The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-05
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A Few Things Of Interest to the Fair
Sex.

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About Feminine Headgear-Female
Devices for Self-Protection-Poi
About the Enthralling Subject OF
Marriage - Other Matters Worth
Reading.
| They sat after dinner on the-veranda of
a charming country house, says the New
York Tribune, ana somebody started a
cynical talk on the uses of the poor by
reading aloud this newspaper paragraph;
AN appeal has been made for half
worn clothing to send 10 a poor minister
in charge of a country parish, and a we'll
| dressed woman, discussing the matter
with a neighbor, said / will just get out
that old cloak of mine. 1t is so full of
moths l dare not keepit in the house any
longer, and ] might as well send it out
there as not.''
The reporter Of this remark had added:
THE recording angel doubtless knows
how to appraise secondhand clothing
sent in missionary boxes, and would
charge up the sending of the moth
eaten cloak on the proper side of his
| ledger" The kindly hostess who amid
her many social duties finds time for
! much charitable work looked up from
her embroidery thoughtfully. Last
| spring" she said, ''when one of our city
| clergymen asked for discarded cloth
ing for the parish poor, he begged the
ladies to store their partly worn furs and
other heavy clothing until the winter, as
even the poor do not take kindly to such
garments for midsummer wear He had
in mind the limitation of closet-room even
| in large city houses, and the fact that
| the he uSaffll pppinianfC
of bulky cast-off when room must be made
| for the new stock of the season. Some
| persons adopt the plan of selling their
| old clothes, but that CRATES up the finer
| feelings; besides, there are many things
| for WHICH the dealers would pay moth
| ing.
Another use of the poor in this connec-
| ton" she continued, is that they enable
| one to compromise with ones conscience
| on the score of economy. One woman, for
| instance has decided to set aside GER
tain sum periodically for church or char
ity. She has some partially worn cloth
| ing which it is not convenient to make
over. She reasons with herself that if
she gives the old clothes to the poor they
will be more useful than money, ard her
money reserved for charity can go to-
ward her suit. She has the gratitude of
the recipient-though some appear IN
grateful-and benevolence and economy
| are appeased."
Then said the clever woman, there
is stunning as a diversion, penance or
transitory fad, as the case may be. More
| over, there's the application of the poor
| as pOultices to trouble-stricken souls-of-
| ten beneficial to the poulticed, if not to
the poor. OF course, l know that ones
own suffering often calls forth a deeper
/ sympathy with the sufferings of others.
l object only to the sham, when acquaint-
ance with the sorrows of the poor is
sought merely as balm to ones own-by
way of contrast or diversion of thought,
or as relief from ennui, perhaps"
| Then the poor are useful to authors,
artists and orators" said the clubman.
! Il know writer-a fellow who taught
in a downtown mission with the object of
studying types, and wrote some pathetic
stories from these studies. When he had
acquired the desired information he gave
up his mission work. He afterward re-
marked of some members of his class that
they were not poor enough to be pic
| turesque
The hostess smoothed the fair locks of
the little head that leaned against her
shoulder. After ALL" she said softly,
we do appreciate the love that shows it
self in self sacriti cling work foruUhe poor
and the sorrowing; though we refuse the
| counterfeit, we don't dishonor the genuine
note issued by the bank of Benevolence. -
People about to marry, says the La
| dies Pictorial, do not as a rule, eeliber-
ately sit down and make up their minds
| to meet their DOOM on scientific princi-
| Piles. You may arrange your wardrobe
! by correspondence with Butterfly"
| you may eat and drink according to the
| dictates of "Eourchette' or Chef" or
| some other culinary authority who de-
| livers Judgment in print. You may
model cnpiptU aud on
the rules laid down for you by CONNIE
il-Faut, but when it comes to choosing a
wife or selecting a husband, even the en-
! tire staff of your pet weekly journal can
avail you nothing. Physiognomists,
palmists, graphologists, philosophers,
married editors and family folk may
each and all give advice, it is true, but
what man or woman was ever guided in
the least degree by any one but himself
or herself when the great plunge
into matrimony is about to
be taken DIR. Paolo Mantegazza,
however, is vain enough TO fancy that
he has found a means of guiding a
young mans fancy when it lightly turns
to thoughts of love. And TO this end he
has written a book. Doubtless he is under
the impression that his Art of Taking
Wife" will become a kind of lovers hand
book, standard work, which mothers
will place in their sons hands together
WIFI Jl6 DlUlG, anu WHICH dill WOulQ-De
Benedicts will consult, as matter of
course, Just as on occasions we refer to
the encyclopedia or the London directory
In all seriousness he has compiled a vol
ume, purporting TO set forth in scientific
fashion all that goes to make or mar a
marriage and in the evident belief that
if only the precautions to which he
aliudes are taken, and his ponderous trite
advice is followed the great marriage
problem will be solved, and everybody
will live happy ever after"
1t would now be most interesting to
know what course DR.. Mantegazza would
recommend the other side to take. This
naif and amusingly serious counsel to his
own sex on the great and always en-
thralling subject of marriage makes one
m ost curious to know his views on the
art of taking husbands. He is philosophic
| enough to have come to the conclusion
! that a marriage is about the least disa-
| greeable system ever yet arrived at with
relation TO the sexes, and he thinks he
has found the secret OF making it as com
Portable as possible for man, but we feel
that he has yet greater work to do, that
| his self-imposed mission is not yet accom-
| plshed. He must put women on the right
track: he must guide us as well into the
! straight path of domestic bliss and then.