The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-12

their deliverance from the hands of a
brutal and inhuman mob
The way q nation treats its women is
the mark of its standing among the world
of nations. and shows in an instant its
state of civilization or of savagery.
THE AMERICAN SENTIMENT.
Americans exalt their women as the
better part of the nation, and render them
such true, devoted homage as womankind
receives in no other country in the world.
1t is not mere lip-servIce nor the shall
low gallantry which parades itself in fire
phrases and extravagant compliments. 1t
is the simple and sincere Difference of
genuine manhood towards the sex which
includes their mothers, sisters, sweet
hearts and wives.
How fully do American women appre
ciate and reciprocate this obvious senti-
ment of American manhood? 1t is a ques-
ton worth looking INTO. DO the women of
or country fully realize the opportunities
for happiness aud power which lie within
their grasp? If they should lose a large
proportion of the queenly heritage so freely
accorded and which rightfuily belongs to
them, where lies the blame; and wherein
Is the redress?
HOW 1T IS SOMETIMES THWARTED.
Many a woman-many a thousand wo-
men-throughout this land where woman
kind is loved and reVerenced, lead lives
of constant misery and sorrow. Many a
woman feels that her daily lot is wretch
ed and unhappy beyond description. She
is weighted down by a crushing burden
of physical weakness that her husband
cannot understand, and for which he does
not know how to make allowance, simply
because he is a man.
He forgets--if indeed he ever realizes
that a woman's entire existence, mental
as well as physical is bound up in and
identified with the delicate and important
special organism of womanhood When a
woman Is peevish, fretful nervous, fun of
aches, pains and constant miseries, he will
seldom attribute them to their actual
cause.
WHERE THE BLAME LIES.
He will blame a woman's temper for
what Is rlghtfully due TO a condition of
disease and weakness. He win forget his
loyalty and patience; grow careless of her
feelings neglecful and even perhaps IN
kind What should be the delight and
comfort of domestic life is embittered and
sometimes almost destroyed through mu-
tual ignorance Of the great fundamental
facts which control and color the womans
physical life.
Should there not be a more thorough
confidence and frank understanding be-
tween husbands and wives, and between
mothers and daughters on this all import
ant subject? Ought not everyone concern
ed to make this problem of repairing the
physical capacity, upon which all other
capability depends the foremost object of
their earnest solicitude?
The kindest Of husbands cannot fully
eympathize with what he does not under
stand. However terribly a woman suffers
she hates TO be complaining of il-health
all the time; she hates to acknowledge
that she has any weakness of this nature
If she calls In the doctor, nine times in
ten the inexperienced local practitioner
does not diagnose the trouble correctly He
prescribes for liver disease or heart-weak-
mess; or he may say: Your nerves and
stomach need a little toning up; that's
ALL" He will seldom recognize the fact
that the real trouble is In the organs dis
tinctly feminine, the special, intricate and
sensitive structure which fits woman for
wifehood and motherhood.
WHY WOMEN HESITATE.
When a sensitive modest woman once
fairly realizes the cause OF the continual
aches and pains that are sapping her Vi
tally and making her life a failure, one
OF the first thoughts that come to her Is
a dread of the Notifying questioning. ex-
aminauons and local applications which
doctors so uniformly insist upon; and II
seems to her almost as If it were better
to endure her constant pains and miseries
than Submit to this embarrassing ordeal.
ONE wOMAN's EXPERIENCE.
The fact that such an alternative Is en-
tirelg needless; that there Is perfect and