The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-27
A VICE For WOMEN.
Man Has His Cigar, His Club, His
Cocktail.

Man Has His Cigar, His Club, His
Cocktail.
From New York Commercial Advertiser.
Eve at the apple. Then she settled down
to the freside and the spinning wheel,
while Adam, walking abroad in the wide
world, far outpaced her in the knowledge
of good and evil. For generations this
was so. Then gradually the woman be-
gan to make little excursions away from
her fireside and her spinning wheel She
found the paths of action very pleasant to
follow, and the time came when her fire
dropped away into ashes and her spinning
wheel was silent.
But Adam had so much the start that
the woman found she must struggle to
catch up with him. Bran and hand cried
out for training. Brain, as being most
necessary, received attention first. Col
leges for women sprang up like mushrooms
in night She toiled and she worked
and packed her head with knowledge till
she could cope with man successfully at
many points She made records in his
tory, mathematics and philosophy, there
tofOre exclusively the territory of man.
Then she began to clamor for chance TO
put to the test what she had learned, ana
after much par,eyiug she was allowed to
be doctor lawyer, fnancier, merchant
what she would
Bot all these professions men have fol-
lowed for centuries and in the course of
their development they have learned many
things which are still mysteries to wo-
men-the law of alienation, for instance
The man makes up his mind what he
wishes 10 do and without too much stress
or strain sets himself to do it. The av-
eragc woman, under the same circum-
stances is apprehensive; if her task seems
important, she mulls over il and does il
twenty times in her mind before she puts
her hand to it, When a man finishes his
days work. De shuts It out Of his mind
turns to something else. But the woman
lives her day over, with all the accesso-
rles her imaeination can furnish, expend-
ing upon it the energy which the next day
demands.
Half the secret Of mans endurance lies
in his small vices Phi lanthropists and re-
formers and leaders of crusades would be
ioathe to concede this, but its true lust
the same. After breakfast, what does
the normal man do? He sits down for
half an hour with a good cigar. and thinks
about nothing more absorbing than the
days news. By the end of thirty min
utes he is comfortable in body. soothed in
mind and ia the best condition for begin
! hng ms gay work. AT the end of the af-
ternoon he pulls down the lid Of his desk
eats a leisurely dinner and ends up at The
club, If he happens TO feel like L. There
he feels perfectly free 70 talk if he wishes
or to sit quietly by the fire and browse
over soporifc book. Perhaps he orders
a cocktail and sips it between pages or as
| he listens TO an atter-diuner story with
good-naturod interest. In the abstract
smoking and cocktails are TO be con-
demned, but in their practical application
they sometimes act as bonefcent agents in
repairing the wear and tear Of ten hours
application 10 business.
Not every man, of course, indulges in
small vices. But he may If he wishes
Thai is the difference. A woman cannot
unless she is willing to shock public opin-
ion and, If she be Anglo-Saxon, to violate