The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-02

and amuse myself just as I have always
done; but they are such remorseless crit
les that l literally do not dare to incur
their disapprobation"
Boys, especially, dislike to have their
mothers do anything that they consider
undgnihed, and many a mother will re-
linquish certain social pleasures rather
than run the risk of belttling herself in
the estimation of her sons, although she
knows that their ideas are overstrained
Il cannot afford to destroy my boys
ideal" said one of these restricted par
ents. and yet sometimes / feel that this
taken for granted by the family that I
cannot join in this or that is rather hard"
Another thing that woman is apt to
feel more or less keenly is that at a GER
tain indefinable point she ceases to be
Molly or Polly" as the case may be,
with the younger women coming on in her
set, and becomes Mrs. Smith" or Mrs.
Brown" while her own contemporaras
seem to her really old and staid, and she
wonders if she, too, impresses others N
like fashion, which she undoubtedly does,
only it is hard to realize when the spirit
is willing that the flesh is middle-aged
and passee.
at may be good luck to be a woman"
says Mrs. Denner, in Felix Holt" but
one begins with it from baby Besides"
best of a bad job, Il shouldn't like to be a
man, TO cough so loud and stand strad-
ding about, and be so wasteful with meat
and drink" However, nowadays, mind
as a rule, dominates matter, and that wo-
man feels a certain superiority in being
less of an animal and therefore a higher
creature than her friend and rival. man.
is often noticed. But to equal man as a
commercial value she must do twice as
much work, she must be better equipped
more necessary, more valuable, in short,
than one Of the other sex in the same po-
sition.
1T is a case of petucoats," said a hard
working mother of a family who had con-
trived to educate her boys and keep her
children on a level with their associates
by working early and late at a variety
of pot boilers. Il know that l have more
business ability, more energy, and more
head in short than Mr.. s., who is dull
and heavy, and slow. and yet he makes an
ample income; his family lives in luxury.
while we barely exist To succeed as well
as a man, woman must succeed vastly bet
ter. This is not parodoX, it is an actual
fact To do a mans work she must ac-
tualy do far better work than one of the
other sex in the same place, especially if
the position be one of authority and re-
sponsibilityI and she must be content,
moreover, with less appreciation. Oms-
ed in a man are severely commented upon
if the transgressOr be woman; this is a
natural sequence of her supposed inability
while her successful achievements are taxi
en- for granted.
Let the women prove their competen-
cy," said a business man re-
Gently. I'VE have thrown open
open to them substantially all the
careers let them show what they can do!'
1t 10 a case of the letter of the law with
out the spirit. A woman may do every
thing, it is true, but sSe is so Handicapped
by prejudice, tradition and education that
to make a success Of her vocation she
must be far above the aVefage man and
yet be content to be treated as his infe-
rior.
Another thing says Harper's Bazaar, that
must hurt the doctors trade here is the
passing Of the family physician. Special
lists abound in New York, but family ply
sicians are fast disappearing and promise