The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
OUR W0MANLY Bah
TALKs OF LOVE AND WOMEN UN-
DEB SOUTHERN SKIES.


and Trips Her Pretty Feet to
Dixie" - Southern Women aud
Northern Men-Bsb ForEets Fer
Bible and Wants an Eye for an Eye.
What Love Does and Does Not Do.
How to stop suicides-The Han
With a Cape Coat-Fair Woman
Doesn't Like Him-The Kind of Men
the Women Want.
tCopvri0htl
NEW YORK, Dec. st somehow makes
all the blood in your body get warmer, and
whether you are from Maine or Florida.
San Francisco or New York, You have an
inclination TO keep time to it. What is it,
1t is not one OF Wagners masterpieces, So
called; Audran had nothing to do with it's
composition; Strauss could not have COM
posed It, to have saved his soul and OfFen-
bach never had an idea that reached it. 1t
has ceased to be sectional, and has become
the possession Of the entire country. You
all cheer up when you hear it, aud nobody
is TOO downhearted not to give a passing
smile when 1t rings out its melody, whether
it is from the best trained orchestra, from a
hand-organ, or whistled by the newsboys
who sell you a paper. Don't you know the
tunel Why, it's "Dixier
SONGS OF THE SOUTHLAND.
Somehow these southern tunes. with the
quaint words that go with them, have a
curious fashion of pulling at your heart
strings, until tears that do not mean sorrow
indeed, are those Of gentle memories and
quiet happlness-come to your eyes. Do
you know why's Get some man who is
keeping back great deal of affection in his
heart, and induce him to tell you He will
say: ut is because those songs invariably
tell something about home, something
about those one loves, something about 10y.
atty, and something about a memory; and
always do they touch that spot in mans
heart that teaches him the respect due to all
women, and the reverance he should have
for his own home and people" All of them
give you this impression, aud none of them
are so well known as "Dixie.n
A SOUTHERN POEM IN DRAMA.
never saw this so fully exemplifed as
the other day, when was one among big
audience looking at that poetic play, Alaba-
ma" The orchestra had played "Dixie,n had
played about the "Suwannee River,n had
dwelt on the "Old Home In Kentucky" aud
oil through that house, crowded with
with women and children, there was per-
feet silence. You saw O handkerchief
qulChly AAteu 70 wipe tear from an eye,
and If you looked very close you saw q
mother put her hand on her daughter,
and the south-the ways of
everybody felt the better for the songs Of
real people. Like all good southerners,
think this is one great country, since, as
they say in the play, "We can break
fast in Pennsylvania and sup in Alabama
but still, like all southerners. cannot for
get my home, and so the play, with its
sweet pure story of love and loyalty, ap-
pealed TO ME. Go down in any southern
town and you will meet "Col. Moberly" Of
this play, with his frock coat buttoned
tight and his soft hat crushed in; no BUSH
ness is TOO pressing to keep him from show
ing courtesy to a lady; he is a past master
Ia the art Of chivalrous words, and If a little
bombastic, If a little inclined to dwell on
the past maRnihcence, you can't blame him
because he comes from the south. It's the
same in the south all the world over.
WOMEN WHO MAKE GOOD WIVES.
The south of France produces such men
men to whom speech comes before thought,
men Daudet showed when he created
''Numa Roumestan;" it is the result Of the
atmosphere. You meet just such women as
Carey Preston, young, loving and trusting
They are the women who make marvellous
good wives and mothers. You see the hos
pitable habits of the south, and its out-of-
door life, and it makes a most charming
picture. You smile when the colonel calls
the attention of the northern visitor to the
moon, and asks him if the moon is like that
in the north and for an answer he hears
that the moon looks more golden, and then
the colonel says with wave Of his hat:
YES, sab; we think the girls born under
that moon have more poetry and love in
their hearts, and are more tender than any
other women"
MAGNOLIAS OF THE SOUTH
OF course, this is the man OF the south
speaking; but why do so many nothern
men marry southern women? I'll tell you;
it's because they haven't had years of re-
preston over their heads; it's because they
are not afraid to speak the love they feel,
and it's because man likes affection, espe-
ciallY from his wife. 1t is because from the
beginning of the world, men have loved
beauty and sweetness, and to quote from
the play again: ''Magnolias don't grow in
Massachusetts,. 1t is a loyal play, too
The young lovers claim to position when he
asked for the hand of the southern girl, the
girl whose fortune was only herself, was
this: "My father was graduate Of West
Point.n And the southern woman, who ac-
cepted his offer, answered him: $50 was
Gen. Lee"
We hear of all sorts of dreadful things,
we are forced to know SO much that is
wicked and ugly, that say to you, my
friend, If it come your way, go
come con- away from it feeling that at
honor and chivalry are not dead; that good
ness and virtue does exist, and that it is
worth while to see it, even if you have to go
to find it: 'Way down South in Dixie"
BAB's FoRGETs HER BIBLE.
read the other day Of man, at least
they called him that. who threw some
dreadful acid in the face of tho girl whom
he claimed to love. The acid had destroyed
one eve, was eating into the cheek. and that
girl 10 years old will probably live. Now,
what would you do to that man2 He had
better have taken pistol and shot her, for,
all disfgured and half blind, what is life
going to hold for her? You think the law
will punish that man, do youW If she
lives, it may give him two years in the PEN
itentiary; If she dies he will possibly be
sent up for manslaughter. She will proba-
bly, live Every hope in her life has been
crushed and Joy will 60 from it, and he will
get Two years of very easy confinement,
with q good many days off If he behaves
himself halt decenly. l wish l had the
making Of the law. l would make one that
would cause acid to be thrown in that boys
face Just as it was in the girls, and then !
would cast him adrift on the world.
LOVE ELEvATEs AND NOT DEBAsEs.
He makes that mean, miserable cry that
he did it because he loved her. and was
Jealous. How many many crimes are COM
mitted in thy name, Oh Lowell Did he love