The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-22

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How strange exclaimed the girl.
What do you mean?"
ooh, think James touched by him a bit,
and she is always writing him to call or
| to do THIS thar. or the other. When his
desk gets so piled up with these pretty lit
| tie missives that he can't see over them
without standing up he goes up to see
Jane and make his excuses. As soon as
/ Algy appears James mother disappears,
and he spends an uncomfortabl BILE half hour
with Jane which 1 should find so COM
| Portable"
Il don't understand" murmured the
! girl, "for / know for a positive fact that
Jane is not in love with Algy Allison
Granted" answered the man, out
| James mother is in love with Algy for her.
She is gradually banging it into James
head that Algy is a good match, and THAI
they must keep him in sight, and while
Jane is not really in love with him, she is
Interested in the pursuit of him, because
/ he is so hard to keep in sight. I'll war
! rant you that Jane and her mother have
never exchanged a word about all this.
| and they'd be dumfounded to face the
! facts; but 1 see it all as plain as I see
| you, and so does Algy. ] could give Jane
! and all the other girls in the world with
Jane-like mothers some pointers. SEC
/ oughtn't to take Algy seriously if she re-
/ ally wishes TO get him where she can have
/ him If she wants him She should scott at
/ him Men always scott at women who
! take us seriously. and we take tragicalIy
10 those that scoff al US. If there's one
| thing man hates more than another it Is
/ being chased, coerced, kept up with. You
/ women can't be too chary of your notes,
/ your requests. your inquiries about our
! absence from this place or our presence at
that, your interest in our moods and move
! ments for the minute you are too free
with these matters brutal man recognizes
/ that he has a certain amount of power
over YOU, and. by JOvei how he enjoys
! exercising it. Men know that the Countess
! Of CrsveF knew what she was talking
! about when she said:
Lads love is lassie's delight,
And if lads won't love lassies will fife.
And how we love to see you women
/ fight! l don't mean with each other for
that is vulgar; but we like to see you
! fight with yourselves. Now, Algy sees that
nc has this power of interesting Jane and
James emphatic mother, and he goes
| about her just often enough to keep the
interest from waning. He won't keep it up
much longer, though, because people ale
I beginning to say that he Is in love with
! the girl and he doesn't want that reputa-
| tion for he isn't So, if he keeps gong,
/ hen get the credit of having been Tilted,
and men hate that when it is true: when
/ it isn't 1t makes them rip-roaring. tearin, >
rearin', cussin' mad, as the Southern man
! says You women have no right 10 say
/ that man is in love with you unless he
! has asked you point blank to be his wife
/ That is absolutely the only test of real
! love. These Sunday-school stories about
mans loving a woman too much TO ask
! her TO become his wife on account of his
I poverty or something else are all tomIny-
rot, Men are selfish first and thoughtful
/ efterward. Anyway real love inspires hope:
/ and when a man loves hope grows within
him ia proportion, and he thinks he secs
his way to take care of the woman OF bis
choice some day, and so he asks her to be
/ his.
4 But l was talking about chasing men,
| Did you ever ride to hounds? Yes? Wen,
you know the faster the fox goes from you
the more you want him, and the nearer
! you set to him the more he wants to get
/ away Suppose you take him alive. Don {
/ you remember how he struggles and
squirms and the look of utter hopelessness
tnat finally settles in his eyes? A woman,
! with the aid of persistent mother, mag
capture a man by chasing him, but she'll
| always have to face that hunted, restless
/ look in his eyes, and il wouldn't be com
Portable 10 do that across the table three
times day. A mothers finger invariably
really pursue a man unless unconsciOusly
egged on by their mothers. Youth is nat-
urally spontaneous; is takes the calm de-
! liberation bred of years to say. This man
will make a good husband for my -daugh-
! ter, and shall see that she keeps him an
I sight. This one Won t, and | shall see that
l keep him in sight when he is around
! Bosh and nonsense! Jane never could have
| worked that out in her innocent givl-like
mind but all the same I've paid her my
las1 visit. When l want TO task to an old
woman I'll visit an old woman's home and
mix charity with sociabnity, thus killing
two birds with one stone. Any way, I'm
! such an old stager that 1t even tires me
to look OH the chase, especially when Algy
! is one of my best friends and deserves the
unstinteu love of some good woman. That's
the only kind that viii ever catch him, and
its the only kind that ever wins any man
| worth having. You women can put that in
your pipe and smoke at"
I'm so thankful mat my mother allow
ed me to JUS grow like Topsy," responded
the girl quite thoughtfully; that she new
er cared whether l had no heaux at ali or
| a hundred on the string. l used to think
her utter indifference hard at times, but it
! is much better than this over-interest in a
daughters affairs of the heart 1t has at
least left me uninfiuenced to find my mate
and to he found by him, and l shall go 10
him unmarried in mind and spirit"
81 wonder II l envy him?" said the bach
elor with a sigh.
1t is the easiest way in the world, says
the New York Times, to hold up the
skirts, and the woman physician who rec
ommends it knows. because all of her
clothes are made to be he'd up in that
way in a case of necessity. She is the one
woman in New York, perhaps, who has the
courage to wear what is considered an alb
solutely hygenic dress. Every garment
hangs from The shoulders. "buttoned up
in the back just like baby's." the doctor
says Nothing fits tightly at the waist.