The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-14

ing on, as if good manners meant I'M
candor, what can be done? One good ex>
pedient might be to have hot wrap and
street gown ready to get into suddenly in
order to receive the irksome guest, and it
needs no special fertility of mind to find
an errand to the shops or other preteXt
in order to abbreviate her visit grace
fully 1t is certainly inequitable that civ
ility should so often have to surrender to
lack of conSidera ton by conner who, by
never forgetting herself for the hostess,
violates the first canon of politeness. AS
to the peculiar pest to which reference
is made, we know no remedy but a dras-
tic one-a firm, while polite, suggestion
to change the topic or the side of the
front door. Says Balzac: "One of the
most important rules in the science of
manners is that of almost absolute 81
lence about ourselves. Talk of yourself
to acquaintances; tell them about your
sufferings, your pleasures, your business,
and you will see low indifference succeeds
pretended interest: then annoyance fol-
lows, and IL the mistress of the house does
not find some civil way of stopping you,
the company will disappear under various
preteXts adroitly seized"
Felix Adler says the New York Trib-
une, in speaking of woman's present in
ferior position in the religious world as
compared to her high calling as priestess
ages, says:
Two causes have produced this change.
Ihe first was the concentration of abso-
lutte power in the male head, whereby the
life and liberty of wife and children we're
Subordinated to him, and his influence
reduced them 70 inferiority. The second
was the fact that sacred religious books
have been hostile to the pre-eminence of
woman. So long as man was in ignorance
OF revealed religion, he naturally TUNED
to woman, whose morals were cleaner
whose perceptions and intuitons were
keener, for those glimpses of futurity
which come over the borders of life
with the coming of the Koran, which
was regarded as the word of God, the
Pentateuch of the Jews, which is looked
upon as the compendium of all truth, COM
ing straight from God to Moses, and the
revelations to the Christian world through
the New Testament, woman's position as
a revealer was gone Men no longer need
ed to look ahead; everything for their
guidance in life were there set forth
Stages of discomfort and doubt appear
along the pathway of men. Among the
educated classes the sacred Book is losing
influence to-day. The proud claim that
all the truth is there is not admitted. We
are going back to the oldest sanctuary
the Utmost chamber of the soul.
In accordance with historical prece-
dence, it is quite natural we should ask
If woman is not TO be again a revealer in
our search for an increase of knowledge"
Mr. Adler added: II would like to hear
wonan's opinions on the marriage rela-
ton. Who is so well able to say words
OF guidance and warning, and why should
1t be considered indicate to cast aside
the false and mischievous prudery which
shuts the gate of knowledge? 1 would
ike to hear from her on the personal Ques-
tion of morals-hoW far we can trust our
intuiions-and on the fundamental prin-
clple of humanity-the identity of life, for
which woman is especially adapted by
her maternal experiences"
The San Francisco Examiner makes
mention of a number of "donts that
make well dressed woman as follows:
Don't pin your black hat on with white
pin, and don't use a heavy, fiaring ornate
one. 1t may be the one Earring note in
an otherwise pretty toilet.
Don't buy cheap gloves, or, If you buy
them, don't wear them on the street. They
always look their quality and price, and
they are dear at the cheapest.
Don't carry the handkerchief in evidence
on the street in the front of the bodice
or stuck under the belt. Formerly hand
kerchief was for show. 1t is now more
generally for use; besides, you might lose
Don't go on the street with the tail or
hem of your gown frayed and soiled. 1t
is not an attractive sight to masculine
eyes, and you are iessenlng thereby the
days of usefulness of the gown. Keep
your skirt we'll brushed and the binding
neatly in place.
Don't put up your hair so that the end
of every pin shows. Use as few pins as
possible, and cover the head well with the
hair. A head bristling or glittering with
pins is not attractive.
Don't wear rubbed or unkempt shoes on
the street, fancying they do not show.
They do, and few moments devoted to
sewing on of buttons and polishing adds
Don't. if you use little touch of make
up, use it carelessly. A careful touch
sometimes improves but a careless one in
Don't carry the gloves in the hands. Put
them on 1t will improve your appearance
and be less trouble. Don't wear them I'M
Don't trust to pins hold things in place.
They often come out at unexpected and
naGlTQ
A woman's silent influence on the af-
fairs of nation is shown in the career
of Mrs Gladstone. She is not social or
political leader, nor in any way a dplo-
mat in petticoats. She is responsible how
ever, far more than Is generally known,
not only for her husbands vigorous health
a his ripe old age. but also for his great
ability to accomplish the amount of work
which he has through his public life and
since his retirement When he was in Of
flee It was her ceaseless care that he
should not be distracted by anything that
she could prevent. words that meant re-
markable self-abnegation. The interests
of a growing family of seven children with
a fond and proud mother might easily
have made considerable demand upon the
fathers attention, but neither this nor
any social duties, nor any household per-
pleXities, were ever permitted 70 touch his
leisure from statecraft cares Her watch
fulness has not decreased these latter
years. she Is still his best physician and
saves his strength in innumerable ways
tflHinH IN themselves, Dut important IN
the aggregate and possible only to one
who has made. such saving life study.
Blessed herself with excellent health all
her life, she wears her 50 years lightly,
and still shows many traces OF the hand
some Miss Glynne who captivated the ris-
ing young M. 7. over half a century ago.
The high-bred manner that marked the
caste OF We're de We're, says the New York
Tribune Is certainly not characteristic of
aristocratic society In France, England or
America now. The cynical Frenchman
who said he could always tell the differ
ence between an actress and a countess
by the superior refinement and good-breed-
Ing Of the actress was not so far wrong
Not long ago an English dame of the old
school, who had brought up her daugh-
tiers In the traditional. admirable, insular
and essentially British manner, got into
ilrst-class carriage on the Dover mail
with two. Of those daughters, and they arr
ranged their various impedimenta I'm the
neat, orthodox British fashion Hardly
were tho three seated when a party rush.
cd down 10 the platform. talking and
laughing. calling each other "Billy', and
Nell" and Tommy" ana Polly and