The age-herald., 1897-09-30
Men and Women.

A writer in the Chicago Tlmes-Herald
 thus describes the typical southern gem t,e1nan:
 The southern gentleman is honest It
 IS beast hadl,sed rom faeflsr to son that nss woIu Us as good aps his bona, and surely there cou4d be no prouaeg. beast. All or his recent soucaI.on in commercial way has not been able to st1nu IiirS out or nim. InSsances are
 not infrequent Of the surrender O. ncfns- steaos in payment of debts, m proof of Which existed only verbal cbi4gaaions. 1n- homestead, IL shouto be remem- berfd, ds protected from execution by
 law in every SradS or Lne sou.n- Iiae
 southerner regards an execut.On proof | uNot es ne rcSdrTs a gam.ling tfebt- ons that must be paid at any sacrifice since IL is not recoverable by legal pro- :, csss. Where the honor of a family is l involved women will sell 'thEr jewels 1 to wipe out the obligation Business 1 m fhe 40 tn is t.anstic 'sd in great degree l by word of moulh There are such l things as promasoly notes, but they are not common. I am speaking here of the coura.ry communities and not of the large cities. There is no marked differ ence between the business methods of Atlanta and Btrison Indeed, since the close of the war and the insetting of
 the imm grafton tide the south has been much commercialized. The type has not changed. That would be a work , of centuries. But methods of life and modes of thought have undergone modi- ficaition. This may be better for the | counry at large. We hear much of the glory and beauty of the "nsw south'
 But I doubt that it is better for the up- l per classS of the people. A happier man than the old southerner never
 breathed. | All this is true and much more on the same line. In the same paper, however, appears Gertruds Atherton's plea for i the American woman who figures in di- I yorce cases. She says: The fact that so per cent of the az tions for divorce are brought by wom n
 would appear to tell heavily against the
 men of the country, but, as a matter of
 fact. a large percentage of tlrese di- vorces go by default, which implies
 either collusion or indifference on the
 part of the delinquent Many men, it
 estimated, permit the offending wife to bring the suit rather than to disgrace
 her and nsr children. Nevertheless. the ulyorce revolution has been brought about and is maintained by women. The typical woman of the United States to- day is a mental anarchist. The re oa1s for this are several She is a compos te of all the races of earth, if not in blood in points of view. She is a product of experimental democracy, and. like her country. blindly but ffercsly striving for
 an ideal. She lras been thrown largely on her own resources; unlike the women Of the old world, she has tfane qfer own thinking. She lives in an electrical at mosphere. She is a spoiled child Sre finds herself a component part of a life that IS ever changing. and changes with 1t. She has come to regard sherself AS by far the most important element in tbet 1 life. She is child of the hour of the minute; she does not strike rocis. Her 1 anoependence has begot an abnormal n i1,1sx .x Tor wonder that, finding the man sine ihas married unsatisfactory. she losses him I aside and begins fife anew?
 nt is very evident that this mental an- ! aachist" is not often the wife nor the ] daughter of the southern gentleman,
 Though some times they are. An Ameri- can woman sine may be. but not of that true and pure type of womanhood so fa- miliar to the people south of the Po- tomac. If the northern people are so much in love with ths typical southern CT, and are ready to gush over him on the stage and dn novels. why is it Chat they do not make him a model to be | initiated in everyday h6e? New York | sets the pace. If the society people of
 the metropolis should take it into their
 heads to have revivar of the uld-fash- 1 aoned southern type, what a wholesome I influence it would exercise upon morals I and manners throughout the country. A revival of the principles and meth
 ods of the better class of the pennle of
 the old south would do more than any,
 thing else to purify the social, political and business atfnosphere.
 It Will be but retributive jusaace should !. Founk TiFfman. register of the treas