The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-10


friends could preserve al least the eOun-
terfeit presentment Of the historic vessel
I say" said a friend the other day.
you are an old hand at il. I have only
just got married, and don't understand
much about the business. should like to
know whether a married man has any
rights left. when he takes unto himself a
wife,"
"Rishts2 Yes. lots. He has a right to
pay all the bills"
stop / mean this. Let me give you an
Instance Every box, every chest of draw
ers and portmanteau, and. in fact every
available receptacle OF every description,
is stuffed fun OF my wife's property, and
when ! want to put away few cuffs and
collars
Hold hard. know what you mean. Lis
ten. young man. If your bedroom were
two hundred yards long, lined from the
floor to the ceiling with shelves, and you
wanted a place to stow away a couple of
shirts, you couldn't find nook that wasn't
full of hair pins. old false fronts, scent
bottles, odd gloves. powder puffs little
bits Of tape. so just accept the inevitable:
Wrap your personal property in an old
newspaper parcel and hide IL under the
bed
He grinned ironically. says the New York
Advertiser. but passed on, sadder and
a wiser man.
A very handsome man set me to think
ing the other day, says Jeanette II. Wal
worth, in the Mail and Express Now, as
rule, very handsome men don't do much
thinking outside Of their dressing rooms,
nor are they provocative of thought In
other people. Women have a fashion
as unjust as 1t is summary-of setting
every handsome man down for cox
comb. and then dismissing him from
mind But the remark my handsome man
made has haunted me for nearly a Week.
Said he:
When ] was a half-grown boy, or
very young man. if you choose. entered
a woman's presence good woman, under
standD as If / We're treading on holy
ground. She was 10 me something so pure,
SO exalted, that I almost trembled with
awe of her. only certain topics, very
few, l then thought, were high enough to
be treated of in her sacred presence.
And now. when hear this or that member
Of society being freely discussed at The
club or over the hotel table. by men with
no sense or indecorum in the proceeding,
/ wonder what has brought about the-tO
me-deplorab bic lack of reverence for the
sex. The man who would to-day confess
10 the feelings that filled my boyish. heart
years ago would be counted out as a fos-
sill and detriment 10 any live club"
And. thinks ] TO myself, If this be true,
pity It's true, and why is 1t true? TIL
Americans are very prone to boast OF
America as a woman's paradise We claim
that she is treated with more chivalric
tenderness here than anywhere else on
the globe My handsome man was an
American. and he was deplorng the les
SEEMING respect men felt or expressed for
womankind.
Is II because of woman's encrOachine
! aggrossions? Is IL because she demands
so much more that man comedies so much
4 less? Is ~ because in this age of student
/ female activity woman has voluntarily
stepped down from her pedestal to stand
/ side by side with man. and, thereby, 0re-
vents his looking up TO her? don't think
/ that has anything to do with II.
A pedestal must be a dreafuliy uncCm-
/ Portable thing TO maintain ones self on for
/ a great length Of time. If you doubt H.,
climb on an Office stool and play Galata1
! for three minutes and "A half. And no
/ truly sensible woman cares to pose on 2
pedestal for mems admiration; but there
/ is a long step between the pedestal that
! she cannot sustain, and that free-and-eaSy
! chumrniness which makes a woman ready
to talk with a man freely and frankly
on subjects that a few years ago would
1 have been possibly only to her grand
mother in the privacy Of the home circle.
The woman who has entered the arena
to battle for livelihood may have TO ell
bow several men out of her pathway TO
reach the goal she has declared for She
will do It frankly and openly, neither
1 giving nor asking quarter. She does 1ot
ask him for his reverence, but his place.
He may owe her a grudge. but she does
not or should not lose his respect. She is
! simply acting UP to the inexorable neces-
sity laid upon her by an unfriendly
destiny.
That is not the sort of woman my hand
/ some man was talking about when he said
1 'dt grew harder every year TO reverence
i the sex, as he d q in his young manhood"
It is not the crowd Of hurryng, scurry-
/ ing, wide-awake young women who are
/ "hustllng" for a living. nor even the most
/ highly obnoxious medder with masculine
1 prerogatives in the political field, whose
names club men handle with irreverence
/ in those hours of base ennui they scarcely
/ know how TO get away with.
/ 1t is the woman of wealth and leisure
who has lived at the pace which has cx-
hausted all her simpler tastes and given
her a craving for that questionable emil
hence which comes of being "a good fell
low"
She's a real good fellow" heard of a
man about town saying. "One doesn't
have to Turkish up his stock of Sunday
school stories to entertain her with. she
takes EN- pretty stiff" 1t is the woman
/ who will twist up a cigarette for her
man visitor, will taper ieweled fingers,
and Join him in the pastme with the
4 gusto of an experienced smoker if he
asks it; the woman who viii permit him
unrebuked TO discuss a shady reputa-
ton in her presence, who is lowering the
standard of womankind for him and MAX
ing it grave imposs' billty for him to De
ieve in the superiority of any of her sex.
It is such women who uncrown woman.
STR ANGIE CASE