The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-29

Mamma he began, YOU amt busy al
ways up here, are your and before ! could
reply he finished his thought: Let's
stay IN the country every one of the days,
will youn
Wasn't that a rebuke2 l thought it
was and l took it,
80 I've come home refreshed in health
and spirit, and I mean to keep so. I've
written moderation over the walls of my
house. In every room ! look for it. Not
That l have sunk into a torpor of inactiv-
lty-that would be as bad as the other ex-
treme-but l am trying to take things
quietly. l belong to one club instead of
i've, and l have reduced all my cOmings
and goings in the same ratio I read
somewhere the other day that a promi-
nent medical man had said that half of
the women in this country were starving
to death and the other haf were wearing
themselves out--wOrking without giving
proper attention to food and rest.
Now, know one woman who isn't
going to do either any more if she can
help it."
Up to five or six years ago, says the
New York Sun, it was an unusual thing
to find woman who smoked a cigarette
OF an evening. Now it is so common, so
the English papers assure US, that nearly
all women count among their acquaint-
ances one or Two women who smoke either
Internationally or regularly. Advanced
clubs find it necessary to set apart a
ladies smoking room. The report that
one of the railway companies has found ii
expedient to reserve a smoking carriage
for the benefit of lady smokers is prema-
ture, but it is believed that before many
years it will be no more extraordinary to
see woman smoke than to see a woman
play golf or tennis.
Londoners, says the New York Times,
have way of looking after their hospital
nurses that is worth telling about and
initiating. 1t is quite common to read in
the woman's journals mention of some car
riage trip enjoyed by the nurses of such
and such hospital, or that Lady SO-and-So
places her landau at the disposal of four
nurses at some other hospital every pleas
ant Thursday or Monday, or the like.
And at a recent performance at the Hay
market one box was occupied by four
nurses in their uniform of cotton gowns
though III lieu of the caps they wore bon
nets-WhOse hearty delight in the per-
Torrance was evident. The were in
debted for the pleasure to the courtesy of
the manager, and ii is a common thing
for theater managers to send tickets for
distribution TO the various hospitals.
Probably no class of persons can more APP
preciate the gayeties of the theater than
thes same nurses who for most part see
only suffering, disease and death, and
nothing could probably be more restful
and beneficial than Just this lively con-
trast OF surroundings.
Walter Besant, the friend and admirer
Of women, says the New York Sun, re-
fuses TO league himself with the ex-
tremistS on the question of WOmans
progress and holds some conservative
and practical views on the subject not
exactly in accordance with the evoluted
and advanced idea. Il have maintained,
and shall continue to maintain" he says,
"that for women to take men S work from
them is the most disastrous thing that
can possibly happen, especially in a small
country; for il halves the wages and
lowers the position of the workers, and it
drives the men out of the country or
forces them to compete with women at
lower pay. 1t deprives men of their
wives and women of their husbands.
say that when a cry Of rejoicing is raised
because another field of mans labor is in
Vaded by women, we ought to sit down
and weep for the lowering Of labor's indie
pendence and the loss of men"
AprOpos Of the same subject he said to
the woman interviewer as to the modest
career for woman, Marriage. That is
in TACT, my deliberate opinion. More,
believe that if the question were put to
any woman who has lived the matons
life, and has sons and daughters grown
up, whether, looking back she would still
deliberately choose to be the mother of
those sons and daughters or would be-
come journalist, novelist, teacher, nurse,
artist typewriter, clerk, cashier, or any
of the many occupations open to women,
she would, without the least hesitation,
declare that she would prefer the ma
fronts life as the noblest and highest lot
open to women. To enrich the world with
noble children, to give to thecountry more
brave hands and honest hearts-what, in
comparison with this, is the independence
of the single woman or her work-her
average work! That all women cannot
marry is perfectly true; that women are
making it every day more difficult to
marry by taking mems work is also true. F"
That we BOstOniaps. says a Boston
writer in the Providence journal, have
many fads Is true enough, but there is in
yariably one particular fad that takes
precedence of the rest, is adopted into the
very highest social circles, and marks the
true rank of the faddist. Arlo Bates,
believe, makes the statement that Paul
BOurget is to be our chief intellectual
hero. Young women read his novels
without blush, and by January we shall
hear "Cruelle Enigmen or "Cosmopolis"
discussed at every afternoon tea.
The prudish and hypOcritical American
reader assumes that bold and intelligent
discussion of the seventh commandment
is immoral However, the Boston girl has
got beyond that stage of mental culture
/ should say from some of the cOnversa-
tions that take place in respectable draw
ing rooms, that she was going quite to the
other extreme, and beginning to pride
herself upon saying things that are not
mice " The innocent young girl dear to
sentimental romancers, is decidedly out
of date. She is a rara avis in Boston; at
least in cultured and semi-fashiOnable
Boston. Our modern young woman has
her ewes wide open. She brides herself
upon knowing lifen And she does know
it, theoretically and superficially. There
would be nothing surprising, therefore,
ina Bourget fad.
NJ. Bourget has been a recent visitor to
Boston. He was taken up by our leading
lion hunters and introduced to society in
lis summer quarters-at Nahant at Bev-
erlv Farms. at Manchester by-the-Sea.
WHY should not she in her turn read NJ.
Bolreer's novels and talk about them TO
the Young men she knowsf BY another
winter she will be ready TO take up lola,
before whom even the British matron has
now unbent her chaste and severe brows
America next His English experience
must have made him eager, one would
think. for further adventures in the same