The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-08

oAAA Oue uuSodnu 1OlIows Alexander
Dumas' counsel. He Stays the creature Who
has deceived him and disgraced his name
MS family honor, and set smirch on his
escutcneon. Now this is terrible revenge
OUT Is 1t not more logical than Staying the
paramour? 1t would seem so. A woman.
especially an American woman. is not the
weak, childish, unsophisticated thing known
III some parts OF Europe where the convent
system prevails. The American woman.
from her maidenhood, is thrown in contact
with the world. She comes and goes with
great freedom. She knows the temptations
winch beset womans feet. She knows the
badness, as she knows the goodness, of those
VINO constitute society. She makes her
debut at l6, and forthwith becomes
vested with almost the same liberty
as married woman. She receives
the visits of young men, dances round
dances, drinks wines at fashionable
receptions or dinners, coquets, trifes and
masquerades to her hearts content. and
therefore, when she takes her stand beside
an honest man at the altar and promises to
forsake all others and cling to him she
kno US exactly what that mesns; yes, as we'll
as il she had already been married. She
Knows the limitations. the restrictions, the
obligations, the conditions, the depriva-
lions, the restraints, the conventionalities,
which henceforth must hedge her existence
and oramp her future liberty. She knows
all these only too well. She knows the
habits, the tastes, the charac-
ter, the peculiarities of the man
she is about to marry, and she has no right
no not the slightest shadow of a right, TO
swerve hairbreadth from her duty to this
man. He may, as she alleges, be "always
busy" always have his nose in his books
and papers," but she must bear with it
patiently, without a murmur or O sigh
True, she may. il she sees fit, flee away from
him, but If she stays beneath his roof as his
wife she must walk the straight line OF duty
to the very last.
An observing man who has lived In many
cities and imbibed the local atmosphere Of
different localities, gives some interesting
conclusions as the result Of his experiences
In street car ethics He never gives up his
seat In Boston street car, because the Bos-
ton woman lacks that sort OF aggressive
femininitY which makes a man uncomforta-
BILE to sit while a woman stands. In New
oTk he gives up his seat TO
elderly women or mothers with little chill
dren. In Philadelphia he vacates in favor
OF any woman old enough to wear a bonnet,
In w ashlngton he rises for every girl In
long dresses, and further south be doesn't
try to ride at all, because he knows he will
have TO get up for every schoolgirl, whether
she is 10 her teens or not.
Ladies are beginning to wear much Jew
elry, Gays the New York Sun, in the street
again, in the form of elaborate and con-
spicuous bonnet pins, veil pins, clasps and
a great variety OF pins on the bodice. A
faultlessly dressed woman was seen tbs
other day with her simple bodice closed
with flashing diamond star that might
honor duchess coronet, which would have
been pronounced extremely vulgar last sea-
son. The change in the mode ia due to the
influence of Russian fashions In Paris
Russian women wear quantities of jewels
on all occasions; consequently tbs fair
Parisienne brings out the treasures of her
Jewel casket, and what Paris does we do.
While-luckily for the world-all clever
people are not absent-minded says the New
York Tribune. nevertheless an absent
minded person is almost invariably a clever
person, and very often is really intellec-
tual man or woman whose absurd aberra-
tions are therefore all the more laughable
and conspicuous. One of our prominent men
who is noted for his urbanity and easy way
of dealing with 'the boys" had call a week
or two ago from local politician whose in
fuence was more or less important in his
ward. As he was leaving. Mr.. - accom-
panied him into the hall, and picking up his
own brand-new spring overcoaJ with
pOlAlS LOU lAb dlu yOu, ubIDSu Ju6 man
into it despite the latter's rather feeble pros
testations. you will need it, the air is so
KEEN" said Mr.. - blandly, as the man,
accepting the situation. walked away.
doubtless thinking it delicate way of pro-
curing vote A few minutes afterward
Mr.. - discovered his mistake, but his new
$50 top coat was gone forever.
Did you ever see her? l mean the clean
girl-the girl who always looks neat and
well groomed under all circumstances! AS
the old saying is, clay wouldn't stick to her
But whether 1t would or not. 1t doesn't,
for the simple reason, says Clara Belle in
the New York Press, that she never gives
it a chance. II she were condemned to die
on the scaffold, she'd sit up all night to wash
and iron her fiohu and skirts and handker-
chief, etc., and she would be late at the
ceremony on account of her careful toilet.
The clean girl is rarely fashionable girl;
sho belongs rather to the old maid order or
prinky sort. Some mornings on my way
downtown in a street car l amuse myself
by looking around for the clean girl.
don't always find her On the contrary
see many things which surprise me-buttons
off or hanging by one thread, raveled edges
here and there. rents fastened up with
pin, button holes too large TO hold
the button, gloves ripped or out at the
ulR6T euus, anu WOTSS budu Iubs6 L Se6
signs of untidiness dried mud on the bottom
of a skirt, stains of food on the front of a
sacque or jacket And going a little
higher, l see that face and neck have been
carelessly bathed and that the hair is not
completely free from dust and dandruff.
But other mornings the clean girl comes
tripping in, and am always glad when she
takes a seat beside me. She smells as fresh
as a clover field, aud looks it, too. The
scalp beneath her soft brown hair is as free
from dus5 and dandruff as If she had just
left the hair-dresser's chair, aud her skin
has that fresh, wholesome look which the
human epidermis presents when IL is kept
well acquainted with both hot and cold
water-one to cleanse and the other to tone
up and bring the blood we'll to the surfsce
and impart that glow which only
cold water can give. There may be trace
Of rice powder on the clean girls face, but
1t is very slight-just barely enough TO re-
move the shine. But to appreciate the
clean girl, you should meet her at her own
home or In the drawing room. Her hands
are soft and white, and her nails always
pared and polished with exquisite neatneIs.
You can feel their cleauness when you
shake them, and no matter how close she
NAV get to you or how much she may get
tousled and crumpled in a romp with the
young folks, she comes out of the scrim-
mage like rose whose petals have been
crushed OF ruffled by the wind or by
careless hand. She doesn't care whether
YOU catch a glimpse of her feet or ankles,
for she knows how neatly shod and stock
ined they are: nor does she care whether