The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-20
WONHN'S WORLD.


exn,aining things. Heaven knows how
ever got the idea that We owe the
Ia a reason for-why we prefer boiled
tom to roast beef, or a pink frock to
.bita one. but there it is, firmly i'm
,..,ad in the feminine breast, and it
ms one of the staples of conversation.
-, over the women you met last
,sor at the summer resorts. Was there
s,ngla one who didn't feel that she
"a called upon to give a reason for be-
~ there? one might have thought 1t
.,rnje enough. She wanted the GOODNESS,
he change, or the gayety, and so long
:. she paid her bills and behaved herself
vas her own affair. That was the atti-
.,de of the men who were there, but the
u.,n4n invariably assumed an apologetic
air and explained they came because of
.so children, or by the doctors orders,
and there is nothing funnier than the
nav these excuses were offered TO and
,sceived by people who had no right to
anv explanation whatever.
The worst phase of this explanation
rraZp though, says 1OOiOt1 LIN Ill the
New orleans Picayune, is when the work.
ing woman gets bitten with it. If there is
ona thing that makes me deadly weary
and want to die, it is when hear some
voman begin explaining why she is a book
.oent or a clerk, or typewriter or does
.nv other honest thing for living. She
& always so aristocratc that the blood
INNS as blue as skim milk in her veins;
she was always brought up in luxury
hat make the splendor of the arabian
Nights" seem squalor. she invariably new
or expected to come to this and she has
slUavs lost a few millions by a rascally
pncle when she didn't happen to lose it
IN the war. The woman with "a past,
who is a real terror, to be avoided like
the plague, is the one who has seen better
davs and insists on talking about them.
why can't business women realize the
fol,y and weakness of explaining to every
body they meet why they work. Nobody
bats to know, in the first place, and its
deca. If their business in the second.
mill Law" nan who works, works because
the money she earns, ard
natlNes' oupports orphaned children.
First-To acc ticoats with It, Is of no
the United States' 70 the world than II is
the Philippines. with what he ma44vs.
second-To lose $ when a woman can
Tthout Offering an OK
uH''e' S'"''9 ~ lg comment, we shall
bllty of other terri greatest step in her
Nifty the United 81
,orse Of oooo,,es, Attest mistakes women
i knowing when to stop
Inns coulln Seciaily applies in dealing
designated as ae is point Up to which
lack naught of lie to argument and reason
nv that word is simply mulish, and it is
that women's love of talking
.Ue spanish so that they can't see when
Hdsss IoI reached. The woman who has
noi oi'ei gh to state her case, urge her
N.Y. and then drop the subject is al
'i HI dead sure of getting anything she
.,.nts that it is in the power Of man to
Jestow The one who talks and talks
and nags and nags, never gets anything
That isn't the worst of it, either. There
Is nothing in the world more pathetic or
exasperating than the sight of a good
woman trying to nag some man she loves
into the paths of rectitude, and burying
every particle of the influence she has With
him under an avalanche of words. She is
always loaded to the muzzle with SER
mon, and she fires at sight. She never
lets up on his faults. Even a worm will
turn under continual preaching, and nine
times out of ten she drives him into do
avoid There are many times when words,
like certain jewels, are valuable because
there are very few of them.
The greatest foe to domestic peace is
the argument. I have staid in houses
where there was one perpetual wrangle
going on, and where it wasn't safe 10
make the simplest statement. Every sep
crate member of the family held a differ
ent view on religion and politics. and art,
and lev tkaaw stHsA
at the sizzling point all the time. 1t seems
to me that nothing else is so tireseme, and
Inbred, and narrow, and vindictive, as
arguing everything, and in every house 1t
should be just as much an offense against
good manners TO get up an argument as 1t
Would TO get up fist fight. Why should
We spoil our tempers, and say ill-natured
things to the people whom we love just
Tor the sake of trying to convert them to
our way of thinking? It's the most abb
surd thing in life. If Mary thinks the sun
Is shining, and John thinks it is raining,
Tor PHYS sake let them both enjoy their
opinion without any words on the SUBJ
lect When woman learns never to ar
que anything, she has found the key 10
happiness for herself, and peace for those
about her.
The Atchison Globe makes the following
observations relative to matters in which
women are interested: If it wasn't for
uressmaker making her patrons call on her
dozen times TO get a garment made some
Oh The women would have no exercise.
The women are complaining. Since the
streets were recently washed the crossing
are so clean that no excuse is left for
ho!ding up dress skirt and showing a
six betticoat.
Ihere are worthy, successful young men
VINO don't wear chrysanthemum as large
as cabbage, but it is hard 10 make young
girls believe it.
Tet'y girls and young men are giving
lne HODsOn kiss with colored LIGHTS at