The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-03

tllr laInlly dinner was 10 consist OF cOrned
best and cabbage. and the baby was crying
with the cole. anu TWO Of the children
were grodning with pain as q natural re-
SUI OF eating unI1pe fruit what JOY would
come 90 a woman, or what rest, from gaz-
ING at the "HuguenOt LOvers2' They look
sc cool that any woman who was warm
ana VINO smelt the healrhful but not deli
ate door OF CABBAGE and cOrned beef,
would want them 10 go. even in a picture,
down, down, down 10 where Ii was warmer
even tnan in that kitchen, and where the
neat would increase forever and forever.
Nhen the thermometer is at ninety.
now can you call those places homes
where the worSingmen live? The vile
taxes no interest in anything except hang
ing out OF the window, or over the fire es-
cape; goss:plng with ner neighbors and
lndulglng IN an occasional glass of beer;
the children lie around and fight death.
There is no knowledge Of the different
klnQs OF food; that dinner may be cheap.
sooC ana yet cool never enters the head of
the woman That cleanliness and cool
ness are almost synonymous is unknown.
Inc chances are that before her marriage
We WlLe was n0usehQlu servant. Sne
spent all her money in clothes, and she is
ignorant or every thing that she should
know Economy in preparing the food.
Attle care 10 It's presentation, and 1t
Tie thought as to the rooms themselves,
never come TO her. She is always untidy
looking, she is always hot, and she is al
ways ready for a quarrel She takes no
interest in anything, except the dreadful
crimes OF the day as they are told in the
most vulgar newspapers. She likes those
newspapers that are really colleges
for crime The boy who stole a bun yes
terday because he was hungry, is taught
plOyer tomorrow. and how 10 break a bank
the next day. This woman Of the tene-
menIs takes great pleasure, as she is usu-
ally Of foreign birth or descent, in laugh
ing at the stupidity of the police of New
YORK city. Murders are committed and
forgotten; jewels are stolen, and my lady
OF the tenement announces with a happy
giggle, An shure it TUX the gentlemen
from Scotland Yard 10 fond the robbers,
pollte, she unites her nose ana her thumb
and waves her distended fingers at the
| bobby who stands on the street below.
Personally, l believe that many man
would have been clean of mind if he had
ever had an opportunity to be clean of
body There is a work for the charitable
people, and good work. Introduce free
baths wherever you can. Not merely such
| baths as mean going into the river, but
baths in houses where the women and
children can go, and where they Will come
out more self-respecting than when they
went in. l don't believe that cleanliness is
next to godliness. ] believe that you can [
! be dirty and godly. The cleanliness has got
| to come first. The worship of soap and wa
| ter was inculcated into me at an early day
| and by means of a high-heeled red satin
| slipper. Since then, / regret to say, that /
| have grown older, but / have never for
| gotten. And l would recommend to any
| mother whose child objects to a bath the
use of a slipper with a Louis QuartOrZe
| heel; this heel affords a good grip, and the
| slipper flies up and down in a way that
| suggests perpetual motion and which pro-
/ duces heat of body, with a calm after
| spirit. Those old saints, who used to let
| their hair grow and wear robes that rOtt-
| ed on them, and refused to be introduced
| to water are, to my thinking, frauds. 1t
| cannot please the good God who made
/ you In His own image to see that image
| dehled by ordinary dirt II was meant
| that we should keep the body, that en-
| frames the soul, sweet and pure and pleas
ant TO look upon. The man VINO believes
dirt will increase his goodness is most aw-
| fully mistaken.
| A woman? Oh, I don't like to think OF
| woman and dirt together. She ought %
| be really too much of a woman for that.
| OF course, the heat of the day sometimes
makes the dust of the day accumulate on
| one, hut that is easily gotten rid Of. II
| doesn't come to stay; il will disappear
| when acquaintance is made with warm
! water, good soap and a wash cloth Not
/ one of those hard-knitted things, nor one
| of those dreadful brushes, but an old piece
| or damask that is soft and pliable and
! doesn't treat your skin as If 1t were parch-
/ ment. There are good many things to
! think Of, even when one is quite willing
| TO be clean. There is cheap sOap-I mean
| that which is strongly perfumed-let IL
/ alone. Use in its place a good plain soap
| that mas no perfume except that of clean
| lness. Don't be mean with the water
| and remember that the fountain of etera
nal youth is really, after all, in the balh-
! tub.
Who invented thermometers? Satan 7
| am sure. Nobody else would have mad
! the art when you feel uncomfortable-
| mussy, warm, cross and certain that II is
| hundred and two to have that horrid
hard to pray in sumner time. but here is
fervent prayer: From too much heat
| and all its attendant evils, good Lord de-
| liver Bah.