The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-31

but she has always been wise enough
10 select great men, and no one gave =
greater admiration TO Lord Beaconsfeld
than did the empress OF the kingdom
upon which the sun never sets. But I
Ike her best as a woman. Her love for
her grandchildren. her devotion to her
husband, and her affectionate wisdom to
her people seem 10 me most marvellous.
! never saw her but once, and then
realized how possible it was for a little
woman to look majestic. and that II was
the soul and not the body that gave this
impression. 1 read little story not long
ago. one that ought to make all women
feel near to this one good woman Just
before her marriage, the Archbishop OF
Canterbury went to her and asked her
II she wished to have the word obey
left out in the marriage ceremony. She
raised those beautiful. clear. full eyes to
him and said very quietly. 7 wish 10 be
married as woman, and not as a queen"
Then, too. when il was suggested that her
wedding ring be set with wonderful gems,
she said: mo, the wedding ring all over
the world is a plain band of gold, and
1 should not feel myself married unless
I had a ring like all other women" And
it is on her finger to-day, thin and worn,
but il has never been removed. The
woman was stronger than the queen,
and she would have the same feeling
that you or l had II it were taken of
after it had been put on with such sacred
words.
Somebody was talking to me the other
day about the certainty of a woman bruis-
ing her finger when she used a hammer.
/ do not attempt to deny ii, but l said that
a woman had one weapon with her always
that a man knew nothing about, and
that was-the hairpin. She uses it to open
a letter.
She uses 1t to button her gloves and oc-
She twists it so she can hang a pict-
ure by it.
She draws a cork with it, and brushes
off the burnt part of lamp wick with
the same weapon.
She picks a lock with 1t, and fastens the
catch Of the window by it in such a way
that no burglar could ever get past it.
She sticks it into women who take her
place in the line when she is buying
tickets for the theater.
She hangs a notice on il for the milk
man, and twists the ends around the
door-bel.
She files receipts on 1t, and. when she
pays a visit and her friend is out and
nobody answers the door and she has
no card. she twists ii to form her initial
and drops it in the letter box.
In fact. there is very little she can't
do with a hairpin.
If pens are scare she writes with it,
anu II bdpy swallows a HldIDle Sne pres
1t out of his throat with it.
If it happened to be studded with dia-
monds she not only wears it in her hair,
but hiding its ends in the chiffon. as a
brooch, and also to fasten a feather in
her bonnet.
If ever women become Amazons, they
will not use guns. but enormous hairpins,
and they will knock a masculine army out
in the first round.
And still men have no objection what
ever in saying that women lack mechani-
cal ingenuity. This is untrue. They
have both mechanical and mental. This
was never better proved than when a fool
of man brought a stranger home 10
dinner and there wasn't much else but
an Irish stew, and ii was too late to get
anything. The wise little hostess thought
of the date; tricked out her table in
its best, served the stew and the rice pud-
ding that followed it. and smilingly told
the unexpected that, as il was the 18th
of March, she had the special dish in
nonor Of the day. And, as the stew was
good and so was the pudding, the unex-
pected had two helpngs of both, and in
a glass of Irish whisky drank to a re-
petition of the dinner and to the health
of st. Patrick. What man would have
thought of that? Not one. Such things
make me proud of being a woman. and
glad that my name is Bah.