The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-28

! not met or even known anything, except
/ hazily, OF each other. We forgot business
and everything else as we lived over old
times and filed in the wears
| OF separation" The other editor did not
| speak at once and as she did she reached
over and took round fan from the table,
which she kept before her face, Il had an
| experience. too, mot long ago." she said
(which was not unlike yours, though it
was not so pleasant l received a card on
which was written merely MIR. Blank
with no initials, and which conveyed no
identity TO me. 1t was an Office card, and
l get plenty of such. / nodded to the boy
that the gentleman might come in, and
the next moment he did. l raised my
eyes to meet those of a man l had refused
to marry six years ago, and had not seen
since. He was as dumbfounded as /,
stopped, looked bewildered, then pulled
himself together, and, saying 4 beg your
pardon; had no idea it was you l should
see,' turned and left l was so taken
/ aback couldn't say single word"
1t is an interesting fact, says the New
York Sun, that, while the hystericai
haranguers on woman's rights denounce
the men as their bitterest enemies, the
great leaders of the movement acknowl-
edge that men are loyal supporters and
abettors in securing equality in place and
] ~
says she can place more dependence on
the men than on the women in a crisis,
and Frances Willard paid most glowing
tribute TO the men recently when she
said mot a school has ever been
opened to women except by the vote of
men, nor has she been admitted to any
learned profession or to an enlarged
sphere in the line of honorable occupa
ton except by men; nor has any woman
been made voter, in greater or less de-
gree. either in church or state, save by
the free permission of creations lords
They have clothed us with all the power
that they themselves possess, save in the
| highest ranges, ecclesiastical and govern
mental. There are two considerations.
which, on their own testimony, have
moved men to this bestowment of power
upon the gentle comrade at their side.
First, men are conscious of being album
dainty able to take care of themselves
and their interests; and, second, they
have learned by centuries of observation
and experience that, as class, women
(being the mothers of mem are, if posi-
BILE, more concerned to do them justice
than they are to do Justice to themselves.
Every woman is the daughter of man
and every man is the son of woman"
Really there is is nothing new under
the SUM- even the doctrine of womans
rights is not at all nineteenth century
idea, as the reformers would have it ap-
pear. Two centuries ago, says the New
York Sun, there lived woman who was
the first advocate of woman's rights. This
good lady's name was Mrs. Mary Astell,
and she published her theories in little
book called "A Serious Proposal to the
Ladies for the Advancement of Their
True and Greatest Interest, by Lover Of
Her Sex" This book was printed in 1894.
and therein the good lady implores women
mot TO be content TO be in the world like
tulips in garden, to make fine show
and be good for nothing" She also
says that women value men too
much and themselves too little, aud
that they 'should be capable of nobler
things than the pitiful conquest of some
poor human heart; for woman
should always remember that she has no
mighty obligations to the man who makes
love to her, she has no reason to be
fond Of being a wife or to reckon it
price y of preferment when she is taken
TO be mans upper servant" Ye gods
and little fishes ! to think that radical
sentiment was written two hundred years
ago And what q glorious woman's club
President Dame Astell would have made
If she We're alive to-day And still the
foolish mind of woman seems ever bent
on 1.-THE pitiful conquest of some poor hui
man nedrb, Ior Wnlcn Une gOdS De
thanked; else how would there be any
woman born to pirate and prattle of the
rights OF their sexl
Women do, sometimes, their traducers
to the contrary, Notwithstanding, talk of
something else than the prevailing fash
ions or each others foibleS A party of
brainy women not many days ago, says
the New York Sun, were discussing a
ntfat NJ aff4ua On 1f
the right to be styled q lady. Various
conditions were named by mem bers of the
party, when one thoughtfully answered,
After all, il is by her treatment of those
supposed to be her interiors that a
wonau's claim to the title of lady is es-
tablished. The person who is as care
full of the feelings of dependent as of
her own, who makes every body she en-
ploys respect and love her, is,,in my eyes
a true lady" and the others fully agreed
with her.
A Frenchman, says the Pittsburg Dis
| patch, who has the entree to the most ex-
elusive families in America, said to me
| 81 shall never get accustomed to the free
dom of the American girl. l saw two
young ladies of great culture and refine
ment yesterday enter a restaurant to-
gether and order lunch. 1t was a very
/ u.
| but it struck me as a remarkable freedom
of conduct. Another young lady belong
ing TO very fashionable family tells me
that she has done the same thing quite
alone, when caught down the street by
| the tide of shopping at lunch hour l
| hear these young ladies speak of chap
erones-but l do not understand the
American ideas of chaperones. Some ex-
! cellent young ladies | know, who belong
to the respe table and cultivated, though
not fashionable families, went off with a
| party of young people of both sexes to
witness naval parade of some sort In the
harbor one morning. 1t shocked me-
| Young ladies could not do such a thing in
| France"
"That is where the American girl has
the advantage" / said. "She does not
need a chaperone to keep her respectable.
! She is born and bred with the idea that
| she can keep herself So"
Yet hear you Americans talk Of the
chaperone," he said. I'm what case is
she supposed to be necessary, and what
are her dutiesl"
The American chaperone is a compare
| lively new institution" / replied. "a
! few of our most wealthy and fashionable
| families adopted the idea a good many
years ago, but the general public has been
slow in accepting it. The different grades
and circles of society have all been more
! or Less inhrulated INIT rha virne hoe ,ot