The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-29
Il KNOW OF MEN"
Bah SAYS THE AMERICAN MAN Is
ABUSED


Faithful a. He Is-It Is Not Higher
Education That Women Want so
Much as Development OF the Heart.
What Woman Gives a Man in Return
for His Love, Kindness and Consider.
ation-A Wife's Real Duty-Does the
American Woman Recognize Der
Slessings2-Bab Makes a Draft for
Recruits.
NEW YORK. Jan 2s.-MeD are beasts OF
burden. am moved to say this from
watching the way in which the American
woman-the brightest, prettiest and best
in the world-tyrannizes over her mankind.
Man is long suffering and endureth much.
The rights of women, the considers
ton that should be shown her, the love
and sympathy that she requires, have all
been written aud talked about by both men
and women, and she stands to-day on
pedestal with this carved upon it: "Be
loving to me, be gentle TO me, don't worry
me, or else I'll break" Now, 1t is quite
time man had his innings. / have usually
stood up for dogs, but am going to take to
the typewriter in defense of man and my
motto will be, q slight twisting around of
the old Latin one: ~ know Of men, ard
everything pertaining to their happiness is
or interest to me-"
81 KNOW OF MEN"
Some woman smiles-in her smile Is a
| question. aud it means: "What sort OF men
| have you knownp Rushing in where angels
fear to tread, l answer: "An sorts and con-
ditions of men," and, whether they live on
tue other side or on Murray Hill they are
| singularly alike. Like q dog, they admire
being made much of-they like the approx
ing pat, the affectionate look and the csress
given as the outward visible sign OF
the inward love. How often do they
do this! There are clever women
would die for my husband, who haven't
the remotest idea Of how to live for him.
| Women who are surprised that, when dear
Jack comes home at night, he doesn't want
| to go to the theater, or to dance. or to q
uiresome dinner party; who are surprised at
dear jacks lack of ambition, as far as the
world Is concerned the world to them mean
ing the bowling. flushing, overdressed
crowd that has its doings in every news
paper, and NOT realizing tina the world to
| dear Jack means a womans love, the society
| of that woman and the environments that
are specially her own.
WHAT THE AMERICAN MAN is.
| Sometimes she thinks dear Jack isn't as
cultured as be might be- that he doesn't look
perfectly pleased when she tells him of her
Browning class, or her opinion Of Lecky.
| Poor little fool Dear Jack has gone through
all that, and no ould 9 great deal rather be
Rugged little, kissed a little. told merry
tale or two, and appealed to through the
heart. not through the brain. You are
fond Of talking about mentality. You be-
Deve you have some gray matter; doubt
it very much. What you know you have
in way picked UP either from dear
Jack himself or from some woman
who picked 10 up from some other
dear Jack. 1t never originated with
woman. The American man 10 to
me at once most lovely and sorry piece Of
humanity. He is verify beast of burden,
and to what purpose9 He hasn't the de-
termination OF that other beast. the dog,
! who insists on proper recognition, who only
uses his brain when he is well fed and given
a comfortable home of his own, and who
expresses his Disgust ut what he considers
| frlvolity by such prolonged walls that he Is
permitted to do exactly what he pleases.
| Exactly what he pleases is usually TO lie In
front of the fire, and when he is sufficiently
warm to get up. go over. rub his head
against his owners skirts and then to return
to the f1re again.
WONDERS AT MANS FAITHFULHEss.
Dear Jack is up in the morning, and down
town he works, and worries the greater part
of the day he comes home at night with the
worry still clinging to him, and there is
wonder that he isn't pleased to hear OF tine
small household annoyances. of some ap-
| preaching festivity, or some tiresome talk.
| Possibly he has had a bad dinner. Possibly
madam has elected not TO keep house any
more; shes6nds servants too troublesome,
and lives at a hotel. In that case :,
onH Nfra@ N,,S d.. id
| body, goes into an overheated, over
| lighted dining room, looks listlessly at the
bill of fare, while the waiter says to him:
| 'W hat will you have-soup, fish roast, +" and
you can't blame dear Jack IL he looks at the
woman opposite him, and says: cpd like
something devied" After dinner dear Jack
! goes into the smoking room. because madam
/ is visiting around, and she takes certain
pleasure in saying that her husband is de.
voted TO society of men. which, by the by, is
| all wrong. Ii she had been oue-half to him
that she ought TO have been he would have
been devoted to the society of one woman.
On nv word Of honor ! wonder that men
are as faithful as they are. Suppose you
| were tired mentally, suppose your head
aohsd, suppose the day had been all work
and no play. would you want to go into q
public room to eat the one meal in the day
| over which you could lingerl Wouldn't
| you, suppostng you were man, want to
due in quiet place, where the light wasn't
too garing and with woman who had
discretion enough to tell you pleasant
things, to help lift the burden off your
shoulders, and by her care and consider
alton make 1t possible for you to forget for
little while the worries of down town
| 70 be, in short, with the woman who loved
, you and knew youl
| HOW A MAN rs EAGGED.
You look at me very earnestly and talk
to me about your worries; my dear child,
the average American woman has not
worry enough In her life to compare to that
which rests upon the men. / say "the aver
age woman" l am supposing that it is the
woman who is living the natural life, and by
natural, mean being cared for by a man, so
that she does not need to think as to where
the bread aud butter and jam will come
| from for tomorrow. That is dear Jacks
business. Granted that the babies are
troublesome, granted that you ara trying,
dear little fool, to cultivate your mind.
don't fire all these things at dear Jack when
| he comes home. Be woman enough to
make him think that through bis kindness
! you are upon bed Of roses, for that is what
| he is working for. The woman who details
! her household jars to her hust and deserves
| to be beaten. am not talking about real
| troubles. When a woman has real trouble
| the best place for her to take il Is TO the man
| she loves; his brain is always big enough
TO think it out; his heart is great enough