The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-26

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The Woman Who is Popular-A Hin
for theatrical ManaE ers-.A Theater'l
Worst Boomerang - The Business
Woman's Frock - Business Womer
Who Are Tiresome - The Latest IL
Woman's Veils-some Funny Thing:
in This World.
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NEW YORK, April 25.-I don't believe
that the men Of this world are credited with
being half as good as they are.
THE WOMAN LIKED BY MEN.
The natural instinct of man is to have q
home and companion. Nine times out oil
ten, instead Of this, be has hall room in q
boarding house. and he has to take what
ever company he can. Very often he
knocks round, here, there and everywhere
for while, then some day he meets a
woman who is more or less pleasant and
who has the art of making him feel con-
| tented, and he devotes most of his time
after that to her. Everybody holds up their
hands in horror, and yet if you boil
the whole thing down you find out that
| the poor chap did as he was doing before
! he was lonelyl Then why don't women get
lonely. Well, they do; but the woman in
| the same position in life gets into her room,
remembers that her frock needs new bind
ing she is crocheting a pair of slippers, and
she is going TO write letter home, and as
she has usually done considerable talking
during the day, she is not consumed with
the desire TO talk all evening The man.
however, as naturally longs for the COM
panionship of woman, when he IS lonely. as
he does for water when he is thirsty: real
thirsty, the sort Of thirst that only water
satisfies. l don't see any remedy for It.
MODERN LIFE IN BOARDING HOUSES.
The unfortunate wretch says marriage is
too expensive and the average woman keeps
on making him believe that. He don't see
any possibility of making a home in a
boarding house, which is about as difficult
70 do as to make a home on the top of
Cleopatra's needle. People have been happy
IN boarding houses, but they can't make
homes there. Homes are not made for the
multitude, and that's the reason cooperative
housekeeping will never lie success, You
know where 1t is a SUGGEST Well.
then there is something wrong with
the people. But l can't help think
ing about that young man. He
may be your son or mine, and his excuse
for whatever he does, that of Loneliness. is a
can only say to people who have homes,
think Of this boy once In a while and let
him into the charmed circle, make him as
FAR as possible one of yourselves, let him
see good women and kind women, SO that
he won't ask as did one wretched young
fellow: Are there any good women in the
world" And when some one said his
mother he answered with a sigh: 20, of
course; but then mother don't COUNT
THE WOMAN WHO is POPULAR.
Part of the trouble is that in a great de-
sire to be clever and charming, the average
woman forgets to be comfortable, AID it is
the comfortable woman that keeps mankind
straight. She mayn't know much about
Darwin, or Homer, but the woman who
knows how to say and do a pleasant thing,
the woman who knows how to make a man
feel at ease, is the one who is going to have
the greatest control over him There is here
O woman who is not particularly beautiful.
who barely speaks decent English, and who
Is said to have the most marvellous power
over men. Fortunes have come to her, and
everybody has wondered why. had the
curiosity 10 ask a man who knew her. |
said, there are 500 women who are better
looking, Thousands who are better educated.
and yet about this woman the men gather
as the bees do about sugar. What's the
secret| And he answered: "A pleasant
manner. She always has an agreeable
greeting when you meet her, she is suffi-
GENTLY full Of tact to put an end to a disa-
greeable topic. and no man ever saw her out
of temper. She's thoroughly comfortable ~
Now, there, my friends, is a woman for you
to initiate in some things 1t is the old story
OF the charmeuse not OF necessity being
lovely to look upon.
A HINT FOR THEATRICAL MANAGERS.
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do, have you noticed the tendency to present
plays in which hereditary diseases are made
the subjects of great Importance And don't
you think that 1t is absolutely dreadful? We
all like to go to laugh at a farce. TO mix tears
and laughter at good melodrama. to see
virtue triumphant and vice conquered; but
we don't go to hear heroine give the full
details of hereditary insanity, or pathetic
ally cough through five acts and dllate on
the horrors of consumption. A man
ager shows lack OF business tact
when he presents such a play.
lie does not know who in that audi
ence he is hitting. There are few families
that have not had either consumption or in
sanity somewhere i'll them, and the woman
who may be crying next to me is not CRYING
because of the play, but is crying because it
brings up to her such dreadful memories
and such horrible Thoughts When she goes
hOLue you Gull 10 N6Ty sure sue is gong TO
keep the rest of the family from going
there. She doesn't want everybody else to
have their feelings hurt as hers have been,
and that's why it shows a lack of business
knowledge to put such a play before the
public.
A THEATER's WORST BOOMERANG.
Nobody would invite friend who wished
to have a merry evening to the dissecting
room of hospital. and yet that's exactly
what's done when a sensitive woman is taken
to see one Of these medical horrors inappro-
priately called plays. Have a motive in
your play if you wish. But let it be a
moral, not physical one. Dilate as much
as you please about the wrong of lying, of
stealing, of killing, aud of wickedness of
all kinds, but don't make your motive
an illness of the body that is trans>
mitted from father to son, or
from mother to daughter. You are sending
out boomerang, Mr.. Manager, it's going
to hit too many people in the audience, and
it is one that will fly back and knock out
the receipts in the box Office. The people
who argue that the playhouse should be a
teacher forget that this is the most over
taught nation in the world-the PLAYHOUSE
should be just what It's name implies, a house
where honest, merry play is made for those
who look on.
THE BUSINESS woMAN's FROCK.
One of the exciting topics Of the day is.
What kind of frock shall business
woman wearH Whenever there's a
woman's convention it usually puts inst