Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-03-05
One Dollar Per Year,
MAKING THE MEN GOOD.
Women Have II In Their Power to Bring
the Men Up to Higher standard Of

Living,
Bless the girls, how love them! To
me they are the sweetest things in the
world, with their fresh young cheeks
and bright eyes, laughing and chatting
simply because their hearts are so full
of fun and talk that it just bubbles over.
They can do more with those merry
smiles and winning looks than we old
women ever can, though blessed with
the wisdom of female Solomons, or the
guile of serpents, and it is to them that
we look for opposition to the evil in the
world, and the encouragement of the
good and falling If only the girls
would band together and frown upon
the wrong-doers and persistently refuse
to smile upon their misdeeds, what n
reformation all over the country there
would be-
If the pretty sweetheartswould refuse
to laugh at the hooking words young
men of our day think so clever, when di-
rected against religion and the good old
ways our grandparents delighted in,
there would soon be an end OF such
soothing. If our youths knew that the
bright eyes would look coldly on them
when the rumor gathered ground that
they were gay" would they not guard
their reputation as jewel of great
price?
Let the girls regard drinking man
as pest-infected one, and no more
think of receiving such into their homes
and we will have no marriages in oppo-
sition to parents, no broken-hearted
women shielding drunken husbands
from the worlds censure, no going back
to father with sad-eyed little children to
care for when shame is open and it is
no longer possible to hope for reforma-
ton.
All the girls have to do is to set up a
standard, with determination to live
and die by it, and men will come up to
it, never fear.
If you are content with low type,
then shut your eyes and be as compla-
cent as you please; but if you want a
good husband, and, by and by, good
sons, set your face firmly against the
weak and vicious,
You are afraid you will brighten the
men away by such severity and prud-
ishness? No, you will not-at least, it
will brighten away only such as you are
better off without their admiration and
love, and men whose opinion is worth
having, and whom you would really
care to marry, if you are the wise, we'll
regulated young woman take you for,
will honor you for your common
sense and prudence, and know you for
the very wife they want.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
A Smart Lady Student.
Miss Ada Naomi Thompson, an Eng.
fish girl whose honors have somewhat
paled before Miss Fawcett's, has IA rec
ord of success hardly less creditable.
Being poor, she began her work in a
Board School, and had no home incite-
ments to study, At twelve years old
she took a scholarship in the lsington
J High School, When only fourteen she
passed the Oxford Junior examination
with honors, and year later took hon.
ors in botany and a second scholarship,
followed in the succeeding year by hon
, ors at the Cambridge Senior examine
ton. At seventeen she passed the en-.
trance examinations to London Uni
versity, gained scholarship at Bed
| ford College, took the Lady Stanley
botany prize and the Somerville Scien
l tific prize, and, having achieved distinc
} ton in the teachers examination al
Cambridge University, settled down al
! nineteen as assistant mistress of the
l York High School, a position of mucf
2 dignity. journal.
Women and Matrimony.
II would seem that woman is {
favorite with the Lord, and that there
fore he has made more of that kind
From the order of the creation in Para
disc it is evident that woman is an i'm
proved edition of man. But whatever
be the reason for it, the fact is certain
that she who selects husband has {
= smaller number of people to select from
. than he who selects wife. Therefore
!. woman ought to be especially carefu
: in her choice of lifetime companion
> ship. She can not afford to make
mistake If man err in his selection
y he can spend his evenings at the clul
> and dull his sensibilities by Tobacco
smoke, but woman has no club room
for refuge and would find it difficult t,
I habituate herself to cigars If WON
an make bad job of marital selection
: the probability is that nothing but
: funeral can relieveit. -Talmage in n. y
. Observer.