The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-31

cling, and use their wheels instead of
broughams or riding horses A costume
adapted to the latter means of locomotion
would be manifestly absurd in the former;
so soft felts or the democratic derbys have
replaced the tall silk hats which used to
be de rlgueur, and painfully short and
stumpy coats are now seen on the rotund
figures of the lords and commoners who
ten years ago, would have felt that they
mad committed a solecism if they had
worn anything but the conventional frock
coat.
Even the once-abhorred yellow shoes are
now tolerated.; and it is predicted that if
the present bicycle craze continues, WOOL
en- hose and knIckerbockers will not be con-
sidered mira dig; for an Englishman who
once breaks bounds never stops short, as
an American instinctively would do at GER
tain limits; he has the courage of his
convictions, and wears whatever best
pleases him.
This concession of the NJ. P.'s to modern
methods is significant and if, as Carlyle
tells us in his 'Sartor Resartus," the
dignity of the English parliament depends
upon clothes, what viii be the outcome?
1t is becoming a noted fact that the
young women of to-day show a decided
preference for men whose reputation is
few evenings ago college man said:
ut isn't much of ar incentive for fell
low to keep his morality up to the stand
ard when he sees the most disreputable
men of his best set simply lionized by girls
and their mothers
Il don't know why it is. Women have
a mania for cultivating men whose char
acters are anything but good. The shad-
Ter they are the more they appeal to wo-
men. Can't understand it,"
Maybe II is because we so love to pose
as reformers," ventured his hostess. "You
know woman enjoys nothing better than
the fancy that she has it In her power to
mold character-masculine character, that
is"
''AH the same l shouldn't think she
would care to make her parlors training
quarters for society toughs. There were
two men in my class last year, the wild
est, fastest fellows l knew, but they were
made more fuss oven by the mothers and
daughters of their acquaintance than any
of their well-behaved friends. These same
mothers and daughters knew any num-
Der of bright, moral young men, but they
| ignored them every time In favor of the
Observation-Disclosures f1attered to death to
receive the slightest attention from the
wild pair. Their money may have ap-
peared a satisfactory substitute for NOR
| als-but what a state of affairs!'
For fifty years woman In this country
| has owned her own property. so that now
| there is no American, probably, who ever
| thinks of a woman as a human being who
parts with all her possessions at her mar
| riage, says Harpers Weekly. 1t is true
| that she may often surrender her spiritual
| possessions, and in some parts of the coun-
| try where a certain unwritten law has
| been recently declared, she may herself
| be so far considered as mere personality
| that her consent otherwise her free will,
| plays no part in the issue which her hus-
| band settles summarily; but her visible
| possessions are her own; the moneys and
| lands that she brings and all that she
| earns belongs to her, and the law gives
| her all the protection against the wrongs
| of husband, as of others, of which hui
| man crudty is capable. In England
| married woman's property act was pass
| ed in 1882 The Danish woman has had
| the right to collect and to dispose of the
| product of her toll since 1880. The Swed-
| ish woman since 1874, and the Norwegian
| since 1883, have had the same property
| rights. Even the woman who is the SUBJ
| ject of the car is the mistress of her
/ own But in France the woman of the
| humber class who is married works for
! the man, keeps her money only if he will,
| and must give 1t to him if there is the
| best of reasons why she should be per-
| mitted to withhold t-as, for example, if
| he be an idle drunkard, spending for his
/ pleasures tHG GdIuluSS Oh the WlIe ana
| mother that are needed for the household.
| Among the shopkeeping bourgeoisies, the
| woman works also alongside of the hus-
| band. is often the real head of the estab-
| lishment, especially in the little businesses
! whose prosperity depends upon good taste
| patience, tact and unfailing. courtesy. And
| for the toll which knows little rest, the
| possible maker of the famiy's prosperity
| receives what is granted by the head Of
| the house. whose temper and awkward
| mindedness may possibly prevent the
| wife's achievements of a still greater
| prosperity, involving a larger dot and
! therefore, more shining marriage for the
| daughter.
| Getting on in society says Vogue, is
| recognized American social indus try
| which, although pursued with greater
eagerness in the older cities of the east, is
a popular sphere Of endeavor in almost
every community in the land. The anom-
ally of political equality and social STRAIT
nication" Is not realized by the general
public which joins clubs and churches and
| subscribes literally to charities with the
intent Of negotiating itself with its social
| superiors and by dint OF deliberate cult
Yation Of desirable acquaintance arriving