The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-12

oNout as much as she spent on trifies 10
Set her blue enameled chatelaine watch
lie got 1t for her. and his thanks were
! mat something which every girl should
reserve Tor the man she means to marry
! "a KISS And she told far and wide If
| ner cleverness in getting this watch and
having TO pay so little for it, She never
dreamed OF how much it did cost her
| once KISS Is easily won, the average
man sees no reason why ne should not
nave as many kisses as he desires or why
having a kiss, he may not include with
1t an affectionate embrace.
! AhOther girl told me of something which
| she saw and which made her wonder She
| went TO a supper given in honor of a young
actor clever, bright fellow, who was be-
| ing made much of because he was in his
OLD nome. AT supper he ate a phiopena
with one OF the preJtiest girls i'm the place
! Later, when they were standing in the
man. ne threw a scarf across her should
| ers, deity pulled her head back quickly
Kissed her first upon the mouth and then
upon her beautiful bare shoulder She
| struck him with her fan, laughed and said
| "Philopenaw 1t made a charming pic
ture But would you like a girl that you
| loved being made the leading lady In a
| play of this sort? The fast girl has no
hesitancy in telling her men friends when
she yearns for some sweets, and, as a
bright girl said to me, cit is a disgrace to
q
| men can buy our companionship with
couple of dollars worth of sugar.
The fast girl has a foolish idea that to
| De abie TO smoke a cigarette, to use the
| latest slang-in fact, to be free and easy
| in her manners-attracts men to her. Pos
sibly 1t does-a certain kind of men-but
| gentleman, having once realized the sort
OF girl she is, even though he be the best
! of men, credits her with vecitable wicked
| ness and never with thoughtlessness, for
men seldom discriminate as far as women
! are concerned.
Her one idea is to have a good time. A
| good time in her vocabulary IS usually a
| loud time, vulgar time and time that
| If she ever does stop TO think, she will
! ind herself regretting. Nothing pleases
| her better than TO gb into a shop, grow
| very familiar with the salesman tell of
her tastes, laugh over her purchases and
| inform him that he is so pleasant that
she intends to hunt him up whenever she
| comes there.
There is something else that to you and
! to me, interested in the average Amerf-
can girl, is Anost offensive in the fast
| girl That is the way she cultivates by
| Standardization actors, singers or men
who in any way are in public life. The
girl who stands around the stage door
| 10 see the handsome actor appear sends
| him bouquets, with long quotations at
| tached TO Them and throws herself into
| Mysteries when the great pianist or the
well-known tenor is saying his "good-by'
| for the season is a girl who, if she may
| have done nothing worse, is gradually
| drifting toward the typical fast girl.
What is going to be her future? Does
| any man want to marry her? Some brain
| less idiot may think her stunning and
| ask her to bear his rather ordinary name.
| There is little question of love in this. Size
| is beginning to be counted among the
| older girls and realizes the necessity of
| having "AIrs." on her visiting cards. Then,
as she Is quite satisfied that white satin
| is becoming to her, she enters the holy
| state of matrimony. What kind of a wife
| will she make? She will not be bothered
| with housekeeping, but lives according to
| her husbands income, either in a boarding
house or a hotel. She despises children;
| consequently there are no little ones
about her to soften her heart and take hat
| hard look from her face. She is a bad
! wife and an absolutely useless member of
| the community. She sleeps late in the
morning, breakfasts in bed, enjoys a good
| luncheon and then dresses to go out for a
| walk. She reaches home just before din
| ner, but does not tell where she has been.
! Dressing for dinner means dressing to go
| out again, for as neither she nor her hus-
| band finds pleasure in each others So
| ciety they must seek amusement at the
| theater, opera or perhaps at a card party.
You call this life? 1 do not. 1t is not
| even existing. 1t is a life without love,
without belief and without ambition, but
it is certain to be the kind of married life
achieved by the fast girl.
| And if she doesn't marry? Then while
most of her money is spent on fine clothes
| a large portion of 1t goes toward buying
| lotions warranted to remove wrinkles,
pills to make the form shapely or creams
which make washing the face entirely I'M
| necessary and which are guaranteed 10
make a woman of 40 look II. BY this time
! the fast girl has became a fast woman.
| Her appearance is such that her women
| friends would rather not go on the street
with her There is a little too much
rouge a little too much powder and
little too much Of make up In general for
a gentlewoman 10 care to appear in public
as her companion. Men have tired of her.
| She is not in the way of hearing the last
new slang or the latest story, while her
voice which once was young and pretty,
is now decidedly out of tune, so that when
she sings and tries to be coquettish she
is simply an object of ridicule. If there
is any girl in this great country who has
even the slightest inclination toward be-
ing fast she should crush il as quickly
as she can.
That woman governs the world is pos
tive truth-not the new woman, with hen
attempt at masculinity; not the fast girl
with her determination to be a good com
rade but the old fashioned type of woman
who knows how 10 be sympathetic to give
encouragement where it is needed and,
best of all, she who understands how to
love and to gain love as a woman should
give and have it. A gallant old gentle
man once said that the women who were
loved were as modest as violets and as
sweet as red roses. Do you think that can
be said of the fast girl? She may wear a
bunch Of violets because they are fashion
able In reality the gaudy, ordorless hol-
lyhock is her emblem, and, though she
may never assume it, yet in the eyes of
men and women who know she represents
it.
This is the end of the sermon. DO you
agree with the preacher. that preacher
whose belief in her own preaching is strong
ana who therefore boldly signs herself
Bah.