The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-31

/ which We know her.
Thackcray said somewhere that he rare
ly met a large, fine. splendid woman who
was not followed by sim little chap.
/ who did the part OF husband with proud
/ bat cringing nl-grace. We an have in
/ our own observation confirmed this state
meut OF the great satirist. And so, / be
/ heve. il is with the masterful women of
fads. They nearly ALWAYS attach TO them
/ little measly "cusses' not III TO walk
/ alone, but admirably suited 10 fetch and
/ carry for some one cast in larger
{ mould.
Then we have The gossiping woman
! Yes. We have her but / believe | won't
( say anything about her. She is too nu-
/ inerous and too omniscient. I have not
many words of moral character left, but 7
/ should like 10 cling to those that remain
So we will pass her by. About her 1
might say many interesting things but
scarcely anything that is new Let each
reader of this article summon TO his mind
/ the most admirable gossip OF his acquaint-
ance and consider whether he would like
10 marry her or not. ANY man is as able
as l am to form judgment as TO the gos-
sips suitability for wfehOod. The real
dved 10 The wooi women gOssips, how
eyer. have settled the matter themselves,
FOR they are nearly always old maids.
There is one other serious advice 1 feel
moved 20 give to men about to marry.
] p
monition might be given with even more
posstiveness to women. Men and women
Of different classes are pretty certain to
achieve unhappiness if they attempt 10
work in double harness In our large and
careless way we are in the habit OF say
ing that there are no classes in this coun-
try but that all are born free and equal.
| Before the courts of justice and in The
eyes of the law this is So but there is no
country in the world in which class dis
| tiuction is more marked than in the
| United States A gentleman is such and
lady is such because 1t is so and not by
reason Of any edict or arbitrary decree.
/ With them il Is matter of feeling and
Of habit, and all the blood of all the
Towards could not go further an the crea-
ton of caste.
To marry outside the class in which one
feels comfortable and at home is absolute
~ a sin against nature. If by compro-
misses and reformations men and women
of different classes finally succeed In es-
tablishing an easy cordiality in their do
nestle life, ID is invariably the case that
the nicer partner in the union has sacri-
I feed his or her superiority of taste and
manner and mode of thought The high
er sinks quite or almost to the level of
the lower. and in deterioration finds, at
best a semblanCe of peace. But he who
has once had The tastes and habits of
gentleman can never quite forget, and
just as surely he can never quite forgive
the cause of his decadence.
II is sadder. of course, to see a woman
of gentle birth and gentle rearing married
to a boorish peasant, for she, while she
remains a wife, cannot escape her home.
A man under similar conditions can spend
much of his time abroad, for he has work
to do and there are hundreds of legitimate
affairs to take him away from home. But
when he has married out of his class he
has done a fatal thing ana put happiness
as deliberately away from himself as
though he had declined a gift that was to
be offered but once and then withheld
forever.
To write what l have written has not
been pleasant, and had il not been that l
had accepted the challenge l should with
hold this from publication or emulate the
example Of my distinguished friend Col.
Richard Malcolm Johnston. When Col.
Johnston had written his first novel, i'm
which, as he first wrote il, there was an
angelic woman with a shrew as a foil
for her he sat bordering il and living with
the creations of his brain He says that
as he SAT in this communion this shrew
seemed TO rise up before him and with
panied face she said reproachfully: "Col.
Johnston, YOU never knew such a bad Wo-
man as you have made me TO be-
"And sure enough" said the colonel i'm
telling this story, II never had. Therefore
l sat down and rewroCe that book and
made that woman as good as she had pre-
Viously been bad"
She is always dead in earnest. and the
more foolish her scheme appears to be the
more earnest and insistent is she is her
! efforts 10 propagate it, l confess l new
er saw a woman like this at home. and
please God l never shall But have met
the husbands of some such. Poor crea-
lures! They have come 10 me usually as
messengers from their wives, and poor
whipped devils they seemed.
That was gallant and beautiful in the
! colonel But then, he had made his bad
/ woman and was responsible for her. With
/ her he could do as he chose The classes
| of women with which l have been deal
ing are not, however of my making. They
/ belong to the world, and are solemn facts
dread realities But they are only a
| small minority They do deal of harm
and spread discomfort all out of proper
! ton TO their numerical strength. Therefore
cannot do them over again.
| can do one thing however. l can say
and say it with heartiness, that pretty
nearly all Of those not in the classes of
women | have tried 10 define are admir-
able. They All the land with gladness and
/ bring peace upon the earth. In their lives
! they justify natures nobest handiwork.
4 and white doing everlasting glory to their
own loyalty truth and sweetness. they
crown their husbands with honor and be-
stow upon unworthy men wealth that is
I greater than rubies.
> Her kiss Is very soft and sweet
And shy as a violet is;
Under the lamp. ia the sleeping street.
She ttted her mouth to his
And he is sitting with idle pen.
And page all blank and bare.
Seeing the face he folded then
D In a shining hood of hair.
Feeling the thrill Of her shy kiss vet.
After a night aud day
Oh, the odor OF loves crushed mienonotte
The scent of a hawthorne spray.
Stirs not the honey within the brain.
The mere tone thought of her docs.
No wonder if, living the night again.
His lips are femulous.
London sun.
1t is with mingled feelings Of tov and
l alarm that the far Sex viii receive The
l.