The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-12
MY DEAR BOY!"
WHAT WOULD BECOME OF MEN IF
WOMEN DID NOT TALKP


The Overwhelming Value Of Good
Dinner-Osca Wilde's Doctrine of
Feed the Brutes mo Animal so
Easy to Civilize as Mantle Adores
Being Mothered-The Husband Who
Was Sick and Tired OF Wisdom and
Didn't Appreciate a Walking Dc
tionary.
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NEW YoRK, March 11.--Somebody says
a woman always knows what to talk about.
And the somebody who said it meant to be
very weak. Now, will you kindly tell me
what would become of men If women did
not know what to talk about9 l once bad
| the doubtful pleasure Of being the fourth at
| a dinner party where the two men were Bit
ter enemies. regret to say that the bring
ing of them together was the result Of a
bet and the hostess claimed that she
could get them SO Interested in her utter
folly that they would forget all about the
horrid feeling that existed. Twas the per-
son she had the bet with. When we first
sat down, and pondered over our oysters
they glared at each other. Men are 30
stupid Then In perfectly innocent way
my hostess wondered IL oysters wore slip
pers; and after that she talked about Gin
| derella and the prince; and then she asked
the western man il the women out west
southern man what he thought OF
a small foot, and then saucily enough she
stuck out her own foot and asked them to
guess what number her little black satin
slipper was. Then she led them on to talk
ing about what constituted well-fOrmed
woman, and they got so interested in this
that when we left them to their cigars
| they were as chummy as possible, and were
discussing what she experience Of each had
been In seeing beautiful women. And still
there are people who say that the talk of
women don't amount to anything.
HOW TO TREAT THE AVERAGE MAN.
The wise mother is the one who teaches
her daughter to make an amusing chatter
about nothing People who have great
missions object to this. They want to
thrust just what they think down your
throat, and have an idea that that's the
way to gain their end Now it isn't. II
they could be purely feminine and chatter
about nothing, leading up to what they be-
lieved right, they'd get unregenerate man
to do exactly what they wished | think /
am something of Jesuit fully believe
that the end iustifes the means. And if l
were ever clever enough to have some great
object In view. l shouldn't go round ex-
plotting it and preaching about IL, | should
just get hold of the people whom l knew
could push it, and then | would talk.
Not about tt, oh, dear no. / would talk
about everything else, would let a man
impress me with his great mentality, with
bis enormous strength; would make him
understand that knew just what a fool /
was as compared with him, and after all
this was quite clear TO him, would ASK
him, incidentally, what desired And |
would get it. My dear girl, the woman who
wants her own way In this world Is most
certain to get it If she understands two
things. First, the great value Of not know
ing too much; second, the overw helminR
value Of a good dinner. The average man
feeds-he doesn't eat. 1t therefore be-
comes the duty of the woman TO teach
him the JOY of the table, and once she had
catered 90 the appetite she has created, she
owns him body and soul. When it comes
to the question Of eating, the most stupid
man in the world can be entertained. In
the first place. he thinks originally OF the
food as a pleasure, then he is willing to take
it in any way, but If a clever woman gets
hold Of him and makes him understand the
absolute value Of things to eat, he very
quickly understands the luxury and feels
grateful 10 his tutor. Once you teach
man to eat correctly, he never goes back to
his semi-savage state.
LIVE AND LET LIVE.
You may only offer him a bit of toast and
cup Of tea, but If you give him that toast
on tiny white napkin, spread on a pretty
plate, and the tea In q china cup, he revolts
from pile Of toast on q thick plate and tea
taken over stone wall. / am a most
ardent believer in the doctrine so beauti-
fully set forth by Oscar Wilde, when he
said: Feed the brutesw AS nation, we
are not ell we might be in the art Of cater
ing TO the appetite. You and / have been
10 houses where money was plenty; where
good sense was lacking and we have had
dinners that suggested that they were fred
at as. adore my dinner. The time of
day has come when the worries are over,
and when can take mine case In nay home.
ike that dinner to appeal to every one of