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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. - ■ ■ o ■ . . t 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. 13