The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-08

! 20 DC 20 years of age If he would sleep
most oil The Time and gives this as the
reason why negroes often live TO advanced
| Old age, because they sleep so much. He
/ also gives celebrated example of the ef-
| ucacy OF slecp-the Grand Old Man-Will-
| lam r.. Gldusi One-sieeps seventeen hours
every day, and that is the reason why his
| iacuiIles are still unimpaired in spite OF
his Old age. The proper way to econo-
mize life is 10 sleep every moment that is
not necessary or desirable 10 be awake.
| All this is good advice no doubt but
| one must remember that people in this
] age are obliged 10 be awake and al work
/ about seventeen hours. and have only sew
en- left i'm which to sleep. OF course, if
! one has nothing else to do but take care
! OF himself ana keep his body in good
! health and comfortable, and has nothing
10 worry about, his nerves will remain al
ways in obscurity, he viii never realize
that he has amy. One can always sleep
soundly TO any amount of time if there
IS nothing to do and nothing to worry
about.
| Will some one now kindly give a recipe
Tor sleeping when persons are haTrassed
| by cares ana responsibilities and worries
OF every kind, not only for themselves
ana on their own account, but for 9TH
efs, perhaps others whom they are utterly
! unable to help in any way? Such a recipe
would be worth much. 1t is silly of any
| body to say Don't worry" How can one
| help worrying? Borrowing trouble which
| may never happen-crOssing bridges before
| coming to them-may be reprehensible
! but there is much needful worrying which
/ cannot be avoided.
In giving such advice. please also length
| en- the bill Of fare.
II Is odd when one comes to think of 1t
| that often as we hear girls and women
too, say that they would like to be men
no one ever heard a man wish he were
| a woman. saws the pbfladalnbfa TiYoas
| Ihey admire US, think we have an easy
! time of II, and tie us all up tight with
| pretty feminine customs and traditions,
and then because they see the chains I'M
DER the flower decorations they realize
| that for them it's better 10 be a man.
A few years ago there was a decided
| hesitancy on the part of most girls in
admitting that they wished they were
men, but it seems easier now even for
| our sweet, true womenly women to have
| secret regret as to their sex There
| are as many shades in the reasons for this
| treason as there are traitors, but 1 1nd
| the great moving cause is to be traced
TO the fact that women generally believe
| to-day that men do have an easier time
OF II under existing circumstances than
do we, and it is not in human nature to
| really enjoy being hardly dealt with
The womanly woman who wishes she
were man, is a woman who has to play
| mans part and finds that 1t hurts her
feminine feelings. That If she hug her
! modesty, her natural love of protection
and shelter close. as the chief Jewels of
her sex. she must stand daily torture
more or less diverse, as she is more or
| less fortunte in the way she meets the
world and the world that she has to meet
l have heard sweet girls say that they
would try to grow hardened to this, that
or the other, not wicked things, but at the
least coarsening things, for if they must
! be exposed to them. then why let them
! continue to hurt?
1t is false reasoning, but just now it is
very prevalent
Lots of women overdo the things in an
other way Having suffered absurdly, but
none the less intensely, before going out
to seek their fortune" they rather than
wear their hearts upon their sleeves, hide
them and the womanly grace which is the
flower of a womans heart so completely,
that they are supposed mot to mind the
! little knocks that are incidental to bust
ness life from home and social inter-
! course.
Men themselves smart and suffer from
! the hurts they have to take at times, and
! how much more women when those hurts
| come from man, her natural guardian
And the worst of it is, it cannot be helped
! Business is business" The woman know
! il and accept it. They as a class will give
| men credit for chivalry and kindness at
! every hand in the busy hours of the day.
! but even that hurts.
| IF only we could be exactly on the same
footing as men with men in the business
| world" one girl said to me only the other
! day, and as | looked at her l knew that
! she meant IL. and yet that il could not be-
| ! pitied her. and how could any one fail
! TO pity her too. a delicate slender girl
| pretty and refined, who had to take what
she could get IN the way of work, and who
| felt as hurt under pity as another might
| under disregard
Wei, welll 1t never does to be too pessi-
misuc. No doubt the real new woman
| who are coming in a generation or two
! VIII md their true levels, and no doubt il
! is much of it our fault If we suffer now
! from playing the role that has hitherto
! been mans.
In the next generation have no doubt
! that women will again be glad they are
women, even if to-day only those of us
| brave enough to be glad that they are plo-
neers and roughing it, can honestly say
! they would not change If they could.
| There Is, however a certain class of wo-
men who do not love their little tasks of
| woman life so dearly that they would not
/ change for worlds, and another big class
who are the happy women who find work,
| and plenty OF work. to be done for love, but
not OF necessity for wages Women, as
a class. do not love merely to earn money.
! They like 20 spend H. and they like to feel
that they are worth something In the
| paid for commodity.
There are so many Of you who viii agree
| with me In all that l have gathered from
I others and said here that / have not ar
| EUod. only stated facts. Nature Is very
/ broad In her laws, but II cheated sooner
! OF later she demands restitution. and we
/ ere cheating her to-day There used TO
| be a homeiy idea OF woman and the things
| that would content her that has gone ont
| of STYLE now but though we deny It and
I seek for the cause elsewhere. the fact re-
I mains hat woman Is happiest In fulfilling
| The domestic side of social economy We
! don't hear much of women I'm their homes
who want 10 be men. They have unending
work but with Il unending sweetness too:
| they are peaceful and silent except
| Hhcn with their womany generosity and
/ strength they come forward and try 10
| help thelr feUow-woman who has 20 work
as a man and feel as a woman until she
hates her very womanhood because OF the
| etruggle.
There Is a cure. Even N we must work
/ in the business world. mans world we
can n We try keep up our feminine sweet
! p..a "A lac finding work. ar,al,f,sr .nff.