The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-18
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER - 1895

not also true that friendship is a still near
er relation?
The most enduring love would seem 70
be that which has a really sympathetic
friendship az its basis and groundwork, On
which is reared it's poetic superstructure
of romance and passion. Were one TO an
alyze the various unhappy unions, one
would probably find thaL this solid founda-
ton of love was, and always had been,
absent, so that when its lighter compan-
ion was worn out by the rubs and trials
of married life there was nothing left but
incompatibility of temper How often one
finds that husband as soon as his work
is done, rushes off 10 his club to chat with
his associates, while his wife goes on
round of afternoon teas to her dear
friends each seeking for the sympathy
abroad that they fail to find at home.
When peoples conversational wants are
satisfied at their own firesides they are
happiest there. and there they are likely
to find their truest pleasure.
when you come to think of it," says
Dorothy Dix in the New Orleans Plea
yune, the situation is like this: For the
great majority of women, their sole
chance of happiness is bound up in their
husbands and homes. If their homes are
unpleasant; if, after the first fervor of
love in the honeymoon passes, they fail
to be companions and chums with their
husbands, they have laid up for them
future of desolate wretchedness. Now this
being the case, one would think that any
woman with a single, solitary glimmering
of reason would, if only for her own sell
fish benefit, make every effort to render
herself so Agreeable and so attractive
that her husband would prefer her So
ciety to that of any one else. But do
they? Gracious, no! There is nothing else
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anIazement as the recklessness with which
women deal with their husbands. know
plenty of women who never let their hus-
bands make a statement without contra
dieting them; who parade their husbands
tailings before company, and who, if there
is some one topic that can always bring
on a family row, never miss a chance to
lus it into the conversation. And these
women actually complain when their hus-
bands go off TO seek congenial company
elsewhere. Think of it!'
A Hard Question
SISTER" said Willie, ''in Bible times
Didn't folks own their clothes?
1t says even Solomon rent his coat
He was rich enough, goodness knows"
She gave a. sweet little, knowing smile
'It means that they tore them" she
said.
'They did 1t to show their sorrow
When some one they loved was dead"
''Then, who did all of the mending?
What an awful job twould bev'
There was silence, and then, why, the
preacher says
The Devil sows tares," said she.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Gen. Wheeler's lot at Montauk Point
/, q kaV, f1A
Spain's inqusitoriai supremacy says the
New York Tribune, was the victim on the
rack put through closer catechising than
is this gallant old soldier by the hordes
of mothers, wives sisters and sweethearts
that every train brings to Montauk n
quest of warriors told. crippled, Scared
or worn.
Feminine persistence has done much to
bring relief to many a sufferer, who other
wise might have died 10 the interest of
led tape" said one mother yesterday
Sunday and Labor day witnessed at the
camp many an irate woman on the war
path in behalf of some loved one. There
was one woman who created a good deal
of interest. She was Il dainty little wo-
man, with all the breeze and snap of her
native heath, Chicago, and as she told
her story the group of listeners all lent
sympathetic ears.
Il am but one of hundreds of sisters"
she began, land Jewell, he, of course,
is but one of hundreds of brothers that
have suffered more or less. But / never
would, 1 never could, believe, had I not
DcllCld with my own eyes that the gov
Cr,lment of the United States would per-
init it's soldiers 10 undergo the treatment
that has been theirs since coming off the
transports and being deposited at Mon
tauk like discarded cattle l tell you, 1t
is something awful. Saturday 1 learned
that my brother was at the camp ILL., and
i boarded a II ain on Sunday morning. l
had great difficulty in locating his regi-
ment. Finally l found him lying on the
floor of a tent where he had lain for
eight days. He was SO weak thai hu
had to be carried off the transport, and
his companions told me that they kept him
alive on board by administering stimu-
lants TO him.
Why wasn't he taten 10 the hospl-
tal?" 1 asked.
i" He said he wasn't i'll, ard the officers
and surgeons believed him. despite the
fact that we had 10 carry him 10 the tent.
was the reply.
And why have you no cots?"
"a shrug of the shoulders was all the re-
ply the wan, half-starved soldiers could
give me. My brother was a great, strong,
robust youth, just turned twenty, when he
enlisted in the Illinois volunteers. If 1t
were not for his voice l would not have
army blanket on that hard tent floor. He
is wasted to a mere skeleton. The eX-
posture to heat seems TO have affected his
brain He was obliged to hesitate and think
for some time before answering my ques-
tions He nad all the yearning of a sick
child for delicacies and sympathy. His
stomach turned against the bareback, and
his condition was scarcely less pitiable
than that of many of his companions.
81 viii see that you boys have cots be-
fore / leave this place / said
They smiled incredulously.
No use asking said one. They are
good at promising, but there il ends. The
world moves slow here. It's kingdom come
before anything is done.
Il made my way TO Cen Wheeler's head
quarters, and l gave him graphic ac-
count of my brothers condition He called
UP the officer in charge.
. Do you mean to tell me- said the gen.
eral-he is darling-'that these men have
no cots?'
Yes. sir.
"'And why nave they not been provided,
Are there not plenty of cots In the ware
house?"