The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-03

Keep the skin exquisite. not with scent,
but with soap and water and fresh body
garments; feed it warmth, air and sun
light and save the vaseline and cold
cream for -creaking rocking chairs and
steVepipes that go into damp summer
quarters.
'4ts all very well for the coming
woman, = remarked a girl of 25 II dare
say the babies who are in the cradles
will be educated TO be of some use in the
worldI what want to know is, what
IS to become of the superAuOus women of
the day, sisterhood of which | am
shining member? 1 have no vocation
am tired to death of society If | try TO
do things about the house l am generally
'rewed' by papa and the boys, while
mamma says il is much less trouble to at
tend to that.sort of thing herself. The
family evidently consider that / am not
success, because | have failed to capture
an eligible party and my brothers are
beginning TO tWit me jokingly with being
an old maid. Mamma signs and hooks
anxious, and l know that she is thinking
that if anything happened to papa we
would not have enough To live on, and
that ii 1 do not marry will be dependent
on the boys. This uncomforta ole state of
affairs has come on gradually. When I
was a little girl l was as happy as the
day was long, and when | grew up and
came out / was feted and made much of.
Pretty clothes were given to me without
stint and 1t never occurred TO me that l
could ever be in any sense de trop. But
now ] am beginning TO feel that l am de-
cidedly superfuous element Il cannot
dig: TO beg ! am ashamed | cannot
teach the orphan boy TO read, or the
orphan girl to sew because it isn't in
me; I cannot keep house, because mamma
will of mo and | do n "a CA
ciety. So VIVA am / to do2 If had
been given an occupation like the boys,
and could feel myself independent, /
should behappy, but as it is, l am idle
and miserable, and unless l marry, which
is not likely, [ do not see what is to be-
come of me-
This is no exaggerated situation; there
are hundreds of sensitive girls, says the
New York Tribune, who keenly feel
their unsatisfactory position in fami-
lies, which, to all outward appearances,
are in comfortable, if not opulent, circum-
stances, but who, if the breadwinner
should fall them, would have little or no
capital 4ofall back upon. 1t has been
frequently said that this is a woman's
age, and 50, in a measure, it is-that is,
it is undoubtedly an age wherein women
of exceptional intelligence or ability may
successfully battle with the world. But
there are many unsatisfactory problems
still unsolved, Of which the average SUI
perhGous woman is one of the most per
picking. -.-
Are we hypocrites all, or are we unset
fish souls who prefer to sacrifice the
truth ana ourselves rather than wound
our feltow-beings2 is the problem which
Mrs Lynn Linton discusses in recent
English periodical. Is it q lie to say mot
at home, :" and are the women who in
struct their maids to say it engaged in
the nefarious business of running i'm
mortal soulst Is it a sin, or merely
kindness, to assure the forgotten stran-
ger that one remembers her well, and to
tell the wOuld-be hostess of regrets and
previous engagements that have no eX-
istencel
Mrs. Linton wisely refrains from an
swering these questions, and goes on in
stead to others. She wished TO know if
the doctor is justified who does not tell
the patient the seriousness or hopeless
ness of his state. And on that question
she reaches a decision, doubtless to the
relief of physicians and their charges
everywhere.
"The permitted perjury Of smooth say
ings by medical men," she says, lis also
one of The things we must accept and al
low for in. our code of relative virtues.
Friends and caretakers, and those de-
pendent on that ebbing life may know
the truth: but the patients self must be
guarded from knowledge that can do
no good, and may do incalculable harm.
sThiS docs NOT apply to those rObuster and
more Yirile souls who desire above all
things TO know exactly where they stand.
To them the truth pure and simple. 1t
is what they wish, what they deserve and
what they are Fit for. But these are the
exceptions, and the tender are the rule
About the per- ry Of the sponsors vows
at baptism. and especially the bitter dis
honesty of marriage vows, she speaks
scathingly. 1.-The world knows how
things stand r she says, "but the perjury
is among those permitted by the exigen
cies.of a society which fears nothing so
muc1i as the trath-which Will paXfu
soul and body for what it couceals by lies
and wraps up in cloudy preeenses.'
The Conclusion which she hnally
reaches is one which is Worldly-wise
enough, at any rate
Ut is all a tangle, " is the wise woman S
verdict. and no human skill can reel the
Rnotted thread straight and smooth. The
absolute truth would be impossible, and
will be so long as human nature IS as u IS
We must have verbal symbols, which are
TO be taken allegorically and not literally;
and we cannot live that sngle-folded life
which is the dream Of all the naturally
honest and sim ere. We have 10 hedge.
and zeal as faithfully as may be with our
higher aspirations checked as they are
at every turn by the baser requirements
] ...., 81, lsf, In daal and in truth IL