The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-25
WOMhNS WORLD.

A writer in the New York Sun deals
with the subject of mans need of fiat
terry as follows:
THE only time I ever feel downright
lonelness"-began the girls bachelor
friend
rs when you are with newly engaged
or happily married people," Interrupted
the girl.
mo" answered the bachelor, sit is
when p
when you are having frolic with the
children of one of your friends" inter
ruted the girl a second time, with an
ve-hit-the-nail-on-th e-head-now express
sion.
wrong again." he retorted, with
laugh you are a very poor guesser.
But never mind about that; women are
to say the only time ever feel downright
loneliness is when have no wife to com
YJent on my clothing"
S"What an admission" exclaimed the
girl. II was under the impression that
YOU men were not aware that you wore
clothes; that you took absolutely no in
terest in dress What can you mean?"
Just what 1 said" continued the bach
elor, land every single man who has ar
rived at an age where he thinks a great
deal about material comfort feels the same
way. l often feel the need of wife to
comment on my clothes. Indeed, not in
frequently 1 fairly banker for some one
to say to me- Harrison, you are we'll
dressed. You look we'll Those clothes
fit you excellently and are in fine taste
or I should like her to say, Dear me,
Harrison, you are badly dressed! Do you
think I'm going to be seen with you in
that rig? Well, 1 guess not"
How interesting!" calculated the girl.
'Wen l must say I like that. And so
that's the only way you ever feel the need
of a wife, 10 tell you that you are well or
badly dressed. Would it make you angry
If she should tell you that you were
we'll for the sake of argument, say, dress
ed in poor taste?
Certainly not, my dear girl. You do
not in the least catch my meaning. 1 get
a brand-new suit from my tailor, put 1t
on. look at myself all sides and think
some pretty nice things to myself, but
there is no one TO confirm my satisfactory
/ conclusions. Again, 1 wear a suit after
! should not wear it. 1 wear il until it
is shabby and out of shape, perhaps and
I know it, but there is no one to say
Well, Harrison, would you be caught
dead in the road in that suit of clothes?
I wouldn't And so I feel the need of a
wife, but mind you, it is only in that'par-
ticular."
Eyes, but I'd be sorry for that wife if
she CHANGED to tell you that you were bad
by dressed" said the girl Struggling her
pretty shoulders.
Tut, tut, tut! I'd enjoy that just as
much as though she told me l was per-
fectly dressed" declared the bachelor. IF
a person tells you that your are we'll
dressed it makes you satisfied with your
appearance, but if some one tells you that
you are badly dressed the thrust stirs up
all the spirit in you and you Immediately
feel that you must defend your position by
wearing those clothes; you realize that it
would be making a reflection your
judgment to lay them aside, and then, too,
you always feel that the person who has
criticised your apparel has no taste at all.
The spirit of defiance created by adverse
criticism is just as pleasant as the spirit
of serenity bred of favorable comment.
One kind or another is absolutely neces-
sary 90 mans happiness"
Il intend said the girl, ito tell every
woman of my acquaintance of your con-
fession, and when men taunt us about our
love of dress we can spring this on them.
Won't they wonder how we came to know
so much about their nnermOst feelings on
this subject of clothes? And so you want
wife only to hatter your vanity? Then
it's rue that any woman can win any
man if she only appeals strongly enough
TO his vanity. l think I'll put that in my
pipe and smoke it,
You put this in your pipe and smoke
it, returned the bachelor You must
first catch your man before you can hold
him, and TO do either you must under
stand the ethics of dress. Clothing has
won and lost more men than ever love
dreamed of in its philosophy I own
frankly that l feel the lack of criticism
regarding my apparel. Now if [ had a
wife know she'd criticise my Clothes, AM
I'd like it. If | feel the need of that
sort of thing. a woman needs IL ten times
more. You women are so much more in
tense than we are. But to get back ia
where 1 started. Every women should
make an exhaustive study Of the ethics
OF dress Many a woman has lost the
respect and love of a good husband be-
cause she underestimate the duty of Al
ways being appropriately and well dress
ed, or, worse still, because she failed sc
do her duty along this line, knowing it, ]
often hear mothers whose daughters are
ABOUT to get married advise them thus
Now don't you ever fall behind your hus.
iN III any way II you want to keep his
loVe and respect You study and reat
ana take an interest in what interests him
keep abreast with him intellectually and
you'u go on through life together side
by side. Whatever you do don't let yotlr.
self lag behind him for a minute. for Il
you do you'll never be able to catch ur
with him.
think that is practical advice to give
a girl about to be married." interruptsf
the girl.
Its very excellent so far as ii goes,
answered the bachelor, but there is no
enough of IT,. They should also say, 'Ant
see to it that you are always as wei
dressed as you can poifsbly afford Weai
the best things that you can buy but ever
mat is not sufficient. Have those thing!
made in the prevailing fashion. Then wher
You get them home don't hang them il
your closets or do them up in tissue papel