The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-01

I his willingness 10 wait for her; but the
/ years went on, and just as one sister
/ would grow old enough to take her place
7 the young one, more selfish than
/ Miss Dorothy. would follow her own in
clinauons and marry the man of her
/ choice. Al last the time came when they
We're all gone and then her father was
such an ola man. The lover came and
asked for his bride. She looked at her
7 father and refused to leave him. Then
/ her sweetheart grew angry.
He Was only a man, and he was tired
/ Of waiting. Men have not the virtue Of
patience. That is feminine. \ few years
more and the father was dead. and Dor
othy, whose life had been given for 9TH
ers, was left alone, and 1t seemed to her
as If nobody wanted her. Saddest of all,
the man whom she loved had been given
the living that was her fathers, and
was coming there and bringing with
him wife and child. Miss Dorothy
could not wait and see that. So she
came 70 this strange country, and now
She thinks that everybody has been very
kind, and that her life is a full and
happy one.
That night I picked up a birthday book,
and opposite the date which belonged to
her day, / wrote the text which had been
in my mind as / listened TO her story. He
that loseth his life shall save it," Why
have ] written out all this? Because, IN
this queer quaint town. people are living
honest, sweet lives in wonderful con-
trast to the miserable, empty ones that
are seen every day in the great cara
Nanseries. l do not know what some of
these gentlemen would think II they could
hear wives discuss their husbands, young
girls over-familiar with men, and day in
and day out meet women who make dress
their god. l am tempted to think that,
like the over-abundant supper, this same
woman, such as you and ] meet every day,
would be considered vulgar by them
is IT not vulgar for a woman to crih-
CHE her husband?
Is II not vulgar for young women to
be versatile only in slang?
Is 1t not vulgar for children to be dis
tinguished only for their bad manners?
And Is 1t not vulgar for women to think
that fine clothes will cover all imperfe-
tions Of speech, or morality?
My friend, 1t is a vulgar world. Vulgar
lily is the keynote Of haste, and haste
rules to-day.
But the hand of the clock will turn
just as certain as the hours go by, and
some day men and women will both real
lie that gentle, moral lives are best for
women; then they will become conscious
OF the fact that they can get the most
out of life when they live the lives of
gentlewomen. Ii is a pretty old word.
Pretier, 1 think than ladies" And it
seems to me that you and / would rather
have our daughters be that to-day than
anything else Wouldn't you. / would
To be gentle and to be a woman means TO
be everything TO those about you. And
TO he woman without being gentle
well, do you like the type? / do not l
like manful men and womanly women.
But do not like the advanced woman"
Her speech and her walk are alike stri-
dent She has lost all that is hest in Ayo-
man and gained all that is worst in man.
There Is really no place for her She does
not care for home She is not a builder
of homes. And what viii the world do
when homes are done away with? An
swer that question TO Bah.