The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, December 16, 1900, Page 15, Image 15

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WOMAN’S WORLD. know how to carry on a household, j lO k- hor knowledge alive by prac- Jul.an Hawthorne in the New VVt rid, Is good for a wonun and . i g t>r eveiy one else in th i\ in the husband to the aouller> A woman should be able o tea , * to understand how to cut out h r own dr® ses. though if she , rl a dress maker let her by all * .rnpioy one. She should qualify her l f t. not only a k.nd mother but a cJl < making a thorough study or i, ar.d Ic.lining sonnthlng about logy and therapeutics, so as not to ,*>l if there be r.o doctor at hand t id i© honestly familiar with good urw m and know and speak her own uu^e well, even if she tuudy no oth n do he. no harm e.ther to hav j elementary s it nee and to keep t irKd too ambitiously) of scientific Finally, she should develop bet t ext ensively, but systematical!) K outdoors and in, eat health) uni be fanatically immaculate in , n Such a woman will make * ,i wife, whether she be rich oi plain or beautiful % Iblen Gould may be selected as , t b®*t types of young woman ,i ,Aing. The otuy drawback for Miss an> other great htdress is that hardly any male being she can M*h to feel safe in becoming bis man hitherto honest may b* rued into a fortune-hunter by a Hf that. ,i. i doubtful under <h® ' r>dition>. becomes a madcap \ it*r helreaav*. It Is surprising how % i. vc lw -n. to ail appearances, i . i ul M iry 1-elter (Lady Cur • I*uled to be happy, and she cer mako a g *l vicereine. The case or s !• V iiidertdit, who undertook the nation of the Mori bo roughs, a;* , .i iu rory. Concerning Miss Mar i.iy Ciuvtn), Catherine Goddard ; r*h e s I'oniatowski, Clara llun . who married J’rince von Hatx at *1 many others, suffl< lent >o a pa ing judgment Is lacking. • nerady considered, there Is no ± a- *n why wealth should not prov* ,ai to women. It is more likely armtrly to prove so, because w< ii, ore nlg<it< ruu nt as to the con l ie than we used to have, out . .nis for women are higher and more . than of yore, and the new *’ca ior women have given their am I . n a better direction. number, of beautiful women h*;- .• i . u-.y increased in the last thirt) a j tile example of the stage and it . : i man) society women ma> • 1 i mething to do with that; but. al* ik* t t how to live and the popu < f exercise and sports have bad A woman he&Hhy in body and en i in mind is much nor* likely to U . and iti other ways than is her ineom j. t si-u r; find since wealth affords th* <> \ ; . unities for this kind of devel ii ought to I*-, broadly speaking t 1 to the sex in this country. girls have not normally tiie same * . a.ns that rich boys have; and i o .r boys. and not our girls, who ough * * <- amd tor the latter marrying tor A f -re.gu aristocrat has at leas ii rul a career to offer to a g;r :gc fur her money; but what ii i.c i young men to offer her i* i : of a career is that of a rich m s wife? Such cases as that oi .. rg<tn are too rare to argue from mian’i marriage to the young . .i.t of M.im hc. ter. on the other hand. * b.si rs. i value, and a ra-'iol one f*r the noblemen of Englind are I to cxerd great influence uf>on h and tinit s. and it *s therefore de that th* y should strengthen and f> th* stock as much as ioaslble. i . c l the young <v*uple has l*en for* b% 1a pa JSlmm*rman and so wen • ivi I In this city by our people. Fut the WfM of a rich and beautiful A ; ri an girl marrying a creature Ilkt of our Anglo-American dudes is siting Buch a fate would be who!!) <• *.g. For her to marry an Kng.ish ; who was personally Insignifican .♦ \ iic. but neither need it la* a 1 to i-a*- There are compensations ano tillies in the Uuter case which ii entirely lacking in the other. If life fails the wife may con . If by bu: ding up or maintain .. . km at s. >rial position; she may en affair of state and do good In ;*]• Mental ways But the unhappy . fa rich American has nothing to ■ tut vice ami dissipation If her and be a nincompoop °r *• scoundrel ~i . n only hope that the future nmuUitc uur >vung men to make v s 1m it, I worthy of our rich ana * iml .r:s t rail they have shown t \* s to Ih of late t ils happen* the situation wll; i it.gular. For there Is every sign thai Ah will continue to Increase In this and if it continues to harm our men and to benefit our young wo and thus to cause their potfis In lit* i;verge and to drive the finest typ* nr womanhood Into Im' arms of for w* might be moved to i*ass making wealth transferable to the id** of the family only However 1 not croea that bridge till we come X tv York I*ress furnishes the foi refleetlons of a bachelor: i don’t want to know what %\ l*i like, study Ins taste in oth *■ W'inen. the ancients knew a lot. Th* ' n d*to women had to pray to th r hu* ian da. a. man has n longing to know w much ii*r huaimnd would tak* u the doctor told him she was to die. average man doesn’t get married • he |t*vea little children. What h. i. t fried for is because he thinks he < > to get fed better. on* vv man tails on another n. for the first ten minutes neltbei m miys anything that the other can ih. r. because each one is stud yin? • nhtr's <ireas. a poor young man marries a rich i a I the women may he is mercenary v. *n a rich young man marries n ' girl, they say such n love Is the m■ t beautiful thing In the workl. ! wonder If a certain great lady in * rid ever remembers how she came • my place for a few days’ vial and i suburban matron wno was read er the fasmotiable intelligence in a i M*W‘i>iier, say* n writer In tne York Tribute. "Her family wiw i>***r. but she was extrenwhy popu* Mve was both pretty and clever, v,m in great demand for house Traveling about, however, coat* ■1 *l* il of money, and as she w.*- o keep strictly within her allow lie r<worted to some very funny r- when she was i*a**Ucularly d> On the visit 1 apeak of she ar d irrylng only a hand bag and a of parcels J was rather aur ai* sh* knew that there was a •>r one night and a donee for lb** it of course. ald nothing How when she went to her room th** # ry was solved She wore thrw* ' sklrta. first a white aiik, with the neatly turned up and basted; aw a black net dinner dress, arranged ‘ similar fashion, and over th* whole oth walking gown ’You see.* ahe f*ankiy c *it woukl have coat me I for my trunk, with the two transfer*. PO 1 thought 1 could manage ;*i this wav. and buy myself .* new pair of evening glove*, which 1 needed very much, it. strwd 1 put both of the bodies in my b.*g ami wore the .Guru I heard afterward that she nad told the #tor> or her economical contrivances to tr. lYiine of Wales, am! that His Hlgnnes* was immensely amused.'* Conf* as ton About Hr Name— I once did know a little maid Some four v.ars old or le**. ho answered to the < harming name Of Bessie, or of Bt? Ht. when she r**ache<l maturer years, With beuux and bade galore. Ellxalieth her name b* tme And Bessie wus ik> more. And so I acked Elizabeth The reason to confess W hv she preferred the longer name To chlldhool iv name of B**sa. 1 <> change her namo Is woman's right." Twati thus her answer ran— -1 11 change my first whene’er I pleas*. My last, whene’er 1 can " —Aimon K Spencer In Puck. Why shouldn’t an ugl\ woman, for In tan*** says Dorothy Pix In the New Ortenna Plcnyun* fi r. the music n.| ‘ dmiy take m inventory of the beauty thn* she lackc? Item one, i#>t u?* sa) a m : V!y complexion. Item two Indifferent •y* ** of r.o particular >!or, item * re* , * much ro*e; item four, nondescript h..ir She is ho| !<•%*<l> f.iain No amount or posing is ever goir c to make .inylody mistake her for .* Venus Nothing abort of n miracle, that isn t goirft; to occur, is moir.g to change her Into u beauty, but i there anv use, on that occoum. for ■i* r making an assignment an l g ing oit of business In aoritty * Not u bu of it. Having recogniz'd her she *•" in a position to make them good. In the fir.-t place. Jet her remember that af ter the first flush of youth is I lot hos make the woman Up to a a Oman’s l**>ks de|* nd on her face. Af ?* r '£* it is merely a marter of bonnets •nd gowns. It is a general effect of beauty, anl we don't go Into details Half *f the m l-i.e-jiK’-'l w>men who ore alwa),* -I*oken of as "so handsome’* arc down right homely, but they have a superlative tiM** in clothes, u behooves the woman, herefor*. who is ug y, and who has nt*e and < ourage enough to re oxniie h* fact, to study the fine art of dress. Nobody Will deny that the woman who * born beautiful draws the prize pack-' Princes* of Wales itslr orn.intent. ic— In the lottery of iifv, but she doesn't 4f t everything. Tnere is tact, and chitrvn A manner, and stace. and the woman aho lias these iuts n maate veil that .tii!- s a hom-ly face nn<l roaitw II seem •■■lUtlful to those whi come In ron:act a-lih her. Moreover wid e beanty must otne by milure, the~e qualities may be .1 rated. It lies tsith every woman am a delicate .-oivsideration for the ... sees of o ilers, to acquits the art e,f listenlr.K with Interest, at and to so im .ruve her mini she Will alwnys tie the nt t delightful and Inielltiten of omt- O.inlons. An.l when she can do these iunc* he needn'; worry much about the is. of iter nose, or whether her mouth ia u bias or straight. It. sides, these are attractions seldom ft ssessed by ti auty. To keei> the beautt ul women from hav.ng all the innings. Providence mercifully provided an and ote by s!mi>i aiDestine them with .• iishness Th #is where th ugly woman ores. Nol hav.ng to a.im re herse.f, be has In to admire.other people and ot having been flatteied and spot ed. -its ,ooni lake every coo-t-sy and fav.w as no more than htr right, or expect veryone to make a door mat of tnem . lies for her to walk over It his been •. marked before now that the l*.iui> a I .on) marries well. This is because she ~, ( f, y ooe shot In her lockrr If that falls she is left without a weapon, while he ugly R.ri. w h.. bad no looks to dc enl on. and has had lo cultivate other , * a husband she Is sure to bring h.m down wth something. The ugly woman wta. makes her elf charm r.g ts the mo: fas ti.atins woman on eilh. It seema a P ty, too. doesn t It. that ~ ople don't oflencr take SiO k of lhf *J hi.dren, stwl e just wha they are sod what m:ght a made out of them Of ourst H delghtiul to think ifatt all A our little Sallies stwl Johnnies anti lomme. are getdu-es. but our p.essure in the illusion ts apt to be a Utt.e marred i.v the subsequent dlsappiantment* that we might so t tsdy have saved ourselves f on.y we had looked si th.m as they were. Instead of as we wished them to should think a merchant rraxy If he had a store full of calico, and heme, 'mm snd pots, and kettle, .ndl pan. ,nd in inking stock he listed them as •Hunt Ism-, ami diamonds, and pktuies. We would sty that he may call them Z tho-e name, until hi. dy.ng day. but he will never deceive the wort;!. \A e lino* them for what they are. Yet that is jus: exactly hat we are doing with mr children. We ure e .11 n common lice and ~rdm-try quail Ic by nno ame. We won't sec th.m as they are. and moke the best of 'hem on th-t ba. * ™ so determined on rals.ng up gen uses £to,d of good bu-lnesa men nd itlset.s r., now and then w. convert them into "wnvThouMn'i a mother look her own hitdren over. Just ** she does her nelgh r, and site up tha.r strength and weskltsss’ Sh * ould at least then be able to work out ths problem of raising fTi—, w'th some sort of knowledge as foundation and guide ,hP.-* of go.ng I' V, 'however* TJEK wHk things In the face that she doewn t pouess. She won t admit that this child THEMOBNING NFAVS, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1900. Is feeble-minded, i>* that qne is dull, and s she drier ve them of the marvsimis help that modern education can gi\* along ttksc line?. She shut* her eyes to ih f.ici t ist Johnny l* bOW-b gged. and Tommy u knock-knee!, and she d**ms th**m to g> thM igh Ilf* a butt f*r the ridicule of tlie.r friends when the defect ould bes easily remedied wu le they are children S e t ke* no pains to help the ugly girl correct her .twkardn* **■ and learn the things re%t would make up for her kick of beauty. Even her effort* to he!p her children arc half the t me atrocious mistake*, be cause she has never taken stock, aiwl doesn't know what she has on hand to work with Even now and then some tin happy ami tearful wife com* * to me with the tale of her trouble*. Bhe is di?satisfied, and **- contented, disgruntled Som* times she t not appreciated, sometimes her heart is httrt by cold treatment, sometimes sh* fee.j ih i* sue made a mistake in marry ing. and yearns for career out in the world. I don't know any remedy as good for such .% state of affairs, for the woman to sit calmly down anl take stock of her possessions. Perhaps life hasn’t given her all she wanted Moat of the rest of us are in the same fix Very likely she hasn't gotten all the happlne she expected out of her mar riage. Not many dreams come true. What she ne*<i? to do Is to count up the thin gw ?r* has got. and how she own do a N't ter bus res? and get more happine*** and good < it of th** things she has Bhe has a gnod home plen v to eat and to vvttr, a respectable position in society perhaps It tie ch 1 Iren, certainly liberty u> enjoy h*rself In many ways, and a settled freedom from the cares and an* xierlg* that le*et many o’her women N< woman who has got that many goN cn her shelves has nnv right tn g<> d* - clare herself h bankrupt In happiness Una of the i*rlght t nn I cheeriest women I ever knew hid mod when she was s mere child a most wrt< Md mar riage to a man who was in cv rv wa> un worthy of her. He w,* o continual re proach and shame yet In spue of It all hs wife was never anyhng les- than charm*ng. and her w and tprightllne*** mad* her the !lf* of every company. Once I s!*>ke to her about It, and she rep! el with an inimitable gesture that seemed to tn* 1 almo-i to mock at ftiN “Pouf." she said, "do you t ike no* for such o • oward as to give in n* ih* fir**t rebuff’’ When I first real z'd, w hat a terrible m take I had mode I wax crushed. Th fl n 1 gathered my*e|f together, ’I nm young. • perhaps fifty, years to live. Shall I go sighing all that time? No, my friend 1 have many thing-. I have youth, ta'ent. spirit; I will enjoy myself, and I will make others happy. I will count the blessings I have, not those tha' I !iave mls.sl T o world Is u gnrd n. my fr end. You can gather thorns or posts As foi me, I prefer the roses " If w>- took stork of ourselves nftener wouldn't we blame our elves more for many of the fallur<e of life and other people less? It wouldn't be nearly BO comfortable, but It would be a deal bon ester. Our hubmds no longer show u ihe atbnt ons that they dpi when they were our sweethearts and we cry out that marriage is a failure. Ik. we take as much pains to please the husband as We dill Ihe Iver? Our chi dren are rude and 111-mannered, and when they grow up they turn out badly. Whose fault but the mothers who raised them? We hav. no friends. Do we ever go out of our wav to make friends, or to show love and k ndne-s to any hitman being? The mystery of the telephone l. vet hu Imperfectly understood by many, yet two women, with no scientific knowledge whatever, were made to feel how grea a Ison to humanity It Is only a few- days ago a man In Chicago dr:lded to give his wife a novel surprise on her birthday anniversary. He arranged bat a! a certain moment her mothe whom she had not sen for years, shoul- Pc a: the long-distance telephone ofn.-e 1,1 T'hl'adelpbla and sh- u:d call up Ihi daughter n Chicago There was a tele ph ne In the Chicago hens# and Use hus i,n | answer#.] the prtnn-.ing.sl call Turning from the Instrument h said to his wife: "Helen—here's your mother on tnc wlrt In Philadelphia." ■ghr wife -Mtted hers-If at the Instni rnent and heard the familiar voice of per mother. It uttered one word: "Oaugh ter !*' Suddenly the young matron In Chicago gripped the Instrument and poured ou her heart In the response; "Oh. mother, met her'" Then, a* she heard me sob that cam. ever the w Ire from her aged mother, she answered In kind, still keeping the re ceiver at her ear. Speaking literally, those two women cried to each other un IMI the tolls amounted to sls latter they both said It was the sweetest experience they had known since their long separa tion began! Nothing could more eff.c --! lively demonstrate the sympathetic possi bilities of the telephone or better Ulus trate the vital point of realizing tha per sonality behind the voice. The census recently completed shows •hat the feminine population Is Increasing at a rapid rate in the large cities and It la predicted that this county will pre sent!) be confronted by a problem tha. his worried foreign statisticians for some time—the preponderance of women, it Is admitted that the women here have th* advantage over the'.r foreign alstsrs In [that many Redds of work are opened to them and they can also hold and dispose of pronerty to an extent unknown on the other side So that the American woman is in a great measure economically Inde-- pendent of man. and thus does she escape some of the serious consequences that af flict th# foreign women. It stems s pity I that anyone ox tMs lata day should fall u> worrying about ths superfluous woman APPROPRIATE GIFTS I f, • 'f selected from our complete stock of Stl Hi A/; % Men’s Clothing, C 7;' ? Children’s Clothes, jVF t House Coats, ~yi|r-Ora Bath Robes. ; Pajamas? ') Night Shirts, j? Dress Shirts, Men’s Underwear, Suspenders, Handkerchiefs, Men’s and Boys’ Hats and Caps, Leather Suit Cases, Umbrellas and Canes, ARE CORRECT IN STYLE, QUALITY AND PRICE. One Price Figures. myth. It I* such an old. old story, and .ne that has Mm. without number prov en to be needlessly disturbing As to sh bogey of so many women, did It ever oc cur to th< ilarmlsta to attempt to ttgure how mat y of these feminine overplus were widows wlio persist In outliving their hus bands sen. twenty or even thirty years and sp,lister* of uncertain age? Statistic* published about ten year* ago showed that In laanlon. where the woman popu lation Is greatly In excess of the male between Ihe ages of IS and 1.1 the men were in excess. Tile Xrouble dd—.irs to be mainly with the women of ! .md ove,. who are much more persistent about h .l.ling on to life than are Xhetr .xjntexn por.ir.es among men When women as a c!** are economically Independent the alarmist articles about the sun* rtitiou* woman will cease, for who would dare to a pply to a breadwinner so opprobrious a title us so peril nous'* The personal column, or as they call It In England the "agony column." Is strlcily f rhl Men by law In Russia. Nevertheless cer'.vln new-p per* aecept such advertisements, and that fact Is te snonsible for a love tragedy th.it look place a few days ago. Involving the loss of two lives. The love s were a Mme, O k da end an engineer named Klnket leln. Thel ro mance lasted fra const lerable lime un til rumo s reached Kinkeisteln which ex cite! his Jealousy. H' pi ke! a quar el wph Mme o*kala. whi h caused on Im mediate rupture, and the eng neer left It il* **l*i to seek forest fu.teas ant quiet abroad. After ramb'lng thrush va tons •uM cf Eu npe he w ote b. Is I idy love asking her fo-vlveness an l Imnlorlng her to |et him know th rough the me turn of one of the It: I'etershucg dallies whether he would be allowed to relurn. The widow wlio ha 1 equally regretted the rupture, went to the of!! e of the Nov e Vremva and handed In an advertisement assuring FI- kelsteln of her forgiveness ■and asking blm to telegraph hi* add ess. Tne adve llem-nl wis curtly ref use 1, and a few day* nf er the unfo tun te eti g'neer. taking IM ell. M*• of M belovad for a refu-.d. committed suicide at Nice. Unaware or :he trugely. Mme O kill, afler much effort, succeeded tn getting Ihe advertl*' ment Inaei ted but <n Ih* very day It appeared she heard the new* of her lover - death. Broken hea led at l is calamity, she also took her life by swallowing poison. "The ha'dest pa t of the life of a sab-s --worn .n Is tee u s ess qu.-tlons she hist, anew r." said agll * the jewelry <un ,er talking to a New Y'ork World r iM>!ter. “A woman Just came up. pi ke I up oxi*' of these br-a.-tp.n .looked at It at tentlveiy. and asked me If It w i* a pin. N w, there was no cause for that She guf-w as well as 1 din th.it It w , pm. 1 had a mid revenge for I ► ild p litely " 'No, madam; li'* * b ooch.' Then sho glan-l at me as she snorted, 'Oh!' "That l* Just a sample of what goes on In here all day long Every worn in seems to try to thick w. at f dish question* she con ask. It I* the oxie thing that a m st drives us crazy. Appsre* lly, the most sensible women fill Into the habit. They'll pick up a btacelot you ar t-y- Irg to sell someone else ami sk you If bracelets are stylish now It lo k* a* If anybody outside of sn Insane asylum would know that, under the circumstan ce* you could make but one reply. "iron will be mo king a run on anew belt buck r and with a crowd of w u:d be pur, baser* lls.enlng mm* women will pipe nut: Will these buck:** wear well*' "She might know that It would he as much a* you pbc- *l* worth to say they wouldn't. The other day a customer left her little boy l'h fm * f * w moment before she was ten feet aw-.y seme one said •' 'I beg your pardon, bu: would you mind tel lng me where y u got y ur ll*- xle boy's cap?' I told her * mething thst satisfied her. when another worn in step ped up with. 'I beg ycur par or. but whst slse glove* does your little boy wear*' "I slots! that, byt when ano her woman earn# np and asked me If he was a bottl# bsby I drew the Una "Women wh lave looked at them slvss tn the glass dally for thirty years ask us If s certain color is becoming to thorn, "And It's such a temptation to lie!" "I have always wondered at th* repug nance of the dressmaker to accent any kind of good* t* be mad* up. aa* th* woman, to tha New York Sun, who bod to think of how much she epent on her dreeing, "but I *a ll* to undentand it <T) mouh the ot.hrr !•) I *** X‘>- Ing through thr ttrrt lltttrvh w i ha l h* ari that nh- a* t*hr|* and trying to find out from >nvrra#Uofi with hrr if *hr nerr ilkriy to l* Juft an in #ffiHent ap most of Ih® rhrap ocira I had tri#vi in thr pam "Aftrr a wiiort talk I k.ipr that *hr aigna of lntlllg iKf®. ••* * pr jNr l lo curry lUKOtiatlonM a littlo f‘*r thrr I wxnt**|. ah uaual, * aupply tl® material, and *he Agr*‘*'l In •h*- rather (ondricrndinz manner tliat all of tWm ?how whfti approach'd on the nubs* ■ t Hht- xan wilting, ah<* *ik! to do it If I had mode all my arrangement*, although really didn’t car® t all lo make up other people’ * material* and much pre ferred to xuppiy the 1 haiMW'tM* 1 to know what th** good* 1 wanted would ro*t. I had bought fifteen yards of h very best kind ami knew that It wouldn’t cost morn tlwui s.kt 1 *kwl her what the cost would le- Bhe thought for a few moment* and said she would supply the tn<eril and make up a dr* • > of ih* kod I wante i for $l2O. The oat of making it up, if ( supplied the material, was t he SJ* That Included sewing anti every ihlrif n* • s“;ry to make up th* garment. Hy that grrangement the gown would * o*t fiM. wh'r'it.i if the df* -rnikcr were al lowed to supply everything tne coal would b® |l3O "From that time I have alwayw under * ' provide all roatcrlwlH There wa- an ex cess of $lO in th® coni of the dress a* th® woman wanted to ruak< it. There was no question of difference in the quality of the goods, a? I knew what th® very best cost, and had bought the high® t priced stuff tlwt wa* shown to me in the Wor*. There was probably even gr*-fer profit for the dressmaker. h she doubtless had some underwxndlng with the firm which enabled her to buy t a price lower th**i the casual customer." Demure little Minnie Ashley. n tre*s and winger of the I>aiy Company in New York, say* the Chi'ago Chronicle, has caused a Mir among the fashionable resi dents of Great N®* k. L 1., by endeavor ing to purchase a home in that aristo cratic community They ore up In arms against what they choo - to regard At* an intrusion uf*>n their excluslvtiu-**. and a committee of cMlx'-ris has undwrtaketi to frustrate her purpose When th* commit tee tilled upon her to ** *k to dissuade h®r she burst Into tear and exclaimed "Why, I’m going to retire from the stage ! rM ye*ir I’m going t* marry WlMiam i Astor Chandier." Bn® i- rep or • 1 to have revealed the *• ■* cret only after her pride had been *tung to the quick by th* action of a >otnml<- tee of the projvrty owner* who wait'd j on G Hmith Btanton, a rHil ess*st® agent with whom Ashley wa* m :. slating for the purchase of the Northam esUte on the Shore road. Grat N •k. Friends of William At r Chandler, mil lionaire, explorer and politician, received the news of Mi?-* Awh.ey’i l* * kiration with expretsiofts ot surpr.se. It wax not known that Mr Chond ®r contemplattnl becoming a benedict H* had bulled him* self with politic* and Was credited with a rather unrom mth* turn of mind, and he had tern quote i an advising young men not to marry, although thl* he denied. Miss Athley has spent several seasons at Great N* k I. I Thera she visited her friend, llrt. J B Nell new!, wife of Dr. Neilnecd. ami became much attached to the little town Wealthy reslden'a were greatly agitated when It b* am® known List summer Hiat Miss Ashley ami her mother had *■ ’ured a leawe of h® If A Kon -f, horn® on the ffhore Rout, near trdajl s hlfi. Ah* spent the summer there. Her neighbor*, however, evlm ed a marked coolti'j* for tne little stress. Bh* declared she didn’t mind this In the least, as It was Great Neck which sh® loved, ar.d didn’t car® snap for the peo ple When Hie endeavored again to se cure the Koreai residence for next *ea •on the place wn not for rent. Then *he •ought the purchase of a permanent home She went to O. Bmiih Stanton, a local real e*tate dealer. After lo>k ng over ht* books he Informed her the N*rth. am property wa* for *oi*. Thla beautiful residence I* situated near the shore. Ml** Ashley readily agreed to buy the proo eriy. Before the title was delivered, wealthy property owner* waited en Mr. •tan tog and object id Mr. bum too re plied that It was hie business to sell prop . rty nd h® would not be aff* ted by th® protests of the committee of Great Neck aristocrats. Then th® committee sought Mb Northam, who own* the residence, tin I induced her ih* to well. Miss Ashley la on® of the most beauti ful women hi the American nsc. Htie has long, curly hair and her face has been describ'd as of the "girlish Umocmice" typ Bh® was married in i.stwi to Wlil iam 11. Bheldon, an actor, but nqsrziwl from her husband In IMO Bh® *Om®s frtmi Itoston. Theatergoers raved over her when she sang as a star In th® "Geisha’’ nttd lat®r in He Wolf Hopj**r's ii th® Prlnct ITo Tern cotnpanle*. fihi l 23 years old. Mr f’handler served ns congressman from th® Fourteenth New Y<rk District. H* a IsUa Uni for the ARiertcwn war. 1% #* Harvard graduate, so ciety man and ti mil!ionsir® in his own right. Mis* Ashley denies her engage ment to lilm. For one thing, says Dorothy Dix In ihe New Y'ork Journal, there Isis been the long and weury courtship that. hw ey* r 'Plight ful to the lovers, has l>eeii a trill® wearing on the nerv*s of people not keyed up to th® sentiment of the sit uation. The hilling tiled cooing couple hav® monopoiixcd the house. If you want ed to receive a caller they were spooning In th® dinwing room, if you started *o writ© * letter you had to retire with il*nogies from the library w ore your presence wo regard®*! at* n utiwarrati*- •l intrusion; you stumbled on them in •lark corners, and ran over them on the steps, hed felt It generally unsafe to o|®i a 'kssr tvlth'SM coughing. “Happy" for other people who have to live in the house with lovers "is the wmgig that It Isn’t long a doing " Then follows a wild and chaotic sea son full of 'fresemakers and milliners, and confusion, anl briJesniaids, msl ar guments with mamma, and growl* from papa about bills, nnd general irritability and bad temper. It Is a time a woman always nnu inbefr and alt of her family recall as a kind of nlghtrrixir® from which she emerges * married woman with fwi®e as many clothes ms she lived* and n r tons prostration. Out of all thl* toil nnd tribulation ths elopement offers a *uf® short cut. and *.f It can be made the fashion It will he ru thing short of a universal benefac tion Nothing else in the work! lure as little to recommend 8 a a display wed ding. No man ever wants to figure in one. He realises he is only the Insig nificant excuse for the occasion, and th® brides gown und vHI, and that If h® should b® inadvertently left out nobody would miss him In commending the examine set by ther Graces of Manchester It seems aito worth while to <%iil attention to the attt* j lisle of the bride’s father when the e.op s : ing cotipl® cabled for hi* blessing DM i he storm and rave, and threaten to cut! off hi# 'laughter with the traditional shHHng? Not n bit of |t. It Is nuthorita- j lively re|srt*'l that he declared "All j I hav© te my son-in-law’s." Astute man! j lie realised nil the horrors of a fashion- ' able wedding h® had been saved from, and j knew It was cheap at th isle* There t r#u on to believe that fathers! generally would take this view of the matter. Many a rmtn would he willing to testify his gratitude in a substantial manner to the young fellow who would elope with hlf- daughter and preserve th® family from having to go through the tong drntVß on igonies of having to ge; ! ready for * weddlog. Lady de Grey, says the New York Bun. who has Jum been b lured Ineligible any longer to the Booiety of Queen Victoria’* : ourt, has bran |>u< outside the fotle be- I cause she has *Hi into trade, and so It ! appears that ladles who go Into trade, | whatever their family and rank may tie. are not regarded as fit for the society that gathers shout a sovereign Bho will probably fitsl plenty of society tn the ob scurity into which she has been cast by this d'erte So many men and women of title have recently gone into business j In England that society Among that art ought to b® very tolerable Lady de Grey 1* one of thr most con spicuous women In London’s smartest set h© has practically been In control of the op rs season at Coveal Garden for the past aix y*wr*> and has been known to trwvel all Ute way from London to Mot row to hear n singer whose engagement # cmtemplated. Hh© la the inti rivet© friend of J m it** H* *k** aim! 1a target* i .-|Mnnlhli‘ for I fir *.©*,** of th© uwr* h< 4oi it Covfiil (Jurikn, Airier without her efforts M Is scarcely probable that the subsoiilwrs roultl ever l© gathered. Her social influence help* to ko p up th standard of the U>x holders, amt she ds \otrs as min h time to the management of thr KtAMin of ojipfa ns if she w*re k°lrg to make a large prollt out of M her. Sfcif Ilui only reward she has ever been known to enjoy Is the frlciKkhlp of the opera singer* It was In tier drawing room that Jean d© Itrsake iirst sang tin* tmmlit of “Hiegfrled." and at her over--Munday hou.se lartlee near lemdoti hath Jenn anrft Idouaxtl sang coon songs to Mm© Jean li Itezko's a* * nrniwfvm* nt on the piano. This has been all her rstvunl for ***r lions on behalf of the ois*ra Her real hualnesH enterprise Is a tea-room, which she is to mndui't In imri tiers hip with a w**4j known hotel proprietor. Her debts are *ukl to b© very large and her hua* ham)'a family has, according to one story* refused to p,*v them again. lienee the (r.i-room and tv ui • <niuiying Isolation from tea society of thr Knglisft t'ourt "I f<*ind my wife in on odd way.** salt in ex-t<l'Kf 'i'ti operator, who Is now a prominent off! **r of a Western railroad, to the New York H i "I was my hlrd year In the railroad business, hut I had not forgot ten t < • < k language. and f had a room In s hotel In futile igo which had a party wall with n hoarding house ad joining. In this hoarding house lived a mighty pretty girl who w.t* attending a commercial college in the next block, where there was also a course In tele graphy taught, and I gutvwed by seeing th* books and papers she tried that she was faking that course. You see. I was watching her rather for I ws Interested fr.*m t ** Unit time l ever saw her on the Afreet. "She was a stranger In town, and, of course, there w isn't any chance for my being Introduced to her. and as for flirt ing. she showed no more signs of it than sinter of charity would, though I gave her every opportunity. I found out by a careful study of windows that her ro m In the U>truing house was next to mine in the hotel, and th*t only made me feel W'*rs** so near and yet so far. you tin i©r stand. I knew she would not be In the school much more than three months, and ash Alf that time had gone by uni I still had made no prr.' I began to grow desperate, for I couldn't bear th© thought of losing her. You know a ro rance like that mak*s a deal more Im pre-sion on a fe;kw than the real thing. *'On* Sunday afternoon I was In my rr*>m and sh# Was In her*, and I could hear her driving a nail In the wall and a great thought came to m© suddenly. Th© neat minute I had caught up one of my shoes and was pounding Its heel on my wall, knit I w. n't driving nails. Not much. I was miking at“ “graph call. It wasn't anything In particular* only an ‘attention* call, and ©Her rep atlng It HU I was about to give up In despaif It was answered from the other aide. Taco I telegraphed, 'llow do you koT* and that was answered, a little bit slow. f“rha.et, but answered all fight, ami the conversa tion continued. “She was not th“ most skilled operator I had ever taken but certainly the most Interesting one. and we talked through the wall till AUM*r time That evening 1 l*egnn again, but she was not st home, and when I got In at midnight I wisely forbore sending a ‘good midnight' to her. Next mornlpg I hailed her with “good morning’ and got an :nswer. and then I asked her if I couldn't m*s*t her aftsr breakfast and Walk to school with her. but sit© would not h ive It. You set, sha was shy without a brick wall to? ween us. I was three or four days pea llr.g wt:hmy shoe heel on that wall before she agree*l to meet me. and by that time I had told her everything, ami she just couldn't re fuse to give me some kind of a show. After my fir'** walk to school with her I wrni utterly gone, and though she staid on and was graduated in telegraphy sit* never hid a chance to practice what ah© learned, for before ah© got a job I had made her promt** 4o marry me and give up telegraphy.** —Vic* President-elect Hoo**v*H wth spend a part of January In Colorado oe a hunting expedition alter mount*!* Ilonas 15