The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-15
CLEVER, COSBY Bah.
HER FUND LIMIrLESS AND HER
PEN EVER BRIGHT.

Which Suggest the Past-Divorce
and It's Remedy-A Word About
Woman Doctors - Why Men Are
Preferable as Physicians-Courtesy
in Politics-New York's Lack of 10
cal Pride Motives of Some People.
(Copyri0ht.)
New YORK, May 10.-As a people we
think we change. But we don't We of
to day differ very little from our grand
fathers of yesterday. and if anybody doubts
this they have only to look over the amuse-
ments OF to-day and see how near they are
like unto those of yesterday. In the time
Of Charles II. all the gay men about town
went wild about their favorite actresses,
and did all sorts of silly things to show
how true they we're to their idols. This
has been repeated, of course with slight
| difference. In those days they had gallant
cavaliers, richly dressed in velvet and laces,
| eager for quarrel and anxious to fight for
the fair lady's sake. To-day we have the
| dude in place OF the cavalier. The change
| is for the worse. He prides himself on his
| purple and fine linen, as expressed by broad
cloth and an immaculate tie, and, although
| he is not so eager for veritable fray, still
papers and being credited with the bravery
possessed by his grandfather.
WE'RE NOT MUCH CHANGED.
In the early New England days, the dissi-
patton Of the neighborhood was a donation
party. 1t was an amusement usually in
| fiicted upon an unfortunate parson. for
| preachers in those days worked in the serv-
Ice of God for very little money, and
seldom had beautiful homes, and never
took it into their modest heads to go around
| painting the town red, or INDUCING IN wild
| games OF leap frog. They worked hard,
and some day they had a donation party.
1t had its pleasures and its disappointments.
| The richest man 10 the congregation
| was liable to bring a basket OF apples,
| while one with less money and greater gem
/ erosity would fetch the much needed winter
| coat, that would warm the very cookies of
| the parsc ms heart. and make him feel that
he had much to give thanks for. In the
manner Of giving, the system between the
i rich and the poor continue about the same;
| aud the man who saves his pocket money
to get $40 to drop in the poor box is I'M
| doubtedly remembered in heaven, but the
rich man who gives $40 900 to q convention
most fortunately has it well advertised In
the daily papers
| A MODERN DONATION PARTY.
What has led to nv thinking about this
| Is a IQObb hIblsLlC luNlbhblOu WnlCu saw Lue
| other day, that is an exceedingly pleasant
way to furnish your rooms with brlc-a-brac,
and which may be commended to all strug-
| Cling artists whose studios have an unfur-
nished look. The invitation was done in
black and white and read this way:
You are cordially invited to a shelf party
which will be given to Messrs. Blank aud
Dash, at their rooms, 300 Artistic avenue.
on Wednesday evening, May T. The COM
mittee Of arrangements suggest that each
| guest bring with him some object, to which
his name shall be attached, to be placed on
the shelf, or wall space above or below, as
the case may be; in other words, making a
| collection of tokens of friendship"
| At the top Of this invitation was the word
"before," and an empty shelf was shown
| Below the invitation was the word after"
and here was the shelf, laden with bits of
| bric~a -brac, with pictures above and below
| it, its corners dsintily draped and most
furnished look produced. The invitation
was signed by three wsll-known artists,
and altogether it seemed the most delight
full kind Of donation party that could be
| imagined. -@t.a. ...s 90 s.
THE SOCIAL VIEW or IT.
| You ask fashionable woman what is CO.
ing on, and she tells you "Nothing." You
pick up newspaper, and you read of big
fires, of people being murdered, children
being burnt TO death, and last, and most
| important OF all, of divorces, and again
divorces. And you think the fashionable
woman's idea of nothing is a little odd.
| You go among the literary set, and they
! are talking about the last new French books
books on divorce. You go among the
artistic set, and they are painting pictures
| showing unhappy men and women, and
brilliant effects in signs and tears and sor-
rows that signify the coming divorce, or
the divorce gotten. You don't dare speak
| int hAV, 20 VII 1r TO-
| you never know whom you are hitting; but
you can 60 home and take your fist and
give Japanese doll q square hit, and say
something about divorce with large D be-
fore it.
A CURE FOR DIVORCE.
Personally, believe the only cure for
divorce, which l regard as epidemic, like
the smallpox, is early marriage. You take
the fashionable girl of 25 years. She is
handsome. she is composed. she has very de-
| cided opinions and she doesn't propose TO
change them. She marries a man of 40,
who, as the darkies say, lis set in his no.
tions." The result is that their ideas are en-
| tirely unlike; each is determined they are
wretchedly unhappy. and there Is no end of
| obliging friends who are willing to suggest
the divorce court as the remedy. If that
girl had been taken when she was Is years
old and married to a man Of 80. they would
have affiliated. and the chances are ten to
one that they would have had a happy life
and made pleasant home. But, of course,
l can't expect the whole world to agree
| with me.
THE MANIA FOR COLLECTIOs.
By-the-by, what ridiculously generous
| lot we Americans are. There are always
collections being taken up, and people give
and give and give, and never seem to take
the trouble to find out whether what they
give does anybody any good. or really
reaches the people for whom it is intended.
Collections are being made for the Grant
monument fund, and to train unknown
| genius for the stage; they are made for
homes for widows and orphans, and
to support the budding genius when
she fails on the stage; they are
made for the women doctors, and to put
books in the police stations. This. last
strikes me as the funniest Of all. The books
l would put In the police station would be a
good manual on boxing. so that they would
use their f1sts instead of their clubs, and the
most reliable essay on politenesS. l object
TO being called mean because | won't give
s. to the Women Doctors Hospital, or
whatever it is.
| DOESN'T LIKE FEMALE DOCTORS.
disapprove Of women doctors, for when
l give away my money it represents just so
much work to me; consequently, prefer it
| to go to places with which l am in har,
mony. l despise cats, but wouldn't have