The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-05

I w., some instructions TO give him.
f NAM TO tell him to make our coffee
weaker anu Our outteF a little
C,,b.Is not 10 be accepted as true that
oupan women are all beaufiful II an he
T $500 as rule. however. that the Cuban
V-ol,i5 mas. mas beautiful eyes. Faces that
I've are glorified BY raviSbing darlE aS,es
I'm drched brows and long lashes that
fs sss SHADOWS on their cheeks When the
tCs' as is sometimes the case is a par-
lecI oval the features prettiiy formed
~ IN q touch Of vOluptuousness about
- nioutn. the hair raven black such
n { compete beauty that is we'll worth
Journey to Cuba TO see. one will often
SSatch glimpse of a face like thar
or n9 IN IN Dy a mantilla, at the opera
" on tne street. One often finds him
Ssh coming 10 sudden stop in the street
a. me sight of such a face peering ont
v,itb NJ SHADOWS OF carriage, perhaps
Mlth a ian proVokingly held up so as to
h hlue nan the beauty He will see such
1eautes, too, now and then at the win
co,'rs y. % houses and this is likely to en-
Do1Iase MIN in a habit of looking into
Wlue-open windows as he sides BY them
on the narrow footwalks. He will rarely
T Tt Vhe walking on the street in the day
eliue, aiu when he does she will be ac-
companted by an elderly woman or a negro
servant. ~
The condition of the working eirl >,
we near that combination of words so
constantly, says the Mail ard Express
Ia we are IN some danger " coming to
tooh upon the working girl as a down
o,9uqen creature, the fifth recipient of
al the sympathy we can spare from for
elen missionary fields A girl behind the
counter IN one of the largest dry-goods
stores IN town waxed communicative with
mi py way OF beguiling my half-hour's
WaIt lot Decent package Said she:
GU near lot of stuff in the newspa-
Pers ABOUT the way shop girls are treated
mat don't mean a thing Some people
can get grumble up to order I've been
| counter nd
1 We never been treated badly nor seen any
otner girl treated So We can rest when
We've got time for 1t, and we can't when
we haven't guess there's hardships in
every Door girls life but the worst ones
an FOUND m the stores l known about
I 1n5re a heap OF fuss being made about
And I thought her remarks contained
tne germ of a truth widely applicable
Ihat there are frightful wrongs COM
mitted under the sweating system nnon
women and children, wrongs which no
measures OF reform can deal with too
Stflngently, cannot be gainsaid: but were
l TO start out in search OF a wn-trodden
put-upon object of sympathy, I should not
select any one OF the neatly dressed. lively.
cheertul looking girls behind the retail
counters all over town.
That we are to have socks and stockings
made of paper is now an assured fact for
y Is announced that they are already on
the market in limited quantities. The
mothers mending basket will be depleted
these articles come into general use. as
they undoubtedly will, and there will be a
wan from somewhere over the loss of an
other womanly attribute. There is nothine
so narrow as tradition. Funny writers
got in the rut Of making a Joke on the
bachelor or henpecked husbands button
less shirts. and the world is still fancying
itself amused over them, when, in point
or TACT for years mems shirts have not
owned button. So with the notion that
certain things are to be done by women
or they lose womanly caste In the alter
ed conditions of living it may be the height
OF penny wisdom and absurdity that wo-
men should potter over these insignia
cant trtfes. but there will always remain
traditionists 70 wag their heads in de-
precation OF such misconduct
That sweet and valuable leaven. saws
the New York Times, which the two young
Japanese women just now leaving the
Chicago Baptist hospital. after the compile
ton of their course as trained nurses, havs
cast about them. One of them was asked
by the superintendent one day how she al
ways managed to be so happy. and she
said that the children of Japan were
taught that, no matter what happened.
they should always appear cheerful and
not make others wretched
These young women will return in July
to their home and expect to open a hos
pital in Toxic. One of them. Miss Sakaki,
is the daughter of a member of the Jap
anese parliament, a very wealthy man. and
the other, Miss Nagano. is the only child
of rich Japanese merchant. They have
suing a thorough course I'm the profession
which they have adopted.
II don't advocate female suffrage" said
a wise and benevolent woman of society
to the New York Tribune. Personally, 1
don't think l would oppose anything which
would cultivate in young women a spirit
of self help, and would make society APP
preciate the dignity of honorable indepen-
dence in them. Although conditions have
materially changed for the better and
girls may now work for themselves, new
erthelesS, it is still considered as a sign of
cruelty straitened means if they do Hard
working, harassed business men will do
much before they will expect or even per
nit their daughters to relieve them of
their support, whereas it is taken for
granted that the sons should become in
dependent as soon as possible, and their
fathers ability to keep them and excites
no comment on the circumstances of the
family. AS long as 1t is not expected of
girls to support themselves, they will not
do it. Public opinion and usage rule the
consciences of most young people, and
very few young women have either the
ability or energy to think or plan for their
future The majority simply drift, waiting,
Micawber-like. for something to turn up
a possible marriage-as the most satisfac-
tory solution. If not that they vaguely
believe that they may be taken care of
somehow, although they know that while
their father may make an income suffi-
cient to keep them in comparative luxury
he will have little or nothing to leave
with this great modern need lately, for it
is very obvious nowadays that the old
saying that women were intended to be
wives and mothers affords, an inadequate
solution of the difficulty. 1 have been look
ing for companion for an invalid moth
err, and IL is quite dreadful to see the num-
Der of nice, ladylike girls who have been
suddenly thrown upon their own re-
sources. without an education that fits
them for any one practical thing
Happily, however, ! am able to cite one
case in our own family, which will show
how, after all, il the girls themselves real
lied the situation, they might provide for
an emergency. A cousin of ours died very
unexpectedly recently, and as we knew
she lived on an annuity left her by rich
relative, we expected of course that her
niece and companion, a girl of %, would
be left on our hands until we could find
her some occupation. Another instance
of the mistaken system of female educa-
tion,' I groaned. for we had a crowded
house, and it was really very announcement
However, thought it my duty, and after
the funeral / told the poor child | expected
her to make me a long visit until her af-
fairs were settled. To my great relief
she told me she had realized for some
time that she might be left penniless If
she survived her aunt, and knowing the
Ia nreiudicps against her doing any,