The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-26

league, and director Of a kindergarten or
two. She reckons the. days of the week
according TO the meetings of these organi-
cations, and she thinks it a deadly sin for
a mother 10 do work that would cause a
backache or a headache
Mrs. John Smith was a celebrated cook.
She could make sixteen kinds of cake. and
eleven kinds of pie. and the neighbors all
borrowed her receipts for pickles and pre-
serves. Mrs. Mary Smith has studied
cooking as fine art, and she practices
that art at intervals, as she paints and
embroiders. But she knows that no wo-
man can be a kitchen drudge and at the
same time home-maker. a wife, and a
mother.
Mrs. John Smith, dressed in brown, gray
and black and considered herself an ell
derby woman after her second child was
born. Mrs. Mary Smith wears the colors
that her 1S-year-old daughter wears and
has serious dreams of perpetual youth.
Mrs. John Smiths artistic work took
the form of wax flowers, worsted en-
broidery, and much crocheting. Mrs.
Mary Smith paints china, models in clay,
and does rare Kensington work.
Mrs John Smith sent her boys to COL
lege and kept her girls at home, trusting
devoutly that providence would provide
each with a husband. Mrs. Mary Smith
sends her girls to college along with their
brothers, and sometimes, with Johns
consent, she goes with them and takes a
special course in something that particu-
larry interests her.
Mrs. John Smiths husband always call
ed her mother" and when he wanted to
talk to anybody he went away from home.
Mrs Mary's husband calls her wife
and an hour of her society is the richest
treat in the world to him.
Mrs. John believed that women should
have privileges-if they could get them;
Mrs Mary believes that women should
have rights, and she takes hers with self
possession and aplomb.
When Mrs. John dies the minister tells
of her patience and long-suffering in the
midst of her manifold trials and tribula-
lions, celebrates the great number of her
children and grandchildren. and calls her
"a mother in Israel" When Mrs. Mary
dies a half dozen clubs pass resolutions,
and her obituary notices are in as many
newspapers.
But why multiply these antitheses?
Everybody is familiar with the two types,
and everybody knows they are the
setting and the rising stars in the social
ornament Each has her admirers and
advocates There be some who look on
Mrs Mary as a dangerous and revolution
airy individual, and lament that all the
Mrs Smiths cannot be. Mrs Johns
Others are of a divided mind. They
realize the virtues of Mrs. John, and
when they think of the thorny way she
trod, want to do what they can toward
canonizing her. The style of her name
is a great obstacle in the way of this
however. She was always Mrs. John"
and nothing more, and if one puts the ap-
pellation of Saint before the given
name-Mrs. Saint John Smith-it will ap-
pear to be canonizing John, whereas it is
his wife that should be canonized, and as
for John, if anything is done for him. it
would be TO anathematize him most likely
This is one of the minor disadvantages
that befall a woman who discards her own
name; she can never be properly canon
lied
The advocates of Mrs Mary would
probably claim sanity honors for her, too
and when one surveys her good deeds and
her fair, busy life in public and in private,
he is likely to concede the claim. But so
much of honor, profit and emoluhent'
belongs to Mrs. Mary already that canon
izing would really be a superiority
Mrs. John had her day. Mrs. Mary is
having hers, and the world can no more
prevent the passing of the former type
and the evolution of the latter than it can
stay the passing of the aboriginal Indian
and prevent the march of the worlds pro-
gress, l &c..