The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-03

swell, the womahiood of the two sections
differs about as the manhood of the two
sections, each having their characteristics,
which. perhaps. are largely due to customs
and environments" he meditatiyely
replied. Socially the people south have
always been much more hospitable than
those of the north. There is what we call
southern blood. which boils at muoh lower
temperature than that of the north. South
ern w~omanhood, surrounded by the same
influence. has developed largely in senti-
ment nnd feeling with southern manhood.
She cares more for character and less for
chattels. She worships Mammon less and
true manhood more. In choosing q hus.
band the question of chattels and riches
enters very little into her thoughts. She
loves the man she loves, and will make any
sacrifices to give herself to him; and when
she does so give herself, with constant 10y
alty and fidelity to his interests, she is his
wife indeed.
'If she makes a bad bargain, she sticks
much closer to it than her northern sister.
In many states marriage seems to be a legal
contract, and when either party becomes
tired of it's binding force application is
made to the divorce courts, and that which
was one becomes Two. / believe old maids
are more numerous in the south than in the
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 and fortitude
of southern women reached its elimination
between the years of 1860 and 1870. Their
devotion to their husbands and fathers has
never been questioned, but their loyalty to
the southern ~confederacy, and their hero
ism and fortitude in giving up their loved
ones to the army and to death, has, per
haps, never been equaled in the history of
womanhood.
I'm $1,000 homes in the south the hua-
band and father babe wife and children
goodbye, frequently leaving them with
only a meager support; and yet the wife,
with patience and frugality, maintained the
home and provided every necessary thing
for the comfort and we'll being of the chill
dren whose father was at the front.
I'm these years of struggle and economy
our women learned q Lesson that in after
years made them domestic in habit and
economical in dress in life. OF course
there are exceptions to this rule. Many of
our southern women, whose husbands may
or may not have money, run to extremes of
dress. Bat it is true of the rank and file
of southern womanhood that they dress
modestly and largely economically.
I'm all of our southern cities we have
what the world calls the elite, or fragment
of the four hundred, who run to the same
extreme of dress or want of dress that has
made womanhood in MANY places the lead
els of the immodesty of the age.
1.-THE animosities created by the late I'M
pleasantness linger. perhaps, longer with
Rouths n womanhoud than with southern
squandered fortunes. the buried loved ones
the memories of these seem to linGer with
MANY of our southern women.
Woman is naturally a good hater. She
ia not a good marksman with the pistol,
nor has she entered the arena as a prizs
fighter. but she has sentiment which, if
aroused. expresses itself in hatred just as
true as death itself. Not very many of our
southern women cherish any bitterness or
unkind feeling toward the north. The
south to-day is as loyal to the stars and
stripes rs any section of this union. There
are some things said and lone that occa-
~siona)ly uncover the smoldering remains,
and it breaks out anew in implications and
expressions of resentment. When the
force bill is talked of no southern man or
woman can get shouting happy
1.-THE ideal southern woman ia refined in
her tastes, warm in her sympathies, pro-
found in her likes and dislikes, modest,
frequently to a fault. The fast woman in
the south is looked upon, if not with con-
tempt. at least with a good deal of caution
by the greater number of her sisters about
her. ] doubt if In club life and such pas
times as the german or round dance, the
wine resorts, etc., the southern woman will
ever come to the front so prominently as
many Of her sisters In the north.
Whatever in southern womanhood there
may be to criticise on the part of the
north, southern womanhood is cultured, ia
educated, southern w~omanhood 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 or would do other
wise than the southern woman IS doing,
along ths lines of the race question espec-
iallv.
Gas TO the race question in the south,
there is as little friction as | find in the
north. Ihs race question in the south Is
one between the Anplo-Saxon and tbs
African. In the north it is between the
Parthians and Medes and Elamites and
the dwellers from Messopotamia and Pom
tus and Asia and every where else and a
good large importation from pandemonium
itself.
IL II u j 81 ohiJ II bOClhi pHHSeS,
In the north il is social, financial, commer-
cial, industrious and go on and SO on. So
cial equality is sought for and believed in
only by the lowest class of white people and
the lowest class of negro. First-class white
people and frst-class negroes do not desire
social equality.
'As 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 and a fair count up to tn,
point where negro domination does no
Garry. We have as free ballot and as fail
count in the soath as we have in the north
We have different methods of reaching til,
same end. Down there we use lead, il
Indiana they use silver. We can kill then
cheaper than We can buy them. and tn,
north can buy them cheaper than they car
kiil them; and we are both running on the
most economical lines.
"Dualey's blocks of five. they say, brough'
So apiece. With the present fnancia
stIinRency in che south that ia more thar
they can afford to pay. But candidly,
know OF no place in the south to-day. es-
pecially in Georgia. where | live. where tn,
COlOIeQ man cEnDnt Vata md hio vote ~ -.