The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-20
WOMEN AS PENITENTS.
WORLDLY WOMEN WHO ARE RE-
LIGIoUS DURING LENT.

When Women Are Penitent-A Type
OF a Lsnten Penitsnt-Bab on Mr..
Blaine and BIS Domestic Troubles.
She Thanks Elm for His Letter and
Appleuds Him-Women Who Try to
Keep Young-Man's Idea of Kissing.
The Woman With a eang-What
Man Wants in Woman.
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NEW YoRK, March 19.-As lovely woman
does nothing without going to an extreme,
she is just now rushing matters as peni-
tent. Where she doesn't believe in any
religion. she makes politics take its place,
and no matter what she may elect 70 be, it
seems to result in making her thirsty and
causing her to drink quarts of tea, or phos-
phate, or whatever her favorite tipple may
be.
WHEN WOMEN ARE PENITENTIAL.
have a very positive belief myself, but
am never 30 dlsgusted as when l see a lot
OF women having religious squirt" You
see, they have worn themselves out during
J the season, and, with the impudence only
| possible to women, they have concluded to
| offer their tired bodies, their weary brains
and their weakened intellects to religion.
| ne way TO 40 IL ID 10 meet III tue morning
| In some imly-hghted parlor, have the best
reader take a chapter of the Bible and let
the women with the widest imaginations
| criticize it, while the rest Of them cry, think
| how spiritual and lovely life might be. 90
home TO their luncheons, and conclude that
| they have been so good in the morning they
can do what they like in the afternoon.
| They generally feel like going about ex~
| pressing an intense contempt for every other
woman who hasn't the same spiritual ad-
vantages that they have, and they will
| blockade a street telling three or four
| friends what blissful morning they have
had, and cause more general blasphemy and
indignation than has ever been known be-
fore.
TRUTH WELL SPOKEN.
| l saw a young woman who belongs TO a
small band of workers Of some sort yester-
| day afternoon determined to get glass OF
soda water. OF course. this was her right
and privilege; but her religious society
hadn't inculcated in her that first evidence
| of change of heart. i. g., good manners,
because sue BANKED and pushed, had no
| sympathy for anybody, and the 400" 81
! front of her and the 400" behind her alike
| suffered. She meant to have that soda,
aud she meant to shove eve yb dy near
her, and when she got it every woman
earnestly prayed that she would spill
| it on her frock; but she didn't.
! No, indeed; she drank the last drop of it,
scraped the glass with her spoon. iramped
| on pc pies toes, annihilated children, and
| five minutes afterward met friend and
told her at the top of her voice 'of the ex-
! quisite spiritual time we had this morn
| iug." 1t makes me feel like saying spirit
| ual fiddlesticksm when ! hear women talk
| like that; il makes me think that society
formed at home and consisting Of one, which
would be for the prevention of quick speak
ing and i'll temper, and for the promotion
| of good manners and gentleness, is the kind
that is needed during Lent. But TO return
| to religion.
| MEN MORE RELIGIOUS THAN WOMEN.
The average man is really very much more
religious than the average woman. To her
being religious means singing badly written
| hymns, listening to long sermons, putting
penny in the collection box and Ching over
| everybody else as lawful Sinners To
man it means keeping rather quiet, deciding
in his heart what is right and what is
4 wrong; doing as near right as lie can; Civ
| ing as much as he can. and letting his neigh.
bors take care of themselves, that is
| spiritually. Now, these women who
/ are accusing themselves of being the
| vilest sinners in the world are absolutely
| vain of it. They never claim to be mere,
| ordinary, everyday sinner. o, dear MOI
| They are the very worst, and they think
buttV ULle is kOluR W 10 upside
| down, and that everything in the heavens
above and in the earth teneath, is occupied
with their miserable, mean, petty little sins.
| Dirty little sins, don't you know; sins that
q SELF. respecting dog would never dream of
committing. Upon my bouor, | believe
| some of them are 80 ineffably anxious
to convince you that they are the worst
sinners that ever lived that they would
like to have you meet his satanic majesty
and hear bis opinion of them. The
chances are that he will think 80 little of
them that be will use them for kindling
wood. The trouble is that they need phy-
steal rather than an emotional treatment;
they want something to thin their blood,
and they want to test the value of sulphur
and molasses for few mornings. Then,
after that, they will discover how much
good they can do at home, and they will
stop waillngA bout being sinners and turn in
and be honest little saints who are not
aware OF their own virtues.
Bah ON Mr.. BLAINE's LETTER
Very lately the question has been brought
up about q mother-in~la ", and we all read
a letter written by James q. Blaine defend
ing his wife. | don't know Mr.. Blaine, but
if there Is anything that would make me
turn republican, If | we're a democrat, it
would be thot lstter. don't know who is
TO blame; don't care; but have an i'm
has been kept by the Blaine family, and /
make my best bow to MIR. Blaine for stand
ing up for his wife. As for that Judge IN
Dakota, hope the republican pull" is
strong enough to put him out. Just sup
pose it was your boy or my boy, who hadn't
married just to please us-that boy, re-
member, was once the little baby that you
held in your arms, or | in mine, as
helpless as only babies are You watched
over MIN, you tried to make the best
of him, he leaves you, and you don't like it.
It's olly human nature. You'd be queer
and would be queer, and 1t would rest with
his wife TO make herself so entirely close to
your heart, or my heart, that in time we
could get to feel that we hadn't lost son,
but we had gained daughter. | don't be-
lieve there ls a woman living who cannot
do this, il she loves her husband, and |
think the low. vulgar talk about the infu-
ence of mother-in-law, a out the marrying
man is com manded
TO CLEAVE TO HIS WIFE,
but the wife of whom God himself approved
was the one who said to her mOther-in-law:
Thy people shall be my people" A French
girl or an English girl expects to become
one of her husbands family; it's only the
American girl who puts herself up on a
pedestal and announces that she will do as
she pleases. We all know that pride
goeth before a fall and l for one
shan't be sorry when she Is taught
less Independence and more gentleness
Don't You suppose that what that Judge said