Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-09-13
WOMAN'S WASHSTAND.
She Seems to Cherish It Abovo
All Things.

ono seems to Cherish It Above
All Things.
IL you take up any society nove,
that pretends to portray American life
and manners, and open it at the nlaco
where Percy Algernon Fitzdutch goes
to call on Miss Gladys Hcapstyle to
propose marriage, or elopement or
suicide, or to do nothing at all-whicb
would be more in accordance with tho
traditions of the society novel-vou
will find that it goes something like
this: Ao
Percy had hardly touched the
Heapstylc door-bcll when he was ad.
mitted by the old butler, whose digni.
ned visage frightened at the sight of
the young man, whom he ushered at
once into the sunny morning-room."
"'Why, how late you arep cried
Gladys, half rising from her delightful
nest among the multitudinous pillows
OF the great divan. Her mandolin lay
at her feet by the side Of the latest
novel; and MS she spoke she coouet-
tishly rearranged bunch of flowers
in crystal vase"
Or perhaps this is the exact for
mula:
"A discreet knock upon the rose
wood door was all that was necessary
to gain admittance for our hero to the
dainty boudoir where Gladys Heap
style lay back languidly in her luxuri-
GUS fauteuil."
That is about the way it reads, isn't
1t? Yes? Well, it isn't SO. 1t never
happened that way Not in this coun-
try. Not on your mother-in-law. Not
If Gladys Heapstyle was an American
girl.
But here is what did happen.
Whether 1t was dignifled butler or q
neat and attractive housemaid who
admitted Percy Algernon, he or she
shot that young man straight into the
parlor, and scuttled off upstairs-one
flight. two fights, three flights, as the
case might be-to Miss Gladys bed
room, and routed her out of that
sacred asylum to come downstairs and
see the man she had been expecting
for an hour and half. And the mo-
ment his call was over Gladys gath.
cred up her front draperies and rar
upstairs as hard us If she were sprin
ting for a hundrcd-dollar prize; and
she didn't feel really comfortable Oh
like herself until she got her rocking.
chair hitched up close to the wash
stand.
For, to the true American woman
there is no room in the world like hel
bedroom; and life without bed, {
washstand, pitcher and basin,
soap-dish and slop-jar, is barrer
blank. You may think that Gladys II
happy when you see her sweeping
through the magnificent ballroom be
tween ranks of bowling admirers, will
the chastened glory of the electric
lights illuminating her sunny hair ant
her goddess-like brow. And, in way
perhaps she is happy. But 1t is no
the genuine solid happiness OF sitting
in n room with bed and washstan'
in IL. where she can feel the near pres
encc of the soap-dish and the tooth
brush mug, and the box OF com6ing
under the bureau. 1t is only In sucl
sacred surroundings as these that tn
true American woman can DC trul.
happy. :,
The bedroom disease pervades al
classes of American womannood: !
lrrows no restrictions of wealth, fash
ion locality or social position. A
far as the passion for bedroom life
concerned. the millionaire's wife an
the spouse OF the humblest shant
dwe,ler stand, or rather sit, on exacti'
the same basis. Be it ever so humble
there's no place like the bedroom
GLADYS is a child of wealth. Sh
lives in sumptuous New York nome
The rooms on the lower floor are man
and comfortable. There are sum
rooms and shady rooms. There or
IAN, rooms and cool rooms, larg
rooms and small rooms. But II tner
were a wilderness of apartments eac
ona more beautiful than the Other
GLADYS would fly them oil to new mel
seIf nm in her bedroom, happy IN ne
ax;n,;tv ssr T TO her washstand as a az
votee who draws near tine aiear WIZ wv
tbs MYSTIC longing of devotion, he
occrnation matters nothing. 10 ne
lodrpom she takes her reading, nc
ewing. her fancy work; it is ther
that she practices upon her manaor'I N ..,. ~ :
her either; and If she could cary nt
n;aro under her arm she would nave
up there. - tho bedroom di
ease first got its insidious grip : On ,,no, %
women Of our country. l 1hiy y nnv .,o
wo W.. = has obtained such hold upo
ths;r % systems that they are, IN ,,, u
&".ohabiIitv. & beyond any mortal c"r' my
propuon no regulations in Heave
60 keen those blessed Angels g,,,ns ~ " !
s.-,ets. or in the jasper vessaD' ia,
s sso orystal front parlors, or some p's' -
,rhere slop jars and washstanus ,,,art' u,
earth cart will you get the the. A%ss.ts M sasts
woman to give up her hau.s s'.;nr ~ owe,
,ng in her bedroom durins w.
minute of her spare time 400 a
'irS There was one man who .So SaSroo Onsr :
tempted to buck aga,ns, r,ch oh man wi
habit. He was very n the ives
mao mao p'a'S ba lad . wife Of whom nc Ss.,, "
s"' 10 %, J. She had injured her nes''