The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-07
WHAT GIRLS CAN DO.
CHATS ABOUT TIE PRAGKs OF
STRONG-MINDED WOMEN.

the Most Independent of Females
See Times When It Is Pleasant to
Have a Man Near By.
New York, Feb CT wonder
vbv men are created nowadaysg''
asked man OF a particularly indie
vsndent sort Of a woman. "There seems to
he no special place for them in the world
and they are of little use and OF scarcely
any necessity to the fair sex since the new
ideas Of independence came in vogue. Why
are not men abolishedl Why do they con-
tinue TO be born and to live aud to move in
the same old likeness and yet with so little
Of the old usefulness2 Can you tell me why
men continue to exists
"Why-why-why, because they are needed
IN the world. suppose" replied the indie
Dendent fair one to whom the volley Of
Questions was addressed. 81 am sure 1
dor,5 want them abolished, flor one. like
them too much for that. Why, men are
perfectly charming. They are too lovely
TO look at, they are pleasant to have around,
they are useful when you want shopping
done and haven't time to 60 yourself, and
when it comes to sending you flowers and
candy there is really nothing like them in
the world. Talk about abolishing men be-
cause the women have no need Of them /!
why. it is all nonsense. Women may be
INDEPENDENT and firm-minded, but they are
lust as fond Of the men as they ever were
only they are fond of them in different
way"
And all this is really true. Not only be-
cause the pretty little reformer said il, but
it is also true because it is borne out by
facts. Women don't want a man nowadays
10 lean upon. They want him for "a COM
panion. They don't want O man to tell
chem whore they are going nor how to get
there; but if a man chooses to trot along and
buy the car tickets and look after the bag
gage he is welcome to do SO. II he makes
himself agreeable on the trip his mission is
fulfilled. Ii he does it because he thinks he
ought to do it he is making grand mistake
and he might as well stay at home and do
anything that pleases him best, for the
woman will soon find out that he is looking
after her simply as matter of duty, and
will snub him most numerically, for she
has learned how to take care of herself
was talking with some women doctors
few days ago. There are about 400 of them
in New York, and every year finds them
with an increasing practice among both
men and women. Many of them draw the
line at the male sex and refuse to attend
them for any complaints whatsoever.
Others, trifie more liberal in their views
will doctor men for minor complaints, such
as coughs, colds. the grip ard malaria, while
q few-a very few-will treat them for any,
thing and everything that may chance to
be the matter.
But now, in the name OF all that is neces-
sary, what use have these women for men
except as compartment They are self-sup-
porting, entirely Independent, aud they en-
Joy social standing which is as high as
they choose to make it.
IL is a well known fact and a fact beyond
all question, that women. who come TO New
York and enter the professions can 90 in
any society they please. Gilt-edged society
people of the upper tendon, wealthy.foreign-
ers ana people of note and high social posi-
ton are glad to know clever professional
women and are willing to extend to them
the hospitality of their homes.
On the other hand, professional woman
an artist, a journalist, a musician. a
woman doctor. or any otber-who is unslc.
ces5ful and who is not earning a very good
living stands very little chance of getting
in good society, because the fact of her
poverty and her struggle to maintain her.
self in her profession lays her open to the
suspicion of being a husband-seeker and
fortune-hunter. And society women are
wary Of these.
To know q professional woman is one
thing. To have her marry into your FAM
lily is another and an entirely different mat
ter. She may be bright, she probably is
clever and she has a knowledge Of the
world and the ways of the world which is
very interesting and which will entertain
society woman all unused to this sort of
thing, until she finds herself greatly in love
with her new friend. But she doesn't care
to have her marry into the family, and she
isn't going to run the slightest chance OF her
doing 50. Consequently, if there is an eligi-
Bile son or an unmarried brother the clever
woman artist. the bright woman journalist,
the capable woman physician and the smart
woman retormer find no chance at all OF en-
terlng that family on q social footing. be-
cause there is an awful fear that she might
invade 1t and take captive some one OF the
male members.
In the family where the sons are married
and the brothers removed from harms way
the professional woman is welcome and she
can have all the good society she wants.
But why is it that people of high social
rank do not want women artists, women
physicians. women architects, women must
elans or women journalists to marry into
The family They surely belong to a good
class OF women, and they are not silly nor
are they apt to be extravaganza What,
then, is the objection to them as daughters,
m,eW and sisters-in~lawe
Wen, it is hard to tell. But there is an OBJ
JecIIon without doubt. The worst thing
that can be brought against them is in the
shape OF an indetinable yet awful fear that
some time this independence, which has led
woman aside from the beaten tracks of
ConVentonality, may lead her still further
~ Ine same direction until she borders upon
Iue land which may be called "crankdom."
one Is apt to get hobby, and when she
oeglhs to ride it she rides it at such u ter
rue speed that she becomes eXhilirated and
Excited at her own achievement, and she
mIs1 ride that hobby all the time or is
unhappy. She makes her friends ride it
also, and life gets to be burden-all on
account Of the hobby.
met woman vegetarian the other day
VINO rides hobby. OF course her hobby is
'ue adjustment of all animal food
VOW, there wouldn't be the slightest OBJ
.TcSiohS to woman's living upon cereals
anu vegetables if she so desires, provided
wa .ua1 heT health doesn't suffer from the alb
t;.luence from meat. But the trouble comes
Ill When she compels all her family to like
wise abstain.
ne woman in question has husband and
tolr children. The two youngest children
lave never tasted meat, aud the elder ones
~ IL only when they are invited out for
S.Iuer. The husband has not been able to
', sait himself from lifelong indulgence in
i,eoAs and savory chops and game, and be
%aSs Tor the flesh pots of almost any
huLee times day the family sit down to
y,re1 nominy and oranges. No milk is al
,n "eu because it partaEes of the nature of
s'.'--al Iood. Eggs are likewise abolished.