The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14
ity that such hair should ever be cover

pity that such hair should ever be cover
ed by hat"'
1T Is indeed" replied Gildersleeve.
Ihen the two willy young men enjoyed
the play while a smile of pleasure play
ed on the face of the lady.
Some. women, says the Philadelphia
Ilmest especially those who are popular
with the lords of creation, declare unhes-
ltatingly that one man friend is worth a
dozen feminines, and that man at least
Is not spiteful or treacherous. Then,
again, other women, with equal force,
remind one of the proverbial fickleness of
men, and how new face and a brighter
manner often drive completely away an
Old and time-honored friendship. But
this, others will answer, relate only to a
love affair, and naturally when the lit
tie god arrives on the scene, all such. colo
affairs as friendship must find lodgings
elsewhere.
Probably, hike all assertions either way,
the truth lies between the two extremes.
Some men are particularly calculated for
friends. In fact. in that capacity are 10y
atty and honor themselves. They never
talk of or discuss their friends; they are
only too willing and too ready to serve
woman they really care for, and are al
ways on hand in trouble and sorrow with
ready sympathy and help. But friendship
of this kind naturally demands much, and
no one will waste such Platonic devotion
without expecting an equal amount of
friendship and loyalty in return.
American girls brought up in England
says the New York Tribune. on the most
approved English pattern, with ire
proachable accent and manners, are APP
parently not a success when they return
to their own country. And it would be
well for ambitious mothers who are edu-
eating their daughters abroad with the
idea that hey will outshine their home
bred companions in attractiveness and
breeding TO discard such a notion at once
On the other hand, neither are such
girls appreciated in England itself. They
simply become Anglicized lose their origi-
nality and are. therefore, lost in a crowd,
while in America their stiff manners and
unadaptiveness render them absolutely
unpopular, not only with girls, but with
men.
1t is rather pathetic to see the veni vidi
vici airs of these Anglo-American maid
ems when they first come over yield to
disappointment and their stand-offish
manners become awkwardly cordial as
they realize the necessity of partners and
friends
Still, they are not happy! 1t is like try
ing to fit ''round patch IN a square hole
TO expect English-bred women to assimi-
late to the conditions of life over here;
and as converts are invariably more
bigoted than those born in the faith so
girls that are brought up to be self-con-
sciously superior according to British
standards are more English than the Eng
fish girls themselves, who are generally
good-natured and hearty, and apparently
unconscious when they come over here
that there is any standard to live up to.
1t may be taken as a principle of edu-
cation that whatever breeds consciousness
is wrong, while a sense of superiority is
socially fatal. Moreover. it is more or
less old-fashioned to be very English"
just now, and it handicaps a girl rather
than helps her to have a transatlantic
education.