The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-11
WONAyS CONVERSATION.
Enlightened Bah Tells Us What Women
Generally Talk About.

sectors Of Men-Miss We're De We're
and Mrs. Wisdom-When a Man is
Really Handy to Have Around.
What Bah Would Like to See Man Do.
Copyright, 1881
New York, June lO.-That nice curious
somebody who goes around as a living in
terrogation, asked me the other day:
What do women talk about2" Without
stopping to think, answered: 40, every
thing" Then considered, and real
lied that they did not talk about the best
brand of cigars, that they didn't talk
about last nights club frolic and that
they did not discuss the affairs of state
with an air of knowing everything when
they really knew nothing. My experience
among women has been tolerably extern
sive, and have been trying to think over
what they do talk about.
From the little girl of 5 up to the women
of so they talssa bout babies; to the tiny
tot the baby is represented by a doll; to
the old woman it's a child on whom her
heart is set, and to the woman in between
it may be really, rightly baby, or it may
be man she loves; but 1t is always some
thing that she can make much of Some
VI llS ttAh dbOub our hlttu6ISs L 10 hIl
deeply interested in the last new kind of
salad, and have aspirations in the direc-
tion of cooking that makes me anxious TO
learn whatever any other woman knows.
And you know this isn't altogether selfish.
We women like to make dainty dish to
please somebody else. When we are alone
we sit down to q chop, cup of tea and
some toast; but when the baby, though
he may be six feet and weigh 100, is com
ing, it is more than figuratively that the
big pot is put in the little pot and the fry
ing pan tiirts with the boiler.
MAN IN THE KITCHEN.
don't think the liking for cooking is
confined to women. think man loves
to dabble at it, and when he does, it re-
quires every servant and every woman in
the house to wait on him. Give him a
chaf1ng dish and some lobster, and put
all the things around that he ought to
have TO COOK it properly, and he will dis
cover that he wishes Maggie would bring
him this and that you would go and select
particular kind of wine for f1avoring,
and would mother mind holding one spoon
while he uses theother, and as he keeps one
spoon to taste with and one spoon to stir
with and one spoon to flavor with and one
spoon to mash the butter with and fork
to beat the eggs, another fork to pick out
the lobster, long before he is through he
has got all the silver in the house around
him And when the dish is really done
and his numerous slaves have removed
his cooking utensils, he helps everybody
to the dish and accepts with the afr of b
monarch their appreciation of it. Then
he wonders in a scornful way: 'What
women can find troublesome about cook
ing" The dear boy is nothing but baby
after all
MEN AND WOMEN AS DREssERs
Then we women talk about dress. Yes,
we talk about it, and we like to talk about
it. And we admire each others belong
ings, and we are not half as envious as we
are credited with being. We like to
know the new styles in coats even though
it is possible we are going to wear last
seasons again, and we can gloat over $40
bonnets, and then go home and fix up one
out Of old pieces, and spend AZ cents for
fresh strings and be happy / don t think
women are bit more faddish about their
clothes than men are and their clothes
don't cost much. Every one of us has
had the extreme felicity of hearing
O man rave because his trousers did
not ft and yet he hadn't the moral
to go back and tell the tailor So
Gentle woman. when her clothes don't fit
her pretty soon lets the dressmaker know
il, and provided she Is paying her bill
SuG uO6Sll L ulllGC uldbJGES Wutll IL COIIGS
TO the cut of a bodice. Women have got a
right to talk about clothes Their be-
longings are far and away ahead of mans
He may look smart and we'll but his
clothes are not dainty or nice. Even his
have seen it in shop
crude to degree, No pretty
lace frills, no love ribbons to be tied, no
sort of fluffy air about them, but just
shapelesS looking that might fit anybody.
I 4 fol oh
clothes Why should they}
BY the bye, being a woman, have you
seen the new empire chemise2 1t reaches
down to ones ankles, is made of main
sock, is finished around the neck with
lace and ribbons, and then has belt of
lace insertion that comes high up under
the arms, like an empire sash on gown.
1t looks like that thing that Nine
Recamier has her picture taken in. Now,
if man were anything like that, one
could understand his interest in his be-
longings, but when he wears such
denominations as one sees in the shop
windows, such ungraceful, hideous
things, l thinks silence on his part is
wisdom.
Then we talk about books. Oh, yes,
we do. l would like to know what would
become of the book shops if it were not
for the women who read. 1t is true that
tO-udN We may DO ItduiuB ii 1llSbOIY Oh
theosophy, and tomorrow novel by ''The
Duchess" and the next day book of re-
Hgious poetry, and the day after that the
new magazines; but don't you hate people
who have only one idea2 They are worse
than people with missions. A woman
reads little of this an6 little of that,
and the consequence is when she begins
to talk about books, there are some things
she don't know, and she is glad to have
tell her. believe that is what
we women were put in the world for, to
be little ignorant, so men could be our
teachers. And it must be said to our
credit that we are apt pupils.
WOMEN AS KEEN OBSERVERS
Then we talk about people. Yes, we do.
And why shouldn't we, provided we don't
say disagreeable things7 II is perfectly
to discuss how nice that We're
de We're girl looked in her pink tulle
frock the other night, and to tell what
good time we had at luncheon given by
Mrs Wisdom, and to describe in full
what there was to eat, how it was served
and what the women wore, while there
is nothing quite so delightful as to talk
about love affair. Then we are happy.
Then we all have memories, and we tell
stories where somebody else played the
part, and every one of us knows perfectly
well that shewho is telling the story is
the heroine of it.
And when we talk about places-places
we have been at, and that is just where
we show how feminine we are We de-
spise place if we didn't enjoy our visit,