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

are better than men. and on account Of
their training and the convention that
hedge them about the home means more
TO them. Indeed. 10 the great majority
of good women the home and its inmates
are all in al. This being So the Ereat
majority OF women are prepared from the
start to be most excellent ana comiorta-
bic wives All such as these nocd rs a
fair chance and a little acknowledgements. Ia
fact very great many women accom-
pish their duty with cheerful patience
against every adverse chance, and Win
nothing but encouragement from those
VINO should help in all things and hinder
In nothing.
NOTWITHSTANDING the inherent and ac-
Quired goodness of womankind. says John
Gimer Speed in the New York Herald
there are women of very various sorts 10
this strange and interesting world, and
some of these are most i'll adapted to be
wives and mothers. 1 am sorry to say
this, but L have not been blind in my jour
ney through the world, and it is my mis-
sion 20 set down facts rather than 10 con-
struct ideals from the hmsy materials
which wishes desires and dreams can lur-
nish. If there be women that men should
hesitate TO marry let us see who they are.
To begin with, / should say that as ami
ability is a womans greatest charm
greater than beauty of person and
strength of mind cOmbined-sO the contra
ry OF it is womans most serious taulJ 10
be a downright scold is fatal and makes
a woman quite impossible. But there rs
something In which some women some
times indulge which is worse than scold-
ing. That something worse / shall for
lack Of a better term call nagglue. Down
right Seeding is fatal 1t does It's work
as a swift bullet at short range works. IL
kills cleanly and surely. But nagsing eats
as does cancer. 1t is as deadly in the
end, but il takes longer 10 do its hideous
work. and 1t is a hundred thousand times
more painful.
While this cancer is first at work
have hopes. We hope that either surgery
or medicine. or both, may stop its raw
ages and restore the health. II may be
that there have been such cures But as
a general thing il is u vain and delusive
hope which makes the suffering of the
victim all the worse to bear, and only de-
lays rather unkindly than humanely, the
inevitable end
The nagging woman is of various sorts.
Sometimes she is specifically beautiful
sometimes she is rather strong minded, bur
as a general thing she IS merely a pesti-
lential fool. When she has beauty her
capacity for the undolng of man is very
great, for men are so constituted that they
yield homage to beauty even when it IS
lowered with a sOurness which makes 81
as unpalatable as Dead Sea fruit.
An Intellectual woman who nags can aisO
play the deuce, for intellect commands re-
spect in the sufferer, while it supplies the
lady with ingenious methods of torture.
But the mere fool is the worst, as she IS
also the most frequent There is sure to
be an inconseQuence about her nagging
more irritating than anything in the world.
She will break out on week days and hOli-
days, and is sure to make things at once
lively and sad for the poor devil who hap
pens TO wear her letters.
1t is a most untoward fate to be married
TO one giving to nagging. And yer young
fellow looking for a wife may get one Of
this sort without In the least intending to
do so. Young fellows in amorous mood
are not very cool of judgment, and, be-
sides, yong fellows in the mating season
have rarely arrived at an age of calm dis
erection and deliberate wisdom As "a rule
they can only buy the ticket at the box
office and what the play is like when
the curtain is up. Young women in the
choice of partners have no greater advan-
tages. They may get drunkards, trihers
laggards, genuises, or such other imprac-
ticables. But their chances of getting
''naggers'' is pretty slim.
Men 90 not Seuciaily nag. sometimes
they do, to be sure. But the Instances are
very rare. A man with little soul and a
small brain Is much more apt to develop
on other disagreeable lines and grow TO be
a bully, a cowardly bully. When he nags
the bastinado should he his portion
Next among disagrecabe women, women
unsafe 10 marry, Is the untidy woman.
There is, 20 be sure, another side to this.
The TOO tidy woman, she who sacrifices
everything 10 orderliness and cleanliness
and regularity, is mighty uncomfortable,
and goes tOierably far to justify the exist
ence of her opposite. Indeed, / have in my
mind at this moment woman who has
spent her whole long life in keeping clean
and she has during that time
who has spent her whole long life in keep
ing clean, and she has during thatt ime
made ali who came in contact with her
quite miserable. When her husband came
% die ] am sure he must have thought
that there would be a good deal of whole
some Comfort in the dirt In which he would
be buried.
While the too tidy woman can easily in
her excuses reconcile a man TO death, the
untidy woman in her neglect of the decen-
cies of life may drive man 10 suicide, or
to drink. which is worse. l have known
such a few such, and they were pitiful
creatures, but not nearly so pitiful as the
wretched morJals dependent upon them
and subject to their mismana cement.
Some of these women are not more re-
sponsible than the incapables we pace in
asylums and care for at the cost Of the
state. Others are so because of lack of
taste ana knowledge. For Instance, a wo-
man may not care what she eats, or how
she is clothed or housed, whether her bed
be comfortable or not
1 have an idea that the inchoate. untidy
woman can be detected in the young girl
But there would be no use in the world in
telling the nest builders of the signs They
would mover soc Them even tbpuol, tho
young girls clothes were fastened on her
with obvious pins in the stead of the more
decent and orderly buttons. A little while
ago / met lady Of much intellectual
sprightlincss at an entertainments / Of
fered my services TO secure her some sup
per. She suggested going with me 20 the
table l looked at her garments. ana rap
IDLY speculatcd upon the fearful conse-
quence IL but one pin should come out
and then insisted that she sit where she