The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-11

mem of the period, whose looks belle
4 ,sa baptismal register and who rather
n ,riov arrogating, to themselves the, wis
X aor and experience of age. and I have
cached that period of life" she contin-
,,s5 when I can look back and see re-
Suits and note how seldom those who are
4 horn with silver spoons in their mouths,
&c the saying is, have the silver fork when
.,e, are grown up. When l look back and
rsmember who were the jeunesse doree
IF nv youth-the men whose lives and po-
s;+ors above all others seemed particu-
,orly enviable and desira ble-and then look
about me and see how few of those who
usre called men of pleasure in those days
have attained an honorable and useful
middle age, 1 feel that can preach a SER
mon to my boys and their friends with
object lessons that ought to make it very
IMPRESSIVE. Some are poor, having spent
health and substance, like the prodigal,
sio riotous living Even those who have
tsnnarently not suffered in purse or health
are set of discontinued, blase, weary
w5rldIings, who go over the same tread
mill of fashionable existence year by year
without pleasure or profit.
,Another thing I have noticed from my
vantage ground of a lifelong experience is
that, if only as a purely worldly maxim,
honesty certainly is the best policy. Many
brilliant man have seen who has de-
stroyed his prospects by crooked ways
in which he sought to better himself fnan-
lchn9 politically and even socially,
whereas if he walked honorably before all
men he would have gained the worlds
good opinion, and in many instances the
very things he coveted. And finally there
are the young married couples of my
youth. In nine cases out of ten those or
my friends who married poor young men,
and who gave up the luxuries of their
homes to prove veritable helpmeets to the
men of their choice, are now almost with
out exception prosperous, and in many
cases wealthy, while those men and girls
who married for money are, as a rule,
greatly in want of it. BE good and You
will be happy is the old maxim, and GER
tanly it seems true from a materialistic
as well as from a religious point of view"
Some daring costumes, says the New
York Sun, may be observed any day
among the Wheelwomen on the Boulevard
1t might be supposed that limits in the
emancipation of women from her skirts
had been reached by the woman, for in
stance. who rides in what is nothing more
nor less than a bathing costume, or by
her who has added the last touch of fem
mine coquetry to the knickerbockers and
other features of the attire of man. But
according to returned travellers in Europe
New York woman are not in it when it
comes to the matter of the performances
in trousers INDUCED in by staid, earnest
English women, and the widest exhibit
tons on the Boulevard are tame cnmpar-
ed with the startling Innovations shown.
by Frenchwomen. This may be due to
the fact that the New York policemen
mas less Imagination and are more matter
OF fact than the sergentS-de-ville of Paris
The most wonderful accounts of the do
lngs of Englishwomen come from Switzer-
land, and relate to the mountaineering
enthusiasts Mountain climbing as prac-
used by Englishmen and English women
IS no frryoiuous pursuit. At the begin
Ahg OF the season they set themselves a
tdsk OF so many mountains to climb and
go about their duty with plodding con-
saehuousness. They don't climb the
mountains for the sake of scenery, nor for
the benefit of the exercise, but with the
same purpose that made the King of
france march up the hill with his 10000
men So that while English tourists who
oeVote themselves to climbing mountains
may De a source of unceasing delight to
other travellers they cannot be regarded
Ss hshtmhded or otherwise than as So
per- staid, and earnest. That is the rea-
son why the women of the species seem
10 be so extraordinary. They put on
trousers because they could not accom-
push some of the ascents in safety if they
wore skirts, and because at all times they
can climb about the rocks with greater
freedom and ease. 1t is natural that they
should put on the trousers; the surprising
nature of the performance is the total
ABSENCE of feminine couuetry with which
lucy 10 II. Their appearance is thor
oushly commonplace and without a fea-
lure 10 suggest an illusion They supply
moral TO the history of skirts, because
III theIr betrousered condition the Swiss
mountain guides show toward them none
vi the dehcacy and mystery manifested
1o"dId their skirted sisters. While they
may not treat them exactly as men, their
oemeanor certainly implies a sentiment
inherent from that usually entertained
o"ard the softer sex. The women make
wv Rohes about accepting the situation,
ana think nothing of travelling for days
'' stretch in the mountains with their
Tggues and sleeping out among the rocks.
4Hey travel sometimes thirty miles a day
N more on foot and climb mountains
nelWeen times, and all this without com
1s N sight of any other habitation than
lonely Alpine hut. The one human
4uihent they manifest is jealousy,
ET"on' however, is of misguided nature,
aae me manner in which they don trous-
II IS not aroused by causes which
pNea to their sisters, but by people who
I.e climbed more mountains than they
Is manifested on much the same lines
ordinary feminine jealousy. For in
or're, Whymper, the famous conqueror
"sh peaks in all parts of the world
H. rs come In for a considerable share of II.
9 Hjtle man with n nervous manner.
q ABOUT GO years old, but looks young
una ne speaks very little and TO few
0lss The Jealousy excited by his ec-
" among the Alpinists at Zermatt
i. Spch that they accused him Of maxi
m tpital out of his accidents and said
v nia climbing was old-Tushioned.
"nep English women who wear trousers
lHQs seen 20 be sober-minded. the re-
IS true Of the French women IL. In
,. appearing in public with bare legs
H. "e SAID to be frivoluos At any rate.
Co.,. SUD TO be mode that is making its
p among French wheelwomen. In
49, one sees, with surprising frequency.
i.1tE the feminine aVslfefs.U ,,t1,,... ...ft1.