The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-22
WITH A w OR A W.

Do you say woman or do you say
Womanl
In other words, do you or do you not spell
it with big, big wa
1t was a somewhat representative group
of literary and business women a few days
ago that / CHANGED to hear a ventursome
individual urging the proprieuy of the
modest, lower case letter. Sne set forth In
substance that whereas women complain
endlessly of the two standards of morality
set up by society to which to refer the CON
duct OF men and women, yet in nearly all
their active employments women encourage
the permanent maintenance of two basil
ness standards; one the every day, count
ing house rule by which the doings OF men
are reckoned and another and very much
more generous but less honest yardstick by
which 70 measure women's successes. so to
get by special allowance a good showing
This woman who led so rash an assault on
woman maintained that the first business
successes of her sex were entitled to a radi-
ant nalo Of f1rstness, and that the second
successes should have an even brighter
glow OF secondness, as showing that their
predecessors were not accidents, but that
the dozenth success should content itself
with plain circle of light and the
hundredth success get along without any
decoration. In other words that In many
departments of business women had become
as Usual Office fixtures as the average office
stool, and should not any longer pose as
prodlgles, or look to have achievements
very good and creditable In themselves
puffed-after the manner of the frog who
burst in trying to swell himself to the size
OF an ox-out of all likeness to themselves
She suggested that by summing themselves
In over-fattery, which magazines genuine
but modest doings into great ones, and
really great doings into towering colossal
doings, instead Of establishing that equality
with the other sex, as proofs of which ali
these high-colored records are brought for
ward, women practically keep themselves
in the attitude OF precocious children, to be-
patted on the head and rewarded with sugar
plums.
Women's books. she said, have attained
enough honor so that they stand or fall as
books. If women really claim any perma-
nent position in active life, they should re-
joice to have their doings reckoned in the
same way as things done, and instead Of
clarifying the women who is elected presi-
dent of small and unimportant balloon
navigation company, limited, or the woman
who invents and perhaps herself drives
new sort of one-horss broom, ny which the
streets of some village are kept clean, as a
marvel of her generation, to be pictured and
Photographed from Maine to California, they
should rate her more nearly as they would
man who has achieved the same moderate
degree Of success, as a fairly clever business
individual; they should take her more as a
matter of course and less as an apostle of
woman.
do not know that this sounds especially
radical, but the business women and the
literary women proclaimed that they would
not say woman, nor yet Woman nor
WOMAN, but that they meant 20 say
WOMAN every time. They would fiutter
the ribbons and let the dove shake OUT her
wings. They would praise WOMAN, aud
pet her, and lead her by the hand, and take
every stone for long time yet from under
the feet of the fodder. They were right
enough, and yet.
WHY WOMEN ARE NOT WORTH MEMS WAGES.
Some points that vvera s;var no 4h;.