The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-13
WONAN'S DECIDED IDEAS.
Bah Believes They Will, Like the
Brook, Run On Forever,

n w cru ABOUT EO4lLlcd1 EOucaIlOnS.
Are Women Mentally and Physi-
calIy Able to Cope With Men
Should Real Nice Women Have Pos
tive Ideas-Sacred Plays in Worldly
Places-Is Gratitude an Unknown
Quantity Happiness Likened to a
Delicious Rose.
New York, May 12.-Opinions2 That's
what they are all claiming to have nova
days. And by they, l mean woman with
or without a capital, with or without a
spring bonnet, but always with tongue
calculated, like that famous book, to run
on forever. l saw a picture the other
day of the prehistoric woman and after
her death, evidently to keep her quiet,
there had been drawn through her lips
long strings of fax so that they could not
possible move. There are some women l
would like to see undergo this treatment
while alive, and there are some others
who say such truthful things that one
wishes that time wasn't 1eeting and art
less long. l listened to both kinds the
other day. One of them gleefully an
nounced that she had put her name on
five different petitions advocating wo-
mans suffrage, and she supposed when
she got a vote she would be able to vote
five different times. She finished up by
saying: II can't understand why you
object to suffrage, because think it will
be so awfully cute.
THE WOMAN WHO HAD AN IDEA.
Its cuteness hadn't struck the other
woman, so she started in to tell why she
didn't believe suffrage was desirable. In
| the first. place" said she, instead of ex-
tending the suffrage, | would contract it.
l would let no man vote who had not
! lived in this county five years, who did
| not know how to read and write, and who
was not a property holder Then, I do
not think the women of this generation
or the next, or the next will be politically
! educated. What do l mean by that2 |
| mean this 1t is inherent in every man to
value his vote. Generations of men have
! taught him its worth. From the stand
| point of a professor of English literature,
! this man may know nothing, but politi-
| cally, he is educated. He knows the
| meaning of great movements, he knows
what men III political life represent, and
he hasn't learned this yesterday or last
| year, but it has come from father to son
in straight line Then, do not believe
that women will be able to separate the
man from the politician. At present
they seem to think that when they get
the vote, all men will be-
come saints. Now, if you happen
to hear that the man who was
put up for mayor had committed a little
fault that was against your idea of what
was right and wrong. you would refuse
to vote for him, and perhaps keep out of
place man competent to make good laws
for the commonwealth. Women are es-
sentially emotional, and the votes would
! represent, not their knowledge of what
was good for the nation, but their per-
sonal likes and dislikes. Then there is
another thing. II is proven by statistics
thatoone-quarter of the life of every wo-
men finds her in a condition when, men
tally and physically, she is not able to
cope with men. l tell you the whole thing
Is wrong.
There is what you call the bad voter
and you say, very glibly. that you will
keep these unhappy women from voting.
How are you going to do it, Will any one
of these women register her trade? Won't
her vote be bought By-the-bye, talking
about her registering, reminds me of
funny story heard once, which may be
true or untrue.
VERY CLEVER WOMAN.
got up an opera, and, standing behind the
scenes, she said to a friend: Isn't it
lovely to see a good balletH
anu GilG lllClto dloNCEGu. les UQeY
dance very WE'LL
And she said: oh, that isn't what
mean; isn't it lovely to see virtuous
| ballet?'
And her friend asked How do you
know they are all vi4tuousn
Oh she said, 4 sent paper around,
and every one Of them wrote that they
We're, opposite their names
Now, that is what will happen to what
you call the bad vote Then there is
something else. 1t is right and proper
that woman should love pretty clothes
Don't you suppose there is many young
girl who will sell her vote for blue silk
frock? Or pretty brooch? or a new
parasol'
L don't deny that men sell their votes,
but don't believe as many sell them as
is believed, and | think the sale of votes
would be less if suffrage were restricted
''Wyoming2 Yes, the women vote 10
Wyoming, and people who have lived there
tell me that gam bling is allowed by law,
morality is at its lowest ebb and if there
have been fewer hangings-legal ones, I
meant has been because lynching
Is more popular. What the influence of
the favorite clergyman may be upon the
votes of his congregation, who can say2 |
heard one woman announce that she
wouldn't vote for man who ever drank
a glass of wine. Shades of George Wash
lliS GOll' OCAGlS Ous Odulcl w buSG6E, f1elfX
Clay, Winthrop, Roscoe Conkling, Ran
dolph and all the great procession who
were fine politicians, who made good
laws, and who yet saw the virtue of tax
ing little wine for their stomach's sake
and their often infirmities, what do YOU
think of this These are few of nv rea-
sons for Directing to suffrage"
The other woman didn't say much, but
she pouted little, and then, for her crit
icism announced: II don't think that
what yOC have said is very nice, and I
don't think you ought to have such posi-
tive ideas it isn't refined"
THEATRICAL OPINIONS ADVANCED.
And this woman thinks she ought to
have vote!
Somebody else was talking about the
play which has caused so much discus
sion Hannele." Said she: II saw it the
night that there was an invited audience.
and right here l must say that, under
| those circumstances, when the people
were thinking, cultured set, who came
not to condemn without reason or to praise
unless they saw cause for it, and when
there was no noise, it presented itself 10
me as at once one of the most powerful
dramatic plays and one of the saddest I
have ever seen. But l do not think it
I should ever be acted before an ordinary
audience, nor can l bring myself TO believe