The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-30

over to ask IL you could give me pair of
Mr. KS old shoes"
"Old shoes" re-echoed the woman, as
tonished, thinking that her guest had
taken leave of her senses
''Or, If you could possibly spare them.
and / could have two pair II would be
so much better" continued Miss S., per-
suasively.
More and more mystifed, Mrs. x
could only stare at her in amazement
You see" went on the strong minded,
single woman, blushing slightly, II could
put one peir at night outside of my door,
and the other pair outside of my spare
room door and when the burglar comes
(she spoke Of him as il he were a frequent
and expected visitor he would think there
was man In the house. and would run
away"
A great deal has been said and felt
about the women of the lower classes
working In the fields says Susan Nichols
Carter In January Scribner's, and of
the hard manual labor they are called to
perform. In the light of the ideas that
women should be delicate and refined
physically, doubtless the broad backs,
hard muscles and heavy, knotty frames
of peasants We see appear discordant and
unseemly Fisher women at Dieppe or
Whitby, we know, and along shore every
where, hold their own against town coun-
els when they dictate the policy of town
governments In moments of danger
when the signal gun summons the popu-
lace TO scenes of danger, then these wo-
men, the wives and mothers of the fisher
men, man the llbeboats and breast the
waves, going to the rescue of their rela-
tives in distress. Yet, these fierce, strong
women scarcely fiji the modern idea OF
what wonanhood should be.
Now however, very recently, when II is
the fad that women should be athletic.
broad-shouldered and deep-lunged to say
nothing of the wider education of our high
bred and healthy modern girls, the ques-
ton arises among the observant why
working in fields or carrying burdens is,
after all, such a hardship and degradation
to the peasant woman more than to the
peasant man. Too much labor and great
toll doubtless break down and age both
sexes. .
But Disrael spoke of women as of the
gentler, IL not the weaker, sex; and when,
in Monte Sacro, 1 saw women swinging the
scythe with broad swathes, or cutting the
sweet hay on the mountain sides with their
sickles, and then filling up tall. pannier-
like straw baskets, which they bore away
on their shoulders filled with fragrant
grass for the cattle, asked myself IT,
after all, in their present civilization, these
women of Farallo-Sesia, OF least, could
be better or more hea,thly employed. They
sang as they worked, and bright and
bronzed cheeks spoke Of healthy toll.
WELL how did you get on with your
English girl?" said young man, lighting
his post-prandial cigar. TO his neighbor
says the New York Tribune, who had tax
en- in the guest of honor, British maid
en- of high degree.
81 am afraid / was not success" was
the rueful answer. 81 tried my best to
entertain her and 1t was no easy task
for of course. we haven't a subject in
common. Still. ] was fiattering myselr
l had done fairly well when she suddenly
turned round on me with.l saylwhat drivel
you do talkv / felt. naturally, somewhat
astonished, and expostulated mildly. You
see / am at disadvantage, l explained.
over here. YOU know. the girls are al
ways amusing and entertaining TO us, so
that one has not so much to do At that
she laughed.
do you know. / rather like you, she