The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-29
STUDYING HUMAN NATURE.
As Seen on the Summer Hotel Ve-
Tanda.


0igElers and Wiseacres meet-The
Perennial Summer Girl Talks Labor,
Strikes and Suffrage Doses of Cas-
tor Oil-The Holy State of Matri
mony-The Wise and the Foolish, as
Seen at Leisure at Summer Resting
Resorts.
Melrose Inn, Nd, July 29.-There is
probably no better place to study human
nature than on the veranda of a country
MOTEL. Ours is just a little peculiar-we
call it individual-which word usually
means that we are inclined to think well
of ourselves The group that meets after
dinner generally consists of the Colonel
who has followed my mother down here,
ola Visiting Gossip, of an Interrogation
Point, in the shape of a frivolous and
muslin-gowned young woman, of liter
airy woman who is just literary enough to
write articles for the pleasure of her i'm
mediate friends, of a woman who does
some thinking and of your humble ser
want. The hot weather always makes me
humble.
Conversation usually begins by the in
terrOgatiOn point vaguely wondering if
the people in the city feel the heat AS
nobody answers this she then gives an
inane giggle and asks something after
this fashion: "Now-don't you know
Oh, well, of course you do know-but |
often wonder, don't you see-what those
really peOple-you know people like the
labor strikers mean2n This is followed
by soft giggle that is so girlish that one
is almost inclined to forgive the idiocy of
her manner.
SUMMER RESORT DISCUSSIONS.
Nobody says anything but the woman
who thinks looks off in the dim distance
as if she saw visions of great wars. of
great unhappiness and of much suffering
And the literary woman asks the girl if
she has read anything about the strikes,
and then she answers, "No-that is I
did read something-its immensely funny
about some women who wanted to vote;
now, what do you think of that" The
woman who thinks looks at the colonel and
says: Who's going to be the monkey
to get hold of these sweet little pussy
cats, and have them pull the chestnuts
out of the fire for it? VIII it be the re-
publican or the democrat? Fancy what
these hundreds of thousands of unedu-
Gated voters will be to one of the great
political parties! Think how their poor
little paws will be burned as they snatch
IllC NllCSIl ulo VI Ollt6 anu money OUT OF
the ire OF opposition, only to have them
gobbled up by the party monkey behind
them.
Some women have said that the
reason l object to suffrage is because
dislike women. That is not true ! do
not like women less, but man more
Which is only an evidence of the fact
That am a woman. But, my reason for
oojectlng to extending the suffrage is
that our country is overwhelmed with
Ignorant voters already. and that moth
ing that is good can come from increasing
the number of undesirables"
just here the Interrogation point inter
rupted her with the usual inane giggle,
and said: We'll, you know, there would
be our fathers and brothers to tell US Just
what to DO, and it would be so nice
1T WOULD BE swEETLY NICE,
to go down to the polls with your sweet
heart
The other women looked at her with
amazement, and the thinking one who
was speaking, said: If L could see any
good likely to come from it, then would
vote for it heart and soul, but | am
strongly tempted to agree with the clev-
crest woman | know in regard to this
question, when she saws she's on the
fence, And when some one asked her
whether she was astride, or on a side-sad-
die, she said she was Conservat tive enough
to use the saddle, but she had strength
enough to be able TO jump to whichever
side she pleased. Her position about an
swers to mine"
Just here there was heard in a whis-
pered tone the conversation of two
mothers, and all that could be distln-
guished were the two words castor oil"
There, said the colonel, lis something
] understand. In regard to castor oil. it
may be said that the world has become
civilized. The children of to-day know
IL only as in some prepared state, or else
If they are inclined to be very positive in
their desires, it is presented 10 them in
the guise of soda water, in which is
thrown few drops of laudanum to make
any announcement it may give of its
presence, later or less unpleasant. Prop
erly, boy should stand up like a soldier.
take his castor oil from a spoon, and
then lick the spoon as if he enjoyed it,
That, madame, is what helps to make
men of boys, the teaching them how to
take what they dislike, and to take it
with a smile. ! think | can see the face
of my old mother, peace be to her ashes,
If she saw
BOYS BEING PAMPERED
as they are now. With the regularity
OF Friday night comes our dose of oil, and
the boy who cried about it would certainly
have been given something warm that
would have brought bitterer tears than
ever did the cold oil We were not asked
If we needed it, 1t was concluded that we
did, and that was calculated to make us
healthy and big, and think, madame. if
you Will compare the men of my day with
the men of yours there the colonel
Strengthened out his six feet two and
broadened his shoulders, you will find
that the giving boys what they ought to
have and not what they like to have. is
the way to make good, strong, God-fear-
ing men of them"
While the colonel was talking the in
terrogatiOn point was looking at him with
much interest, and she said in her usual
way II wonder If that has anything to do
with there being SO few young men in
society nowadays, and none of them get
ting married."
THE sTAGNATION OF MATRIMoNY.
Just here / spoke; THAT complaint
isn't an old one In book called The
Lady's Monthly Museum, or Polite Re
pository of Amusement and Instruction.
being an assemblage of whatever can
tend to please the fancy, interest the
mind, or eXault the character of the Brit
ish Fair written by society of ladies
in 1893, there is an article on The Pres
ent StagnatiOn of Matrimony,' and which
says that the reason men do not marry
is that women think too much of getting
a rich man and pay too little attention to
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