The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-15
GOOD FORM IN WOMEN.
It's Highest Development is In Emo
tionsl Repr essiop.

t1onal Hepr eSS1op.
affinity" magnetism" psychic force"
these and kindred terms, says an exchange,
have been so abused by spiritualists, free
thinkers, perfectionists. and the whole
unhealthy lot Of more or less doubtful scots,
that one almost hesitates to use them in
ordinary parlance.
And yet there is something, call it what
you will, that lie a tremendous force in this
world. All purely physical manifestations
have their coordinate force in some mental
condition. The terrific outburst of passion
in strong man or woman corresponds to
the battle of the elements. There is all the
fury of the storm in great rage. The sudden
outburst that sometimes sends human
soul quickly to its account while the slayer
stands motionless, with the smoking weapon
In his hand, is like the lightning's flash. Not
more swiftly does the electric fluid dart
from the heavens than does passion some
times conquer the soul, and sweep all-Yes,
even honor ltsef-before it.
A mothers voice softly grooming to her
child is like the first balmy south breeze of
spring blowing through blossom-laden
branches and tropic stars shine not more
brightly than the mothers eyes as she looks
out into the future for her darling.
Somewhere something in human nature
must correspond TO the light of the sun.
There must be something analogous to the
mysterious power of gravltation. There
must be something in the human soul like
this far-reaching force that controls the
universe and holds the planets in their
starry way out in the boundaries of time
and space.
What Is its Are there not feelings for
which there is no name? Have all the emo
tions of the mind been classified and cata-
logued? Love may indeed be known. but
love is only on open door into an
other world, and love itself can neither
name nor describe all 1t knows, all it sees
and hears and feels.
Every day this great tide GIBBS and flo VS.
and penetrates into every circle and makes
itself felt in society and business and friend
ship and all the relations of life, and yet
isn't much talked about. because people are
nearly always afraid to talk about their feel
ings or about their souls salvation or God
and heaven or anything that can't be
handled and bought and sold.
1t is said that people hks to go to the thea
ter to see acting. 1t is not so.
People like to go to the theater because
they see manifestations of what is within
themselves naturally acted. We do our
| acting off Of the stage. We act when we
smile and shake hands with
some one whom we cordially
dislike. We act when we wear a
brave front with heavy heart; when we
walk confidently along the street and smile
and salute and are inwardly sick at heart
We act when we are calm when instead we
want to cry aloud, to scream, to break out
violently, or to run, to leap, to sing, to pro-
claim our joy from the housetops.
Why do we not9
Why, it is not good form. 1t q not even
good form to laugh out loud, to innocently
display ones emotions, to blush. All this
| is very crude, very unconventional; and SO
people act, and get all wrapped in crust,
like a mummy. and are proper and conven>
| tional, and O great deal of STYLE" But
away down IN their bosoms there is some
thing that is alive and breathes. and is vital
| and quickening. And sometimes some
| thing stirs this feeling into a manifestation
/ of life, and the color comes and goes,
and the heart beats more quickly,
and the whole being is vitElized.
| Some one comes into the room, it may be a
man or it may be woman, for this force
has no sex. You have never seen this per-
son before, and you look carelessly, but
when your eyes meet you see something
| that holds your regard more closely. A
| thought wave rolls over you; there was a
subtle communication from that other
mentality, and, by common impulse, you
meet. Sometimes you are introduced and
| sometimes you are not That makes no
| difference. lou knew each other when
your eyes met.
When this peculiar forcs is large-devel-
oped in marked degree-there are states
men and orators and heroes and patriots.
| You and | can name public speakers whose
published speeches in the morning papers
lead tame and passionless Yet the night
before thousands hung breathless or were
swayed to tears or laughter or shouted in
wild enthusiasm and went home saying,
| uW hat marvellous eloduence
II cannot see anything in this speech,
saws one. "Ah, but you should have heard
him" says one who was there; "his mag
netism thrilled the audience, and he moved
them by the very tones of his voice" And
so it is.
You touch thousand hands in an irre-
sponsive way, but one day you are thrilled