The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-23
HTNANITY'S FRAILTIES.
B,b Points Out the Evil Results Of
Unkindly GOSSipinS.

III
s,r.voager5 The Cowardly Anon
ors Letter Writer-A Chapter on
y.on-skirts and Low-Neck Frocks.
r,np1exed Modesty-Friendship
psautiful Plant-our Remembrance.
,Copyrightl
New York, April 22-"Good morrow
,.rs Gossip" used to be the greeting in
sso davs of the divine William. But in
- DAYS gossip had different signif-
- 1t meant "God-sibb" or Gods
.;-bhor" But the meaning is changed
-oradavs. and the kindly gossip of long
400 is replaced by the dirty, mean scan
Sal.noAger of to-day. A nasty word is
uI.rted and it brings forth a fruit of
& ,borns and thistles, that cause mis-
r,dorstsndings and heartaches. Loyalty
= .oe7,s out of fashion. 4 man may love a
'r,nan honorably and devotedly; hear
her snollen of in the lightest way; feel his
nbael5 grow white and his heart beat vio-
81 Ientlv. and yet never dare say word, for
81 us defense of her would hurt her more
81 Than his silence.
81 pooDle always chattered-they did that
IN the ark: but nowadays it isn't just chat
tsr n is malice. Somebody is a woman,
siore in the world and she gains for her
salfa friend-a man friend-whO advises
her who is considerable of her, and who
q onIvasks in return that he may see her
and talk to her for little while; and
HAT they may have pleasant, innocent
hours together And what does the
world say! 1t shrugs its shoulders, it lifts
& its eyebrows, it laughs scOfhngly and
says perhaps" And the woman soon
rets a bar sinister across her escutcheOn,
b and the sponge of innocence and honor
cannot blot it out.
DANGEROUS TONGUES.
81 Somebody is a man who made a prom
isc TO his mother that he would look
after some little orphans, and he keeps
his word. Being a man and being gener-
81 ous he makes them comfortable and
happy, and the gosslps sit of afar and
cigglc and look knowingly at each other,
and after a while one of the most i'm
nudent will say something to the man,
something intended to be funny, and the
man will look dazed and wondering, and
then he will go off by himself and think,
'What is the use of trying to do right
when you are always misunderstood
And when those orphan babies are men
and women there will be some old gossip
ready to wink and make nasty sugges-
tons about their birth.
tbs hard to put it down, this talk of
M the fOui-mouthed. If / had my way
would have everybody who said or even
limited low and vulgar things about their
neighbors made to stand in public square
with their hands tied together, bearing on
their breasts the letter S, which stood for
"scandal-monger,' in bright blue, and
then have their mouths washed out with
vtrol Don't you agree with me! And
then what would you do with that awful
weapon of the scandal-monger! For he
doesn't cOnfne himself to his tongue.
mean the anonymous letter. A thief in
the night is honorable besides the anony-
nous letter-w1iter. Against the first
you can use muscle, you can raise your
voice, you can make some sort of a fight;
against the last you can do nothing. The
fact that you are woman forces you to
keep stin before this indignity, against
which there is no redress, and So woman
or man, you have to suffer like
q somebody with hidden cancer, until,
thank God, by the laws of compensation,
there comes some loving act that will
cause you to forget the suffering.
What is the matter with men and
women that they can't do the nice, the
kindly thing one toward the other? My
friend, it is quite as easy, and, in addition,
1t would make everything go so much
al smoother Sometimes l think that, in
the various sort Of hells that have been
described, that one will the most awful
which is intended for the scandal-monger,
the beast in human form who takes away
the characters of women, the honor of
men, and even dares throw its dirty slime
over the histories of little children. But,
there, don't want to talk any more about
It. Unfortunately, the SCandal-monger
exists, and somebody with greater mus
Gle and more brain than | will discover a
powder some day that will eXterminate the
entire species.
THE HOOP-sKIRT AGITATION.
\ very nice woman wrote me letter
and asked me if ] were going to wear a
# hoop-skirt. 1t was something to which |
mad never given any thought, but, after
reading the letter, | pondered. Would l?
w don't think ! would will tell you why.
81 In the first place, | don't think l should
ever learn to sit on it correctly. | am
sure it would fare where it oughtn't to,
ana make things generally uncomfort-
dole; then, too, as | have a ridiculous
weakness for heels, ! should probably put
M my foot in it, and the flying woman would
De description of me as I came down
stairs. The hoop-skirt does not possess a
charm for me. 1t does not seem coquet-
IA uSh, 10 is not graceful, and, certainly,
# though nobody sees one when one is un-
# dressed, still one likes the mirror to show
~ pack something rather dainty, and this
would be impossible with hoop-skirt
nave been told they are dignifed. Per-
maps they are. But to produce a digni-
neo effect, woman about six feet high
Wound he needed, and, as l am ever so far
rom being that, don't propose to make
nlN sell look like paper-weight-all
I9Wer and no upper portion. By-the-by, |
mink even men have to confess that
women have dressed well for the street
within the last few years. The plain
C-olh shirt fitting the figure evenly and
easily the bodice with its simple trim
HlngS, the sloping shoulders and full
seeyes, all tend TO make not only be-
coming but an extremely useful costume.
Inc tallor-madC frock has always been
NJ on incentive to cleanliness. The girl who
wore one liked her skin to look as white as
lpasl9ie, and her hair as tidy and wien
sAo know that her boot showed as she
NJlNsd. she did not omit any of its but
1,'As, non was she satisfied with a broken
ll.e led IN knot She got TO be very
q Particular bout her gloves and if she
TTott -lntn IN any way it was Immaculate
i.l-o2llE, l may mention that though
.n2pa may come and go, l shall be loyal to
inc Goth troCi for fhe street wear. be-
.i4se ~ rs neat. and, to use the word OF
4 IL yer popular salesWoman, it is "styl-
COMMON SENSE IN DRESSING.
Il E-Jhe-bv, this woman also wanted to
"a 30.