The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-23

on For the Buried Dead.
wife" and as Mis- Tomlinson has bean
peeuharly successful in marrying, whar
she says is worth thinking about
agree with Mis- TomIinson about an
American men. u
We were talking about # the other
morning, and this seemed to he the pe,-
erai opinion A Frenchman's politeness
Is IKE the icing on a plum cake-thers is
no great depth to it. and il is NOT tbe -,
portion An Englishman is more or -
polite as he chooses TO be to the women
IN Wnom ne Is interested. but to the world
at large he Is bOor. II is true that IL one
1eli INTO the river an Englishman vyould
Immediately jump in and rescue her but
as TINS seldom happens. il does seem as
II httle less bravery of the intense kind
and little more cOnsid Grafton about
TRIES would make life Smoother a.
American is polite to a woman. because
she IS woman and not, as the Frencbrnan
continually supposes, because he exDects
IaVors from her in return She is a vro
man and weak, and he, the stronger in
every way, feels that because of this. he
can a1ord TO cater to her whims, respect
her likes and make himself her obedien+
servant. II does not hurt wonen-indead
1t Is very good for them-to receive ali the
courtesy possible from men.
W ME nave been talking about polite-
ness, Mis- TOmlinson has been thinkinp
and from marriage she has jumped 10 al
Force. She says, "Bein' member in good
stahulh' couldn't under any circum-
stances, believe In a divorce. and leaving
religion entirely out, and a good MANY Of
US do that, what would the world be If
nobody kept the vows that they make at
the marriage altar? Why everybody would
be runnin' around bein' unfaithfuI to
everybody else. You ask me. Aunt Maria
II L would keep on living with a drunlard
lor husband who treated me bad, OF
who did not care anything for me? We'll
have been thinkin' that over. and as "a
member in good standin', / am bound to
say this; i would stand by him Just as
.oSg as / could endure it, just as long as
before the world 1 could keep a brave
race, and II the cruelty came when the
man didn't know what he was about I
would forgive him. then just as I would
toRklVe a baby who struck me in the face
beDuse he didn't know what a hard hit
meant. Then, if man was cruel to me
when ne was sober, when 1 did not deserve
it, / don't quite know whether 1 would
stand that for so very long 1 would talk
to him, and maybe 1 would go away from
him, but l would never get a divorce. l
would not leave him, under any circum-
stances, If l had children If L had
children, 1 would lift their father out
OF the gutter when he was drunk
would stand any cruelty from him be-
cause know that their little souls would
be pledge before God of the necessity
of my keepin' the vows 1 made when I
married that man. What would l do If
he cared more for some other woman
than he did for me? Well, l would sit
down and think again. I would try to
think whether / was doin' everything to
make MIN love me. / would try to find
out what was the reason he cared more
for the other woman than he did for me,
whether I made his home as tidy as it
might be, whether l fed him as well as
| might and whether I was quite as agree
able as the other woman was. And then
| when got at the root of the question
/ L would reform, and when 1 reformed
1 guess I would manage to bring that
| man back. No, Aunt Maria, people can
talk as much as they want about the
necessity for divorce, but l tell you it
is a mighty mean woman who has got
little children and who brings shame on
! their father by making public things
that ought to be kept sacred. We women
| start out with eXpectin' too much from
| men. They have told us that we were
| angels so often that we believe it. Now
| Aunt Maria, you and l may be pretty
| good women, but we amt angels and we
won't be until the kingdom comes, and
pendin that time 1t is our duty to behave
as members in good standin', and to be
mighty charitable to the man whose
name we bear. These are my ideas about
divorce"
We all kept pretty quiet after that. We
| remembered the late lamented Tomlinson.
We knew he had been pretty shiftless.
and we knew that Mis- TOmlinson never
admitted it, and to the last bore with him
patiently, and when he died had the sat
isfaction of knowing that he thanked her
for making him happy. 1t is a good bit
when one human being, at the end of his
life, thanks another for happiness given
Those thanks are worth having. 1 Won
der if they will come to you or to me?
Not unless they are earned by you or by
Bah.