The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-13

Mrs. Pin5ham'S advlce.-Mrs. Ii. D. H.,
of New York, entitled 1.-THE Etiquette of
Courtship for the Guidance of Youth"
Mrs. Davis is no doubt well remunerated
for her advice about chaperons, whom
she considers Indispensable up to the
moment girl sheds her Miss and takes
on the Mrs, also during social affairs
and all degrees of friendship between the
sexes. Win people of certain class never
learn from the development of instinct or
the hammering of the aroiters of good
and ill-behavior. how to conduct them
selves under the everyday conditions of
life? Must a woman of the talents and
reputation of Mrs. Davis ada her cry 10
the penny-a-liners for the winds TO bear
away from the hearing forever? 1t is
astonishing that the ephemeral character
of newspaper has an effect at all. But
by a miracle it has There is no more
potent civilizer.
'I hear your Mistress is i'll, Dinah."
said a Southern woman TO the maid of
one of her friends "What is the trouble?"
Il dunno 'zackly, Mis- Smith" answered
the damsel It's a new disease, l Ieck-
on. 1 think the doctor titled it nervous
prosperity"
1t would be curious to know, says the
New York Tribune, how many of the So
called cases of nervous proStration might
be more correctly diagnosed as nervous
prosperity" 1t is no uncommon thing TO
hear an overworked mother and house
mistress exclaim: II should be ill in bed
If l did not have so much to dor Doubt
less she would be, but would her spirits
or health be any the better in consequence?
Is not the sense of being actually needed
ia her household. of being of paramount
value to her children, of leaving dis
tlnctly felt void if she became iucapaci-
tated, a tonic worth having? After all,
ii is only our short-sighted way of looking
at things that makes the lot of a woman
with nothing to do and money galore
seem so much more desirable than that
of the harrassed, but much-ueeded and
therefore blessed mother, who has no
time to think of her ailments.
Nervous prosperity" or, as it is medi-
cnally called prostration, is greatly on the
increase. Is there no physician with the
courage of his convictions who viii dare
to tell these fashionable hypochondriacs
what is really the matter with them, nnd
that if they will cease to think OF Them
selves and live for others their Ills will
disappear? Like Naaman, the Syrian, 1t
is hard for those afflicted with the leprosy
OF selishness to believe that by simply
washing in the river of moral exertion
they will be cured"
Tn New York is presented the unique
Il
leisure class, among the men--a state of
affairs which gives rise to many a diff
cult question in social ethics. For in
stance, How is it possible, asks the New
York Tribune, for men who are busy
down town, in their offices and counting
rooms until dark, to make duty calls?
Hostesses, as rule, are not satisfied II
the female contingent of the family thrust
in their brothers card with their own
THAT may be allowed for married men,"
SAYS Mrs Grundy. but not for the
sufficient respect to a hostess to make
personal dinner calls. The young bachelor
who has no woman relative to leave his
pasteboard with the two hundred or so
families who entertain in New York IS ct
a Woful disadvantage, and many and Vari-
Gus are the expedients he adopts to avoid
putting his card in an envelope and send
ing 1t by post, a proceeding which he
knows will be viewed with scant favor by
his entertainer.
A favorite method is to provide a sub
stitute i'm the shape of a messenger boy,
an Individual, however, who has so many
and such ingenious ways of doing eX-
actly the wrong thing, instead of the
right one, that it is always dangerous to
nut ones self in his power.
"Why what are these, Jimmy?" said
a society youth to a boy whom he habit
ually employed, as the latter handed him
a packet of papers.
Receipts, promptly answered the mp,
who Rad heretofore performed the same
service satisfactorily.
why. you never!'-gasped the afflicted
young man. Yes, you actually did! as
he read the signatures of several women he
fondly imagined would have credited him
who was expressly told to make his
rounds in the afternoon, elected TO post
pone his excursion until after his break
fast the next day, and had finished his
patrons round Of visits at o'clock. Even
with women visiting has become such an
extremely artificial function that it Is
mere farce, without apparently any rea-
son detre even the servants recognizing
its absurdity. 4 woman who had given
orders to her butler TO say she was out"
to all visitors was passing through her
hall as the man opened the door for
footman bearing his mistress cards,
while she waited In the carriage. The
house mistress drew back within the door
as her servant received the cards from
His fellow fiunky, who exclaimed face
tiously, as he delivered them:
shes bout, his she? We'll him glad,
and your glad, hand the missus In the
carriage is gladder tkan heny one!
Womans neck is almost ruined. The
high. stiff linen collar has done il. Surely
those observers who discovered that every
thing good has its evil must have been