thin
clothes In great quantities. Many keep a
sewing man, for ull these wash clothes
can be made up at home If desired.
Twelve thousand dollars—Bo,ooo franco—
is the price set on a chemise that Is now
absorbing the attention of the higher
courts of Paris. Not a single city poten
tate la at liberty to scoff at this highly
fated garment or question Its value, be
cause it was originally the gift of the
city of Paris, and has a history of its
own.
The suit to recover 112,000 for the loss of
this garment Is brought by Its owner,
Mmo. da Rute. who was born a Bonaparte,
and was therefore once a very Important
person.
Seme Hme ago—ln fact, under the empire
—M'llc. Bonaparte married M. Ratazzl,
ihen the French minister to Italy. Asa
brlclrtl gilt the city of Paris chose for her
a magnificent piece of lace adroitly fash
ioned into a most graceful and dainty gar
ment. It watt a gift appropriate for a
princesr. The bride was enchanted and
lj ld uslde the lace garment with her most
Priceless treasures.
So carefully did she preserve It. In fact
• bnt some three years ago It was still
under loci; and key in her Paris home.
In the meantime Mme. Ratazzi had be
come Mmo. de Rute. Many of her early
bridal gifts had disappeared. The lace
chemise, however, had never been lost
sight of.
One night Mme. de Rule’s house was en
tered and the most precious things It con
tained stolen. Even the historic chemise
did not escape the thief, who fortunately
was captured shortly after with most of
the stolen goods still in his possession.
The affair was promptly brought up in
one of the lower courts, where Mme. de
Rute objected to the disposition tempor
arily made of her precious garment.
It was therefore given into the custody
of a higher court, then taken to the re
cord office; and after a year's time,
through some misunderstanding, actually
sold, together with some other unclaim
ed goods, at auction.
What was paid for it nobody knows,
but as neither its value nor its history
was suspected, it is likely that some
thrifty shopkeeper secured possession of it
for a few francs.
The wife of Li Hung Chang is said to
be the most liberal of all the Chinese
women of her position and, through her
husband’s sympathy with some of the
ways of the foreign devils, succeeded in
acquiring more education than any wo
man in a similar place. She is now 35
years old. but is said to look twenty years
younger as a result of the care which she
has always bestowed on her personal ap
pearance. After her marriage to the Vice
roy she continued her studies under his
direction and has been always the most
accessible of the till'd women. She has
been especially eord'al to Americans
chiefly as the result of her experience
with the missionary doctors, although she
also took ihe trouble to show her grati
tude in a much more material form. Be
fore the French war she was 111 with a
complicated sickness that her own skill—
she has made a study of medicine—and
tiie treatment of the native physician
were unable to alleviate. Two American
doctors—a man and woman attached to
the missions at Tien Tsin—were called
in and through their efforts she was re
stored to health. She presented a dispen
sary to the missionaries at Tien Tsln and
her husband did the same. But they did
not feel that their obligations had ended
with these gifts, as they have both from
that time shown great hospitality and
Mftidllmss to Arne-leans In other partic
ulars she represents the most results of
what western sympathies, or at least tol
eration for western civilization, may ac
complish in the case of a Chinese of high
rank.
In her way of life, says the New Tork
Sun, she has clung, however, with strict
ness to the customs of her own country.
She lives in her palace, surrounded by
her women-in-waiting, the center of a
little court, as are all women of her rank.
The riches of her husband enable her to
live with somew’hai greater luxury than
the Viceroys' wives usually know, and
her diamonds are said to be the finest in
the empire She is said to look after the
details of her househo’d administration
personally. As more than one thousand
servants are employed there, her duties
ere serious and are combined with her
labors as to what would be called treas
urer of her husband’s preprty. as she
follows the custom of her country and
looks after his expenditures. She is said
to have made her reputation as a leader
In fashions by inventing fifty different
ways in which her glossy black hair could
be dressed, although it is probable that
to the average American they would ali
look alike. Her feet are as disfigured as
are these of all Chinese women of rank,
and only by being carried three hours
in the fresh air every day is she able to
make a pretense at the exercise of Euro
pean women. Oil of orange and acacia
blooms are said to be the component part3
of the bath which she takes twice dally,
and out of the fif y coiffures her favorite
is a style called "The Faithful Dragon
ess," a beast supposed to be the guardian
of all good women. The lair is twisted
into the shape of what might to the ard
ent eastern imagination appear to be a
dragon, and in what is intended to be Its
mouth a white lotus flower is placed.
Mrs. Burton Kingsland in the August
Ladies' Home Journal makes the following
observations on conversation:
It is better to be frankly dull than pe
dantic.
One must guard one's self from the
temptation of “talking shop” and of riding
one’s “hobby."
Whatever sets one apart as a capital "I”
should be avoided.
A Joke or humorous story Is dependent
upon its freshness for appreciation. Some
emotions will not bear “warming over."
It is no longer considered good form to
say a word against any one. An ill-na
tured criticism Is a social blunder. Gos
sip, too, Is really going out of fashion.
True wit Is a gift, not an attainment.
Those who use it aright never yield to the
temptation of saying anything that can
wound another in order to exhibit their
own cleverness. It is natural and spon
taneous. “He who runs after wit is apt to
catch nonsense.”
Talk that has heartiness in it and the
liveliness and sparkle that come of light
heartedness and innocent gayety, is a fair
ly good substitute for wit.
Offer to each one who speaks the ho
mage of your Individual attention. Look
people in the face when you talk to them.
Talk of things, not persons. The best
substitute for wisdom is silence.
It is a provincialism to say “yes sir,"
“no, ma’am" to one's equal.
Have convictions of your own. Be your
self and not a mere echo.
Never ask leading questions. We should
show curiosity about the concern of others
only as far Is it may gratify them to tell
us.
Draw out your neighbor without cate
chizing him. Correct him, if necessary,
without contradiciting him. Avoid man
nerisms.
Strive to be natural and at ease. The
nervousness that conceals itself under af
fected vivacity should be controlled, as
should the loud laugh.
Conforming to civilized modes, the pro
gress of a Chinese courtship in New York,
says the Mail and Express of that city,
is radically different in many respec'ts
from those customs set down in the Chi
naman's lexicon of morals, for in Mott
and Pell and Doyere streets the Mongol
dares make love to the object of his affec
tions—a behavior which would scandalize
society in the Flowery Kingdom and con
travene the primary principles of social
ethics there.
Phlegmatic and abrupt In his nature,
the Chinaman Is softened to femininity,
and in Chinatown there are many inter
marriages among races, for It must be
acknowledged that In this country the
Chinaman prefers, or apparently prefers,
a white wife. It may be said, however,
that Chinese morality or custom permits
a plurality of wives; in fact, abets it;
hence many Mongols In this country have
spouses on both sides of the world. There
are in all some sixty Chinese women In
Chinatown, but they are rarely seen upon
the streets. These are the wives of
wealthy merchants, for the more humble
shopkeeper or laundryman, if married
here, usually has a Caucasian halpmeet,
and a marriage between two such is sel
dom attended by any other than the usual
formalities Incident to European or Ameri
can courtship. That is, the Chinaman sees
and woes the object of his affection before
the nuptial knot Is tied. If he speaks
English on the pigeon variety, he says,
“Me love you;" If he talks In his native
tongue through an interpreter, he ways,
"Ghaw Oy Ne“—not quite so soft as the
English equivalent, but Just as effective,
lor the Chinaman is not fickle to his
plighted troth either in New York or Hong
Kong.
Thnt it is graceful and generally becom
ing to be thin is well known. But, says
the New Yofk Sun, one rarely hears Shat
It Is also economical to be thin. But
that assertion is frequently heard from
women who have passed the measure
ments at which they could possibly be
Included any longer under the adjective
“slight.” They are reminded sometimes
of their measurements in very convinc
ing fashion. "The thin woman can dress
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. AUGUST 5, 1900.
twice as well as the stout one," com
plained a customer of a department store
■whom the saleswoman had Just diagnosed
as a 40-incher around the bust, "and I
nevar envy thin women so much as when
I come to buy a ready-made garment.
Everything is made for the thin woman.
To the minds of the designers no woman
exists who measures more than thirty
four inches around Ihe bust. The rest of
us are quietly told that the beautiful
waist in the window marked down to an
unusually low figure does not come in
our size. Of course it doesn't. Nothing
cheap, and smart at the same time, ever
does come in our sizes, and we're fools to
ask the saleswoman about it and merely
give them the opportunity to tell us that
we cannot get them. The Impression
seems to be that anything will do for the
stout woman, and that if she's seeking
anything out of the ordinary she should
be compelled to pay for It as a penalty
for getting fat. That is always the ex
perience of the fat woman, and it always
seemed very difficult for me to under
stand, because most of the women I know
are 'way beyond the limit. Yet the cheap
things and the smart ones are still made
only for the thin women.”
Now.—(E. F. Hodges, in the Watchman.)
Kind words in ears whose earthly powers
are spent.
Like sunshine on the tree by lightning
rent,
Can give no balm;
'Tis better far to give them while those
ears can hear;
For life has much of woe and much of
fear.
And love brings calm.
It Is too late when life’s lamp burneth
low,
When hand once warm are chill as win
ter’s snow,
To do kind deeds;
'Tis better here where feet are prone to
slide,
'Tis better now than wait till eventide,
To help their needs.
t
Ah, friends! dear friends—lf any such
there be—
Keep not your loving thoughts away from
me
Till I am gone;
I want them now to help nic on my way.
As lonely watchers want the light of day
Ere It Is morn.
And though sometimes my heart, o’er
some sore wrong
Long brooding, weaves some bitterness
In song,
* ’Tis but a shade
Within life's textures where the best are
poor.
Oh, close not up to many fault's love’s
door!
I need your aid.
The following observations on old cus
toms of New York society people are
found In the New York Tribune: "So you
are rea'ly coming out next winter, little
Dorothy?” said he godmother "Why,
child, it seems only yesterday that your
mother and I were preparing for our de
but! What fun It was, and how different
society is now to what it was then! Not
half s gay It seems to me. Why, you
gi-ls do not know what It Is to have the
good times we had In those old days!
Take Sunday, for 1-s'ance; what a dreary
holiday it is in town r.ow in the winter
and how delightful it used to b! Coun'ry
clubs and Sunday out of town par'ies
were unknown In those days. The men we
knew all went to church, or at least came
to the deor at the end of service to walk
h~me with us All so lety turned Into
Fifth avenue, for an hour’s walk then,
and you saw literally every one you knew.
It was most atmis'ng! Now you all have
abandoned the avenue to strangers and
the dressed up crowd from the Best S'de
and West Side, and return directly home
without any attendant cavalier. You miss
a good deal by that, I can tell you.
"How queer our customs would seem
to you now! G'rls when they were en
gaged walked arm In arm on the street
with their fiances, and in that way en
gagements were announced. Generally
they came out on Sunday, and the walk
on the avenue proclaimed it to the world.
Girls rather liked to surprise their friends
and I remember what a state of excite
ment wo were all in when on that sunny
Sunday long ago your mother walked out
of Grace Church and took the arm of
Jack Brown, who was wa't'og for her
at the door- It was a great surprise to
all of us, as they had kept their secret
wonderfully well. She was so pretty, and
he so good looking! I can see her now
blushing and smiling and not daring to
lock at ony of us. I ran remember just
what she wore and how she looked. How
was she dressed? How you would laugh
If you could see her now, and yet I re
collect I thought her locking very smart.
She had on a honnet with a high, sharp
poke in front, the sides were tight and it
was mate soft of colored velvet. with
roses filling up the front. It was tied
under ihe chin with a neat little bow,
with strings to match the color of the
hat. She had on a turned down lace col
lar, and a cloth 'raglan'—a sort of loose
coat with bell shaped sleeves. It was
about as long as a man's covert coat, but
flared so as to set over the crinolined
skirr below, which was looped up in fes
toons over a velvet petticoat.
"The summer, too, w'as quite different
then. New you girls all go out of town by
June 1. and stay at dull country places:
but then we seldom left the city before
July, and In June evenings we sat on
ihe front steps and entertained our men
filends, who came much oftener In that
infoimal fashion than If they had to make
a regular visit in the drawing room. No
wonder that engagements were twice as
frequent in our day as they are now! For
July and August we went to Sharon, to
Richfield Springs, to Saratoga, Newport
being then the one well known watering
place where people lived In Ihelr own col
lages. Hotel life was the usual solution
of the summer question, and the nicest
people stayed at hotels and boarding
houses all summer, a custom that had
decided advantages as far as gayety was
concerned, although certainly home life
seems more refined. Still, young people
were thrown more together, and there
was more love-making. Dear me! that
was thirty years ago, and now your sis
ters are married and settled, and you,
Ihe baby of the family, have become a
weman. As old Dr L. used to say at
school, ‘Tempus fugits very fast!’’’
Af what age should a man marry?
That depends upon the man. Some men,ac
cording to the Philadelphia Times,are more
fitted for the responsibilities of matri
mony at 25 than others are at 35, said a
man In discussing tills Important subject
recently. If marriage, however, be post
poned afler this Inst figure a man is like
ly to get into what may he called the
habit of celibacy, from which, as from
other bad habits, II is hard to break
away. In this habit of celibacy he will
continue till he Is about 60 years of age,
when a great desire will come over him
to try what matrimony is like Just before
he dies, and he will propose right and
left to everything in petticoats, until at
last he Is picked up, not for himself, but
for his money or for his position, or be
cause someone is tired of being called
"Miss," and wants the novel sensation
of writing "Mrs.” before her name.
An old man told a friend that he want
ed to marry before he died If only to
have someone to close his eyes. "Per
haps," suggested the friend, "you will
get tome one who will open them." It
Is ~ot natural for a young girl to wish
to marry an old man. A father said
to his daughter. “Now, when It is time
for you to marry I won’t allow you to
throw yourself away on one of the. friv
olous young fellows I see around. I
shall select for you a staid, sensible,
middle-aged man. What do you say to
one of about 50 years of age?”
“Well, father,” replied the girl, "If it
is Just the same to you I should prefer
two of twenty-five.”
Perhaps the best advice one could give
a young man in thia matter la to say:
“Wait until you cannot wait any longer."
Wait, that Is to say, until she—that not
impossible she—comes with smiles so
sweet and manners so gracious that you
cannot wait any longer, then marry,
nnl may you he happy ever after! As to
the age at which women should marry.
I nm afraid of burning my fingers with
that question. All I shall say is that If
some women are not worth looking at
after 30 years of age there are quite as
many not worth speaking to before it.
Let a man please himself, but let him
rot marry either a child or an old wo
man.’’
A woman, says the New York Times,
who was discussing the self-sacrificing wo
man the other day.declared her a creature
of the past. The only example that now
romains, she claims, is the older woman
who has made the habit of self-sacrifice
the practice of a lifetime and cannot get
away from It.
"I know what it is myself,” she said.
"I was brought up to believe that I
must live a life of self-abnegation. I de
voted myself to my children In season
and out. Poor things, I brought them up;
they never had a chance to grow' Inde
pendently. That was in the early days of
their lives. When my husband came home
at night my house was immaculate, but
I w'as tired to death and cross, and he
didn’t know what it was. Finally I was
ill. I had worked myself into a perfect
wreck. Then I had to stop and I had a
long time to think.
“'I am never going to do as I have
done," I said to my husband one day, 'I
have made a mistake, and I am no long
er going to slave myself to death.’
“ ‘No, what’s the use?’ he answered
cheerfully, 'we only have to pay the doc
tor's bills.’
"The woman who is constantly giving
up everything for everybody does no
good to herself or to any one else. By such
a course she makes her children selfish
and they do not thank her for It. They
like a pleasant, cheeful mother, not a
tiresome drudge. And how one comes to
hate these martyrs who will sacrifice
themselves in spite of everything! They
spend their time and money for others
and have the martyr spirit unconsciously,
whether they mean to show it or not. Half
the time the helpful things they do for
others the others would rather do for
themselves. There are new ideals of a
woman's duty In tljis generation and I
would not be the one to say they are not
as worthy.”
According to a woman who has had ex
perience the modern Christian martyr is
the chaperon, says Dorothy Dlx In the
New Orleans Picayune.
"Don’t talk to me about other people’s
sufferings," she says, "I have chaperoned
half a dozen girls through summer cam
paigns, and I know what real trouble and
tribulation is. The office of the chaperon
is one that brings neither pleasure nor
profit, nor honor. It is one in which you
ore blamed If you fail, and get no credit
for a howling success. Nobody considers
the chaperon. Nobody pities her. Nobody
Is Interested in her. She is a poor, perse
cuted, put-upon creature, sacrificed to pro
prieties, yet people have been sainted and
monuments reared to commemorate their
heroic sufferings for less than she goes
through.
“To begin with, it's the most thankless
task on earth. It never even seems to
occur to anyone that you are making a
sacrifice to encumber yourself with a girl.
People meet you on the street and say
casually, quite as if they were bestowing
a prodigious favor, Instead of asking one:
"Oh, Mrs. Blank. I hear you are going
off to the White Sulphur Springs, or the
Berkshire Hills, or somewhere next week.
Would you mind chaperoning my Mamie?
She’s crazy to go, and it’s Just impossible
for me to leave home this summer. I'm
sure you will enjoy having the dear child
with you. She’s so sweet and won’t give
you any trouble.’ etc.
“What is one to say? If you’ve ever been
through the experience once and were
honest, you would say. ‘Not on your life.
I am going off to enjoy myself, and not
to do pehance for my sins by being a
chaperon. I don’t want to be bothered
with any young girl, and I won’t hove her
at any price,’ but you know perfectly well
if you do say it Mamie, and her friends,
and her family will call you a mean, self
ish, hateful old thing. So the chances are
you murmur hypocritically something
about being delighted, and you have the
sweet satisfaction of knowing, for your
pains, that unless you dog Mamie's every
footstep her parents won't think you have
done yo.ur duty by her, and if you tlo, the
sweet creature, for whose sake you walk
weary miles and go to picnics your soul
abhors, and help line the ballroom walls
long after you want to be in bed, will call
you an old dragon.
"It doesn’t make much difference,
either, what sort of a girl you undertake
to look after. As far as your conduct Is
concerned, there Is small choice whether
she is the flighty girl whom you are al
ways trying to keep out of scrapes or
the stick-to-the-wall girl, who keeps ’you
hustling trying to find beaux for her. In
either case the work of the chaperon Is
from the rising of the sun to the going
down thereof, and the putting out of the
last light in the hotel, and If anybody
thinks the Job is a sinecure, they are wel
come to It.
“I tell you It takes the talent of a dip
lomat, the patience of Job, and the wis
dom of Solomon to be a successful chap
eron. You have to have the forbearance
to put up with the never-ready girl, who
delays every excursion and keeps you
waiting for meals until the head-waiter
Is ready to shut the dining-room doors,
and there’s nothing to eat hut warmed
over scraps. Vou have to have the hu
mility to fasten the clothes of the girl,
who thinks part of a chaperon’s duties
are to be a dressing maid. You have to
have the generosity to supply the borrow
ing girl who never provides herself with
face powder, or hair pins, or stumps, or
anything she can sponge on another per
son for, and you have to have the self
control not to want to spank the weepy
girl, who goes off and cries every time
everything doesn’t go Just to suit her, or
another girl has the most attention.
’’You have to know when to beat up
the dark corners of the gallery and rout
out the sentimental girl to keep her from
being gossipped about. You have to know
Just how much rope to give the Jolly
good-fellow girl, and when to pull her
up, before she degenerates Into a rowdy.
You have to know how to keep the girl
who thinks she’s picturesque and likes
to poso from posing In idiotic attitudes
for Ihe amateur photographer. You have
to know how to catch beaux for Sally
Chump, who doesn't know any more how
to capture a man than she does an ele
phant. You have to be able to soothe
the ruffled feelings of the other young
men when Maud Prettyglrl goes off with
another for a moonlight stroll. You must
have a saving grace that will keep Em
mie Nlncompop from making a goose of
herself as often as you can, and then,
when you have done all these things, you
must possess such an altruistic spirit that
you can be satisfied with the rewards of
a good conscience, for other pay there
is none. No appreciation or thanks cqsne
your way, and you are lucky if you are
not blamed.”
"Now there's that little affair of Betty
Morgan's. Betty was the dearest girl—a
pocket Venus, with great, big, dewy eyes
and fluffy hair, and a way with her that
made her seem like an adorable child.
Betty’s people belonged to that forlornest
class the poor and proud. Good old
family, you know, but not a penny to
bless themselves with, and they depended
on Hetty to retrieve things and take care
of the little sisters and brothers by mar
rying rich.
“You know what always happens In
such cases? Betty did the inevitable by
falling in love with the poorest man she
knew. I had never seen him at the time,
but they said he was a musician, who
played like an angel and looked like a
Greek god, but who was only beginning
to get a foothold In hie profession. There
was a rich suitor somewhere In the back
ground, old enough to J>e Betty’s father,
but her family were urging him on her,
and the poor child grew thin and wan and
pale. That summer I took her with me
to Fairmount, and never was such a won
derful cure. From the first moment she
bloomed out Into health and beauty.
People raved about her, and I began to
think perhaps she had forgotten her
musician, and that after all money was
money and a pretty comfortable thing to
have.
"Then one day, quite by chance, 1 wan
dered down a little unfrequented path
in the mountains, and I came suddenly
upon Betty and a man whose face seemed
vaguely familiar. I raised my lorgnettes
and looked. It was the first violin in the
hotel orchestra, and the whole situation
flashed on me. He was Betty’s musician,
and he had oome to Fairmount to be with
her. Then I looked at Betty. Her face
was simply glorified with the light of
that love, undimmed by fear or doubt or
self-questioning, that never comes twice
to any human soul, and thnt has in it all
that is best and truest and sweetest in
life. The man held her hands tightly
clasped and pressed against his breast,
and he looked as if indeed he was re
ceiving God’s benediction out there in
nature’s church, I moved and they came
towards me, hand In hand.
" ’Mrs. Blank,’ Betty said, with her
voice . quivering like a hurt child’s, ’if
you tell my mother she will make me
come home, and ’
“ ’Betty.’ I said, 'the first duty of a
chaperon is to know what not to see.’
"Betty and her musician have been mar
ried these years, and are happy as the
day is long, but Ihe Morgans have never
forgiven me. They say I failed to proper
ly chaperon Betty. Perhaps I did. But
what w'ould you? There are things so
sacred that even a woman does not dare
to meddle with them."
One night last winter at the opera, says
the Philadelphia Press, a young physi
cian touched his companion on the arm
and nodded toward one of the balcony
boxes.
"Look!” he said, "there’s the girl I have
told you about. ’’
A great srft pink rosette was in her
hair. She was a lovely blonde and In her
low white gow'n made a very attractive
spot In the circle cf fashionables.
The man watched her with Interest for
a few minutes.
"Jove!" he said. "It se ms queer to see
her ih:s way, you know. The last time I
saw her was in one of the very poorest
districts in town I had an operation to
perform in a dirty' little tenement house
where it was hard work to get water, and
there was only a toica’o can to wash
your hands in. It was a desperate case
no time to get my patient to a hospital.
"Well, 1 asked one of the other doc
tors to ser.d me round a nurse, and that
girl came walking in. I nearly gasped
with surprise. She was neat and swaet
in a plain cotton gown, and she got out
an apron and put It on and went to work
in a most matter-of-fact manner. But 1
knew who she was. Ard It struck me all
of a heap to see a popular society girl
coming down In the slums to busy her
self in places and with things that were
neither easy nor agreeable.
"You may Imagine it was no ‘cinch’ to
get along with the things I had at com
mand down there. Miss Society was a
brick. She flew around and helped me out
In ail sorts of ways and showed no end
of ability and common sense.
“After that I found her visiting the
place regularly as a nurse while my pa
tient was recovering, and I learned that
she Is really fond of the work and In a
quiet way does a great deal of It. She
knows some of the prominent physicians
in town very well and they give her cer
tain of their charity cases to look after,
relying on her In many ways.
"She went as a Red Cross nurse dur
ing the war, you see—was accepted ns
one of the untrained assistants, and got
her first taste of nursing In the army
hospitals. After she came back she kept
up ihe work."
All New York is talking of the fact
that the daughter of John Crosby Brown,
of Brown Bros., is ministering in this
same way to the wants of the poor in
her city. It was reading a story about
her that reminded me of the Philadel
phia girl about whom this overheard con
versation took place.
You might see her nearly every morn
ing, if you chose, leaving her house on
Walnut street, near Rittenhouse Square,
to carry out her mission of comfort.
THE MANTFArTTRE OF GOLF RALLS
21,000,000 Are I’ted Kmch Yeary-The
Material of Which They Are Mude.
From an English Paper.
No outdoor athletic game has grown so
rapidly and become so popular as golf has
within a year or two. Golf clubs are
springing up everywhere and there is a
great rush of both sexes to become mem
bers and learn Ihe game. Every city In
the country has Us golf club; many have
more than one. Links by the dozen are.
necessary In the suburbs of every large
city to supply the demands of golfers, and
every summer resort and winter resort,
too, must have its links. To attempt to
put into figures the number of players
would be quite an undertaking; the high
est rational estimate would be exceeded
in six months. And all golf enthusiasts
are golfers, though all golfers may not be
enthusiasts. Twenty thousand people may
witness a baseball game or a football
game to see 20 or 25 players participate in
a game and in all of these spectators not
one In a hundred plays either game or
ever did or can play It. But the boys and
girls, men and women, young and old, can
and do piay golf. It is estimated that
about 300,000 persons piay golf more or
less, being about one In 250 of the entire
population of the United States.
One of the principal items of expense In
the materials for golf playing Is for halls.
More money Is spent to purchase golf balls
than for any other plaything that ever
was known. The cost for ball* Is far In
excess of the cost of clubs used and the
expense of clubs is no small item, but n
club may lasi a year or two. It can be
mended, If broken, for a few cents or by
the player himself at no expense except
of time; it doe not pay to have a club
mended If the cost exceeds half its origi
nal price. But a ball which costs on the
CAUGHT THE WORM
That Gnaws I’nder Cover.
"I have had quite an experience with
the use of coffee. Without knowing why,
I gradually became seriously constipated,
with all the disagreeable effecta of this
most aggravating disease. I was also
bltlouH and stomach badly out of order.
"I had no idea of the cause and kept us
ing coffee every morning.
“One day a friend to whom I spoke of
my troubles, remarked that perhaps I
would find the cause in the coffee cup and
suggested the use of Postum Cereal Food
Coffee. I wae Impressed with his remarks
and made the change from coffee to l’os
tum. The old troubles have nearly dis
appeared and I am one of the happiest
mortals you ever saw. I have proved to
my entire satisfaction that coffee was the
unsuspected cause of the difficulty and
while it nearly ruined my health for a
time, I have practically recovered again by
Ihe discontinuance of coffee.
"I have known a number of persons who
have been driven awuy from Poctum be
cause it came to the table weak and char
acterless. It simply was not made right,
arid it would be the same with any other
kind of drink, tea, coffee, cocoa, etc. Pos
tum, when made according to directions,
is a delightful beverage.
"There are a large number of people in
this surrounding country who are using
Postum, and their number is Increasing
daily. It Is sort of a stampede. Store afl
er store Is putting in o stock of Postum
that never thought of such a thing before.
"I enclose a list of twenty or thirty
names of those that I know of as users
of Postum. among my immediate acquain
tances Do not use my name, please.” J.
51. G., Box 72, Jefferson, Wis.
A RUSH AT ECKSTEIN'S
A crowd of eager buyers has thronged this store every day.
No wonder! The bargains in Suits, in Skirts, in Waists,
in Embroideries, have been tempting enough to please
the smartest buyers! Every bit of summer goods has to go.
Look out this week tor Special Drives—We will make a clean sweep.
LADIES z: SUITS AT $5.44
75c Ladies’ White Duck and Linen Crash Skirts 39c
Si.oo Ladies’ Linen Crash and White Duck Skirts 50c
$1.50 Ladies’ Colored, White and Trimmed Crash Skirts 75c
sls! S2O Ladies' Suits •> $7.88
75c Ladies’ Calico Wrappers in good styles and colors, 50c
SI.OO Ladies’ light and dark Percale Wrappers now at 65c
Si.so Wraopers now at SI.OO. Wrappers that were $2.50, now $1.50
See the Cinches in Silk Waists
No antique styles! No shop worn stuff! New goods only!
Silk Waists of up-to-date make, were $7.00. A Cinch $3.08
Silk Waists, solid colors, made to sell SIO.OO, A Cinch $5.98
50c Percale Waists at 25c
neady-made piiiow case* c] Special Embroideries at 5c
8-yard Pieces Mosquito Nets 36e L
Spial Embroideries at 8c
SSKSraS.rzrt Special Embroideries at 15c
Fiast Colored Shirting Prints 4c a • ■% • . ^
Fast Colored indigo Prints 5c Special Embroideries at 19c
50c Ladies' Lisle Hose at 29c
Irish Linen Lawns 19c I ' vhi,e Indin Lln<>nß Bt '■■■
1 12c India Llnona at 8c
Imported Dimities 19c j £ "!!!!!"!!i!"i
I. „ j ia 12c Corded Dimities ut 7c
mported Cringhams ... 19c ; Corded Dimities at ‘ 15c
c v> , • , v t 11 in i Satin Cheek Nainsooks at Be
sheer Batiste Mulls .... 19c I 13-inch Roller Toweling* ut 4c
Slaughter of White Waists
This Season’s clean, fresh, stylish White Shirt Waists
that are worth $1.50, $2.00 and $2.25, absolute slaughter
at 75 cts.
Sale is Positive! No Exchange! No Approval!
60c Men’s Fancy Shirts 39 cents
$3.88 will buy a stylish $7.50 Taffeta Silk Petticoat.
will buy choice of 10c Percales and Ginghams.
25c will buy choice of 50c Fine Large Linen Towels.
GUSTAVE EGKSTEIN & CO.
NOTHING LIKE IT!
There is nothing on earth to equal “Infants’
Friend Powder.” Where it has been tried it has
taken the place of all other preparations for the
face, prickly heat, and a thousand and one uses to
which ladies put it The baby needs nothing else.
Try nothing else for it
READ THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS _____
Howllnukl, Pharrr.aclat. The Constitution,
„ . . . _ . Atlanta, Ga.
Broughton and Drayton Sts. Woman’s Department.
Savannah, Ga. Mrs. Win. King, Editor.
480 Courtland avenue,
July 5, 1900. Atlanta, Ga., April 26, 1900.
Columbia Drug Cos., Columbia Drug Cos., Savannah, Ga.:
Gentlemen—lt gives me pleasure to
Savannah, Ga.: heartily recommend Infants’ Friend
Powder, and to give to you a singu-
Dear Sirs—Pleas, send m. half lar little coincident connected with it.
During the Cotton States and In
gress Infants' Friend Powder. I have ternatlonal Exposition I was pre.ien-
Mid It for .on,. „.r. and It ha. ” d d Mth”u Hlf"!
b ** n • -u.<..ui STSBSr rrST&T £2
package unique, and from personal nothing but Savannah, Ga., no other
address. I have often wished I knew
use I can recommend It highly for where to get it. This morning’s
mall brought your circular with en
chaflng and prickly heat. Yours closed sample I immediately re
ferred to my box. and found It was
truly. the Infants' Friend Powder. It le
ROBT. A. ROWLINSKI. without doubt the best rowder I have
ever used. Respectfully,
This la unsolicited. MRS. WM. KING.
average 25 cents may be lost at a single
stroke. A beginner or an unskilled player
may either use up or lose a dollar’s worth
of boils In each day’s play; professionals
and experts also are very extravagant In
their use of balls. It is estimated that 21,-
000,000 golf bails are used per year, an
average of 36 to a player. At 25 cents av
erage cost per ball, the coat of those balls
would be 15,400,000.
The only suitable material for golf balls
is gutta percha—a gum which comes from
India and Borneo, and other tropical
lands. It is resilient, but not elastic, like
India rubber. It is heavy enough to fly
well, tough enough (o resist, without
cracking or crumbling or chipping, the
hardest blowa of a driver of wood or of
Iron. Gutta percha is not too lively,
not too resilient; while India rubber Is,
and would either go bounding erratical
ly all over a field and be lost If made of
lively or pure gum, or be dead and unre
sponsive If made of adulterated com
pounds of India rubber. Hard rubber—
that is, vulcanized rubber—would have
many of the characteristics and outward
appearances of gutta percha balls, but
would chip and crack, and cannot be sub
stituted. Gutta percha costs about dou
ble the price of India rubber, or about
31.80 to 32 per pound; and the demand is
increasing and the supply diminishing.
Golf alone Is responsible for a very sharp
advance In price of hls commodity.
To make golf balls of known reliability,
of uniform size and appearance, with
clesn-cutmarkings, resilient enough to
suit the moat skillful and strongest play
ers, durable and properly painted with a
puint that will not easily wear or chip
off, and, perhaps most Important of all,
properly seasoned, requires skill, patience
and a large amount of capital. The de
mand for balls have been so great that
many Imported balls have been plaeed on
ihe market without having seasoned suf
ficiently long. This hurls a maker’s rep
utation, as such a ball Is soft and not as
resilient as It ought to be. Many play
er* N for fear of not getting balls that
have been seasoned long enough,buy their
favorite brands and store them away a
year or ho before using.
A full-sized ball weigh* 27ti penny
weights, and is so marked. Balls of the
larger size ohn he remade by anybody with
a mold, some potash to take off Ihe paint,
a pan of hot water and some good white
paint that will adhere. Balk* too small
to remake may be sold lor the gutta-
A ROSY C'OMI'LF.XIOY
Adds Greatly to Woman’s Beauty.
“LAIRD’S ROSE BLUSH”
An entirely new liquid Toilet Preparation.
Gives a natural, healthy, rosy color to the
cheeks. Will not rub off unless washed
with soap and water. Perfectly harmlesa.
If you cannot get it from your druggist.
It will be mailed upon receipt of 50c in
stamps. Geo. W. Laird & Cos., 9 East 42<1
street. New York.
percha that is In them and made Into
"stick." American ingenuity, capital and
skill will, as soon as time enough elapses
to put a ball properly seasoned on the mar.
ket, not only capture our market, but will
export balls. The great difficulty seems
to lie in getting gutta percha suitable In
all respects, as England controls the mar
kets of the world for gutta percha.
Gutta percha is Imported free of
duty, but a golf player pays a heavy
duly—3s per cent. So it Is obvious that
American manufacturers, if they can ob
tain gutta-percha such as they require,
can soon obtain control of this market, if
they put out good balls properly season
ed, that will meet all the requirements
of Ihe most exacting and skilful players.
Golf balls sell for 33.50 to 34.50 per dozen
to the consumer; the prevailing prices are
33.59 and 34; 34.50 Is a fancy price. With
gutta-percha costing only *2 a dozen be
fore being molded. It 1 obvious that there
Is no fancy profit to be obtained from man
ufacturing them, but there is a profit and
a good volume of business to be obtained
In a practcully new and protected infant
Industry.
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A Record In llloud.
The record of Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is lit
erally wrluen in the blood of millions of
people to whom It has given good health,
it 1* ail the trine curing diseases of the
stomach, nerves, kidneys and blood, and
it Is doing good every day to thousands
who are taking it for poor appetite, tired
feeling and general debility, It is the best
medicine money can buy.
Hood's Pills aro non-trrltatlng. Price
25 cents.—ad.
• * im
Abbott's East India Coin Paint cures
every time; It takes off the corn: no pain;
cures warts and bunions and Is conceded
to be a wonderful corn cure. Sold by all
druggists.—ad.
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