The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-17


maud glass rom the pile OF hats on the
counter and inspected myself in the mir
ror. trying 10 ignore entirely and seem IN
conscious of the cold stare of antagonistic
interest with which both girls regarded
me. Il want larger size" l said.
we don't keep a larger size" The
girls might have looked that way if had
come in with q backing brush and told
her to black my shoes.
Are you surein l was white with
rage. She replied with utmost distinct
ness. I'VE don't keep a larger size, :"
with an infection on keep that was
blood-curdling. put on my hat and veil
again, the two girls still gazing at me
with stony eyes and unrelaxed faces. AS
l strobe toward the door my first friend
called TO Miss Galley, whats the
matter with that woman, anyway" and
Miss Galley returned with a laugh,
Crazy, 1 guess" Then l went home and
made up my mind that guessed | didn't
want an English walking hat anyhow,
and wondered tenderly how the first
girls bones We're feeling.
He is good husband who makes him
self his children's playmate, says Palmer
Cox in Demorest's for July. He is a bet
ter husband who makes his wife his con-
tidante, every time-tells her the truth,
husband when he has wife who works
with him shoulder to shoulder-when
hand locked in hand, husband and wife
travel down lifes path toward one desti-
nation. He is the ideal husband who
looks upon marriage as a duet, the merg-
ing of two individualitles into perfect
harmony
But am in no sense an authority on
this subject | am an unmarried man.
and yet that very fact, I'm told, is why
am singled out TO answer this question.
Be it remem bered, then, that | speak
about husbands simply as an onlooker.
L nave said that good husband makes
himself his chilGren's playmate | specify
this qualification because so few men are
good" IN this respect, OF course, the
mother is naturally the children's play
mate; for, except In the case of fashiona-
bic women-who, by the way, are often
misrepresentation mothers are with
their children constantly. But in the
case of the father, especially if he is q
business man, IL is different. Anxious to
rush TO his Office early in the morning, he
leaves the house before the children come
down for breakfast. Rushing home after
the days work, absorbed in his multi
tudinous affairs, he is either too wearied or
too worried to play with the children, or
he rushes Off to the theater to enjoy, at a
rush, an hour or two of anus ement.
Home again, of course, the children are
in bed. So the little ones, and for that
matter, the big ones, too, whom he really
dotes upon, he sees only on Sundays. Tine
children, on their part, when papa enters
the room, Immediately smother their
happy laugh and prattle in a whisper.
But behold the home where the children
are accustomed to welcome papa as a
great big fellow playmate. They spring
to him ioyously, climb upon his knee,
ramble round his shoulders and over his
head, 90 to bed in rollicking glce while
papa has drowned uull care in the romp.
The best husband makes the wife his
cOnhdante. Even though one Withhold or
misrepresent matters to his wife, so she
won't worry, it is generally a mistake.
1t leads to JeaiouSly, suspicion, and cruel
disappointment for her, and to error and
trouble, and often TO crime, for him. Men
are most prone TO do this in time of finan-
cial straits The wife, quite unaware,
spends money as freely as usual, making
things all the worse in the end. If Il man
be not rich his wife must find it out in
time; why not tell her at oncel To de-
ceive ones wife is the first step to IN
happiness. To accept her counsel, place
value upon her intuition, are sure steps
toward happiness To work with her,
side by side, is happiness.
The idioms of the fashionable world,
says the New York Tribune, although
more or less "Ordinaire," as the French
would say-that is a word. by the way,
which with Gallo politeness softens
while expressing the same meaning as
our iblutder adjective vulgar
nevertheless not used by the outsiders
There is distinct "argot," as it were. of
10 h.v ,.ai.
of using very curious expressions indeed /;
while it is no uncommon thing nowadays
to hear the strongest epithets used auda-
ciously by pretty woman in the softest
and most 'trainante'' of voices. IL is an
odd development of certain social sets
that words and expressions which would
never, under any circumstances, be
heard, and certainly would not be toler-
ated in what is ordinarily known as good
society, are freely used by really nice
women among their intimGtes with all
the abandon Of n small American public
school boy. In fact, there is'a great deal
of the gamin. or rather CANINE, III the
frisky young natron of the day, who
affects a certain fastness which is conf
callY superficial, and who, tiguratively
speaking, dances safely over debatable
ground where angels fear to tread"
Il feel as if ] were Rip Van Wrinkle, -
remarked an Oiu-IaSn40QeQ fdSllOnd bic
man who had been "out Of it, for the last
ten or fifteen years. I'm my day women
might be fast or prudish, or sensible or
frivolous, but they never forgot that they
were ladies in their language or manners
Here are only few of the modern express
sions which to my astonishmenC 1 near
used on every side by the daughters of my
old frieuds-women who are well to the
front at present in all social functions. II
a man loses his money they say, SO and
So has gone TO smash It's q darned
good thing,' | actually heard issue from
lips of q pretty woman of our world !:
while 1T will be bully fun It's lust
nasty logged cussedness on your part,
and other elegant adjectves of the like, l
have heard used constantly. l must CON
TESS to being completely Mortified and
amazed. What are our women coming to,
l should like to know? Is this 10 be the
standard for the coming general ton of
fashionable girls2 Is it to Ce considered
good form to smoke and tipple and talk
slang, and even swear-or at least to have
society view such behavior with in
dulgence1 Where is Mrs Grundy, and
what is she thinking Of to give counte-
nance to such proceedings"
Under what conditions, says the New
York Worlds press letter, is a woman au-
thorized to beg money of you for chart
tiesl Under what conditions are you
Obliged 10 respond Under what condi-
tions can you refuse without impolite-
nessl