The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-25
Bah WRITES OF FADS AND CRITICS,
The Most Severe Critic Is the Washer
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rock the cradle-who had not begun her
downward career by casting away her
stays Just as soon as some pretty girl
who has an exceptionally small waist APP
pears on the scene the gossips of the hoteH
announce that she laces. As if that were,
a crime The normal American girl has
a small waist. Nature generally gives her
a good figure, but all the women who have
lost their figures through age or careless
ness insist upon downing the one woman
whose shape is good. In the old, old DAYS
the scandalmongers used to have to sit in
the stocks. What pity they don't revive
that custom now!
Women say the most horrible things;
about women without hinching, and the.
summer sun, which makes all the weeds
spring up, seems to bring the scandal
monger to the fore with them. It's none,
of your business and it's none of mine
where woman gets her clothes, but that
is favorite question of the dssemnator,
OF news at the summer hotel. It's none
OF your business and it's none of mine
who and what people are as long as they,
behave themselves properly in public and
DON'T insist upon forcing their acquaint--
ance on you or me. My friend, we kneen
beside sinners in church. we meet them
IN great many other places, and We
may be thankful if our own account on
the book of life is as straight as that of
some of the so-called wicked people. The
l.
never hear a woman talking about other
women announcing that she knows they
are fast women, that she knows they ares
bad women or that she knows they are
drunkards, that don't feel like asking
her If she hasn't gone in an extremely
bad set to have gained all this information
Good women take it for granted that ALI
other women are good. 1t is only the wo-
men who have gone through the min who
can carefully pick out the chaff from the
wheat. However, it's much better in your
summer book to blot out the memories
of the disagreeable people and try to re-
member, and remember well, the lesson
that the summer time teaches you. 1t is
possible that speech may be silver, but
silence is certainly gold-silence as to the
disagreeable, silence about your own and
other peoples affairs.
Have you or any right to gaze curious
ly at or even speak about eyes that lock
as II they had been shedding tears?
Have you or l a right to wonder in speech
whether two people who are married try
to ignore each other?
Have you or I a right to find fault with
somebody because she doesn't choose to-
retail her whole history?
Have you or I a right to take it for
granted that somebody's wrong simply be-
cause we havn't had explained to us tha
something which is right?
No we haven't. Socially we have but
one Ilght IN TINS world, and that is to
mind our own business [ don't mean
that in its nasty, hard sense in the sense
of never doing a kind thing because we
are so wrapped up in ourselves. mean
1t in the sense of attending to our own
affairs and not discussing or interfering
with those of our neighbor. The right wav
to mind your own business is to follow the
golden rule and to do unto others as YOU
would that others should do unto Won.
That's rule that works well either i'm
summer or winter, works well for the
whole world or just for you and for Bah.