The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-28

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every effort and still failed before she will
De permitted to enjoy her liberty in peace.
There is an ambitious woman out in the
state of Washington who is doing all she
| can to get herself elected as United States
senator. If she gets it, the Cincinnati
Commercial-Iribune says it is willing to
wager that the Senate will decide that
| the words citizen and person in the
constitution mean "man," and that, in
consequence, she is not a citizen, and is
therefore not eligible
The hairpin has always been woman's
chief weapon of Offense and defense and
general reliability. Give her a good box
OF hairpins and she could arrange her
| locks into any kind of a colffure from
! queen Ann to Mary Ann. Not only that,
| out she could use the harpin to button
her boots, to pick a lock, to cut the
| leaves of her book, TO mend fan,
as an improvised corkscrew, and in sew
eral thousand other useful ways. She
| could even lend them to her brother, or
her sweetheart to clean a pipe or repair
a bicycle. 1t has been the one possession
that in a measure reconciled her to not
being a man, for how anyone can make
shift to get along without the hairpin
to even imagine
1t will thus be appreciated what the war
which science is waging against the hair
pin means. 1t has recently been decided
by some high medical authorities that the
| loss of mental balance in women Is, in
many cases, directly attributable to the
| use of hairpins. These scientists argue
that the head especially at the back, is
the most sensitive part of a woman's
| anatomy. Further, that she is likely to
| fix upon nerve center as the place where
she habitually pins her coils of hair, and
| persistently jab with a hairpin the
spot that should never be touched at all
This is the reason, it is claimed, why so
many women are rattle-brained, even
when they are not downright insane, and
| have to be sent to the mad house. The
| back of a woman's head is one of the
most sensitive of places, yet from the time
she puts on long dresses and begins to
do up her hair she willfuly ignores its
sensitiveness
1t is suggested by these scientists that
woman shall adopt the manly fashion of
wearing short hair, but 1t Is not likely
their suggestion will be taken. The gen.
eral feminine opinion is that the short
| haired woman is already off her balance,
and women will continue to pin their faith
to the halrpin.
II is this penny wise and pound foolish
practice of women of which Mrs. Josephine
Shaw Lowell complains, says the New
| York Times. Mrs. Lowell does not be-
leve in the pauperizing charity which
gives without asking a return. A rich
| woman, she says, will beat down her
seamstresS to the lowest wages she will
take and then go out and give freely sew
eral dollars to another woman who Is
more harmed than helped by it. The true
| charity and wisdom, she believes Is in
n
The woman who feels no obligations to
pay her club dues, the woman who makes
| arrangements for luncheon with the ca
! terer and then leaves him In the lurch,a and
the woman who underpays her workwo-
men and Is charitable in other directions
all exhibit the same love of small econo-
mics whlca seems TO be part Of the ma
/ ture of woman.
Among the curious types of this great
metropolis says the New York Tribune,
is that of the pretty girl whom nobody
seems to be acquainted with or to be able
! to tell who she is, but who becomes known
by sight to the frequenters Of Fifth ave-
nue., and the various matinees. She is
! invariably charmingly gowned, and has
| generally a great bunch of violets or roses
pinned on her jacket. Every detail about
her is faultless. Her gloves, her shoes,
! the arrangement of her hair her hat-are
/
excellent taste. She is good form. So
much so that society people often re-
mark her and inquire who she Is. In
| vain however, for no one ever knows, and
her dignity and good breeding give no es-
cuse to the curious to try to find out.
As a rule this species of girl is soli-
| tary. She walks on the avenue or she at
tends the new plays alone. OCCASION
/ ally there are two who are apparently
/ friends, or rather companions, for they
| take their pleasures too seriously to sug-
! gest the idea Of camaraderie or fun.
| This occasional type of girl, which every
/ one has seen and remarked, belongs gen.
orally to people In moderate circumstances
| If not actually poor. The girl may be
| a dressmaker or milliner, or some other
bread-wlnner, who for a couple of hours
dresses for and lives up to the life mat
| she considers so desirable. She exists
for the time being in world Of magma
ton, and when she thus puts on her good
clothes, pins her flowers to her corsage
and walks nonchalently up the avenue she
| feels what she looks to be-a maiden of
/ upper tendon" out for a stroll; and
when she takes her place In the theater,
and Is conscious Of approving glances
from those in the neighborhood, she is
happy.
For these few hours weekly that take
her out Of her sordid, everyday existence
and for the pleasure of imagining herself
other than what she really Is, she denies
herself many a necessity, and Is I'M
doubtedly exceedingly silly. Nevertheless,
there is something pathetic IN this futile
and foolish striving after the unattain-
able.
II Is hard for the young and fair TO
follow the rule Of the catechist and be
| content in that station" In which they are
placed. We are all OF US chasing vain
shadows of some kind, and there is many
a jackdaw in society who is decked out
In borrowed feathers.
"T'hc conventional costume Of the we'll
| bred widow possesses every known quality
| Of unhygienic, non-esthetic, and costly
dress. Proper exercise while she Ia mourn
/ ing Is out Of the question. Secluson Is
secured In ways less barbarous perhaps
| than Inducing deformity OF the feet, yet
/ our occidental mourning customs effect
ually keep women within doors. The
| heart OF the stoutest warrior might quail