The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-04
THE STORY OF WOMAN.
A Scholarly WOman'S Lecture Sets Our
Bah to Thinking.

The Sugar Plumbs of Life-How
Womankind Touches Mans Heart.
What Goes to Make Up True wo-
mans Life-A Devoted Wife and
Mother Far Better Than a Woman
Versed in Greek and Latin.
New York, March 3.-She was a very
clever woman. Everybody said that, so
it must be so. What everybody says
always is the truth. She knew more
about astronomy and mechanics, and peo-
pies souls and politics, and books and
pictures, and the why's of everything,
than l had ever believed one person could
know. She was very learned. And she
had elected to talk about something that,
no matter what it was always drifted
into telling how women were treated like
dolls and how sugar plums were given to
them. She quoted from the Greek, which
nobody understood and it made me think
of Aspasia. She was very glib with Latin,
and that brought to the front a prayer
book in my mind She said harsh Ger
man words, but they made me think of
the German haus-frau. And then, as she
wandered off into English, told of the DO
siUiOn Of woman. there arose before me a
sweet feminine figure surrounded bylittle
children, ali waiting to welcome to his
home the man of the family. I know this
wasn't what she intended, but it was the
way 1t came to me, And when she finished
up with grand firework exhibition of
words, she said, I'VE do not wish sugar
plumbs,' l felt my head aching. and was
glad it was all over Everybody congrat-
ulated her, and said how much good she
was doing. l was too small for her to
notice, and so she didn't miss the pleasant
words that, perhaps, ought to have said,
but | went home and wondered.
Bah EULoGIzEs WOMAN.
There was a bright fire and l and
poor old friend in the shape of a dog, who
was beginning to lose his teeth. but who
was loving and atfectionate, and who, when
he raised his soft eyes to mine. seemed to
say, My friend, what do you think about
1t all.' knowing he could read what I
thought-that's where dogs are greater
than mem patted him on the head, and
together we looked at the fire, and read
the story of woman. Thought I, lit NAV
be great to be so learned, that one is able
to speak Greek and Latin, and to be a
walking encyclopedias but isn't it more
to be able to convey in the language we all
spea6, the something that means help and
sympathy And is it wrong TO want to have
the sugar plumbs of life Do you know
what they are! I'll tell you. If YOU are
a woman, they are the words of approba-
ton, of loving appro baton. from the man
whom YOU have elected TO be master of
your heart and hearth They are the
gladstone thanks of little children. They
are the kindly words from friends to
whom you have been able to give help
ing hand. 1t is worth while TO be only o
woman, and to get the sugar plums of
life. 1t is thousand times more worth
having, is this position of being only a
woman, than to be that woman who
stands before the public, and lessening
her womanhood, thinks the applause of
the common crowd is desirable
She is very apt to talk about the work
of woman she did the other night when I
heard her, and she doesn't stop to think
about woman. She talks very learuedlv
about the physical side of woman. and
she hasn't trains enough TO realize that a
woman is swift of foot that she NAV get
the more quickly 10 those who need her;
that she Is soft OF hand that she NAV
touch the sick and the sore more gently
than would man; that shep is clear of
eve because she mast see when
her heart and body are in conflict,
and must help decide which is
right; that she is small of stature
because, in her own way, she doesen't at