The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-22
Bah ON HONOR.
THE ALERT CORRESPONDENT DIS
CUsSES PRIVATE AFFAIRS.


Family Secrets - Honor Among
Thieves, and Honesty Among Trades
men-Women as Secret Keepers
Wicked Men, Gay Women and Their
Conquests-Youths Should Be Phys
ically and Morally William
Muldoon on EARLY Training-Bab Ad-
minister's Doses OF Common Sense to
Our Mothers-ouiding and Building
The Young-Care and Love Bestowed
on Others.
CCopriqht)
NEW YORK. May 2l.-When the printers
dropped the u in honour for the sake of the
business office, wonder if for the sake of
business the sentiment of honor wasn't lost
alsos had always had an innocent belief
III the honor Of business; but within the
last few months have come to the con-
} clusion that the word isn't on the ledger.
have heard all my life that certain business
relations were supposed to be confidential.
To my regret, find that 1 am
mistaken. Now, had an idea that if any
one had extensive dealings with bank, that
they were by the bank considered more or
less confidential Didn't you'll Not long
ago woman went into a telegraph Office,
and the manager said to her: ~ hope you
were as fortunate as your sister in having
| $4,000 deposited to your credit to-day ;"
The woman looked at him in amazement,
and said: "Are you sure of this" Eyes"
he said; 81 heard it from one OF the men in
the bank" Now, that money had been put
in by father to help out a daughter who
had made poor marriage; he didn't want
any OF the rest of the family to know about
it, and yet here it was public property, told
| TO them, and. Of course, it caused family
row. Do you call that honor in business?
BEWARE OF CONFIDENCE TRIFLERs.
| You go to your lawyer with something
you don't care to discuss before everybody
some troublesome piece of business. some
thing that you want righted-and you tell
him just what the trouble is He urges
you 70 be confidential. Being woman, you
are. and you make him thoroughly under
stand all the little ms aud outs. all the
WEAKNESSES that have been committed
against you, and just how you stand; you
tell him OF your money affairs, what you
can ard cannot do: and then if there is
some little household trouble, it is more
| than likely you tell him of it. You feel it is
almost like talking TO doctor or q priest.
A month afterward you meet one of your
friends, and she says, 20! l have en-
gagged Cut Diamond to take care Of my law
cuAbSp dLu uo udo bOIu L10 Oil dOOub YOURS,
and how well be managed it." And then
| you discover, not only has your good law
yer confided to her all the facts OF the law
suit, but she is also mistress of the little con-
| fdences that you gave him when you were
in trouble. Is this even honor among
| thievess l was curious, so l asked lawyer
about it, and he said: ''WeIi, a lawyer is
| not bound to secrecy after a case is over.
OF course, a gentleman wouldn't tell a case
and tell the names. but still he is not bound
like either doctor or O PRIEST Funny
| world this, where an oath is a necessity to
make business man honorable.
YOUR DREssMAKER AND LIvERYMAN.
About shops. You are an extravagant
woman, aud some day to your surprise your
bills begin TO pour in. Your dressmaker,
your hveryman, the shop where you deal,
and all the other places, send in their bills
at once, and you stand aghast. 1t is posi-
| BILE that you are honest, and you conclude
| that you will take the money that comes to
you each month and pay something on &C
count to each firm, and that in the mean
| time you will let down on carriages, on
frocks and most of the luxuries. Is your
| honesty appreciateds Not one bit. The
minute you stop taking the carriages, the
| liveryman wants his bill in full; the day
you stop buying frocks, the dressmaker
| threatens a suit. What do they want you
to dot They want you to pay something on
account, but they want you to keep on buy
ing and buying, so that your bill never gets
any smaller, and at last, when you are des-
perate, they think you will get the money
| somehow, and they don't care how. Is this
honor among tradespeople?
Has it been caused simply by the drop
ping of the u, or is it because the times are
little out Of joiDt2 There is little honor in
speech. Women know that if they want to
keep thing secret, they mustn't tell even
their dearest friends. If they find the abso-
Lutte need for telling it, they write it down,
put it in an envelope and seal itup, for my
word of honor" doesn't seem to be anything
more than bit Of polite slang
MEN TALK OF WOMEN
in way that would cause any woman to
blush; they do not hesitate to boast of their
conquests. Aud just here | know of one
man who, having seen a pretty girl twice in
public place. surrounded by her friends,
did not hesitate to tell that he had an affairs
with her, and that they simply pretended
for policy's sake, to be almost strang-
ers when they met. A ca1a OF
course, be was cad. But the cads are 80
thick, and, though they never tell the truth,
still their lies get spread abroad, and some
body believes them. In times gone by, a
woman's name and woman's honor were
supposed to be sacred. Nothing is sacred to
the cad who smoking his cigarette, weak of
honor means, ne matter how you spell it.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPS.
had the opinion of a man about the men
here In New York the other day, and that
man was Muldoon. He said: WHAT can
you expect OF the men who have never had
any OF the physical training that is the
right OF every MANI What can you expect
OF undersized chaps, who smoke ciga-
rettes, and who are morally,
physically and mentally weakl
rom the time an English boy is any size
at all he is learning how to take care of
himself; he is out In the fresh air, riding or
walking; he is getting knocked down and
thrashed, trying hard to thrash back, and
learning to be brave. He knows that nature
gave him two implements to fight with
his fsts-and he purposes when necessary
to use them. He is sent off to school, where,
though he studies pretty hard, he hos lots
of sport, aud most of it is out of doors.
Look at our American boys! A SIS 900 edu-
cation is
WASTED ON A 5o-czNT BOY,
who sinks around, puffs the smoke of his
vile cigarette in eyerybody's face, pushes
women off the street cars, leers at
them on the street, and in his
heart fails to see any difference be-
tween lady and a tough. Down on
cigarettes? l am. don't think they do
anything but demoralize the smokers of
thsrn. A man may be decent and use
cigar or pipe, but don't believe he can if
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