The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-08


missing would be published in a so-calIed
society paper. so slightly disguised that
every body would recognize the heroine.
How DO women reach this deDth2 From
an oFer-Weanfng desire to Fay proper at
+ tention to their social duties. To such WO-
men IL is hard to decline an invitation. be-
cause proper gown is not possessed, be-
cause new gloves cannot be gotten, or be-
cause the money for cab is not at hand.
and they stain their characters and black
en- their souls, and think they are no
worse than anybody else, because they
never err from "a social standpoint.
Ihere is another woman, a beautiful
woman, a woman fond of society. but one
VIC mas vowed to love and honor man
who has become an invalid She thinks
ner duty is done when she knows thai he
mas good doctors and good nurses; she
goes IN 10 show him how she looks before
she starts to the dance, or the dinner. or
whatever it may be- and she drops a kiss
usntly on his forehead and says, Good
nlshlf you viii be in bed before / am
back- And away she goes Society gives
hter me flsht 70 40 TINS; society counts
hef as among its decorations, and de-
mands her. But what about the man III
ana lonely at home? What are trained
nurses 70 him. 1t is true, they may
know how to attend to his physical wants
better than the wife he loves, but be
sure that he longs for her presence; he
longs for her WOmanly words, and he
longs for what he has a right to de-
manu- the presence of his wife. Women
need moi speak or act TO tell of a loving
devotion, when there are nurses and doc
tors; u is the being there only that is
wanted; 1t is the knowledge that to some
body this sick man is more than all the
world and that he comes before the du-
Ties of society.
And the little valentine says, It's love
that makes the world go round" And
Il means not just to-day, but yesterday.
to-day and forever. 1t means that finest
OF all loves-the love which forgets self,
ana which Is worth. we'll it is worth all
that there is in the world. and it means
all that there is in the world to come.
| do not mean by this the love which
G heat efar 49, II
caresses, in continual words of love, but
l mean the love that works always in
one way or the other, the love that de-
mes itself something for dear loves sake,
the love that can endure and keep
quiet. / have never been much of a be-
lever in the love that told of itself con-
unually in words. But there are those
who think this love the finest. Think of
Of a woman who knew that death was
only matter of a few months. yet who,
during that time, made herself lovely in
appearance, charming in manner, and
never once let the man she loved know
that that most dreadful of all things, a
cancer, was eating away her life. She
died looking pretty. Those months when
she suffered he q been months. not of life
say again, II love you" and she knew
that during tina time she had created a
strong love that would make all the world
better for her purpose. II does, my
friend, it does. There can be no great love
without this world gaining from 1t. The
man who loves woman well will respect
and be gentle with all other women for
her sake. The man who loves a woman
who has shown to him how beautiful is
an unselfsh love- h Ow beautiful 1t is to
thlnk OF others first, TO care for others
most, and TO remember those who suffer
has preached a sermon, in her life great
er than any that ever came from the
pulpit Men, as general thing, are not
prone to speak of their loves-when they
are great-but they are influenced by
them, and he who is hard OF heart will
suddenly one day find himself growing
tender for a woman's sake. He who is
stern in judgment viii discover mercy be-
cause he has loved well, and he VINO saw
nothing but that which was dark and
gloomy viii grow hopeful because a wo-
man bids him to, and believe in a future
since she earnestly asks him to, because
there their love will be contaminated in
the finest way.
And always when I say that there comes
back TO me the one line in a play, IF
there were more women whose hearts
were fun of sentiment. there would be
fewer unhappy men" All the great and
noble actions in this world have been
prompted by sentiment. Men who have
loved women. men who have been patriots
have all been men of sentiment. You can
not cite hero who did not love a woman,
and there is not one in the history of the
world in whose life this woman love was
not the best and tenderest part 1t seems
to me that what we womensof to-day need
to learn is not our social duties, those of
us who are not acquainted with them may
learn them from book or etiquette. but to
love well, that means to make better men
of our sons and of our husbands. To make
all life better. Do you remember what
a great woman writer said, a woman not
like that petty new woman of to-day but
a woman great of heart, great of brain and
overlooking with love toward her own, to-
ward all the world, and toward God?
THE world waits
For held. Beloved, let us love so WELL
Our work shall still be better for our love-
And still our love be sweeter for our
work,
And both, commended, for the sake of
each,
BY all true workers and true lovers,
born"
And the man standing beside her, said
seeing their love in the world to come
framed by that wondrous wall that had
Jasper first,
And second sapphire: third, chalcedony;
The rest in order-last the amethyst"
And so it stands forever, the perfect
love of the man and the woman unset
fish, beautiful, greater than all the social
duties that may arise it is writ upon an
amethyst, the sacred stone which means
Gods love and mans love in union. A
preachers? TITS love that make the
world go round and in its whirl are
drawn all human beings. 1t reaches out
and makes sweeter the heart of human
ity. and to form that heart, that great.