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

New York, Jan. lone type of woman
has entirely disappeared-that is, the gen.
tie Old maid who had a little income and
was everybody's friend. TO you she was
cousin Mary" to somebody else she was
"Aunt Molly" while somebody else, who
had gone to school with her called her
"AIinnie" When there was a long ILL
ness, she appeared on the scene and was
the gentlest of nurses, who never grew
weary and who never lost patience. At
the time of a wedding she was on hand
to help make the wedding cake, 70 as
sist with the trousseau and to dress the
bride. When death knocked at the front
door, she met him with ell respect and
reverence and allowed no strange hand to
touch the dear dead one while she was
the only cme whose voice could really con-
sole those in trouble. She begged pardon
for the prodigal and was always ready to
excuse any human weakness. She had
more friends than she could count. more
homes than she could live in, and when
she came to die everybody missed her.
She was loved and respected, and if some
young fool once in awhile spoke of her as
"an old maid" it was in an apoiogetic tone
ss if all mankind needed to be excused
for not having discovered her PROJECTIONS
This gentle creature, the friend of the
entire family, has disappeared, and in her
place is the energetic, busting, indepen-
dent bachelor woman. This woman is very
much alone and so fond of speaking of
her independence that one is tempted to
wonder whether she finds it as agreeable
as she claims it is. She is not willing to
be one in the large family; not willing to
be, as was the gentle old maid the friend
of many, but she seeks the much talked of
independence, and, earning her own liv-
ing she stands quite alone. While she has
hundreds of acquaintance L am tempted
TO wonder if she ever gets as much love
as did her less highly educated predeces-
sor, whom she is inclined TO scorn.
The average woman of to-day, being abb
normal, yearns for a business career
Undoubtedly there are times when it is
necessary, but nowadays too often that
woman who has a good income thinks to
be like a man and increase it. Miss Small
Fortune, who could live in comfort on
what was left her by her father and make
herself an absolute necessity to all those
bound to her by ties of blood refuses to
do this. She lives in a hotel and adds 70
her income in some special way Now it is
all right If woman has to earn her liy-
ing. / respect her for it, and / applaud
her ability IL she can achieve it in some
special, original and feminine way, but
when it is not necessary, when 1t is sim
ply an unwomanly desire to get out into
the busy world, I do not think any one
who knows what a woman ought to be.
what side of her nature it is best to cult
Vate should encourage her. The daugh-
ter of this rich man has taken up artistic
gardening. The daughter of that rich
man is furnishing several diaries WIZ.
fresh milk and eggs, while a millionaire
daughter is managing a dancing class.
Several women not only of good but of
assured, position are ready to manage your
society book for you, and in this way tell
you just who and just who you should not
have on your list. How is this going to
strengthen itself out? VIII there be a sur
ViVal Of the fittest? Will there come n
time wher the woman who should earn
her own living will do so quietly and hon
estly or will the unholy craze for money
making come to an end? ! mean, OF
course for unnecessary money making.
Why can't those women who have plenty
of money allow what work there is to be
done by those women who have other peo-
pie to support? I never knew an honest
woman worker who had not some elderly
person or some little child dependent on
her. or some one Of her own family who
needed assistance and to whom help must
be given. And the ingenuity with which
the women who have to work think out
methods of doing il is something wonder
full!
The brightest girl / know has to aid In
keeping an invalid mother. She tried half
a Hundred things, and she did not seem
to earn her salt at any Of them. There was
the druggist to pay, the Doctors bills to
meet and the many, many trifes TO be got
for the invalid that seem so little and cost
so very much. Now she is as prosperous
as she can be, and she enjoys her work.
This is what she does. You who are Civ
ing your small boy party need not bother
about how the children are to be enter
tanned. You drop her a line and say:
Dear Miss Playwell, my boy Of 10 years