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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-04-25
One Dollar Per Year.

this is due to the fact that women will
accept these burdens. Men escape
much by the simple method of refusing
to take it upon them. 1t is idle to ex-
pect men to bend TO all changes with
which women cucumber their lives, and
so the lives of men remain more simple
than those OF the other SEX Women
are. as rule, sufficiently we'll able to
oppose their wills to personal opposi-
ton, but the women are few and far to
seek who are capable of standing out
against circumstances. Perhaps the
difference is that man argues with
himself and is satisfied with his conclu-
sions, while a woman must argue with
a second person or her arguments are
apt to be as water spilled upon the
ground which can not be gathered
again A man convinces himself that
he is right and that is the end of it. He
acts upon that conclusion, while wo-
man in similar case would be apt to
find it impossible to be satisfied unless
she could have the confirmation OF some
one else TO assure her that she were
justified in her decision.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-04-25
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. ELIZA BOYD, of Laramie, Wy
oming, was the first woman foreman"
of jury.
Mrs. CLARA I. HOFFMAN says the
best result of the local option law in
Missouri has been to make suffragists
of the women.
Miss MARIA LOOMS, of Burlington,
has left $4,000 to the University Of
Vermont, the income to be spent in
buying books for the library.
Miss EMMA Cons, woman well
known and highly esteemed in London
for her practical philanthropy, has
been elected an alderman of London by
the new county council.
Mrs. CARRIE B. KILGoRE is the only
woman lawyer in Philadelphia. She
has an enviable reputation at the bar,
and there is not Judge in the city who
does not respect her for he legal
ability.
The right OF women to practice med
icine in Canada has been established by
the successful application of Miss
Mitchell, graduate of Queens Uni
versity, Kingston. for a license The
Provincial Medical Board at Quebec
granted the license.
Miss KATHERINE LEE BATES, of
Wellesley College, lately won the first
prize of 500, and Mrs. Caroline A.
Mason, OF Brockport. N. Y, the second
prize OF $500 offered by the Congrega-
tional Sunday-school and Publishing
Society for the two MSS. best suited for
Sunday-school books.
Miss EMILY L. GREGORY, Phi. D., has
been appointed Fellow in the Biologi-
cal Department OF the University of
Pennsylvania. Miss Gregory formally
studied at the University OF Goettingen,
Berlin. and Marhourg in Germany, and
OF Zurich in Switzerland. In Zurich she
received the degree of Phi. ID.
THE women of the New Century
Guild, of Philadelphia. have been dis
cussipg whether women can be carpen-
ters. The simple conclusion was
reached that they can. Practical car
penters who were present said that in
the old time only the fine work was
done by carpenters. ''helpers" doing the
heavy work.
| In South Australia tax-paying wo-
men have had municipal suffrage for
man years, and an active effort is in
progress to obtain full suffrage. Wo-
men sit on the board OF the Children's
Hospital, and of the State Children
Council. The leading newspapers
open their columns freely to corre-
spondence in favor of woman suffrage.
and uine-tenths Of them are said to sup
port it editorially. The pr spects are
! good.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-04-25
HOW WOMAN is TAXED.
What Is Demanded of Women That Is Not
Demanded OF Men.

what Is Demanded OF women That Is Not
Demanded OF Men.
One OF the most marked characters
tics Of modern life, says tho Boston
Courier, is the enormous increase
which it makes in its demands upon
women. 1t has always been true from
the dawn of civilization, that the role
of women in society and in life has been
more intricate, although less broad.
than that OF men. 1t has always been
asked at the hands of women that they
should be thousand times more hexi-
BILE than men; that they should adapt
themselves to a hundred conditions
which men ignored or scorned, and
that they play in the drama of life a
score Of parts to every one which was
undertaken by their fathers, and
brothers and sons As life has con-
stantly grown more and more complex,
this difference between the sexes has
increased rather than diminished. Life
to-day demands of a woman more
changes in a day than a man Is re-
quired to compass in month She
must, from moment to moment be one
thing after another, the wife.
the mother, the woman of society,
the leader in reforms. sharer
in this work Of charity, and that
labor of intellectual progress, until 1t j:
q miracle that she is able TO do any ol
the nultitudinous duties imposed upor
her. Of course. in great measure
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-04-25
THE MARRIAGE SYSTEM.
A Better Law Demanded for the Govern
ment of Husbands and Wives.

A Better Law Demanded for the Govern
ment of Husbands and Wives.
My theory of marriage in its relation
to society would give this postulate,
says writer in the Chicago Tribune.
Husband and wife are one, and that one
is-husband and wife, believe they
will never come to the heights Of purity,
of power and peace for which they were
designed in Heaven, until this better
law prevails:
1.-TWO heads in council, two beside the hearth
Two in the tangled business OF the world,
Two in the liberal Offices of life;
Two plummets dropped to sound the abyss OF
science
And the secrets OF the mind"
Poets are prophets, and the greatest
poet of our time has set the goal before
us only to be gained
'When reign the worlds great bridals,
Chaste and calm"
One-half the world for the wife-an
undivided half apiece for wife and hus-
band; co-education to mate them on
the plane of mind, equal property
rights to make her Gods own free
woman, not coerced into marriage for
the sake of support, or bond-slave
after she is married, who asks her
master for the price of a paper of pins
and gives him back the change, or, il a
petted favorite, owing her lease of
purse wholly to his will and never to
her right; free to go her honored and
self-respecting way as maiden per-
petuo rather than marry man whose
deterioration through alcohol and
nicotine habits is deadly menace to
herself and the descendants that such a
marriage must have invoked-these
are the outlooks of the future that shall
make the marriage system. never a
failure since it became monogamic, an
assured, a permanent, paradisaical
success.
In that day the wife shall surrender
at marriage no right not equally sur
rendered by the husband-not even her
own name. Emile OLIVER, that keen
sighted writer OF France, says that it is
so much cas- er, for obvious reasons, to
trace ancestry along the mothers line,
that historic records have intellectually
suffered by the arbitrary relinquish-
ment Of her name. Probably the French
have hit upon the best expedient: the
union of the two. Thus / recall that
In Paris my home was with an accom-
plished lady whose maiden name was
Farjon and whose husbands was Per-
rot. her visiting-card bearing the in
scription, Madame Byzantine Perrot.
Farjon." The growing custom, in this
country at least, to give the mother S
name to a son or daughter indicates
the increasing, though perhaps uncon-
scious, recognition of woman as an
equal partner in the marriage sacra-
ment and compact. But the tendency,
even among men of intelligence, to
sign themselves, "Jchn Jones. wife.
child and nurse" as we see it in the
registers of fashiona BILE hotels, isea fire.
quent reminder of the pit from which
wives are slowly being digged. The
man who writes "Mr. John and Mrs.
Jane JONES'" may be regarded as well
on the road to successful evolution
The time will come when the mother:
custody OF children will constructively
be preferred in law to thatof the father
on the ground that it is surer and more
consonant with natural laws.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-04-25
TABOOS IN SAMOA.
Superstitious Devices Adopted to Preserve
Honesty and Order.

uUHesty anu Orutrs
In Samoa the natives frequently re-
sort to what is known as the taboo"
to brighten thieves from their bread
fruit trees. Among a superstitious
people so simple device does much
to preserve honesty and order.
The "white shark taboo" was and is
an object OF terror to thief. Cocoa
nut leaves are plated in the form of
shark, fins and all. and this is sus-
pended from the bread-fruit tree. 1t
is equivalent to an expressed impreca-
tion that the thief might be devoured
by the white shark the next time he
went to fish.
The "cross-stick taboo" was piece
OF any sort OF stick suspended hor-
izontally from the tree. 1t expressed
the wish of the owner of the tree that
any thief touching it might have a
disease running across his body, and
remain fixed there till he died.
The '.tic-doloureux taboo" was made
by fixing q spear in the ground close
by the trees which the owner wished
to guard IL was expressive of a
wish that the thief might suffer from
the agonies of that disease.
The death taboo is made by pour.
ing some oil into calabash and bury
ing it near the tree. The spot is
marked by little hillock of white
sand. The sight of one of these places
is effectual in soaring away thief.
The "rat taboo" is e small cocoanut-
leaf basket filled with ashes from the
cooking-house and two or three small
stones and suspended from the tree.
1t signifies wish that rats may eat
holes ia the fine mats of the thief and
destroy any cloth or other property
which he may value.
If a man wishes the lightning to
strike any one. who steals from his
land he plaits some cocoauut leaflets
in the form of small square mat and
suspends it from tree, with the adj
dition of some white streamers of
native cloth. This is the thunder
taboo" The thief believes that if he
trespasses he or some of his children
may be struck by lightning, or that
his own trees may be blasted by light.
ning-or rather by the the thunder,
which he supposes to be the agent Of
destruction Youths Companion.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-04-25
NEAR-SlGHTED CHILDREN.
What an Oculist Has to Say This I'M
pOrtant Subiect.

What an Oculist Has to Say on This I'M
portant Subject
According to my observations,
about one pupil in every ten in the
public schools wears glasses" says an
oculist, land that is pretty big per-
centage Day after day fathers and
mothers come here and want to have
their children fitted with glasses.
When asked what has affected the
eyes, the answer is almost invariably
TOO much studying
by reason of constantly coming
into contact with the parents of school
children, l am in position to UNDER
stand that the young people are now
obliged to study very hard in order to
keep up with the constant increase OF
studies piled upon them.
ut is a commendable idea that
exists among the parents of this city
that of educating their children to the
highest possible standard but it is an
idea and practice that will have
marked effect on the future genera
tions of the people hereabouts Weak
ness of the eyes is an hereditary all
ment, and if the future wives and hus-
bands, now growing up, are TO have
their eyes strained to such a great ex-
tent, it must follow in the natural
course of things that the second or
third generation will be one of eye
glass wearers.
"There are some people upon whom
glasses look we'll, and relieve in a man.
ner the harsh lines of their features;
but as rule | regard them as a dis
fgurement, and the necessity of wear
ing them can be avoided by the judi
cious selection for children of hours for
studying.
1.-The best time for child to study
is early in the morning. Let the little
one GO to bed at dusk, and arise with
tho lark in the morning and study.
Then there will never be any necessity
for wearing glasses unless weakness
of the yes is hereditary. Golden
DAYS.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-04-25
HUMOROUS.

"A great many girls say mo" at
first; but, like the photographer, they
know how to retouch their negatives.
Puck.
The Western newspapers relate the
case of a dentist who tried to fill the
teeth of buzzsaw. He succeeded, so
the coroner thought.
Hello, Jones! | hear that
Charley has married Miss Smith.
Who solemnized the marriage, Mr..
Textual or Parson Creedp" "Neither,
my dear boy 1t was Miss Smiths
mother. She's living with them" y
Boston Transcript
-Wife-'Isn't this stranger The
paper says North Penn locomotive
engineer left his house to be shaved a
month ago and has not been seen
since" Husband (absently).-"Um
waiting for his turn, probably. y
Philadelphia Record,
$50, you've gone on the stage.
Miss Mashp" Yes" What part
do you takep" well, IL am one of
the pages that remove the big chair
in the second act, but as soon as l can
save up money for wardrobe shall
star. Chicago Herald.
Now they have 'lady White
Caps" in Indiana, who send around
threatening notices to objects of their
displeasure. The extent of their
severity is not stated, but we presume
that in extreme cases they compel men
TO go to afternoon teas. Kansas City
Times.
Not long ago considerable wonder
ment was expressed as to how Kaiser
Wilhelm managed to get rid of his ex-
travagantly large salary. 1t now Oc-
ours that he edits and publishes
an elaborate court journal in Berlin.
What becomes of his salary is no long
er a mystery.
Two ladies from the West hap
pened to scrape an acquaintance while
waiting for connecting trains at the
Broad street station yesterday. "How
long has your husband been dead?"
asked one. "About a year." was the
reply. ''And you are still widowP"
Yes. His estate amt settled yet ~
Philadelphia Record.
did you experience any feelings
of regret while the marriage ceremony
was being performed" asked one OF
the bridesmaids of the bride, as they
were leaving the church. Yes" re-
piled the latter. in whisper. Know
ing that several hundred pairs of eyes
were upon me, deeply regretted tina,
/ was unable to wear all the six Worth
dresses Ihad made in Paris. "-Drake's
Magazine.
Smart Wife - Don't worry,
George. l wrote an article for the
paper to-day, showing how to get ur
a family dinner for one dollar, and
took it around, and the editor gave me
a dollar" Busband-"That's a rare
piece of good luck. What are you go
ing to do with the dollar?" Smart
Wife-"rm going to try that recipe
myself. and see If it viii work IN,
!. Weekly.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-04-25
THE WOMAN'S ARMY.


Not with the booming cannon,
Not with the rolling drum,
Not with gay banners flying,
Or gist'ning spears, we come;
Not with wild shouts Of triumph,
Not with the trumpet's blare
You shall hear no shrieks OF terror
No wailings OF despair.
CHoRus-For ours is the pure white banner,
The flag OF love and peace,
And oh, Wen sing hosannah
When the rule of might shall cease
No field of the dead and dying
Shall mark our onward track,
No ill-starred hamlets blazing,
No ruins grim and black
No harvest torn and trampled,
No scenes OF death and woe;
We shall bring no desolation,
We shall cause no tears to foS
CHORUS
Our missions one OF mercy,
We bring but peace and Joy,
We come TO raise the fallen
To save, and not destroy.
Then give us a kindly greeting
And Godspeed on our way,
For, with Heavens help and blessing
We are sure to win the day.
CBoRUs-For ours is the pure white banner
The flag of love and peace;
And oh, Wen sing hosannah,
For the rule Of might shall cease
Mrs. Frances w. Titus in Woman's Journal
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-04-25
SAVED.

an, what story she could have toldi
seated there, with CLEANS OF gold
On her fingers, and milk-whitc wrist
Under tho snowy, filmy mist
otiaces as priceless as orient pearls
loveiiest Of all the beautiful girls.
Memories how they would ghost-like, glide
Like shadows that darken the green hill
side,
Close to the kiss OF the sun, and SO
Fade In Its fervent, golden glow;
Her life's shadows had faded, all,
IN the bright sun OF this festival.
Sixteen birthdays, and six OF them fed
Like whitc-winged angels over her head.
SOFTLY she turns, with her heart aglow
Where was she only six years ago?-
Turns TO the woman who stands by her side,
Whose eyes meet hers with tender pride.
oh, you took me from haunts OF death,
You, sweet lady, whose fragrant breath
Stirs the rlnglets that touch my cheek,
Il must die II do not speak
You, 0 angel, SO pure and white.
DO you remember that terrible night
"Some one had struck me cruel blow,
Turned me with curses out In the snow,
And of the millions of hearts there be,
1t seems not one Of them pitied me.
You In your carriage stopped to see
What that semblance OF death might be.
" For was so dumb In my anguish;
Had never thought but to stand and die.
And the the snow, more pitiful than the
night,
Covered me slowly with garments white,
Then, God bless l-ah, tears will come
You spoke to me gently, and took me home.
"When woke in the mornings light,
All my past seemed dream of the night,
My soul was stepped in glad surprise,
AS i'll had risen In Paradise;
And since that day you have been TO me
All that tbs fondest mother could be.
VI can not bless you, for words are weak,
And the tears would come II I tried to speak;
But God He knows in His Heaven to-day.
The grateful thanks that all words out
weigh
And in Paradise where the angels will see,
He will say: Tnasmuch'- aud we did it to
Me-"
Mrs. M. A. Denison, in Demorests Monthly,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-04-25

Mrs. Frank Leslie, a lady who
finds time occasionally to write very
interesting letters to the Journal, has
diamond-studded silver badge, the
emblem of the Order of Bolivar"
which was presented to her by the
President of Venezuela flor promot-
ing the cause Of art and literatJra."
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-04-25

Australian school teachers have
been exhorted to suppress a. peculiar
nasal twang in the voice that is de-
veloping in the rising generation. and
which is becoming as distinctive as
the Yankee twang.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-04-25

The Christian Leader, of Edin-
burg. calls DR.. Amelia B. Edwards the
most learned woman in the world.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1889-06-18
1nr nAlna1x STRANGER.

4 restaurant man ~ Lincoln. Nebras.
Ia, was looking gloomy n he gaIe,
from the window az the landscape
There came In here this morning" h.
sail. "a stranger 81 distinguished aIs
peanncc. IL was naughty Ia his bear
Ing; ycs, very naughty. The days Of
the years ~ INV journey la the land have
been many, but I don't think l ever
struck a more commNnding-lcoking man
lle took seat az a table and glanced
over the bin of fare very critically. ~
nally he ordered a porter-house steak,
with innumerable vegetables. lie asked
me II I had any new cucumbers.
hadn't any. Well said this naughty
gentleman. send out and get some,
And tell your Internal walter that don't
want 10 become a centenarian before the
meal l. brought me- | was deeply Inn
pressed by the imperi0us manner, and
rustled around and hurried the cook,
aud Ia = very short time the meal Was
placed before him. and Il was \ nice one.
lie seemed "a enjoy II. lie ate slowly.
slipped three cups ~ coffee, and repeated
several II his vegetable orders. Finally
he concluded the rrpast and came TO the
cashiers desk. where was on duty. lie
picked his teeth calmly, and then said :
Il am ready Ready for whatf ! In
qulred. Ready "a BE- fired. haven't a
red cent Now, how was that for un-
Numbered. double and twist, fast-dyed
galls How does u strike you AZ a sample
~ nerve with a wire edge and brass tips
| was too paralyKed TO fire him. just
invited him "a 20. and told him N he
ever came To INV fashionable rendezvous
again would sweeten his coffee with
sulphuric acid. He smiled blandly aud
went his tortuous way" And the pro-
prietor Of the hash emporium sighed
YEARLY.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1889-06-18
.A.r1llA.aRIoUl..

\ BLACK manisl-picCe. ielng highly Ia
artistic. should b. covered a. much A.
possible. u u cannot H. repaiuicd. N
Il can ~ r,~lainici would advise rich
mahogany color aud with this valance
II Coh.lin blue plush. or felt, would L.
NrrN handsome. \ valance ~ plush
would D. handsome enough without cm-
hruhlcry. bat might h. trimmed top aud
bottom Nth blue silk hrah. showing a
thread ~ gold aud II silver, and AZ M"
lotiom forming q heading for as.cl
fringe ~ your maniel I. probably a
long one. plush may D. too expensive.
IN that case u.e felt ~ the color desired
.lmply trmm~l with felt ~ contracting
color. pat on with gold or ILL cord.
The felt mas D. slash~i for fringe, With
strands IT .ilk the color ~ hands ii',i in,
ur plnks~i ssig~ Ia points would 10
pretty. still lees expansive would D. q
,alanc. ~ blue denim trimmed With q
hand II dark old gold, golden olive or
terra gotta felt, pat on With gold, sllk or
wor.i~,l corl. Another pretty treat
msui for felt Valanc-. not Invoking
much needle work. .. o. inierlace felt or
rihlron - hhunoniSing color through
.liis cat in the valance. fudo this even
o.. Las the Nalanc. face down un a b0ard,
AMI With yarl stick ani chalk draw two
line. lrngthVisr aui length ~ hand
apad. With a sharp knife. a. regular
Intervals. cat perprniicular sliis letNccu
the llnes ani through the. .llts the felt
az ribbon .. inicflac~l. N mor- than
one hand I. ie.ife,i the .liis for the see
uni must D. cut between tho.s in the
pre-, iou. ruv. thus rising n hrickwotk
vf-,t. Illis stale of trimming will D.
found very effective ani can D. done
With little trouble. n the mantcl !. III
Wo,id the Salanfe eau - secured with
brass ur letiher-hcad~i tacks and fancy
braid. or the top NAV D. bound with
wooden braid and the tack. pat just b.
low binding. N The shelf l. low enough
| for the top a. b. ss-n. cover u, or a
/ hoari. with felt neatly tackled uu h.tor-
putting valance Ia placr. W. Ike the
board arrang~ment With Salancv tackled
to Il because 10 can D. removed Tor
/ brushing IL c,nc-al mauiel.pie,v, II II
must remain black. use curtains ~ felt.
deulm az other material trimmed io
match valance. The" curtains should
b. simpl, hemmed, with trimming a few
luch.. above. and In the hem .hould h.
plac,,i lcadcn weights to Insure graceful
l hanging.