The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-02
SAM JONES A CAVALIER.
BE IS ELOQUENT OUTSIDE THE
PCLPIC

PCLPIf +.
Thinks the Southern Woman Nearly
Perfsct-Nor n -rners ARE a Little
Flst-The Race Question Wittiy
Discussed-Southern Lead" Versus
Northern Silver.
New YORK, Oct IL interviewed Sam
Jones the other day and l asked him to an
s~er this question:
"How does the southern type Of woman
hood differ from the type north of Mason
and Dixoa's line"
"WeL. the womaahood Of the two Sec
tions differs about a. the manhood of the
two sections, each having thei characteris-
tics, which. perhaps, are largely dle to Gus
toms and environmeuts,n he meditatively
| rspl ed. Socially, the people south have
always been much more huspltable than
| those OF the north. There IS what We call
| southern blood, which hoIls at much lower
! temperature thar that Of the north. South
| erl WOmanhOod, surrounded by the same
Influence, has developed largely in senti-
menJ aud feeling with SOL ern manhood.
She cares more for chara ter and less for
chattels She worshiDs mammon less and
| true manhood more. In choosing q hus-
ba ID tne question Of chattels aud riches
ent rs very little info her thoughts. Sac
| loves the man she loves, aud will make aUy
! sa 1ritice to give herself to him, and when
she does so give herself, with constant 10y
| atty and fidelity 30 mis- Interests she is his
| wife indeed.
IF she makes a bad bargain, she sticks
! much closer to 1t than her northern sister.
In many states marriage seems to be a legal
| contract, and when either party becomes
| tired OF its binding force application is
| made to the divorce courts, aud that which
| was one becomes Two. 1 believe Old maids
! n la sOnfh in ha
north. An old maid is in better shape than
| an lily matched married woman. The old
maid has nothing, and the married woman
has something she doesn't want.
Politically, the southern woman is not
! nearly so far advanced as in the north
| Woman suffrage Is desired much more by
| the northern woman, but the southern
woman seems to prefer woman suffering
| to woman suffrage. The heroism aud for
| titude Of southern women reached It's cul-
| mination between the years of 1850 and
| 1870. Their devotion to their husbands
an fathers has never been questioned, tut
! their Loyalty to the southern c1nfederacy
| and thelC heroiSm and fortitude in giving
! up their loved ones to the army and to
death, has, perhaps, never been equaled in
the history of wonanhood.
| "ln 10000 homes in the south the husband
and father bads wife aud children good-by,
| frequently leaving them with only meager
| support and yet the wife, with patience
| and frugGlity, maintained the home and
| provided every necessary thing for the com
fort aud well-being of the children whose
| faJaer was at the trout.
"ln these years of struggle and economy
| our women learned q lesson that In after
years made them domestic ia habit and
| economical in dress in life. OF course. there
g q exceptions 10 this rule. Many of our
| southern women, whose nus ,auds NAV Or
may not have moaey run - extremes Of
E(sYf1 - &c -y,Ff no. IL, 4
| southern womanhOod that they dress mod
| estly AMI largely economically.
In all OF our southern cities we have
what the wo i'd calls the elite, or fragment
| Of the -Four lIuuoret, who run to the same
exit eme Of dress and want OF dress that has
made womanho d Ia many places the lead
| ers Of the immOdesty of he age.
1.-The animosities created hg the late un-
pleasantness Iinger, perhaps, longer with
| southern womauhood than vita ,uuhern
manhood. The devastated homes, the
| squa dered fortunes, the onriei Lowell ones
the memories OF these So III to linger with
| many # our southern wons b.
woman Is naturally good hater. She
| is not good markslnhh with q PISTOL nor
has she entered the arena as prizs- fighter
bat she has SO timeut which, if aroused, ex-
| presses itself la hatred Just as true as death
itself. Not very many of our southern
women cherish any bitterness or unkiud
| feeling toward the north. The south TO-
| day Is IS loyal TO the stars and stripes as
any section of this union. There are some
Shings said and done that occasionally I'M
| cover the smoldering remains, and it
breaks out anew in implications and ex-
pressions of resentment When the force
Dill is talked Of no southern man or woman
can get shouting happy.
The ideal southern woman Is refined in
her tastes, warm in her sympathies, pro-
| found in her likes and dislikes, modest FREE
rt11aT m Foa 81,
south is looked upon, if not with contempt,
at least with good deal of caution by the
great number Of her sisters about her.
doubt il in club life aud such pastimes as
the german or round dance, the wine re-
sorts, etc., the southern woman will ever
come to the front 80 prominently as many
OF her sisters 10 the north.
"Whatever in southern womanhood there
may be to criticise on the part OF the north,
southern womanhood Is cultured is edu-
Gated, southern womanhood is refined,
| southern womanhood is not narrow in its
views and conceptions in life And no wo-
| manhood in all the world, subjected to the
same influences and surroundings, with the
same questions, could OF would do other
| wise than the southern woman is doing,
along the lines OF the race question espe-
cially.
"As to the race question in the south,
there is as little friction as | find in the
|
one between the Anglo-SaxOn and the Afri-
can. In the north it is between the Par-
thians and Modes and Elamites and the
dwellers from Messopotamia and Pontus and
Asia and every else and a good large im-
portatIon from pandemonium itself.
''ln the south it is only the social phases,
in the north 1t is social, financial, CONNER
cial, industrious and 80 on and 80 on. Social
equality is sought for and believed in OILY
by the lowest class of white people and the
lowest class of negro. FiFst-class white
people and frst-c.ass negroes do not desire
social equality.
LAS to the political phases of the race
question, we are perfectly willing for the
negro to vote. and perfectly willing to allow
a free ballot aid a fair count up to the point
where negro domination does not carry.
| We have as free ballot and as fair count in
the south as we have in the north. We
have different methods OF reaching the same
end. Down there we use lead in India a
they use silver. We can kill them cheaper
than we can buy them. and the north can
buy them cheaper than they can kill them,
aud We are both running on the most eco
nomical lines.
"Dudley's blocks of Eve, they say, brought
s. apiece. With the present financial