The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-14

cry. He is dissatisfied with himself be-
cause he gets what he wants by force
rather than diplomacy. All people who
exercise power over others because they
know they possess it, and because they
feel that they have the right TO exercise
this power, are disconnected. and this mas
tered woman is utterly miserable because
she feels that what she thinks and says
and does counts for nothing, and so after
while she concludes that IL isn't worth
While to think or TO talk or to act and
she becomes about as useful a member
Of society at last as the jenyish is in its
kingdom, thanks TO the man TO whom she
is tied"
Il see" said the girl Il hope Tn get
man a manager and not a MASTER" ard
She looked into the diamond as if she
would read her fate there.
There's just no telling. says Dorothy DIX
in the New Orleans Picayune, the trouble
that this awe Of our neghbors opinions
causes. If they could get off where no.
body knew them half of the poor young
couples you know, who get married, would
start out in sensible and reasonab bic.
way, with a little cottage, and plain fur
niture, and the girl doing her own cooking
and they would be happy and comfortable
and get along. But they haven't the cour-
sc 10 do that al home and so they have
put on halt rations for the next six
months to pay for a silly white satin
gown. They go to housekeeping in a
house that is gorgeous with empire fur
uiture. bought on the installment plan
and life resolves Itself into one prolonged
struggle 10 head off the bill collector.
They didn't want to do it. They knew bet
ter. They We're just simply victims to cur
common dread of what people win say
about US.
1t is this same feeling that is at the
bottom of the domestic problem. There
are so many women wanting work ana
they are 50 awfully particular what kind
of work it is l think l know personally a
couple of million of girls who are prepar-
ing themselves 10 be artists and illustra-
tors and prima donnas, and not a single
one Wac is qualified for a good cook If
you advertise in the paper for a type
writer or stenographer or clerk you will
have to hire a policeman to protect you
from the horde of girls who will apply for
the position, and they win take almost
anything you offer But If you want a
good cook or housemaid or trusty nurse
you VIII have to get out and hustle around
to find one who viii languidly condescend
TO come and try you and see if she likes
you. II you take the lot of the average
maid in a good family where she gets
good wages, nice room and the best of
food, IL as infinitely more comfortable and
lucrative than that of the lily paid girl
who clerks in a store, who must
be on her feet all day, and
whose scant wages win pay
for only the poorest subsistence. It is
nothing but the absurd idea that clerk
ing is more respectable than cooking
that keeps many girl behind the coun-
ter instead of before the cooking stove
Another way in which we are martyrs
to our neighbors' opinions is in wearing
will
that the custom is almost suicidal, and
that just as soon as a woman puts ii on
he begins to get ready TO treat her for
some nervous malady. When death
comes into our homes and robs us of our
loved ones, il is hard enough 10 bear
God knows, without adding anything
else to it in the way of gloom. How
worse than useless 1t seems. when the
heart is bowed down and the world sad
dened, TO shut out every ray of sunshine
with heavy wells and make ones frock a
perpetual reminder of loss from which one
cannot escape. How gloomy ihe house
looks when only black robed figures flit
about seeming to keep the grief always
before one the wound always open. Men
hate mourning gowns on their WOmankind:
the women themselves tell you that they
shrink in horror from it; that it makes
them depressed, nervous, ILL., but because
other people will think il queer if they
don't they shroud themselves in funereal
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health and life.
me popularity OF Admiral Sampson
among me street urchAhs OF American CT
Ies Is shared ny members OF ms family. A
lew Gays aSo New ork cub gave
reception to one of the daughters of this
seados. hHe the reception was in fun
s"lnS noise OF a growing tumult crept in
TO the rooms some one went to the door
duu Iouhd lne mouse IN STATE OF siege.
Inc street was plocked by MOP OF small
boys with grlmy, resolute faces When
tfle door opened the murmur sWeiled to
w nat 90 you want, boys?' asked the
astonished young woman at the door.
want TO see Admiral sampson dauSh
Ter, snr'Aed the crowd.
wen, you can l, ana the door was smut.
AFTER pariey on the part OF the be-
sleSed' ana much NOISE on the part OF the