The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-08
BAB'S BRIGHT BABBLE.
npHrr7 woMAN's COMMENTS ON
NEW YORK LIFE.

-ro-,an,s Opinions of Mems Let
HOW to Get Rid of a Sweet.
What is Complete Happiness?
-T7o,,an and the Morphine Habit
,1yoroen's Smoking Room in New
-, Anartment-The Woman Who
su,okes and the Man Who Urges
o.. ~ DO It-As Things Look to the
Lookers-on.
(Copyrf0ht.)
xu YORK. May IL have always
.-t,an an immense amount Of interest in the
-.athods employed by the English newspa-
-a.s n give little encouragement TO the
s.air of the average English woman.
Tsoir methods are at once peculiar and
..a;,,,e They start a question, offer prize,
and as the average English woman will do
a,vtbing for something, or almost any
.hino they write their opinions and
- nrizes In the shape of
eo,tain numbers OF the paper. The
-nss,ions are things Of beauty-the answers
ora lows forever. One that came up not
-arv long ago was this: SHOULD woman
.sod her husbands lettersm If there is
.nvtbing absolutely more stupid than an
.nta-.ainment at a woman's club, it is a
r,or,s letters: but instead Of looking at it in
This nerfectly sensible fashion, number of
Engjisb women take the question quite
.or;ouslv and discuss it, the result being,
snnsreptly, that she ought not to read them
unless be is willing.
IN MANS MAIL.
did YOU ever take an average mans mail
erd look at it? It 10 likely TO consist of a
oir.uiar from his club announcing that be
INST nav his dues; the advertisement of a
sbirtmaker, letter from man he knows,
which reads: Dear Jack, the deal is on,
ond think we ought to make a pot of
money on it. Be on time. Truly, Tom;
then there will be another letter inviting his
patronage to dinner to be given in honor
~ somebody who left his country for his
conntry's good several years ago. and now
hAfore be went, i. g., good
reputation, and suggesting quite casu-
aliy that $40 is the price per plate without
wine: then it is just possible there is a
letter from his brother. and it may be that
there Is one from some woman. | suppose
it is the letter from the woman that upsets
the English mind, and that it is just where
the English woman is wrong. II there is
one thing above another that bores man
to death it is getting letters from women.
IN the first place, he finds their writing
difficult to read; in the second place, he
knows no matter how he answers it he will
be doing wrong. He would much rather
that she-some mysterious she-when she
desires to let him know Of her existence,
would do it by telegram, and that is where
the American is wiser than the English
woman. The way
TO GET RID OF A SWEETHEART
is to inundate him with letters. But COM
ing down to the square truth, neither you
nor | believe for one minute that anybody
has right to read anybody else's letters.
Personally, l should feel more honest in
picking their pockets. 1t is not a question,
YOU know, of what is in the letter. it's the
fact of its being the individuals right to
keep that letter. and nobody else's right to
touch it. l would advise jealous wives to
ignore their husbands mail, and to do it
amiably, for the loving words spoken and
the sweet acts done mean a deal more than
all that is ever put down in black and white.
WHAT is COMPLETE HAPPINEss'
The next question that this paper sprung
on the public that it desired to cultivate
was What is your idea of happiness?" l
had sufficient curiosity to ask a few people
about this. and | found that the average
mans idea of happiness consisted in having
Just as much money as he wanted, a woman
who was fond Of him, a good dinner, a
bright fire and good cigar. A few added
some sort Of wine. Most of the women
simply wanted money they seemed
to think that would buy everything
TO reform the country. and
few religious ones wanted everybody to
think as they did. A small boy came nearer
the solution than any body else, for he said
what he wanted was "a good time, and to
be let alone" A good time, and to be let
alone! That's what we all want-the posi-
bilitles for good time, and the liberty to
enjoy it when it comes And the brain of
England troubled itself over that question
for one entire week which an American boy
OF years answered at once.
WOMEN AND MORPHINE.
Everybody seems TO be starting up the
morphine question again. And body
else wonders what it feels like, who really
lakes 1t, and if the stories told are really
true. Ot course, q great many of them are
not, unfortunately, a great many Of them
are There are very few women who, at
some time or other in their lives, have not
suffered such agonizing pain that they have
teen forced to take morphine. In some
instances this has been followed by a regu-
lar course Of it, the trouble usually begin
ming when the patient learns or is permitted
TO learn by an ignorant doctor how to give
herself dose of it. From that time on, she
VII NH Gue leRsb pain sne mas Win
a lab" l can vouch for the truth
OF this statement, because Of my regular
visits TO the Russian baths, where l have
seen the bodies of women frightfully
marked by unskillful punctures. We
haven't the best rules, by the by, in regard
70 physicians for perfectly strange doctor
Will come in, and, if woman is clever
enough, will give her hypodermic injec-
uon OF morphine Il think l ought to say
morphia), without knowing whether she
n9s been forbidden it by her doctor, or
whether her family are trying to cure her.
Inc deadly horrors of sleeplessness, the
raging pain, are at once subdued by the
subtle drug. and rest and pleasant dreams
come with it.
VICTIMS OF THE MORPHINE HABIT.
Right here in New York, a woman whose
picture has been In every newspaper in the
country, and who had married man of
nIe IN England, was go given over to the
use OF morphine that every chair in her
uouSe IN which she was in the habit of sit
VI jug mad needle and syringe concealed in
Tue soft folds of the silk that draped it. A
nurse watched her day and night, and yet
ooln doctor and nurse knew that she got
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