The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-26


as the chief career in life it certainly seems
only fair that they should be fitted 10 fill
the role. We teach a boy that he can only
achieve prosperity in his chosen occupation
by his having mastered the details, by good
management, and TO that end he must
serve an apprenticeship, but we chuck
girl into the midst of the most eXactng
profession In the world without the shght-
est training of any sort whatever, and eN-
poet her to make a success of it. Every
day we hear mothers say: "Oh, 1 don
want nv girls to be burdened with any
cares. and I haven't taught them to sew
or cook, or manage house. 1hey II
learn il when they have to. OF course IN
time. as a general thing, they do learn
but at the expense of troubles, and trials
and tears. and domestic misery and re-
ordinations II is about as sensible as Il
father would say: ooh, won't have my
son taught any business, or have him at
tend a medical college. BY the time he has
made an assignment two or three times
or killed a lot of people experimenting on
them, he'll learn how" In the girfs case
nobody stops to think that everything
might have gone smoothly from the frst
If she had only been taught her business
A mother who will palm off a girl VINO
doesn't know how to keep house on an I'M
suspecting bridegroom ought to be hapie
for damages for getting rid of her under
false pretenses.
1t is perhaps looking forward to an inn
POSSIBLE millennium, says Dorothy Dix in
the New Orleans Picayune, to hope that
The day is not far distant when simple
human justice will be shown to girls, ana
they will be as carefully prepared for life
as boys are. If all husbands were always
loving and generous, If they were even al
ways prosperous, we might fall back upon
matrimony as the panacea for the diftcul7
ties in women's lives. but men die. they
lose their money and many woman who
has married well" as the phrase goes
finds herself widowed and penniless, or
that through some stroke of ill-luck her
husband is unable to provide for her Then
she faces the great bread and butter prob
lem that her inability and lack of fitness
for anything turns into tragedy. Nobody
has prepared her for this Nobody mas
taught her any useful thing to do. Moth
ing that win earn money Yet there Is no
girl IN all ms idtu WHO may nv me- 0A4'9
fate. We all know 1t, but we do nothing to
try to help her.
We take nothing for granted about a
boys future We try to warn him at every
point, so that he may surmount difficult
ties and make the best OF life but we
abandon the girl TO blind luck. If she mar
ries well, we'll and good. If she doesn t she
must struggle along. hampered with all
sorts of drawbacks, and lack of skill and
knowledge, and starVe along as best she
can. 1t is time We abandoned the old theo-
Ties about women, and came down TO facts
They are of the same clay as their broth
ers They are neither inspired Sibyls or
fools Both are subject to the same Vicissi-
tudes in life, and women have right to
ask that they should not be sent forth
without some of the practical affairs you
teach her brother. Give her chance.
Jehovah, God, Thy gracious power
4 On every land we see;
Oh may the blessing of each hour
Lead all our thoughts to Thee.
Thy power is in the ocean deeps.
And reaches to the skies
Thine eye of mercy never sleeps,
Thy goodness never dies.
Selected for the New York Tribune.
Every day sees the ranks of the Red
Cross Society added 10 by girls and wo-
men of prestige and power.
Now comes the news that Miss Annie
Wheeler daughter of Fighting Joe" of
Confederate cavalry fame, has offered her
services.
Miss Wheeler is in serious earnest, for
she has left her fine old Alabama home and
gone down to Tampa; her father As there
and her brother, and she is begging to go
over to Gen. Skaters troops. She is an
excellent nurse, land she's jolly good
EDl1iPrN saws the men.
Though in Italy the so-called "emanci-
patton" of woman is by no means so far
advanced as in England or the United
States, there are few countries in Europe
where the political influence, though great
is not. however, always apparent, for 1t is
chiefly exercised indirectly and privately
by the women of the upper classes. In.
stead of forming themselves into associa
tons and leagues, and international unions
and organizing public meetings and com
peting with political orators, the Italian
women interested In politics work quietly
and certainly not less efficaciously thar
their more "emancipated" sisters. AS
rule Italian women work by means of thu
Old French eXpedient, the salon. In ROm'
alone there are no fewer than a dozer
salons devoted almost entirely to the dis
cussion of political topics. Each salol
has its own special political color" whicl
is generally that of the husband or father
or friends of the mistress of the house
but while the thread and web of the poll
tics carried on in salon is spun and wo
ven by the men who frequent it, the per
sonal influence of the mistress of the hous
acts ON each one of her guests, modifying
views, and softening, or it may be accen
tuating, the roughness of ambition. A
long as they remain in their salon, Italian
political women are in every way admir-
able.
One thousand dollars for flag pin, say
the Philadelphia Times, made entirely o
jewels That is what one woman ha
paid for her expression of patriotism sine
the beginning of the war
81 am so sorry for their poverty" sal
a sympathetic woman once, speaking of
family in dire need.
"E1ow many dollars are you sorry?" ask
ed a practical friend.
Putting patriotism in a matter of dollar
and cents-thOugh this is the more selis
way in which it is done-the women c
Philadelphia are showing signs of grea
patriotism.
There has been a marvellous increase
the use of symbols for decoration With