The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-20
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 90 1898

the mult-miilionaire who is the petted
darling of all the desirable set. who holds
itself somewhat aloof from the others. the
embryo sycophants and fatterers; in fact,
Lilipuuan Vanity Fair, whose exist
ence we deplore, while we laugh at it's
likeness to our own
Doctors say that cold ankles kill more
women than nerves and disease put to-
gether. This may be an eXaggeration, but
it is not to say that when the ankles are
well protected and kept perfectly warm
their owner is not likely 20 suffer with
colds
stock breeders say that cold can be
borne by animals only at an expense of
| fat or muscle or vitality, and so it is with
women" said a fashionable boot maker
| recently. And yet they persist in wear
ing thin stockings and thin, low quartered
shoes long after the summer has passed.
But they are improving in this respect as
well as in every other as time goes by.
Ten years ago we sold as many low shoes
in winter. shoes with an excuse for a sole,
as We did in summer. Not so now. When
a woman comes in and buys pair of low
shoes at this season for outdoor wear we
know that she is one of two things, vain
or silly"
Under the heading Cash Cost of Con-
vert" the Independent gives the following
statistics:
Methodist converts in general cost S42.0S
| apiece during the past year and the Bap-
lists $47.52, the proportion being kept in the
main through the eight years under re-
view. The Methodist Episcopal Church,
however, paid only $24 for its converts,
| and the Methodist Episcopal Church,
| South, 1885, The Northern Baptsts ex-
| pended on their converts 1927 each, and
the Southern Baptists S146.S2 Incorrectly
| given in the tables $14.61. Only two years
before, however QS95), each convert cost
the Southern Bapdsts $3.50 The Congre-
| gational converts cost SIG each, and the
| Presbyterians averaged 1922; the Northern
| Church paying 1927, the Southern $780, the
United SIG and the Cumberland S445
This refers, of course, to converts gained
by the foreign missionary societies of the
| churches named.
81 am ready to go to to-day, tomorrow,
! this minute, any time, praise the Lord
| Thus spoke Mrs. Fannie Walker yester-
day. says the Kansas City Times. at the
| Good Way Mission, 619 East Fifth street,
following call for experiences by the
| Rev. B. P Crawford, a Free Methodist
preacher who had conducted the noon
services at the little chapel
|
| Mrs. Walkers lips she resumed her chair.
| A look of intense satisfaction came into
| her eyes. Before the minister could call
| for other testimony Mrs. Walker was
heard to gasp, her head settled forward
on her breast and she was dead. Mrs.
Walker was 40 years old.
| The Klondike woman, says the San
| Francisco Call, was an evolution and
/ rnIrr l1n r1rpr1 IN
who stayed at home and did the sewing;
| and protest against the one who lived
| with her relatives.
| The Philippine woman is another exam
| pie of what woman can do when she is
released from her environments and gets
| "a chance"
There sailed for the Philippines from
San Francisco the other day three wo-
men, who are going out to be, not farm
ers wives nor farmers cooks, but plant
ers! planter in the Philippines means
farmer of the type in the North known
| as the gentleman farmer; the planter di-
| reefs the piow and buys the seed and sees
that the crops are properly gathered.
At home this is thought very progressive
work for a woman, because there are so
| many men who are willing to fill the shoes
which plod across land; but in the Philip
| pines there are great tracts of unsettled
| country wholly uncultivated in our sense
of the word with no one ready to do the
| work.
The three women planters who started
| out intend to raise broad acres of nuts
and fruit and to pasture their small ami
| mails upon thousand hills. Before go
| ing out, they made an exhaustive study
| of the country, and their leader, Miss Di-
| vine has studied horticulture until she is
prepared TO gauge the nut crop from the
| quality of the soil. 1t they can get the
| land low enough-and the home consul
! said that it could be obtained for $40 per
/ acre-they will run nut and fruit farms
| with small game, such as the choice mar
| kets of Europe demand as a second crop.
| Choice poultry can be shipped by the
| Chinese railroad to st. Petersburg, where
| 1t finds an eXtravagant sale, and the other
products can easily be preserved for Eng
lands use. They can, of course, ship 20
| AmericdE but with California's rich acres
this would be at present less profitable.
The woman planter in the Philippines
can gather her crops all the year round,
for it is never too cold for. outdoor work,
| and so she can enjoy steady revenue.
| In the matter of labor, she can indulge
| in all the native talent she desires, and
for his keep and 81 a month, she can get
| a native workman, whose knowledge of
/ the fora and fauna will be invaluable.
| To reach our new Eldorado only a small
| sum is needed-not a Klondike For $500
! of which she spends one-fifth for her pass
age, a woman can get to the Philippines.
| purchase her land, build Philippine
house. and get to work. Her crop is i'm
| mediate.
| 1t is pleasant to know that the woman
digging her fortune in the Philippines can
wear neat, becoming garments, instead of
a fur ulster.
The agricultural office at Washington
| Is besieged with women applicants who
wish to obtain a government treatise upon
the fertility of the Philippine Islands; and
the book supplied 10 the them is rich in
| promise.
One of the English papers says of the
| wives who accompanied their husbands of
| the American Peace Commission to Paris:
American women are very much to the
| fore just now in Paris. and their presence
| at the Hotel Continental gives to that hos
| telry the appearance of one of the New
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