The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-04
WOMEN AND THE PAPERS
WOMEN ARE BETTER NEWSPAPER
READERS THAN Mn.

derwear of Smart Women-w Why
Women Prefer Silk Underwear -
America as a Nation for Women
What They Enjoy ana Their Power
Whas an American Man win Do for
the Woman of His Heart.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-The average man
has very mean way Of scorning the way
in which a woman reads the newspapers.
He believes be is the only animal capable of
compromising them, and ne says she
| devotes herself to the advertisements and
the marriages and deaths This may be
partially true, but doubt IT., and even if
she did, fail to see why she We ld be doing
any harm. 1t is much decenter to read the
adver isements than to read accounts of
political speeches where the personalities are
abominable and where the grammar must
make the queen shudder-I say the queen.
because we always refer TO good English as
the exclusive possession of the queen.
HOW WOMEN READ NEWSPAPERS.
As for reading the marriages aud deaths,
she is certain, alter she has done that. to get
herself thoroughly posted in regard to pee
pies position. and sue doesn't meet some
man on the street and ask him how his wife
is when his wife has been dead three months,
nor does she Jest az, Ut ba bies who have
gotten married to some young Innocent chap
who has made his debut on the sea of matri-
mony for the first time in the past two
weeks. To my way of thinking, women
read the newspape with a great deal of
intelligence, but then, of course. look at
it from a womans standpoint. Nothing
gives one a greater amount of Information
than the advertisements, and no ESSAY. no
M q M orln of
dance was ever more lucid in It's des-
cription than is the story of how lady,
after suffering for years for the lack
of a silk gown, bought one on the install /
men plan and has since become good wife
and good M Their. They are at once full
Of imagi. alton and harmless. But women
do read other things, and, funny enough, A
woman will find more IN the newspaper
than any man. She seems to have sixth
sense that makes her discover the paragraph
that nobody else finds-that Is. nobody mas
culine-and she can exploit tie story of her
favorite actress, her ar friend, the last
new book, or VIA they are dong in Il G.
land, while man wouders where she heard
it, and cannot believe she got it out Of the
very newspaper over which he has pondered
for two hours.
SHOULD WOMEN READ THE PAPERS?
Pers nallv, l regard the newspapers as
the great educators of to-day, aud am de-
voted to them Co such an extent tn t oneS
| half of my income goes in buying them
| Could one prove a devotion more firmly
than thisg Someb, dy wrote to me and
as ed me if | ould advise women to read
| the ne wspapers, and | answered them, Yes,
| Yes, Yes. l say it three times, and each
| time l mean 1t more emphaticallY than |
did the first. OF course, there arc good
and bad newspapers, as there are good ard
| LAD womeD, ana would just as soon adv
| you to get acquainted with the wicked Of
| your kind as l would to read a
newspaper that catered to all that was
mean and low in the world. But, after ell,
think the bad ones a few and far b.
| tween. The average American editor knows
his audience and he knows tuey would
rather hear of good things, of happy times,
and of ways that can help other pc ple
oug, than almost anything else Then,
| for tear he will make hi, chenille all a gels,
he puts in betw een some chatter, or 5abble,
or similar gossip that's as frothy as the
| white of an egg, but which never did any
| body any harm, and Is warranted not ITO
lie heavily on the stomach.
UNDERWEAR OF SMART WOMEN,
So very much attention is being paid to
the sort of underwear worn by Tie smart.
woman of to-day that she may he interested
in knowing that Ler most severe Judge is
her laundress. One bit Of machine sewing
simply sends her swiftly to the bottom Of
the sea, and the young woman who has dec
GRATED her belongings with the tucks done
by the machine had Letter do her wa hing
at home and develop the muscles of her arm
if she wis-es to retain the position which
is hers by right. her underclothes are few
in number, bat fine of klnd, aud whether
she chooses to wear linen, cambria or silk
the sewing must be that fine kind that is
done in che convent, or else it must be
equally fine aud the work of some decayed
gentlewoman, who paid very good price
for it.
WHY WOMEN PREFER SILK UNDERWEAR
Linen cambria is the protest made by
some women against silk, which, they
argue, has grown vulgar. But the people
VINO ear silk are quite convinced that
there is nothing so pleasant to tie skin or
that looks as pretty as the fjne fabric itself
and that cambria, even if IL DO as fine as
hat arrauted to go through a wedding
ring, has not the same charm, nor does it
10 as well, as the dainty-hued silks The
very latest silk petticoat, which is, Of
course. drawn and tied in the back,
SO that it permits a glove-fitting skirt over
it, has the entire front and sides embroidered
In feur- de-LyS in white, silver or gold thread.
To say that this skirt is expensive is
speaking mildly In regard to it, for in
reality it is worth almost as mucn as is a
broidery Is done by hand. and tle feur.de-
LyS are so thick together that it seems as If
they were heavy brocade rather than sewn
on the stuff. A most fetc z night-gown
has broad sailor collar ana deep cuffs,
embroidered IN the same way, only the
flower of fashion is in silver thread. These
are extremely pretty to lock at, but one
must be careful they do not get nt ar the
face, as an undesirable scratch would Ger
tainly be the result.
WE ARE A NATION OF WOMEN.
A man who was talking the other day
said: ''Do the people never get tired OF
hearing about women?' and another man
ans sered, No" In every country in the
world politics como first, but here, what
wo zen are doing, what women are saying,
and what the women are thinking is always
of interest to the ave. age man. This is
essentially the country of women. If
woman sold her jewels that America might
be discovered. wonankind mas GER ainly
reaped advantage from II, as no place else
is the same consideration shown her.
She cal make or damn play. She can
cause the success or the to; al extinction of
a book, and nobody has any interest in
pictures uni IS women want to 90 and sec
them. Her power is marvellous and If she
doesn't always know how to use it, that is
her misfortune, and not her fault. Until
she hos seen other women. that is the