The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-03
eyes of any woman on the

stage.
When it comes to real generosity-the
/ generosity that means self-den5al and self
| sacritlce-the very finest flower of it may
/ be found among women, says Dorothy Dix
/ IN the New Orleans Picayune. A woman
may insist on having the worth of her
money, she may refuse to treat or pay the
1 way of those who are perfectly able to pay
] Tor themselves, but when it comes TO a
! question Of real want her hand is the first
/ and quickest 10 give. ft is the mites that
women save by scrimping here and pinch
| Ing there that build the churches and sus-
! tain the charities and send missionaries to
! the healhen.
Among the women against whom this
| charge is oftenest brought up is the wo-
man who keeps a boarding house. Mrs.
! Siimdiet's stinginess has been the subject
Of the cheap wits for generations, who
| have runS the changes on ancient butter
| and The centipede legs of the boarding
| house chicken al nauseam. We have seen
! her pathetic striving held up to ridicule,
/ her economies made mean and sOrdid, but
| no one has said anything about the other
! side OF the questioned the hundred, and
| hundred of times when she has given shell
! ter and home TO poor girls out of work,
| and of the weeks and months she has let
/ board bill run along for some young fell
| low who has lost a job and who but for
! her would have neither food nor shelter.
| No one whose fate has not taken them
! among such people has any idea of the ex-
| tent of the generOsity-the generosity that
! does not meet even the poor reward of a
! thank-that such women bestow II is
| given out of poverty, and hard work, and
/ bitter striving, and one girl so kept off of
/ the street one man saved from tramping
| or desperation is more real generosity and
worth more than a line of colleges and
| charitable institutions built from here to
! the Canadian line
Behind the apparent stinglness of many
woman lies a pathetic little story that
the world never knows. Sometimes she is a
Well-to-do woman, who is cloaking her
husbands miserhness to her. Sometimes
we see her niggardly, and the servants tell
US tales of pinchiug and scrimDlng, and
| we cannot know that she is herOically
| standing, like a lonely and deserted senti-
mel, over wrecked and ruined fortunes,
trying 10 keep up appearances until the
girls are married OF the boys in business.
1t is TO his mothers so-called stinginess
that many a poor boy owes his college edu-
cation, and his career in life. His father
hadn't the courage not to be LIBERAL be
cause he couldn't afford 1t. He must be
long TO lodges, and pay his part for ex-
penSiVe floral designs when Pat Doolan
died, and contribute to the band when
some idiot suggested presenting a medal to
the header. He was esteemed the soul of
generosity, and the ueighborhood pitied
him for having a stingy wife. ''They do
say she can make five pies out of three
bl4ckberries" they whispered and Uttered
| behind her back. But she went unmoved
on her way. She stinted the coffee here and
| saved on the sugar there, and practiced a
thousand heart-breakng economies, but
she gave her boy an education and a start
in life.
Stingy? No! 1t is an unfounded charge.
| Women are careful of money; they are
Just with it, and when there is need, they
are liberal.
She came into a drug store at K and
Fourteenth streets. and she had the air
of one bent on comforting a favor, says
the Washington Post
Il want 40 cents worth of 2-cent
stamps" she said. If she had been a man
she would have said Twenty twos" but
! and she was a womanly woman of the
deepest dye.
Il can't let you have but fifteen stamps ,"
said the druggist, who keeps stamps only
as an accommodation to steady custom
ers. She was plainly displeased, and she
did not attempt TO conceal from the drug
gist that in her opinion there were other
| drug stores. However, she took the ff-
teen stamps. Then she held up six let
tiers.
ooh, won't you please just put the
stamps on these for me? l have a veil
on said she.
The druggist loaned his tongue and per-
formed the desired service. She walked
toward the door At the threshold she
paused.
Wont you please just put the rest of
these stamps into an envelope for me?'
she said. TN afraid they'll stick to-
gether.'
The druggist produced the envelope-he
pays cash for envelopes, by the way-and
put the stamps into it. The lady walked
out content. I didn't hear her say
thanks" 1 did hear the druggist say
| something, but it wouldn't look polite in
print
The native servants in Hawaii. says the
Argonaut used to address their uistresses
as they heard other members of the house
hold address them, not infrequently call
| ing them by their first names. An Eng
fish woman determined on her arrival in
Honolulu that her servants should never
call her Mary, and instructed them care
fully in the presence of her husband. One
day, when she had visitors her cook put
his head in at the drawing room door and
politely inquired: What vegetables for
dinner to-day my love?" He had heard
her called that, and seemed proud of re-
membering not to say Mary.
Cuban women are noted for their beauty
and it is said that they retain their good
looks much longer than the women of
some other countries, says the New York
Tribune. The typical Cuban girl has black
hair and eyes, a fine figure, fascinating
manner and a soft, sweet voice She is
not as dark as a mulatto, but looks like
an American girl who has been at the
seashore and become beautifully tanned
Most people think of the Cuban woman as
one who habitually smokes, but this is not
a faithful picture of her. The well-bred
dainty Cuban girl never smokes, and she
is seldom seen in the streets in the even
ing, and only rarely does she go out dur
ing the day, and never without a chape-
ron. In the company of a parent brother
or husband a Cuban girl viii go TO a park
in the evening or to the docks when
steamer arrives or departs. She is, above
all, home body. Her home is the center
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