The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-04

/ versa. But he will not keep up the pre-
tense very long, even for loves sweet
I sake. II ne does il viii grow irksome
and destroy some of the brightness of his
life. What is true of man is true of wo-
man. SO you see you must choose a hus-
/ band who is thoroughly congenial if you
would be happy.
/ If, like P0lonious, when with Hamlet
/ he agrees with everything you say, you
! may well become suspicious. A man who
/ seems TOO tractable is worth watching. In
a case like that. indeed IN all cases. in
| form yourself to his home life; how
| he treats his horses. A nan who abuses
a horse will be certain to make an abom-
| Unable husband. The cruelty in him will
certainly crop out in his treatment of his
wife even though he may think he loves
her.
There, my dears, think that is enough
for one day" concluded the gray-haired
professor.
NO. ! am not married man. I simply
give you the result of my observations. -
why are the bachelors of to-day so
terribly afraid Of expressing their warm
est feeling? I'm sure l don't know. but
they certainly are. I have often noticed
says a correspondent of the Chicago
T1ines-Herald, the extreme caution which
the average bachelor shows when talking
to woman. And it Is simply ridiculous
women go about armed to the teeth with
marriage hncenses, made uot in blank form
and that we are all ready to pounce upon
and capture the first poor, unprotected
man that we meet-just like buccaneers
in the old days of pirates and tragedies
of the sea. All of which is really awfully
funny TO anyone of an observant turn
of mind Some day I shall feel it duty
70 call out to the poor men to be real
brave and not to mind. that we aren't
as terrifying as they seem to think.
We don't want to get married any
more than you do We have got so many
other lovely things to do is what 1 should
like to say to a few of the trembling
thousands who fear matrimony as women
fear spiders and cows.
What is the reason for this extreme
caution? Well, ] think there are several
reasons For one thing, the average man
and the average bachelor especially
hardly comprehends the new and altered
attitude and condition of the present day
woman. He has had about six short years
or so in which to get acquainted with us
in our new freedom. And all the while
he has had generations and generations
of Inherited tendencies back of him. pull
ing him straight in the other direction.
Poor fellow How can he make very
much progress under such distressing
conditions? 1t is barely possible that the
great caution of the average bachelor,
which we women find so funny and anus
ing, is really a trace of avatsm. At all
events the bachelor of to-day--in my
opinion-fancies that the good fellowship
and comradeship of the woman of the
moment means holiness perhaps. Any
way, he mistakes her demeanor for I'M
precedented advances
Most women have ceased to regard
marriage as anything more than a happy
accident if it finally comes to them and
the majority of us are inclined 10 push
il away rather than to seek it. The men,
on the other hand, have completely
changed places with us. 1 mean that they
have taken up the attitude occupied by
the women of a generation ago; are APP
parently in deadly fear lest we are long
ing to marry as women did when there
was absolutely nothing else for them to
do-no lines of work towards which they
could bend their energies, their brightness,
their cleyerness and originality. There is
little doubt but what they suspect us of
dire matrimonial intentions.
LAS l said before the extreme care with
which they endeavor to ward off the at
tacks which We have absolutely no idea of
making ii ludicrously amusing, and it
seems to me that the poor fellows should
be encouraged to take heart rather than
be scolded for the nervousness which, to
all appearances, they can neither conquer
nor control. Perhaps you know, they're
not really more cautious than are women
only being men they are not able to con-
ceal their fears and tremblings as we do
under smiles and light chatter. 1 feel
sure that we are all very fond of the
bachelors-for they are the very salt of
the social earth in many cases-we ought
to reassGre them, comfort them and teach
them that they are safer than they
think.
mo woman, let them be reminded, has
yet been known to carry a marriage Ii
cense among the samples in her purse,
and no man has yet been hauled to the
matrimonial altar by the hair of the
head"
Lost Youth
Mourn it indeed-the dream that was de-
vine!
Not all the tenderness of common day,
Nor vict-ries of the common, sacred way,
Shall he to thee for that lost earth of
thine
In glory garmented for that benign
And beauteous vision, which no prayers
could stay!
Now art thou Life's, in truth, whose
fingers gray
Swift seal thee with her strange and aw-
full sign
And yet beyond those other gates of
birth
Thou going a child. Ia mystic ways I'M
| trod-
| Shall heavens young dream, a thousand
times more fair
| Perhaps be this thy young, lost dream of
| earth,
| Newborn for thee in that serener air,
| Returned thee, in the pity of thy God.
Margaret Steele Anderson in the Woman S
Home Companion
|
| the Chicago Times-Herald, l have always
had the sneaking opinion that nice bach
| elors are not bachelors from choice. There
/ is always some sweet pretty, nice girl
who has been unselfsh with the mitten,
| or else they have slipped up for some rea-