The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-15


other, and she feels that her external life
is NOT TO be bound up in this one man.
She knows that she can best help nim
by holding others Then, too, this bust.
ness woman hes lager respect, a larger
regard, more sympathy for husband
Personal experience has taught her to be
ienient, tc be considerate of every human
being. She knows that success is obtain
ed only by concentration, by single-mind-
edness. and she WON'T harass her husband
when he comes home with trifiing things
that Will right themselves. She will show
a keen consideration for him that me
other kind of woman is incapable of
The business woman would not ask a
business man, even if that business man
IS her husband, any more about his af-
fairs than he chooses 40 tell. She knows
mat II IS bad policy for a business persoai
TO talk too much, and she knows, how
harassing, how exasperating If is 10 he
questioned about things better left untold
she knows that mans business INFER
ests arc made to suffer through this sort
OF thing, and her one idea is to help not
TO hinder, this man TO whom she has Weld
ed herself"
mat all may be true enough spoke up
the girl but does a man want his wife
10 helD him in his business career?
don't believe ne does. / thirk he'd rather
Just think OF her as a sweet COMPANION
VINO WIZ be waiting for him when he
comes nome. dainty creature. loving and
ioVable; and most people say that anv
woman who has ever worked for a living
IN any capacity loses her femininity.
some miscall il Innocence, but I think thew
mean grlishness. How often we hear il
said of a bread-winning woman, oh. YES.
she is brilliant, charming. fascinating. but
she has lost that thing possessed by Wo-
ne ,
dered II IL was the spirit of dependence
tney meant, because working woman
does lose thatvuntil she fails in love-
But look at the strength the endur-
ance, ana self-control she finds in place of
it, argued the man. FOR everything we
lose we gain something else. You speak of
business women losing that indefinable
something. Did you ever stop to think
that there are Just as many women who
are not business women, and never have
possessed it and never will. Everything
depends upon the woman herself 1 tell
you, and know, for my life has been
about evenly divided between society wo-
men and business women. You take two
women with keen wits, marked intuitive
power, ready sympathy, loving hearts and
ambition, and let one go into the world to
earn her living and the other enter upon a
life of social pleasure. What is the result
more keen-witted her sympathy expands
from the personal to the universal: she
sees humanity as it wants to be- not as
II IS; her heart is so full of love that to
her everything has It's points of beauty
and everybody a touch of the divine. and
her ambition is not to gain wealth and
fame, but by every new effort to gain new
force, new power Not so with the woman
of similar attainments who enters on
n lz1If Ff,.aya xxsff -,
become keener, or rather more cunning;
but her intuition is dwarfed. and she locke
at actions, not motives; her sympathy is
one-sided for everything is prosperity
about her. her naturally loving heart is
repressed because society affects TO despise
spontaneit. and her ambition is-well, it's
generally to be the leader of her set
which is laudable enough in its way. I'm
an old man, and I've never married, and 1
never shall, but If We're beginning life
over again, and these two women were
before me to choose from. my hands would
be held out to the girl who, through ne
cessity or choice, has wandered a little
way into the world, and, at the first sum
mons from the man who loves her, and
whom she loves, returns with an untainted
and unwearled heart and is a happy child
again. The other woman too often has
gone too far astray to be called back to
and wifehood and motherhood"
you've put a new light on IT," said the
woman. Il shall feel more tenderly for
the woman of the work-a-day world"
Il shall try to be more like her." said
the girl
Capt. De La Mar, commonly known
as the American Monte Cristo, is seeking
a divorce. His wife, known on the con-
Of
American woman, is 10 be separated
from the jealous husband If the French
courts win agree with him that he has
cause This is the ending of singular
case in land famed for singular marri-
ages. De La Mar is a remarkable man
| his wife Is a remarkable woman. The
husband, says the Kansas City Star, com
menced life as a steamboat captain. went
I West and acquired 10000, 600. He has al
ways been almost insanely jealous of the
woman who welded him.
Mrs. De La Mar is bewitchingly beauti-
full. She has Titan red hair, deep brown
! eyes, regular features. She was Nellie
| Sands poor New York girl, living in the
/ third-story back room of a Twenty-sixth
| street boarding house, and the only daugh-
ter of a druggist. De La Mar saw her and
was enamored. He married her and set
tied 100000 on her at the same time.
1 The DE La Mars went TO live at the
! narrow little house at 100 Madison avenue
] that the proud husband had bought fol-
| his bride, and his girl wife went about
| Just spending money for amusement II
was so novel and nice to have every .hins
she wanted and to be INDUCED by her his
husband who idolized her But after tht
4 novelty of buying things wore off, Mrs
De La Mar wanted to enter society, be
cause her mother suggested this as tht
thing of all things most desirable
But how to get into the sacred, charmed
circle? Captain De La Mar was eager
to help his young wife to this, as to every
thing else, but there were difficulties Fl,
was uncouth, rough and insanely jealous
He had been a prospector in California
and had earned his title on eoas
steamer when he was plain Joe Delamar
He came from Holland without pann,
in his pocket.
Wife, husband and mother went TO the
Bagby musicales at the Waldorf: stheN
drove in the park at the correct hour. ant
they walked in the church parade bu
what did these things avail? Not a wo
man of the 400" showed by the duivel
of an eyelash that she knew of this SUI
perbly beautiful woman's existence. Their
they tried Newport. They hired a cottae,