The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-07
THY NAME IS WOMAN!
BabS SCathins InvectiveS on Feminine
Folly.

low sheep-Like!-suieide, Inebriety,
Immodesty, Gluttony and Failinss
! Galore.
! New York City, Oct. els all the world
| going astray, or what is the matter?
/ Have we reached the extreme Of wick
! edness, and will we turn around soon
! and see the other side of the picture? In
fashionable society women seem to be
losing their sense of decency. In the bus-
| mess world men seem 70 have forgotten
what honesty means. Politicians are ig-
norant of all but the desire to get money
In fact, decency and honor seem words
that are taken out of the century's die
tionary. What is the cause Of it all? and
why is it that with all this crime there has
come such n wild desire on the part Of
people to take their own lives? Never be-
fore have women who are supposed to be
Of good birth, good breeding, good stand
ing, been so willing to lose their reputa-
lions and to pose before the world as hay
ing no sense of what is due to husband
| and children.
Sometimes I think the reason all this
gets so much worse is because the world
is so big, and we hear about it all. Mrs
Chrysanthemum distinguishes herself by
forgetting the meaning of one of the
commandments, and for the sake of some
foolish boy, loses all right to her husband
and children. The story is told at first IN
whispers among the very exclusive, set;
after while 1t is printed in the newspa-
| pers, and then Mrs. Rosebud who lives
in boarding house. has very little to do
/ rrafg fV,NA toF /
saying that she is no worse than the wo-
men in the upper circle. In the days gone
| by If a woman occupied q, good position
socially, she felt bound to live up to it; It
| demanded of her certain things in the
way of honor and morals, and she felt
obliged to pay in the coin Of decency and
good example for what she obtained by a
place among the elect All that seems to
be strange nowadays, and yet there are
women among the so-cailed exclusive cir
Gle who are quiet dignihed, relitJeus and
| honest. But these women who live quiet
lives are not talked about which is a pity
| For, if the wife of the CLERK heard of the
good deeds Of the wife Of the employer
instead of following the one set for her by
the wicked rather than the good one.
The politicians. start off to- nominate
some one for the highest Office I'm the
state, and all the talk is about different
gangs. Not whether the man who is
spoken of is capable of filing the posi-
ton; not whether fn is a mann Of cduca-
ton, and whose honesty ana dignity de-
mand respect, but instead,ln is told how
many of the different crowds he can con-
troll, and what his pull is. / wonder what
Jefferson, Franklin and Henry Clay would
| think about all this? Merchants who
| ought to be honorable and steady-going
nowadays make corners in everything,
| until the world of commerce has become
| Nothing lacu a 4Yka t-tylaya
| bling house, and the intense excitement
| has such an effect on the players there
| that, instead of living 10 DE good old men,
| reYered because of theirage and goodness.
they die Of some disease brought on by
this great excitement, long before mid
| die age has come. Years ago it was
| thought a dreadful thing for one to COM
| NIT suicide; nowadays foolish girls, dis
| appointed young men, people who are too
| lazy to face the troubles of life, seek ref
! uge in death, And the newspapers des-
| cribe these deaths in the fullest way;
! they reflect on them in sentimental terms,
! and some other poor, weak creature read
| ing this description, goes and does like
wise, believing that she is brave AS If
| there was any bravery in Sinking ones
| duty; as If there was any bravery in
| throwing aside all the responsibilities of
! life, and saying, 1 am tired; / Will have
! nothing more Of it. .a~ ..rt
| w nat Is the cause OF 1Lt sometimes the
| over-reading of undesirable books; books
that tend to make people unhappy. 1t
! has seemed to me lately that of
| all the books published there are
none that do not start ont with one
object in view of making the reader
understand how fun of trouble all
the world is, how little of pleasure
| and JOY can come 10 one and how every
thing is best when the heroine and hero
! die together. That is nice state of af-
| fairs. What you and l want is a book
! that will have in it the emotions of ioy
and sorrow so cleVerly contrasted that
each shows at its best, and by the pun
ishment of the wicked and the giving of
all goods things o those who are loving
and true. What justice really u.s. But. no,
the books of to-day are like the plays
! they are all talk without incident And
| the talk supposed to be epigrammatic ?
/ And these so-called epigrams are nearly
! all slurs at woman's purity, mans honesty
| and the worthlcssness Of lffe.s IL Is
beastly. 1t Is abominable.. It is like scrv-
| ing at ones table fruit that has been par
TALLY decayed
But this Intellectual fruit Is a thou
| sand times worse because many more suf-
fer from It, Girls and boys who are lust
beginning to think for themselves read
these denominations and become morbid
/ and unhappy Women who have no
! whose idle hours are many, pore over
! these volumes, conclude that they don't
! get out Of life what they ought and either
| throw away all sense of right ana wrong
! or else live such wretched lives that they
| make everybody around them unhappy.
| while none are so miserable as them
| selves. Our young girls look physically
| healthier than ever before Who is 20
/ ing to offer them better intellectual food
than they have been getting? Who is
! going to keep them from rending the ac-
/ counts Of the ill-doing Of those In q circle
which is expected to set an example, as
far as good behavior goes? Who win give
! the answer Of the riddle7
II used to be that when women drank
| wine In public II was considered bad form.
! What IL IL now? II used to be that WHOM
| women bet money at the races they were
! Immediately pointed out as people one
! could not know. How is II now? II used
10 be that II the voice or scandal was
! raised against woman, other women ana
| not speak Of her. and tried as far as nos
sible to Ignore Il. How about the gossiu
| In all the women's clubs now? Il used Ia
! be that In the nursery a little girl looked
/ AT the Yelocipede as a something that her
| brother rode, which would not be- nice FOR
| her 70 stride upon. How about the blcy-