The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-13
GAY CARRIE CARELESS.
THE LATEST AND MOST SINCERE
THINGS IN ENGAGEMENT Rim GS.

the american ASlo De Given a
Dowry?-Ihe Best Dowry is the Abi,.
ity to arm Money-The Little Woman
and the Big. Confusiug Club Gossip
About People and Things-Mrs Hunt
ing5on's Bath-tub.
NEW YORK, April 11.-Decidedly a re-
action against clubs, organizations, bands
and societies has set in for the little woman
who, year ago, wanted 70 rise and soar.
She is beginning 70 see that clubs may be.
come a source of bruises to the tender
feminine mind and spirit. And she has
found out that constitutions are perplexing
and bothersome unless they pertain to the
welfare of the family. Bylaws are becom-
ing a WEAKNESS and parliamentary usuages
bad form.
Worn out with the effort to do and be,
and act similar to her mankind, the little
woman is gradually withdrawing from all
organizations, and is betaking her rutfled
plumage back to the family circle, wherein
is rest, comfort and recreation. Here she is
never out of order. She can have the floor
at any time, she can order business meet
ing at any moment In the day. and her OBJ
jections are not apt TO be overruled. 1t is
here that her points Of order are always
well taken. The gavel is in her hand to
weld as she wills and, more than all, she
is the chairman and entire executive COM
mittee on entertainments, new members and
miscellany. Her vote is the deciding one,
and her smile rules the whole organization.
Let the little woman taste Of club life if
she will. But happy is the one who can
take her bruised, perturbed self home to
masculine arms for the consolation, the
petting, the sympathy and the praises which
the bravest of little women ind sweet to
their souls.
Mrs. c. p. Huntington, whose lawsuit
over a 5000 massage bill has attracted so
much attention. Is described as an altogether
beautiful and pleasing woman Her lovely
neck, over the removal of whose wrinkles
the suit came about is firm and white as
marble and the face above it is lofty, dig
nified and womanly. By many, Mrs. Hunt
ington was deemed a social martyr in that
she would permit the publicity Of the courts
rather than pay what seemed to her to be a
blackmailer's price. The bill was disputed
from principle not from parsimony.
As an example OF Mr., Huntington's
prodigalty towards his wife is told the fol-
lowing story: Mrs Huntington is extremely
fond of fresh water swimming, bathing and
diving. To indulge her in her favorite
water athletics, Mr.. Huntington ordered a
tank constructed in the cellar-nicely
heated and lighted. 1t was found upon in
vestigation that the tank must be emptied
daily to avoid dampness in the house above
and that each filling Of the tank would cost
$50, making grand total of about $500 per
week, which Mr.. Huntington would owe for
water taxes. But not an instant did that
gentleman hesitate. Mrs. Huntington de.
sired tank for bathing purposes. A tank
she must have. In the language of the
street money was not sin it." Has not such
man a right to public sympathy when a
bill seems so exorbitant to his generous soul
that he is willing to refuse to be imposed
uponl
While young mans fancy is lightly
turning to thoughts OF love, O young
woman's fancy is turning to thoughts Of an
engagement ring.
What shall be the material, what the
style, what the emblem and what the de-
sign of this, the band which is to mark her
betrothal fingerq The heart shaped designs
which were the pride and the delight of our
grandparents. have come in again with all
the vehemence Of which the spring season
of ninety-one is capable Yet there is a
certain design for an engagement ring which
is, in delicacy Of conception. so much above
and beyond the merely ornamental heart
shaped ring that the latter has shrunk into
insignificance by the side Of il.
The new design is this. A large, per-
fectly clear, somewhat fiat diamond is Sc
lected and underneath it is placed the like
ness of the dearest boy on earth. Around
the face. as it sparkles forth from the depths
Of the diamond is a row of tiny emerald
The choice of stones to surround the dia-
monds is purely arbitrary. Just now
emeralds are chosen because they are dearer
than turquoise, pearls or any other gems
save diamonds themselves.
To get even with her young man for this
reckless and lavish expenditure, and also to
carry out the law which regulates the gen
eral fitness and equality of things, the young
woman sends the young man a jewelled like
ness Of herself. And this is the way she
does it. In the end Of gold pencil she has
a diamond set similar to that in her ring
and, underneath it. goes her own fair face.
The young man fastens the pencil upon his
watch chain, and both Of the twain-the
ardent lover and the maiden fair-are rea dy
for any and all emergencies, for each bears
a talismap that will exercise all evils save
those of la grippe.
England is agitating itself over our dowry
question. Shall or shall not an American
maid be turned over to her husband with
naught but 1.-THE presents her trousseau
and a $5 bill for a dowry? Shall she and
must she have a certain sum placed upon
her head ere she be considered eligible for
the matrimonial marketw
When the question of money steps in the
old American independence idea of true
love steps out, and the whole system of
marrying and giving in marriage becomes
un-AnericaniZed. TO the orthodox Ameri-
can mind a moneyed marriage Is a nice thing
and when the maiden brings swealth to her
husband it is a mighty nice and a mighty
comfortable thing for all concerned. But
to that same orthodox American mind the
consideration of money fades into nothing
ness when compared with the weightier one
of love.
Unless she were possessed Of physical and
Intellectual sympathy for the man whom
shc was about 10 marry, our regulation
American girl would feel as if she had been
bought for price, or bartered for the
dowry which had been set upon her.
Sooner than place herself voluntarily into
such state OF affairs our true~blue girl
would skip off in secret with the man of
her choice and work her fingers to the bone
to keep the wolf and the sheriff from the
door.
But could not true love and a dowry
travel togetherw asked our English cous-
ms
They could-but they seldom do. Then
Cupid selects love poisoned dart; it is not
often that both ends are tipped with gold.
Our English cousins are used to having
their husbands chosen for them. It is q
matter Of church, of family and of state;
aud should the marriage prove an impecun
ious one, the aforementioned trinity of
church, family and state are willing to com
bine to make the loss good.
With US it is different We know that