The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-20
ALL-AROUND Bah.
She Touches Interestingly on a Yari-
ETY. Of Timely Topics.

of the Poor-The Approaching Sum-
mer Days, and What They Will
Mean for Us All-Tribulations of
the Poor.
New York, May 81 wonder when the
ideal pocketbook will be made3 And
when I say pocketbook I mean combi-
nation of purse and pocket, calculated to
hold everything from postage stamps TO
visiting cards, from clippings TO recipes
for making plum cake. / never have any
trouble about my pockets, though l
believe some women do complain Of them,
but my experience in that respect has
been smooth. l have never had frock
without readable pocket; and from
Redfern to Worth. clear down to the wo-
man who comes in TO sew by the day, / find
that if you want pocket you can get 1t,
and that if you don't have it, ii is because
you haven't been positive enough about
demanding it. The very smart dress
makers always put pockets in for YOU
But what want, as I said before, is
useful pocketbook. At present, if you
yearn to keep your money all right, you
have got to have purse for coin and a
book for notes, and in that same book you
have got to let your clippings get mixed
up with your postage stamps and your
recipes, usually written with soft lead
pencils, smear up your cards.
STREET CAR TRIALS.
OF course, ] know the swell thing is not
TO need any money; to have your own
trap, so that you don't have to 20 IN street
cars, to have bills at all the shops, and
never 10 be thrown with anybody to
whom you would like to give a tip. But
that isn't the way with me, and don't
believe it is with you. get in the street
car at the risk of my life; hand the man
aquarter, get in change ten pennies and
two tive-cent pieces ! put these where
they are supposed to belong in the pocket
of the purse and change cars
Then in an effort to pay the next con-
ductor, the catch flies open, when
it shouldn't, spills the pennies on
the floor. and as the conductor doesn't
consider it his business 10 help pick them
UP, have to lose my money or behave
like an acrobat And all this is because
some great genius hasn't brought his
brain power to bear upon the inventing of
the right kind Of purse. Men, who can
carry their money around in their trous-
ers pockets, wonder that women lose their
money, lose their purses, and lose their
tempers, but if they ever started to keep
y
in one case, they would begin to compre-
bend what it all meant.
OUR DISTORTIONS.
People, generally, talk about losing
ones temper as if it were a dreadful
thing to do, but 1t isn't so bad once in a
while. | would rather any time have
woman around me whose temper was like
a thunderstorm, coming occasionally and
clearing the atmosphere, than one who
would sit and sulk. and never explain
what was the matter with her That
sort Of thing is calculated to cause muir
der A woman who sits with her lips set
tight for two or three days, only speaks
when she is obliged to. and never ex-
plains who or what has hurt her, can
make a whole household unhappy, and
really is about the only creature | know
who deserves a first-class padding admin
istered with an elastic slipper. | don't
believe in whipping-esp specially in whip
ping girl children; but when a woman
is as childish as this, and makes
herself as all-around disagreeable, she
deserves such treatment as would be given
to a bad child, who was not a self-respect-
ing one. Probably you and | don't think
we have got such bad tempers, but l
imagine that once in a while we can be
pretty disagreeable, but for goodness
sake let us pray to have the kind that
explains the reason why and is soon over.
/ will tell you what is worse than q
woman with the worst temper in the
world, and that is man with nagging
temper. The sort of man who wakes up
in the morning feeling that
HIS LIVER Is OUT OF ORDER.
and who by the time he reaches the
breakfast table considers himself the
most aggrieved person in the world. His
wife may call his attention to the fact.
that some man they know has Just gotten
married. and he will answer, IF the
poor devil had asked my advice he never
would have done it." Damper No l.
Then his Oldest boy will say: Father,
you promised to show me about that sum
before ] went TO school, and this beauti-
full creature will respond What do
you suppose / work all day and nearly
kill myself to make money to- send
you to school for, if l have got
TO teach your Damper No. g Then he
will hear the two little girls laughing
about the way a kitten is running after a
ball, and he will get up and put the kitten
out of the room, throw the ball out of the
window, and sit down again The two
little girls will look frightened TO death.
as they are, and one of them will proba-
bly, begin to cry. Damper No. 3. BY
this time.
MY GENTLEMAN's CHARMING TEMPER
has so affected the atmosphere that no.
body says anything, and the visitor be-
meath bis roof makes up her mind to leave
as soon IS possible.
And that man will go down town and
in some way or other get rid of all this
accumulated bile and devilishness. and he
will return home expecting to find every
body as agreeable as possible He will
wonder why the children don't come up
to him: he will wonder why the visitor
left; he will wonder why MS wife isn't as
chatty as usual, and it viii never dawn
on his brain that it is his own abomina-
BILE, nagging temper that has COTTON
everybody in the state of mind that he
finds them. That is the sort of man that
in the very beginning of the day ought to
have had physical suasion administered
to him by frst-class prize-fghter
If you or l have done anything
to each other we had better explain it,
and not carry it around in our hearts for
weeks and weeks, making a mountain
out of molehill and ourselves wretch
eddy unhappy. But when there is really
nothing except what a dose of sulphur
and molasses might cure, it does seem
most horrible that we should go around
making the rest of the world uncomfort-
able because we are not quite well phys
ically. 1t does seem as if, during these
beautiful spring days, people ought TO be
happy. We ought to be wise enough TO
learn that if one hasn't any absolute hap
piness Of ones own, that somebody else
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