The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-16

after an 1t was a species of selhshness and
an actual injustice to her husband.
Il could not help being greatly struck
with this new departure of the present
generation of young mothers the other
day." remarked an older woman who had
been making the foregoing comments. q
was stopping with a friend on the South
Shore Bay, whose married daughter was
also making her q visit with her husband
and baby. The latter was Ceething, and
had been really IN for a couple of days
during which time its pretty mamma was
all devotion. The third day, however, the
child was decidedly better.
He will be all right now If you are
careful about his diet and see that he
takes no cold, was the verdict of the doc
tor in the morning, whereat the girl-moth-
er exclaimed with delight "Oh, then
may go shooting with Jack to-day; may
nok?'
Yes. said the doctor. looking rather
amazed. CHe was a country doctor and
did not often come in contact with the
new woman.) I do not apprehend any new
developments. and if your nurse Is quite
trustworthy / suppose there is no reason
for you to stay at home
oh, Mary viii be sure to be careful
and, besides. mamma will be here, so
please give all your instructions to them
DOCTOR as 1 must run and get ready.
q
you saved my baby long illness. Good
by, Toddies my pet CThs to the baby)
Be sure you get all right while l am
away, and a few moments after we heard
her in the hall with her husband eagerly
discussing guns and cartridges
Her mother glanced at me and laughed
The new ways are not our ways, are
they, Mary? Come TO your granny, you
poor little baby. She won't go and leave
her blessed lamb whereupon there follow
ed a lot of that most incomprehensibe
jargon to outsiders-baby talk-but which
elected wan little smile of pleasure from
the sick baby.
Late that evening the young couple
returned. The baby, who had continued
to improve all day. was hilarious with Joy
at seeing them, while the husband who
was hard-working young business man,
had had long day, of healthful recreation
with charming companion. As for my
self, confess l was puzzled. Which way
is the better way? / am sure 1 cannot
tell"
1t is pity for young persons to- be
brought up as so many are in what is
termed good society, without any horizon
to view life through a keyhole, and as a
natural sequence to believe that what they
see constitutes everything that is desirable
in the way of social intercourse. Peopie
who are not in their exclusive set, says. the
New York Tribune, are not worth the
knowing, an egotism that is pitful when
one considers the extremely limited extent
of these self-satiSfied young people
knowledge and opportunities and the vast
ly superior culture of the people to whom
they fancy themselves superior
II think it is too foolish to bring up
those children like Gagged canaries," said a
woman speaking of the family of one
of her aCOuaintaDrPe ''TThaV ara hao11fi-
fully educated, and what are called ad-
mirably brought up, but they are bound
to be narrow to the end of their days,
living their contracted lives in their small
world with perfect content, never realiz-
ing that there are larger possibilities with
in their reach My little daughter came
home lately from a class which she attends
with the Tlptop girls quite In disgust.
Only fancy, mamma, what irnporti-
nence! she exclaimed. clara Tiptop, who
has hardly spoken to me all winter, came
up 70 me to-day in the most genial way
saying: Il am so glad to find out that
my mother wits your mother. l always
thought you seemed different from those
Browns that you go with 50 much"
Imagine her speaking that way of dear
Nellie and lilly Brown, who are just as
clever as they can be and so splendid 81
never hope 20 be even their equals, / told
her, land certainly eould7not ever dream
of being their superiors.
" My mother never allows us to get into
street car or an omnibus said another
tame birding. We have never been in
anything but carriage in our lives.
Poor little creatures, Gagged by custom
and with wings clipped by prejudice, no
wonder they lose the instinct of soaring
aloft and are content behind their gilded
wires.''