The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-02
A LOST TYPE or WOMAN,
The Little Old Maid Who Was Everybody s
Friend.
The Year, a
of Rich enAr Crn1 Tor None
VIII EverCO to an End. Topics of


Is to have a birthday party on next Thurs
day, and there will be 100 children to en-
tcrtain. il you have nothing else on hand,
viii you kindly manage this for me?' Miss
Playwell appears at the proper time, ar
ranges the rooms to suit herself and then
sees that the various plays are properly
led, manages the children in their dances,
looks after the small ones who are too shy
TO have good time and makes every
blessed little pickle present enjoy himself
keenly. Stiff Mrs. Millionaire. who is TO
give a dinner party, lets Miss PIayWell
know to whom it is 10 be given, and he
hoidi there is some special new scheme OF
decorations for the table, the menu cards
are original, and the favors are unusually
clever Miss Playwell merely retails her
brains for the benefit of those who either
lack them or who do not care to exercise
them, and she is such delightfully."- unset
fish girl that she absolutely finds pleasure
in her work.
Her cousin, gentle Mrs. Industry who
married a delightful man who cannot earn
a penny and whose joy and heart-ache is
her lame son. swells her income in anoth-
er way. She was educated in a French
convent, and she knows how to sew as do
only those ladies' who have been taught
by the nuns. So when Miss Fuss-and-
feathers gets up a sewing class this win
ter it is Mrs. Industry who teaches that
class of girls how to sew. for the fashion
able girl is very ambitious in this respect,
and the teacher is paid well for it, Uncon-
sciously, she teaches them some other
things for which there is no accredited sum
of money paid She makes them compre-
bend the value of a low, sweet voice In
woman and of a quiet ana dgnihed man
ner and she impresses upon them the fact
that ladies are born and that good man.
ners, while they can be inflated, cannot
be bought Then there is Miss Tact. She
has her mother and an old aunt 70 care
for and a very small income with which
to keep the three in comfort but during
the winter she is the very busiest of the
busy. She stays an hour with Mrs. Gilt
ter and quietly corrects all grammatical
mistakes that she makes-mlstakes that
Mrs. Glitter did not have time to think
about when she was working hard II The
washtub before Glitter made a fortune i'm
oil. Later in the day she shows Mrs. Snob
how to accept an invitation to a dinner
party and impresses upon her that she
must not sign 4 note In The first person,
Mrs. Jacob Snob," but that "Cornelia
Snob' represents her when she does not APP
pear in conjunction with Mr.. jacob Snob,
the Tammany politician. And 50 she goes
on. first with this one and then with that
one, correcting the mistaken speech and
rlghting any action of those who, as she
politely puts It, were too busy early in life
to give thought to the small courteses."
AS if they weren't the great necessities.
Miss Tact is an important factor in life
to-day. and IL she smiles a little sarcastic
ally when some of her customers patronize
her you cannot blame her for Miss facts
people were gentlefolk when her clientele
were unknown.
Mrs. Livewell is widow with five lit
tie children. Her days are spent in q
small town just outside of New York, and
in August she begins to chop citron and
pick currants and stone raisins for the
plum puddings that will go over the coun-
try in the winter months, and the profits
on which are sending her oldest boy to
college and will educate her younger chill
dren. These are the women to he proud
Of, my friend; the quiet workers, not the
bustling, rampant bachelor woman who
might lead a purely feminine life, but who
does not wish TO, but these women who,
seeing the need for Industry, give good,
hard, honest work for value received. Yes
terday ! met bright, pretty girl whose
greeting was CHEEKY and who did not con-
fess to knowing the meaning Of WEAKNESS
but who had danced all morning and all
afternoon TO help her brother study law;
not danced in public and had the pleasure
of listening to the intoxicating applause
of many, but danced with stupid little
children and had patience with this one
and that one that she might give a help
ing hand to this some one for whom she
cared. / grow proud of women when /
realize what they win do for somebody
they love That Is better than being i'm
dependent. 1t is better than living at a
hotel and earning money to put in bank.
tell you 1t Is these workers, these hon
est and unselfsh workers, who are worthy
of good, honest praise but they are in
variably the quiet workers. They do not
naunt their industry, but go along like
busy bees singing at their work and recog-
nizing the fact that there ought TO be
queen bees who do not need to work;
queen bees who must give work to other
people, work necessary for those other
people to exist. Women--that is, real wo-
men-admfre queen bees; see the necessity
for an aristocracy and encourage it. And
women like queen bees viii always be
willing to make il an aristocracy of birth
and intellect rather than one which Is the
result Of work, Bah.