The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-04
IN 7~1IG5 OF WOMEN FOLK.
..,ia Things and Big Going on in the
I'' Fem nine " GRID.

;o,,s matter with the ON n TO ana OUT
g.. men prefer TO attend clubs instead Of
'.,ao4ions and weddings. The secret was
Hynlred BY an irate rorsonage OF the mas
10 Gender the other evening, - hen his
'l. ~. +rio1 20 induce him 10 20 to grand
WIZ ,+iop with her. She coaXed, battered.
,s,JIai stgrned, raved ana finally went
~ cries. o. course, the husband
u" 81 his wits en- !, and nothing was left
VIZ hin, TO do but give her the true cause
his refusal, which was, lie told her, that
line has been formed by the men
ling themselves not to attend evening
port,es as long as the ladies wear low
atad dresses. The reason for this revolt on
the part OF the rneh hes IN the race That toe
.ao Iaye TO 10 kept SO heated for the ladies
.oI4c ,nfortable that tie men suffer untold
onias many Incoming SO ovcrheated
r. +hav take cold on coming out into the
an air, pneumonia follows and death en-
vas This league is preparing statistics to
.rova that moro men are sacrificed in this
inoy every year than by war, pestilence,
to,nine ard intemperance. Tne president
~ tbe league is the reverse OF women
Tater and he finds it very irksome TO at
I'"J the club all the while; accordingly he
tos formulated a scheme whereby the diff
aar Nv eau be obviate1. 1t is TO have
no~tj9n of the reception room fenced off,
+ il were, by portable glass doors, which
I've decorators Or florists could furnish for
~ equivalent as they now furnish flowers
~+c and thus all the low-necked fair ones
oonid b, shielded from the cold blasts,
.,bie the gentlemen and ladies who wear
bigh corsages could be comfortable outside
tbs .glass room" A me .nher of the league
r1ildlT suggested that this plan would
moi work, as fellow could not speak TO the
~. 1. ;DA tI,a ,rlo ,i,>
Of them. then" exclaimed an old bear of
bachelor, that's all they dress that way
for They have no brains to speak of.
They can't talk. They just dress that way
to be looked at, and by CAD, sir, think
thev look better behind glass than when
Won come too near, Cor | always notice it Is
the scrawny, scraggy ones or the over fat
that dress in that STYLE"
MRS. BELVA LOCKWOOD
promises to be a piquant figure on the
scene of action this summer. She con-
ducts her presidential campaign thus far
with no mean vigor. Mrs. Lockwood is a
very pleasant woman socially and woman
of no small ability, but the Supposition that
she represents or Is backed by the woman
suffragists in general is a mistake. There
are two national organizations which have
for their object the obtaining of the ballot
for women; one of these is the Anne rican
Woman Suffrage Association, whose head
quarters are at Boston and whose leading
spirits are Mrs. Lucy Stone, who was q
pioneer in the work and an anti-slavery
| lecturer before the war; Mr. H. B. Black
| well. her husband; Julia Ward Howe, Mrs.
Mary A. Livermore and others. There is
| also the National Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton with headquarters at w Washington and
oficered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan
4 u ,,,J hoi al No;t
cation has thought of putting candidate
in the field, for neither aspire to the posi-
ton of a third, or fourth party. Mrs.
Lockwood is not a woman suffrage candi-
/ date at ALL but is a bright woman who
knows on which side her bread is buttered
Just the same She is the only woman ever
admitted to practice in the Supreme Court
Of the United States. She graduated from
the National University Law School,
etited the Legal NetoS. published at Chi
cago for some years, and by sheer persist
ence pushed bill through Congress au-
thOrizlng the admission of qualified women
lawyers to practice in the Supreme Court.
She has been council for the defense in a
numbers of murder suits and has it is said,
20G0 clients who are applicants for places
On the pension roll. She is not an especially
clever lawyer in spite of these achieve
mentS, but is rather a woman of strong
personality, much executive ability and, to
use bit Of slang a talent for getting there.
She has an expressive face with regular
features, a mobile mouth, gray hair and a
very fetching way in conversation. She is
something more than so years old. is per-
sonally liked, and is quite aware that her
practice will grow this summer Running
for President in 1884 has meant good in
come for her ever since. She has a genius
Tor advertising and understands it as well
as Barnum. The bee in her bonnet is a solid
little silver bee And she will make good
use of her shekels, too.
TO BE SERGEANT IN POLICE COURT
involves a peculiar and somewhat burden
some duty, that of acting as banker for the
receipt and disbursement of the weekly sti-
ponds paid by husbands to deserted wives
A sergeant is fortunate if he has not above
thlrty such bookkeeping accounts ON his list,
and In busy court the number may run
up to $50 Or IT'S. The obligation of the
husband to support his wife assumes a not
romantic aspect in a police court. The
oongauon is not to the woman as her de-
hert for services rendered or for affections
s2ke, but to the city, that it may not have
pauper on its hands. This attitude of
seI-defense of the community as against
une husband colors the proceedings which a
woman must go through before she can
compel her husband to provide for her. The
lrst step involved is visit TO the Commits
sloners OF Charities and Corrections and an
appIcatlon for requisition from them on
Sne romeo Justice i'll her district requiring
nm TO issue an abandonment warrant for
,u9 arrest OF the delinquent husband. The
law being framed directly to prevent the in
Iease OF paupers and not punish the man,
GIG Is called upon to swear to the face of the
warrant that she will be charge on the
PUBIC unless her husband supports her
mat is all she has to do with the matter as
principal. In the police court it is the
wy against the husband, with the wife
merely as witness. She is called upon to
tStlty a second time that she is in the posi-
aoh OF a pauper and that the city will have
~ support her if her husband does not.
ouuer such circumstances the amount
awarded the woman is seldom large, the
ooyect being simply to keep her out of the
Poorhouse. The weekly sum which the
husband is put under bonds to pay her
oalles according to his wages, but more
closely according to the ages Of her child
-en, whether they can work and help sup
porI her, or whether she can get work and
support herself. Four dollars a week or Sc
- % hgn as 1t often gets, and sometimes it
not above 81 so or So. Women who
gluce themselves for weeks to submit to
sae mortlfying ordeal of swearing out such
:. "a rants against their husbands are some
t .thlueS surprised to learn the exact basis Of
s,e Jaw. II man has beaten a woman
I nu made her life an almost insupportable
.puIuen TO her, but asserts that he has not
boaHuoned her, that he will 60 home with
Nol ana live with her then that woman is