The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-23

sun, it will be a very short time before
womankind is all nerves Nine women
out of ten, If questioned will frankly con-
fess that they fall to crying without any
reason for tears whatever; that the desire
frequently comes to them to scream at the
top of their lungs; that they often long
to go away to some place where there
isn't so much as a song bird to break the
silence. OF course, a woman ia this con-
diton wouldn't stay in such A place long,
because she has sunk into the realms of
sensation and must have change If She
does not have change she will 'actually
become hysterical or collapse physically
and mentally just as the farmers wife
does because she lives at the other cx-
IRENE of the belt of life. Her path is a
treadmill of monotCuy and she finds her
self just as nervous as her city sister.
but she is nervous in a different way. and
she declares that she is only Ealing mite
and nothing more or less "
When asked If the reason for SO much
nervousness in women is not largely the
result of so much noise, Dr.. George f.
Shrady said:
1t IS said that one of the balances of
culture is the absence of noise. and an
evidence of culture is that people should
not give way TO any feeling or emotion
Half or two-thrds of the women nowadays
are nervous to the verge of mysteries. and
this tendency is increasing. IL is true that
TINS condition is largely the result of noise
or rather the result of the repression of
feeling. Think how shocked everybody in
street car would be if every woman in
the car screamed when the gong changed
end changed and changed unnecessarily, as
it frequently does. And yet nearly all the
women who travel in cara feel like doing
that. This constant repression has it's bad
effect on men as well as on women. but
men aren't 50 delicately organized so SEN
sitive to sound, and so on.
The Silent Tongue.-From the Chicago
News
Mary had a little tongue
That never spoke a word.
And as Mary was quite talkative
This statement seems absurd
To school one day she took ii,
Within a sandwish white;
And all the children did exclaim:
"Oh, say, give us a bite"
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The cigarette habit is growing at nm
alarming rate among New York women.
I'VE sell an average of five ladies' cigar.
cite cases a day. said a sllversmith who
makes q specially of them Three ware
ago woman who smoked had to content
herself with a mans case The newest de-
sign for men and women is made of cork
and mounted in silver or gold. This makes
a stunning case when studded with rubies
emeralds, amethysts or carbuucles. For a
long time both men and women have COM
planned that they found the metal cases
too heavy and too thick. The new cork
case Is as light almost as a fea her *
made very thin, and one side is concave
so as to fit comfortably against the BODY
when carried in. the inside coat pocket
BY touching spring a cigarette Is push
ed up so that the smoker can readily re-
move il. The cases for ladies are NOT
more than one-half the size of those for
men. They come high. but the dear girls
who smoke must have 'em."
You've heard about the ptiable copdi-
ton Of the millionaire who had such dread
full corns on his hands from his counnn-
cutting scissors. of course but per,aDs
you haven't heard about a certain WASH
ington woman whose wealth is almost as
much of burden to her, says a writer