The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-08

aloud TO him, and for the benefit of
everybody around: and, although he saws
he don't think she ought to talk so loud.
she mas him for the time being under
such control that he don't even dare saw
That his soul is his own, and command
her to keep silence. often wonder what
her next visit to New York will be. but
general inquiry has proven that there is
no next; that once he has gotten her
nome he never let's her come with him
again, but that for the next twenty years
she joys in telling about that trip and
what she thought Of the great city. Poor
soul! After all, she isn't a bride but
once IN her life. II is only right and Just
That she should be the person in power
when she first appears as John Browns
lady.
soCIETY's STARTING POINT.
Next to the bride the most interesting
woman in New York just now is the one
who, during Lent, has gone in for solid
readlng and lectures, and who is now ex-
Perlene1ng reaction, and being frivolous
This IS what girl said to me the other
day. 1t is very curious how opinions are
reached and how ideas come about I
suppose it is because they come so seldom
that they make an impression. During
Lent l went in for reading history of the
whole world, and, as 1 adore a preface
Just as do the prologue to play, read
that at once. The first sentence was
this: History cannot discuss the origin
OF society Now, you know that is per
feet nonsense. OF course history
cannot discuss the origin of society, be-
cause there was no history until there
was society, and equally, of course, So
ciety did not originate with Adam and
Eve. You are looking at me as if you
thought that society could exist when
tb ere were only two people. 1t cannot.
1t is perfect nonsense to say that people
lind happiness in each others society.
They may find it in being with each
other, but not in each others society l
wonder if you notice that distinction. If
you do, you will think as | am forced to,
that society means the evil principle.
There was no society in the Garden of
Eden until the serpent appeared. Then
history began. Then there was some
body to talk things over with. Up to
that time Adam and Eve found pleasure
in each other. They liked to be together,
and it was undoubtedly amusing to see
things sprout, and to watch the animals
walk around; but, until Eve met the
serpent, and chatted with him and then
went back and told Adam what he said,
and what she thought about it, there was
no society. Eve, after that, probably
met Lilith, was properly introduced to
her, and in talking grew very bitter
about the weakness of Adam, while the
serpent sat around, and was epigram-
matte and amusing. That was the be-
ginning of history. Adam told the SER
pent what he knew about women, as rep
resented by Eve, although when it came
TO that the serpent could give him points
about the eternal feminine and then,
after that, there was the general rumpus
that made history. Don't you think it is
rather stupid for the historians to pay
so much attention 10 the tiresome things
instead of telling about what has really
made history, what has really caused the
great eventsl
DAZZLING IN PERSONALITIES.
OF, course, all the occurrences of i'm
portance in life have come from the lit
tie things, ana we would much rather
hear about them. We all have the same
weakness. We like to know whether a
great man took chocolate or coffee :
whether he took it in bed; whether his
dressing gown was silk or wool. and how
it was made. We are interested in know
ing whether a beautiful woman wore
lace-trimmed underwear, or if she lived
in the time when they did not con-
slider underwear necessary, what she
wore in its place and whether she bathed
in milk or water or whether she did not
battle at all. These things are humanity,
and it is humanity that we are interested
in, and that makes history. l suppose [
will get an immense deal of credit for
reading that book, but I give you my
word OF honor thatI never got any further
than that first sentence in the preface,
and have done nothing but talk about it
ever since" That is one girls experience
in improving her mind during Lent
Another one said she did not go to any
lectures except those that had stereOp-
ticon views, and her reason for this was
a very proper one. She said she could
sleep while the lecturer was talking and
waken up when the pictures were to be
shown. Some others profess to have
learned how to sit still, and that is a
great deal for the American woman, who
having most all of the virtues, has yet to
learn how to be perfectly calm,
WEALTHY AND SELFISH.
Some of the women in the extremely
fashionable set, who are joying just now
in talking about how poor they are have
gone in for being very literary, and are
doing something that l, for one, blame
them for. Fortunately it does not inter-
fere with me, but it does with a great
many other women who have to earn
their living by their pens. The other day
met a woman who has one of the most
beautiful houses in New York, and who
is the daughter of a rich man. she had
Just stepped out of very handsome
carriage, on the box of which, when she
is driving, are two men. This woman
was talking poverty, and announcing that
she was writing articles for the differ
ent newspapers on art and music, and
which sold we'll, because she
signed them with her own name, and her
name would carry them. If by any
chance she wrote opinions that were of
great worth or that were better than
any other living woman could write,
then it might be right and proper for her
to do this; but as her articles are medic
ere, and as it is simply the name that sells
them, consider her more than simply to
be blamed for taking the bread and
butter from women who need it. That
is, in truth, what she is doing. She
is crowding out the column and half of
matter every week and taking the money
for it that would otherwise have been
givenI mean both space and money-to
somebody who made writing her life
work, and whose income from it meant
life. And when l say life, mean place
to sleep in, a something to eat and some
ing to wear.
Then there are other women who are
WRITING FOR THE PLEASURE OF
taking no money, and who in effect are
doing exactly the same thing. Liking
to see her name in the papers, this type
of woman sends paragraph after para
graph, article after article, and never
stops to think of the harm she is doing
and of the trouble she is giving to some