The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-02

| OHly Dream
"nen winter winds were blowing,
And all theiOwers were dead.
dreamed of June and roses,
| ana blue skies overhead
VI days of perfect pleasure,
When you and I would 90
together all along the way,
Ana glad 10 have 1t so.
NOW June is here and the roses
Are lavish with their bloom.
ana summers gentle breezes
| are rich with rare perfume,
| but am lone and lonely
| My dream did not prove true
or you are gone and June is drear
AS winter. without you.
Miller Purvis, in Womankind.
certain women are talking a good deal
ABOUT their rights writes the Rev Charles
H. Parkhurst, D. D., in very forcible ar
llcle uenning the position of Woman
| without the Ballot" in the June Ladies'
nome journal. 1t seems to me that one of
thelr most precious and conspicuous rights
IS 10 go IN among the down trOdden wo-
men or our cities and towns, who have even
| IeWer rights than they, and by the touch
Vi thelr own womanly vigor create within
them the inspiration of a clearer vision
ana a larger hope. There will be no need of
| Ieslslation or Of amended constitution I'm
! order Tor the extension to them of this op-
| portunity. There are tens of thousands of
women in the city of New York who are as
| ignorant of the true genius of American
institutions and of the spirit of American
civilization as though they we're living in
another country and under the pressure Of
. a Russian or Turkish despotism And these
women are sensitive to the touch of amel-
/ lorating influence That was phenomenal
| ~ demonstrated in New York last au-
| tumn. am not antagonizing female suff-
| rage, but the fact remains that women
nave a great many more rights than they
| are using, and are standing at the thresh-
hold of innumerable doors of opportunitv
| INTO which they have not yet entered. The
| improvement of social conditions is a very
| serious and discouraging business. 1t is to
| be effected only by the medium of person
al agency and for that kind of ministry
one woman is the equivalent of ten men.
My lady's work basket in this day and
generation, says the New York Sun, is fur
nished with expensive trifes, whose imme-
date use is not always obvious to the un-
initiated
Mine dollars for a thread winder! ex-
claimed country matron who in her
search for a gold thimble had run across
some of these knick-knacks. well! new
er! l always wrap my scraps of thread or
silk around an empty spool or a piece of
cardboard like the scooped out piece of
wood the boys at home wind their fishing
lines on" She continued to regard with in
terest the fiat little square of gold with its
| richly chased edge.
What is this?' she asked a second later.
| balancing between her fingers a pencil
like arrangement exquisitely chased, with
smooth, oval bulb at either end.
"A glove darner That is worth $11, said
the clerk, anticipating her next question
She examined the glove darner critically
and, pursuing her Investigations, speculat-
ed in turn as to the merits of the solid gold
thimble holders the emery holders, needle
cases, and other articles. She could scarce
ly express her amazement that so insignifi-
cant, every day an affair as little round
tape measure could be contrived to cost 81;
and a small ivory case equipped with tiny
gold-handled scissors, needle case, Thin
BILE, and bodkin, valued at 500, nearly took
away her breath.
1T seems a sin and a shame to waste so
much money on nonsense" she declared
theoretically, as she left the store.
An article in a current magazine, says
the New York Times is not without some
good points for shopping women. 1t is
on the saleswomen of the great stores,
| class between whom and its natural COM
plement, the women shoppers, there is Of
ten q great duldBOulSiH.
Mark Twain, in a recent interview, en-
courages the American people to do more
protesting against the rampant incivility
and ungraciousness of the clerking world,
He cites the case of a mild-mannered wo-
man civilly accosting a saleswoman, to be
sharply treated and grudgingly served af-
ter the too frequent manner of her kind
the patient customer accepting it all as
part of the process of buying. On the
other hand, all shoppers are not mild-man-
nered, are not even just and reasonable
and then 1t is that the salesWoman suffers
for her place depends on her success in
making sales ana pleasing customers.
In the article referred to the evil in
fuence of the strolling locker" as women
who walk about in shops with no intent to
purchase are called in "saleslady' YER
nacular, was illustrated. one of them
stopped at a counter, spoke to the girl in
attendance, and moved away after a mo-
ments hesitation. The proprietor CHANGED
to be near, and asked what was wanted.
The girl explained that she had merely
priced the article, and had not intended
buying, whererpon he. out of sorts per-
haps from other causes replied: "Oh, I
guess she would have bought something
if you had expressed little more interest
in her. 1 don't 'think we want such people
as you around; you go to the Office and get
your salary" and so the idle curiosity of
learning the price she had asked had cost
the girl her place.
Another point for customers to be con-
siderate of is TO return to the same clerk
who previously served them, when the pur-
chase is not made on the first visit. 1t
is obviously unfair that the one who dis
played the goods and consumed valuable
time in leading up to the sale should not
have the benefit of 1t when it is finally
made. As the saIeswomen are rated by
the firm according to the books they make
up. it is most important to them that they
get all the credit to which they are en-
titled.
Shopping women can afford to be gener-
Gus, for the balance of power is tremen-
dously in their favor. The condition is
a good deal like matrimony. where bear
and forbear is the only golden rule.
one of the women who are becoming
famous in art is Miss May Cassatt an
| American, who has lived in Paris and Lon
don for many years. A critic says of her
work:
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