The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-20
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1896.

world any longer" said a clever critic the
other day. They are just ideas. You
might fall in love with a half dozen of
them and not know it."
The remark carries with It a warning to
a generation more interested in questions
about life than living.
The position OF English women in poll
tics finds no parallel here outside OF the
states of Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas.
English women vote on every question but
the selection of members OF parliament,
says writer in Scrbner's Magazine. That
right is within sight. Each of the three
great parties has woman's league active
~ working with 1t. Its place Is recognized,
and certain parts of the canvass such as
house-to-house visiting, is largely in its
hands,
This work the political secretary organ
Ives. She has her district, her sub-com-
mittees, her political methods. In her book
she has enrolled the name Of every voter
in her district, his occupation, his resi-
dence, his political affiliations. OF this in
diVidual she keeps constant trace. She
chases him from lodging house to lodging
house. In the record of two years one rest
less person had moved his trunk thirteen
times, vet her finger was upon him. She
visits his wife, pets the children, offers a
recipe for a new stew, captures the family
confidence, and all to gain or keep a vote.
She holds public meetings once a month,
in connection with the masculine organi-
cation, and helps to provide entertainment,
speakers, or perhaps speaks herself
Here is woman in the thick of ma
chine politics. a new woman a woman
bachelor. She is little, demure, CHEEKY
checked, low-voiced, conventional in man
ner to the point of preciseness and with
those pretensions to fashionable costum-
ing that Americans recognize as English.
No "a.
prise that her position and her work
should appear so novel to an American.
Such a remarkably good-Iooling girl
came into the parlor-car where 1 was sit
ting the other day." said a man recently
to the New York Tribune, land not only
was she beautiful but she looked thor
| oughbred from top to toe. She was Dress
ed most quietly in a dark-blue tailor-made
serge, with correct collar and tie and Eng
fish sailor hat while both her gloves and
boots left nothing to be desired. took in
all these details as she passed through the
car and felt that l absolutely must find
out who the charming creature was, when
suddenly she turned to speak to the con-
ductor about her seat. BY Jove, what
shock. From out of those pretty lips came
| a twangy, nasal voice, which said: I'd
| rather-r take this one thank you,' and the
voice and that dreadful r. were enough
In this country, perhaps more than any
| other, accent and voice may be taken as
criterions of refinement, for although many
| Americans of good social position have
| loud and perhaps inharmonious voices,
| people of breeding rarely have an uncul-
tured accent, and there is a subtle some
thing that Classics them at once when
| travelling. Just what that something con-
| sists in it is almost impossible to say, for
nowadays there is no English imitation,
| Anglomania having disappeared, and fash
! enable women being frankly ana entirely
| American. Moreover, it is now considered
| vulgar to be affected, and any mannerisms
| are tabooed at once. But that there is an
| intangible distinction in voice and accent
| no one who has Travelled among all sorts
| and conditions of men and women will
| deny.
| 1t has always been conceded to our coun-
| trywomen that they are wonderfully adap
table, and that even if not born in what is
| supposed to be society" they quickly as
| sumo the manners and speech of those who
| have always been in the social swim"
| but there is one little but very important
| slip that is seldom eradicated, and that is
the pronunciati ton of the ''r' at the end OF
| a word, the fatal burr of which complete
| " spells an otherwise cultivated accent.
| This seems almost impossible to over
| come-chiehy, doubtless, for the reason
| that the speaker herself does not realize
| and will not believe even If told, that she
| has this Objectionable fault. A very pretty
| girl who, transplanted from her native
| wilds has adapted herself to her new con-
| ditions with remarkable facility, but who
| in common with many others OF her KIND
| can never be brought to see why her ac-
cent ever betrays that she is not a New
| Yorker, remarked the other day: Il Won
| der why that amusing Mr.. X. always calls
me DEER gurrl" and every one laughed,
! for the reason of this impertinent mimicry
was most apparent to every one but the
| object of 1t.
If YOU find that your corsets tire you,
| a hint from the mysteries of the French
woman's budoir will be of service. The
majority of American girls incase them
| selves in their corsets at their first toilet
| of the day. Not so with madame. An en-
pire girdle, which is barely wide belt,
| suffices for her morning toilet later, this
| is discarded for a perfectly fitting corset
| made to order, for the shopping tour. For
the afternoon tea gown, the empire CIR
| die is again called into use, and the even
| ing decolette has its own short, supple
corset. Thus, although French woman's
| figure is of the fashion-plate order she
suffers less discomfort than corset-wear-
ing women of any other nationalities.
Mrs. Sarah MalIoy of Cheyenne, Wye,
has been chosen a presidential elector by
| the republicans OF Wyoming. being the
| first woman in the United States to attain
| that high position. This is the most pro-
! nounced victory for the cause of woman's
suffrage so far recorded, and marks an
era in the political progress of the female
sex. It realizes the widest dreams %
Mrs. Susan B. Anthony and other pro-
nounced advocates of woman's rights.
| Mrs. Malloy has been active in politics
! ever since Wyoming adopted woman
suffrage. She was one of the first work.
ers in the cause in the west, and helped
materially to secure the adoption by the
legislature of what was then the territory
of Wyoming of the law giving woman the
| franchise.
"If we are good enough" she argued
ito raise and train the boys who are to
go up to the polls and vote, then we
ought certainly be good enough to vote
| ourselves"