The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-25
HARRIRD COMRADES.
Tho Life Of To-day Fits Women to Be
Better Comrades.

Better Comrades.
From the 81. Louis Republic.
What sort OF a wife makes a good COM
rade for mani What constitutes a ccm-
radeship between husoard and wifel
will put the answer In a nutshell pres
emily. but first let US take a look around at
some women who illustrate various phases
or that peculiar and right relation.
know a young woman who is superin-
tending her brothers sheep ranch on the
plains. She Is a city girl, a college gradu-
ate, refined woman; but she mounts a
pony at daybreak frequently aud rides over
the ranges to make sure shat the herders
move the tiocks out of the night corrals be-
times. That woman is an ideal comrade
for her brother; she shares his life and
pleasures and cares.
know a woman in Canada who, In true
comradeship, shared with a husband the
business reverses that shouldered them both
out OF comfort in great city 70 begin life
anew in q two-by-six border village She
makes that wretched place seem gay to him
because she fills his life with contentment and
with love OF her. On one occasion she had
an awful fright and a narrow escape from
death, but she made a joke of it, because,
she says, she thought he had had trouble
enough. band of Indians came in his
absence TO rob the store and do murder. She
OfuoIcu buttu Out, anu ACTUALLY Tublou tOe
leaders as IL they had been wooden cigar
signs she was showing out Her childish
strength, Der sudden action, her mountains
moving pluck formed a combination that
was too much for the Indian mind to COM
prehend, and she won the battle.
know women of famous blood who
lives on Murray Hill and leads a life Of pleas
ure aud devotion to fashion. The last time
that saw her she was debating whether to
n that had x iNh had nniv knnru, har
for five hours in two nights or to Join her
husband In a dash on horseback through
the park. Ii was a short debate, and could
only end in one way, for she and her hus-
band are like boy and girl together, side
by side on horseback, at tennis. swimming.
yachting shooting, billiards and at
Whatever either likes-which is an
other way of saying whatever both like.
know a woman Who is married to jolly
railroad official whose business depends on
a great deal of staying out late o. nights and
dining and good fellowship-as conviviality
is called. His wife goes with him and
dimes with the boys. / will admit that she
. is of rare type, but she really does exist,
and she is known to hundreds, not only
here, but in the west-a merry, healthy,
good fellow of a woman always. 81 made
up my mind to do it," she says, "as soon as
l found it was part of his life. l saw that
If stayed at home like other women !
would see little of him, and that was not
what married him for"
know the wife Of a very famous literary
man; she is most intent upon bringing up
her children in the way she would have
them 60. Yet she is her husbands cons
rade. She seems to share even his inspira-
tions, and whether she has purposely edu-
Gated herself in his lines Of study or whether
as they would say down south, "she just
naturally likes what be likes" l do not
know. Yet do know that she Is his guide,
philosopher and friend, that he consults her
about everything and that half his reputa-
ton ought to be hers. / have seen those
babies jeopardizing their lives and the beau
tiful furniture of that home while she sat
absorbed in the books in which she
sought to find what her husband needed to
know. Hers and his is an intellectual COM
radeship, but it is perfect none the less
All these cases seem very unlike one au-
other and yet through all Of them runs the
same chord. In that chord lies the answer
TO the question, ''What constitutes a conf
radeship between man and wifeF
It's love; the two must be in love.
It's a cheap wit which in every age since
love began has made out that love is dead
or moth-eaten and laid away. 1t isn't. l
know plenty of homes in which il l rang
the door-bell and asked "Is love int" the
answer would be Yes, indeed"
huOW pio1tJ VI bOuboo VI tuo ObueE SOTb,
of course.
There is nothing new about any sort of
comradeship. 1t is ofteuest found between
girl ana girl and man and man. Married
life, TO be a success, to impress true COM
radeship, must be a succession Of self-sacri-
fees and adaptations on both sides until
both lives meet on a level.
| see all over the country a tendency
among women that may interfere with the
conn adeship possible in some cases, while 1t
offers a relief from the misery Of mismar-
riage IN others. Women are establishing
affairs of their own that take them out OF
the current of the lives Of their husbands
Some have their literary coteries. others
their philanthropic work. others studies OF
specialties; still more are involved in social
circles which include bachelors and girls
but leave the husbands TO their clubs.
| do rot know whether this is an up
growth Of a movement or whether IL is a
movement th at will put the fair sex where
it Is in certain European capitals, where
women live in a world OF their own. which
dominates that Of the men. But IL there
ever was a time when true comradeship be-
tween man and women could be nobly de-
lightful it is now, when women are so much
more many-sided than in the days gone by.
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