The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-08

New York, Nov. 7.-There is great deal
of foolish talk going round People who
don't make a great effort at thinking and
are fond of hearing the sound of their
own voices are many in number. There
is great liking for announcing that the
world is in a state of decadence. There's
a fancy for telling that men and women
are now at their worst and that humanity,
generalizing, is in pretty bad way. All
this is nonsense. The world is in very
good state, and the people in it are, most
of them, to be highly commended. The
average man works well, either with his
hands or his brain, and spends his money
literally. He likes to see the woman who
bears his name dressed prettily and enjoy
ing herself. Indeed, he likes to think of
everybody as getting her share of the
good things Of life. Once in while there
is a picture in the newspapers of a dirty,
unkempt looking creature, who writes
silly poetry, who lives off his friends, and
who announces himself as the coming
man. His prediction is wrong. He is the
passing fool He attracts attention be-
cause he is an absolute contrast to all
the other men. If he were as common as
it is claimed that he is, he would excite
no comment, but thank goodness he is
unusual and causes surprise. He is sell
dom of English or American birth, France
claims him, ana, between you and nae
l think France is welcome to him.
In country like our own where, even
with New York fiat, there is a bath-tub,
the decadent is an impossibility. AS long
as nation is clean it progresses. The
nearest have ever come to Worshipping
inanimate things has been in giving all
the praise 1t deserved to a we'll made
bath tub. Men and women, when they
are clean of body and very apt to be
clean of soul, clean of speech, and clean
OF heart. Men may pretend to be deca-
DENTS but they can't be clean and be deca-
dents at the same time, and society favors
cleanliness. Society is by no means as
black as it is painted. 1t favors most of
the things that tend to make people COM
Portable and happy. Good society ap-
proves of a properly spread dinner table
Inc properly spread dinner table encour-
ages the appetite, is an incentive to good
digestion, and as a natural sequence,
makes happy people,
Society disapproves of immortality in any
form. 1t may seem, for moment as If
sometimes it forgave the fashionable sin
ner and overlooked the fashionable sim
DuS lhiS - OHly IOF d moment. AS time
goes by the great conservative element
refuses to recognize the fashionable sin
ner and audibly disapproves of whatever
happens to be the fashionable sin It
counts lying as vulgar. In addition, it
knows that lying is stupid, since the liar
is invariably found out 1t disapproves
OF drunkenness, for who can rely upon the
man who is never certain of himself? Good
society is to-day much better than it was
hundred wears ago WhU2 In fha fret
place because it is cleaner. The bath tub
has made the religion of cleanliness a
| possibility, and in consequence it has in
creased good society. 1t keeps men and
women younger, handsomer and health
ier' The man who has kept up with the
times keeps his youth and vitality.
This is delightfully."- shown in that most
clean Of plays, Rosemary when John
Drew, as the only one of the group who
were all alive when Queen Victoria was
crowned, appears distinguished and hand
some when the queen is celebrating her
jubilee, not dressed as he was fifty years
before, but wearing the costume of an
elderly gentleman of to-day. He proves
that he has changed with the times, and
not allowed himself to be older than they.
Ii is with a CHEEKY look on his face that
he announces that there Is much to enjoy
even when man in 80; and don't you think
that very much of the enjoyment depends
F..
VINO grow old before their time, and the
men and women who lose interest in the
HE that is about them, and find happiness
ana goodness only in the past. Personally
believe the world is growing younger,
and better every day, and it is your fault
and my fault, If we don't take advantage
OF all the good things that come, those
good things that tend to keep us young
mentally and physically. There are al
ways new books to read, perhaps some are
not as good as the old ones, but you can
read the new ones and freshen up your
WIS by drawing comparisons between the
past and the present. There are lovely wo-
men TO look at every day, and never in the
HIstory of dress were women goWned as
beautifully as they are now. The richest
Vi 1urs, the finest of laces, the glossiest
OF silks and satins, the feathers from the
gayest birds, the flowers from the finest
gardens, everything that could
De worn in reality or in imi-
tauon is offered to the woman of to-day
iul thing of beauty. There are all the
great picture galleries of the past, and all
nose Of the present for you who love art
10 JOY in. You can hear the sweetest
muse, whether you are a worker, or
whether you are an idler. There is Of
Tered to you the best play, mounted in the
most superb manner and acted after the
pest fashion. All the world caters to
your dinner table; your soup may come
from China. your FISH from Scotland,
your mutton from England your famous
pate from France; California gives you
your fruit, while America offers whatever
you may wish. Indigestion should be un-
Known, but then the doctors must be
thought Of
What a curse indigestion isl 1t af-
eeis the temper, il corrupts the brain, il
orces the eyes to look through green
edsses and it makes that which Is sweet
eem sour; but, since there is plenty of
.esh air and If one is alive one can walk,
men why should Indigestion come? Did
you ever think what a great people we
r. Such a little while ago and we did
10Y exist Then there came the Spaniard
ul the Englshman, the Frenchman and
ne Italian, the German and the Dutch
lan and to-day the general mixture has
suited In the American, who. being new,
s the buoyancy OF a boy, but is given,
100 often, to counting the past as OF
~ worth. 1 believe in the present, but