The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-25

Mrs Lynn Linton, says the New York
| World, has taken up that stilettO-like
pen of hers, dipped it into gall and writ
ten a few words on the revolt of the
daughters. The result is that every
young woman who has ever had latch
| key will feel a murderous inclination to-
wards Mrs Lynn Unions throat, and
that every woman who has presumed to
lift up her sex and mako her own life
worthy by work in art and science, would
| feel something approaching despair at
reading those words If disgust were not
the stronger emotion The generally ad-
mitted theory that ignorance and innO-
| Cence are not synonymous Mrs. Linton
| contradicts as follows: The emancipated
say that ignorance and innocence are not
i necessary to each other, and that virtue
| can exist with full knowledge of vice
! This we older people deny. we hold that
! the mind has to be kept as clear as the
| body if grace is to be retained and the
/ pure light OF virtue TO be kept alive; and
| that knowledge of evil smirches the
mind just as much as mud befouls the
! body"
The well-kuown fact that insistence
upon this antediluvian theory has been
J the ruin of many women does not occur
/ to Mrs Linton The fact stated by sta
tisticians in sociological work, that it has
/ generally been ignorance which has
caused the first step towards hte OF
| degradation among women, is ignored
! She argues that knowledge OF evil is in
itself a faint. Does a physician find that
! a knowledge of disease renders himself
! diseased, or that it is in itself protect
| i've and preventive force, Are wives and
mothers the only women to whom this
writer permits any sort of social or phys
Illogical knowledge, so much in need of
/ that knowledge as younger women who
! are usually the ones tempted! There Is
! nothing fascinating about vice except the
/ mystery with which Mrs. Grundy and
/ Mrs. Linton together labor to surround
/ il. and once that mystery is removed the
fascination is gone for every healthy
| minded woman And when in this day
and generation any woman says, as
/ Mrs Linton does. that for women lgno-
rance is this higher state she writes
/ herself down imbecile. When she says,
mo girl leads the unfettered life advO-
! Gated by certain short-sighted women of
/ the present day, and no girl has become
| initiated in the mysteries Of life without
having lost her distinctive qualities and
/ her essential charm. She is like flower
that has lost its perfume. Something
| sweet and subtle has gone-the inner spir-
itual grace is dulled. Girls who
! were in very truth like perfumed MOWERS
! while still content to bide at home and
/ their sisters and mother, those girls, after
! having taken up an independent life,
where they go to Offices and trail about
/ the streets alone, change as much as tow-
ers change-from the freshly opened and
unstained to the rain-battered ana wind
| tossed, " she is simply appealing to spirit
of maudlin sentimentality. which is still
abroad in the land, and is endeavoring,
] after the ridiculous manner Of her great
/ prototype. Mrs. PartingtOn, to keep back
/ the sea with her broom.
A busy affectionate woman never grows
old SAYS the New York Advertiser. The
| springs Of reverence, imagination and
! love he too deep in her heart her intel
lect grows fresher and richer she lives
! among things unseen" and having kept
| well ia practice all the thousand strings
of the harp Of life, she enjoys her tarry-
inc in the House of Old Age feeling
thankful to know the while that in long
old age. she is becoming, at it were purl-
fled of the sins Of the body So with
mo fears TO beat away, no strfes to heal,
The past unsighed-for and the future sure.
she grows sweetly little and a little