Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-14
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ling, little self-degradation. little
careful use of our advantage, and then
some man will say, Come, be my wife?
With good looks and youth, marriage
is easy to attain. There are men
enough; but woman who has sold her
self, even for ring and a new name.
need hold her skirts aside for no crea-
ture in the street. They both earn
their bread in one way. Marriage for
love is the most beautiful external SYM
Dol OF the union of two souls; marriage
without it is the uncleanliest traffic that
dcfiles the world" She ran her little
finger savagely along the topmost bar,
shaking off the dozen little dew-drops
that still hung there. "And they tell
us we haven't mems chivalrous atten-
tionw she cried. when we ask to be
doctors, lawyers, Lawmakers, any thing
but ill-paid drudges, they say, No; but
you have mems chivalrous attentions;
now think of that and be satisfied!
What would you do without it""
The bitter little silvery laugh, so
seldom heard, rang out across the
bushes She bit her little teeth together.
II was coming up in Cobb & Co.'S
the other day. AT a little wayside
hotel we had to change the large coach
for small one. We were ten passen-
gers, eight men and two women. As /
sat in the house the gentlemen came
and whispered to me, There is not
room for all in the new coach, take your
seat quickly We hurried out, and .
they gave me the best seat, and covered
me with rugs because it was drizzling.
Then the last passenger camc running
up to the coach-an old woman with a
wonderful bonnet, and black shawl
pinned with yellow pin.
"'There is no ROOM they said; you
must wait till next weeks coach takes
you up;' but she climbed on to the step,
and held on at the window with both
hands.
"'My son-in-law is i'll, and ! must go
and sec him, she said.
"'My good woman, said one, 4 am
really exceedingly sorry that your SON.
in-law is ill; but there is absolutely no
room for you here
"'You had better get down. said an
other, or the wheel will catch YOU
ii got up to give her my place.
"'Oh, no, not they cried, I'VE will not
} allow that
| "I will rather kneel, said one, and
: he crouched down at my feet; SO the
woman came in.
There were nine of us in that coach,
: and only one showed chiyalrons atten-
ton, and that was woman to a wo-
\ man. shall be old and ugly too one
day, and i shall look for mems chival-
3 rOus help, but | shall not find 1t. The
1 bees are very attentive to the flowers
l till their honey is done, and then they
5 fly over them. ! don't know II the
+ flowers feel grateful to the bees; they
Q are great fools if they do"
a "But some women" said Waldo.
0 speaking as though the words forced
i themselves from him at that moment,
"some women have power"
4 She lifted her beautiful eyes to his
y face.
0 Power! Did you ever hear OF men
: being asked whether other souls should
Q have power or not? 1t is born in them.
g You may dam up the fountain Of water,
d and make it a stagnant marsh, or you
r may let it run free and do its work; but
Q you can not say whether 1t shall be
g there; IL is there. And it will act, II
d not openly for good, then covertly for
n evil but it will act II Goethe had
: been stolen away child, and reared in
= robber-horde in the depths OF a Ger
y man forest do you think the world
y would have had Faust and Iphigenie'
e But he would have been Goethe still
IS stronger, wiser than his fellows. At
d night, round their watch-ire, he would
n have chanted wild songs OF rapine and
Is murder, till the dark faces about him
e were moved and trembled. His songs
|, would have echoed on from father TO
l. son, and nerved the heart and arm
: for evil. Do you think, that II Napo-
o leon had been born a woman, that he
e would have been contented to give
'e small tea-parties and talk small scam
4. DIAL? He would have risen; but the
t. world would not have heard OF him as
e it hears of him nova man great and
(, kingly, with all his sins; he would have
,r left one of those names that stain the
re leaf of every history-the names OF
st women who, having power, but being
i'd denied the right to exercise It openly.
t; rule in the dark, covertly, and by
stealth. through the men whose pas
~ sions they feed on and by whom they
at climb.
m "Power!" she said suddenly, shifting
is her little hand on the rail. "Yes, we
IS have power; and since we are not to ex.
a pend it in tunnelling mountains, nor
at healing diseases, nor making laws, nor
tn money, nor on any extraneous object
OF we expend it on you You are our goods
us our merchandise, our material fol
ur operating on; we buy you, we sell you
ill we make fools of you, we act the vii,
r, old Jew with you, we keep six Of 20,
ill crawling to our little feet. and praying
of only for touch of our little hand
to and they say truly. there was never al
wv ache or pain or a broken heart but |
ly woman was at the bottom OF it w,
to are not to study Law, nor science, no
We art SO we study you. There is neve
&c nerve or fibre in your mans natur
i'll but We know it We keep five or six O
at you dancing in the palm Of one littl
ep hand she said. balancing her OUT
rst stretched arm gracefully, as thoug
lie, tiny beings disported themselves in il
aat nal.n ssThera-wa throw vos1 awax