The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30

~, York. June 29.-SOmebody. not long
90 took the trouble TO say what sort of
80 the heroines of the modern novelists
80 The only ones thought out were
.soss of Crawford and Hardy. but these
,,s,a rather funny. 1t was said that the
,,iss Marion Crawford writes of required
for its ingredients a married woman and
the other man. Then, after a long and
,,refuI and sympathetic love-making, the
colonization was reached in kiss, with the
~sstlt like this-the man called himself a
,.5 and the woman felt it as a delicious
thrill The Hardy kiss is said to be given
t,.a Young woman robed in her nightgown
and hanging out the window. The man
v,as on the path beneath with his head
IN a level with the sill, and she dropped a
scarcely perceptible" kiss on his head.
Goodness only knows what pleasure there
is in scarcely perceptible'' kiss! How
s,ar If the man was baldheaded, it might
he enjoyable. I got to thinking about the
love-making in books.
The various heroines of Charles Dickens
seemed to love their husbands in a sweetly
insipid way. and when the people they
loved were not their husbands and they
we're ladies' who went wrong, they had
sort of a pig-headed manner that must
have made the going wrong as tiresome as
possible and lacking in any attraction.
Thackeray makes intrigue more attrac-
tive than love- The wicked affairs of
more interesting than the proper wifely
affection of her mother, while everybody
knows that Becky Sharp gets ones SYM
pathy when one feels like whipping Anne
LA for her silly affection for that cad,
George Osborne. The Thackeray ladies
seem to express their love in a fearful
way, and they show great desire to sac
rifce themselves after fashion that a
woman who counts herself up-to-date
would never dream of doing. To come
down to a novelist of to-day, l think it
may be said that the woman who is Of in
terest. that is, as far as her love goes,
in Kipling's books, is the married one who
devotes herself TO a young attache. She
calls him pet names, pushes him in a di-
pomatic way, only to discover after sew
eral years of this sort of love-making, that
he is going to marry a girl and leave her.
Then she grows sarcastic, reminds the
young chap of their days in Already. says
clever things with her eyes fun of tears
and somehow your heart goes out to her
and you feel as if the young man, trying
to walk in the path of virtue, is a fraud.
Occasionally, Kipling makes the wife in
ieres ting-a wife in love with her husband
but his young girls are invariably tire
some,.and the men they marry seem to
have ieved lives scarcely creditable to
them from mans point of honor.
Weyman invariably elects that his six
tenth and SEVENTEEN century ladies shall
love the men for the dangers they have
gone through; they don't seem to mind
standing around when swords are flash
ing in the air, and when there is every
lkLhood of their being killed, neither do
they seem to think anything of travelling
Tor a month without ever having a change
OF linen. These may be brave ladies', but
one may doubt their being dainty ones
4 Ihey appear TO like to die with their lips
pressed to their brave defenders, but 9TH
. erwise don't think they are particularly
given to any great expression of love They
H say "Elo, no, my lord, am thine because
tnou hast killed mine enemy but they
Il never say, that they are his because they
love him, which is most womanly. Mr.
Jerome K. please add his first name)
draws delightfully."- loving women. Nice
girls Just such ones as you, or your broth
er or your son would like to marry Healthy
minded, comfortable girls with good APP
Il petites, who like pretty gowns and fun but
VINO would never dream of such a thing
Il as talking about "ecstatic kisses" or 1.-THE
Fl 10Y oil sin, because they are clean-minded
. girls who will make good and loving
wives
Inc ladies' who do this sort of thing
are Swinburne's. For some unknown rea-
q rraN ,,,I-. ~ 4..t-
Il ness. II seems to me as If their summer
+. lrocks came home from the laundry not
H quite dry, for he describes them as wear
Il ing chnging robes" and then he goes
& on 10 use the word "dank," which means
l don't know what, but il suggests musti-
ness. They may be picturesque women
4 Dul they are certainly not comfortable
ones for their hair is always loose and
Il lney must spend all their time achieving
+. me curves which he credits to them. I'm
h uouotedly, Swinburne is a great poet, but
axe MS girls out of the poems, make
mem plain by using commonplace adj
4 JecuVes and l am sure no nice man
mouia want to have anything at all to do
WIN them. George Moore's women are
Aeltner nice nor interesting in the house
VI ire he never seems to get up any
nlsher than the kitchen. and the loves of
me cook and the footman, or the house
iielI ana the coachman are gross and de-
eIueuIy unpleasant. The cook will suggest
Grease and the picture of the red-faced
.auy ana her perspiring adorer are ma
eIlal and not sentimental.
,Nahgwil. who draws those wonderful
pictures of Jewish life, makes a love story
~ iduen with religion that it becomes
Part OF it. No tragedy ever written or
AZ eu was greater than that of Hannah
oaGoos' the daughter of a Jewish rabbi,
ln9 her lover. BY a foolish Jest, she
nau unconsciously become the wife of
.'lolher man, wife in name only; but
appears divorce was gotten for them.
1 .u She had never until she met this
a 1,o' loved anybody. They were engaged,
A. d.. al arrangements made for their we'd
Us when her father discovered that he
snS u the race of Cohen, the high priest,
~ ~ Cohen may not wed a divorced
n o'nan' She promised to flee with him;
- '1e influence of the church was greater
In +aH ner love, and she remained at home,
ling her lover go out into the world
a .oue' While she did her best, as has MANY
so 11o.iler woman, and told no one of her
The love of Esther and Raphael
no. strongly spiritual; and they hoped,
b9t my TO be happy in their married life,
reiio. " make others see the beauty of their
H. g n. 1t would seem as if, always. in
Ne hgWilPs love sketches, the church