The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-06

| WHICH come 10 neT. ana get W nat COihtOit
! she can out of such little pleasures as fall
! to her share
If you talk to her you will find that she
! is not very interesting person. She con-
! scentiously performs her social, mater
| nal or domestic duties, but she takes no
! lively interest in anything. unless it is her
! appearance, trying to make people forget
| how old she is Keen enjoyment is, for her,
a thing of the past. The thought of her
| age has been weighing upon her for so
! long that it would appear quite indecor-
| Gus for her to show enthusiasm on any
| subject; she never even thinks of the pos
! sibiiity Of such a thing. Indeed, the feel
! ing OF hers about her age seems TO be al
| ways present in her thoughts. intents and
| betrays itself in q hundred ways. To all in
| tents and purposes she is old very old.
! But not with rich, mellow age; it is a.
| cramped, premature old age. brought on
! by an unnatural repression.
! Now let rs look at the other side. AS a
matter of fact women do not reach ma
turity until they are AZ. This is acknowl-
! edged by some of our leading philoso-
! piers and many men are waken-
ing to an appreciation of the
fact. Here and there women have
also recognized it, and have acted
! accordingly Such, at 49, know that they
are very young; know that at that age
| they cannot have had sufficient expert
| euce to take a full grasp of life No one
!
4 Velopment of the two sexes runs on much
! the same lines. BY 30 these women COM
mence to feel their footing. BY 40 they
| know they are nearing maturity. Even
| in the matter of appearance, a healthy
! woman of 49, who has not been depressed
| by the thought that she is old, has some
| times the advantage over a girl of 20.
Some women require full development
to bring out their possibilities of beauty.
| The most famous beauties of the world
! have mostly been women, not girls. Then
the mere first bloom of youth, refreshing
! though it may be, is but a poor set-off
against the face of a woman in the full
vigor of body and mind. which is made
| expressive by experience and character.
The desire for love in some form, says
! writer in Harpers Bazaar, IS recognized as
| controlling all men; yet, though we some
| times question it, the desire for that in
| tangible something called a social posi-
ton will be found to control almost as
many. Every great nation, every scatter
ed tribe, every petty village
or small community of men.
| has it's ideal standard, by which
those must be measured who would be
acknowledged as holding influential
! places among their fellows. Wherever
man or a woman is found Indifferent to
the subject he or she is regarded as an
anomaly. For men and women instinc-
lively realize, even before they can reason
in regard to il, that some great impor-
lance is attached TO the peculiar position
a man may hold among those with whom
he is associated. For all men are sent in
to this life in order to fill in all possible
completeness two great relatons-one to
God and one to man-and neither relation
can be complete which leaves the other
out of account. And all the world is striv-
ing to find the proper mode of adjustment
between man and man, whether among
savage tribes or rival industries, between
capital and labor, the producer and con-
sumner, the idler and the worker, the pow
erful and the strong, or the individual
members of a family. All the world is
not making its mistake about the best
way Of curing furs or OF refining oils, for
all the world is not interested in either OF
these problems. But wherever man meets
man. or has met him since life began, in
Africa or Labrador. the social problem In
some form is at once presented.
A social position represents one part of
I this relation man must fulfil to his fei-
lows. Sometimes it is sneered at. spoken
of as an empty, meaningless thing, a bub-
bic, a snare folly, a deusion. a bauble
for which much is squandered and for
which nothing that is abiding is gained.
From another point of view it means, how
ever, certain harmonious relations among
diverse ORDERS obedience to certain laws, a
knowledge of requirements and willing
ness to fulfill them; blending of ones
win with A larger will rather than the in
sistence OF idiosyncTatic claims; rightful
= appreciation of what good taste sanctions
without the defiance of laws which seem
arbitrary until understood. 1t is some
thing never kept without character, yet
= character alone cannot win it. The test OF
5 1t varies everywhere; one may possess II
( ! in his native town and lose ii when he
travels.
I g1s-1sf T,Ff -
~, but that which has suggested 1t to.
= day is the forced departure made by Sc
[ | many young women of the world into self.
$ supporting work Wasn't II Give New.
r come who blushed when he told old LADY,
. Kew that he had become an artist? We do
e not blush any more when we confess Il
! ! being painters and writer's. but il has re-
7 ! Quired even more courage than youna
! ! Newcome's to do what those girls have
Gone-goue into the trimming and dispose
! ! Of hats. the selling OF flowers over q
s | counter, the renting and keeping OF house.
e young women born TO social position h
J cost something TO hazard. And that they
have not lost it, and will not. proves now
liberal VIC have grown. Not many wear,
& ago we bushed when confessing 10 b,
) goVerhesses And perhaps the younf
a girls of to-day. not personally dependenl
! on their patrons, may be spared muct
!, suffering by their predecessors.
/ 1t IS society which lends it's generous air
y 10 these workers, and If a social posItior
4 Is lost by one it it not because "a snob ha,
. willed it, but because. inevitably, Interest.
u become divided when pursuits differ. Th,
b danger TO social position does not. then
e lie IN the attitude Of the prosperous. bur II
{ the self-consclousness OF the worker. Sb,
y finds II hard TO drop her sense of wort
e and she is apt 10 become sensitive. mag
C NATIVE touchy. She must learn to becom,
p the woman first and the worker afterward,
- and so avoid the danger Of occentriclty.
{ 1t is the eccentrcs whose social position
q IS everywhere endangered. The brav,
e worker need fear nothing But II behoove,
G her to remember many things-that sh,
o must keep i'm touch with progress; tina
}. She must not ruthlessly ignore the re
Il qu!rements of those among whom she hai