The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-12

Aiding them, as Mrs. Wells saws, to count
''the various kind OF kisses which mark the
advent and climax Of lover'Sregard. Love
itself is just subtle and unselfish as ever
1t was; passion Is as true and noble; but
their parasites are deadly" This is a splen-
did summing up. But do not agree that
such reading makes girl ''love her mother
more" or that shs STAYS at hOme,n grow
ing more healthful. and finding indefinite
interests enough 10 make single life very
pleasant"
fear the novels of today have had a
very different result. This literature has
had vicious effect on the manners. if not
on the morals, of our girls. 1t has led to
the loud, unsexed and vulgar product,
which we observe more in Europe than
here. l do not think it has led to self
analysis, but to Generalization of both
young girls and young married women.
COST OF LIVING.
No doubt among the higher classes Gf we
have such thing, the increased expense of
living keeps many of the men from asking
the women of their choice to marry them
So much the worse for the men. No factor
in a mans fortune is so certain as good
wife. II he fails. she can work. Women
have proved during the last twenty years
that they are success as bread winners
And where love goes before, like a light IN
the pathway, who is such a tonic, when a
man is down. as good wifes Who will
console him for the decline in stocks like the
courageous creature who will say, "Never
mind, Horatio, we can live in the country
now; We still have each other and the chill
dren. Don't dare to say you are down while
you have me and them, and now we will see
what can dol"
1t would be worth several Barring Bros
failures to have woman say that. And
do we not know many who have said it. and
lived it tooa Yes.
The great defect of the age is the lack of
confidence between men and women on this
point Each should be thoroughly perme-
ated with the idea of the others happiness,
and know that each is invaluable and nee
essary 10 the other. II that sweetest of
love stories, "White Heather we have the
model girl, Meenie, who, rising above all
the prejudices of caste, determines to marry
her Ronald, and comes TO Glasgow to save
him from enlistiug and from going to the
bad. She says, with touch of wounded
pride in her voice:
''Ronald, | have come all the way from
the Highlands to save you.n
And she tells him bravely that she was
making no sacrifice to take him. She puts
heart and hope into the brave, foolish fell
low, of whom love has made a coward, and
she consents to Scotch marriage under
proper chaperonage, and these were halcyon
| days. The rich lover whom the ambitious
sister wished Meenie to marry was sent to
the right-about, for Meenie reasoned rightly
| that 1t was of no Consequence to anybody
but Ronald and herself whom she married
and SO the rich lover was discarded. And
Ronald turned out all right.
Let all young ladies who hesitate about
marrying the man whom they wished to
marry, read the beautiful, clean story of
"W bite Heather" and if they can find a
Ronald, marry him on the spot. 1t is a
good book to read in these degenerate days,
| when Loves Sacrifice" is out of date. 1t is
strong and healthy pulse which beats in
| the white wrist of Meenie. She knew that
with her Ronald would be a success, with
out her failure; and love told her fortune
with unerring accuracy. To be sure. there
was rich American who helped along, but
| thasdoes not make the moral less binding.
THE DowRY QUESTION.
1t would be better, no doubt, to have q
dowry, to step into well-furnished brown
stone house given by papa, to have bank
account on both sides; and then perhaps
more Of our girls would marry, if any sort
Of young man would ask them. But when
all that has happened to the fortunate young
| pair in whose pathway we strew roses, and
| around whom we crowd with congratula-
| tions, and ivory-bound prayerbooks, we
have still several millions of boiling hearts
minated.
In this matter civilization has made a
mistake. The birds and the squirrels make
no such plumbers. We do not hear of an
old maid nightingale singing to herself,
| forlornly, on withered Dough, nor of a
| selfish gray bachelor squirrel going to his
| Union club in an old oak tree, eating his
acorn per ,umably served vita truffias, all
| by himself.
To be sure, they neither of them have to
consult Wall street tickers or order Worth
| d esses.
Life with us is smothered in appliances.
| 1t could be very gay if it were not for its
| amusements, ana very luxurious if it were
not for its luxuries; both are overdone; and
the first effect of our crude civilization is,
| with all our clevernecs, to copy that which
| we ought to throw away, and to throw away
| that which is our peerless birthright. For
if there ever was country where young
| men and young women ought to marry for
| love, and to hope for successful future, it
is this country. We have seen that the rent
| roll, the dowry, and the brownstone house
| do not always bring happiness We read
every day that confession in the details of
the divorce court. Therefore, why should
not two strong young hearts say9-
Never mind; whose happiness but yours
and miner
Mrs. Wells says wisely: "There are cycles
Affection 1t is to be feared that we are in
q selfish cycle in which man desires mar
rage less than ever. Why he ever desired
| it has puzzled some misunderstanding
| Frenchmen.
We should be sorry to believe that woman
was ever so untrue to herself as not to de-
sire the ffreside, the cradle, the cherub
faces, the infinite sacrifice and the infinite
rewards of wifehood and motherhood. And
| we join with Mrs. Wells in saying: 1.-THE
| time will come when all noble women and
men will be married"
For even the mistakes; the patient, brute
| loving wife; the faithful, hopeful, weak
| husband, who waits and hopes; the sorrow
| full story of the imprudent marriage and its
sad co sequences; the foolish waiting and
putting-of Of marriage until fortune shall
come, as if two could not court
the tickle goddess better than
one even these mistakes and
blunders prove that it is ''right road to
travel, ;" one we were all born to walk over
on our upward path; and if any woman re-
fuses b marry because of self-conceit, or
because any learning or profession is better
than marriage; if she regards selfish ease
and the environment more than the man
himself, then she is unworthy to read
"Wh1ts Heather" or even to 60 salmon
fishing with that dear hero and heroine of
William Blacks best story.
have not answered Mrs. Wells at all
She has still the fort untaken Indeed we