The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-31
WOMAN'S WORLD.
A Few Things Of Interest to the Fair
Sex.


Sent to New York GirI-A Word
About Incompetent wives-other
matters of General Interest.
There is no greater injustice that can be
lnhlcted upon a girl than for a mother to
allow daughter to enter womanhood or
wifehood without a practical knowledge
of household and it's requirements.
writes Edward w. Box in AT Home
with the Editor in the January Ladies'
Home Journal. / care not how easy her
beginning may be for her, how everything
may be provided by her generous parents
when she begins her new career, nor how
many servants she may have at her call,
woman is cruelty handicapped who
comes to her own home with an intelli-
gent conception of its management. 1t
IS popular thing in certain smart
circles" to scott at the utility of
housekeeping, but nothing more
surely stamps the intellectual caliber ola
girl than an indulgence in such feather
Drained commonplace. The girl who be-
I1eyeS she becomes fashionable by being
untrue to the best instincts Of her sex is
the girl who some day wakes up to won
der why other women are so happily mar
r1ed, and she still retains her single
blessedness (2) Wealth does not lessen
the necessity of a knowledge of home
making and housekeeping on the part of
girl. The largest retinue of servants
requires a head and an intelligent one,
just as the largest business requires a
master, and servants, whether in home
or IN an office, are quick to discover in
capacity and take advantage of it. The
woman who comes closest to the solution
of the servant girl problem is the woman
whom her servants know is as capable
OF doing their work as they are them
selves. Servants of every kind work best
and only under direction. and proper di-
rection requires knowledge. No study is
more vital than this. Many a girl, after
marriage, has wished that she knew less
of comic sections and more about cooking
The strongest love of husband for a wife
is not a safeguard for the discomfort
which is sure TO enter a home where the
wife betrays constant domestic incapacity.
If the husband be the master of his bust
ness he expects his wife to be the master
of her home.
Writers and public speakers have done
much harm in referring to cooking as a
homely art on the contrary no practical
art exists which is more graceful A
woman who fills her home in every sense !
of the word elicits more true applause,
worthy at all of the having, than the
woman gifted of any other quality. This
fact cannot be too strongly impressed
upon our girls.
Their is an unwritten code, says the
New York Sun, in the giving of flowers
which directs that it is better
in the eyes of New York up to-date girl
to receive a single perfect long -stemmed
rose from the smartest shop in town
than a whole roomful of ordinary poses
sent in from an unknown florist. The
present fashion in the wearing of flowers
restricts them to a single large and frag-
rant American Beauty rose or bunch of
violets. The chrysanthemum has had its
day and is going out of season now, but the
rage for violets increases, and the tickle
fancy Of woman is true to the modest lit
tie purple flower all the year round
She tucks them in her belt of her summer
gown or pins them on her sealskin coat,
and at one of the recent swell balls
belle had a gown all trimmed with vi0-
let's, which looked very pretty until the
flowers began to fade And following the
same idea it is accounted more desirable
to present lady with two or three long
stemmed selected roses for the tall,
straight vase in her room than with a
profusion of common flowers. Sometimes
the vase accompanies the roses. and a
very pretty gift it makes, and one which
conventionality Winks at, even between
people not really entitled to give or re-
ceive valuable presents. If any one
flower were selected as the prime favorite
this year, the American Beauty would
carry off the palm by large majority,
because its vivid and rich coloring accords
happily with the seasons tints, and in
deed matches one of the most worn shades
used in decoration.
The Japanese, says the Herald, who are
proverbially slow to alter their estab-
lished customs, have long had sets OF
rules for governing their household ser
wants that are not unlike those sung
about the poet. An almost universal po-
likeness prevails in Japan Masters are
quiet, even courteous, in the treatment of
their servants, and in return they get re-
spectful devotion, outwardly. at least, for
they never speak unless Frustrated on
their knees, with faces bent toward the
ground Doubtless these model servants
gossip as do others, as well as pllfer when
Opportunity offers, but they are delight
fully light-stepped and low-voiced, and
always seem to be in a good humor, traits
that even if not sincere, are agreeable
and affection inspiring.
ness in their friends, says the New York
Tribune, and sometimes have an uDcom-
Portable suspicion that they are them
selves not altogether free from the objec-
tionable quality; but they are not pre-
pared to find snobs among children. 1t
seems so utterly incongruous with a
wholesome child's nature, 1t is such
worldly. spurious trait, that it is unnat-
uraI to associate it with the honesty OF
Youth. Yet it is quite as common among
the Young as among their elders. From
the small girl who looks over a new ac-
ouaintance from top to toe, and gauges
her by her clothes, to the young collegian
who is anxious to be in the
hest set" snobbishness, even
more , apparent and unlovely be-
cause less disguised than among older
people, is rampant. The snob begets the
cynic. and the fin du-siecle society which
develops either quality in young, ingen-
uous, honest mind must be injurious.
Children read motives with extraordl-
nary quickness, and it is quite impossible
that the former should not produce the
latter.
..Did you see your old friend B. at
Harvard ~ said mother TO her son, who
had attended classday with some friends.
..Yes; and it was rather good fun to see
how he changed from frigid cold to genial
warmth when he saw that was with the
right lot. !" answered the boy ut was
the most evident thing | ever saw" he
continued. 81 happened TO see him hrst
with crowd of his classmates, and
- ! 1.,o,, n > onoa With the most cordial