The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-26

hams Vegetable Compound, and am
better in every way. l am able to do
all my own work and can walk nearly
a mile without fatigue; something l
had not been able to do for over two
years. Your medicine has done me
more good than all the doctors"
the aggressive spinsters who are firmly
convinced that they alone of all woman
kind are truly Independent They join In
with the girl bachelors and pity their mar
ricd sisters for being tied to a man. The
married women do not answer them, for
they are satisfied with their lot as a rule.
And well they may be, for the most indie
pendent woman in the world is the wo-
man who is not only married but also mat
ed. Some people say that a woman poorly
married is happier than the woman not
married at all. a matron gave two girl
bachelors some points along this line not
long ago. They spoke to her in rather pa
tronizing way about her not being able to
JON in one of their larks because she was
married; it was like touching a match to
kerosene.
Such talk shows your ignorance" she
| exclaimed in a tone that carried conviction.
You girls and your boosted independence
| afford me no end of amusement as well as
| food for serious thought. You see, 1 can
| marriage l was an independent bachelor
maid myself. I thought I wouldn't ex-
| change my sweet liberty for the best hus-
| band and the finest home in the land, or
at least, l tried awfully hard to make my
| self believe that / believed that lust as
| you two girls and your kind are trying to
| do"
Why what do you mean?" asked one of
| the girl bachelors.
Sour grapes" said the other, with
| gesture of contempt.
| Merely this" answered the matron
that it is against nature for woman to be
| wholly independent, and when we go
against nature she squelches us in one way
! or another. Now you claim to be two
| girl bachelors, don't you? And you repre-
sent tho two types of so-calied independ-
ent women One of you is Independent by
choice, the other through necessity. Fan
| has a very generous allowance and she
has elected to leave her home and spend
her life in study and also to do absolutely
| as she pleases. Nell has been forced to
| leave her home and earn her own living
| and she, too, has set her head TO think
| speak and act as she sees fit There you
| are, and you are two out of thousands
You are both attractive 10 men and have
had and now have no end of beaux and
| you say that you can't fall in love with
any of them. that you are proof against
such nonsense, but warn you you aren't
1 GU are merely DENT on shutting love or
| anything like IL out of your heart. Some
day a man win come along who will drive
| such notions out OF your head in a hurry"
''Bosh!' exclaimed the one called Fan
You don't know what you are talking
about. l lead life of absolute independ-
ence and the man doesn't walk the earth
who could make me give it up
And so do L." chimed in Nell. Them 8
my sentiments, too"
ut would be preposterous to say that the
average bachelor girl is not independent in
a way" answered the matron, serenely.
There are lots of meanings to the word
independent you know I'll grant YOU
that the bachelor girl is a creature of in
dependent mind, of independent means, of
Independent manner, but she is not. never
has been, and never will be independent
when it comes to her heart, her affections
Man can do without love In his life, but
woman can't. Not every man is subject
to control by other people or things, but
every woman is The more a woman talks
about her independence and brags of il
and plumes herself on it, the more firmly
am Convinced that at that very moment
is this woman dependent for happiness on
the affection of some one. Usually il Is a
man. Berate me all you have mind TO
for speaking this way, but l am having
the satisfaction of knowing that l am
striking home. You see was once a bach
elor girl myself. and all of my friends said
that ] was fool to give up my career and
marry"
Have you regretted it?' asked both
girls
'Well. I, should say not" answered the
matron. There Is only one truly indie
pendent life for a woman and that is a
life with the man she loves Love lis the
only thing that can set a woman free.
An all-wise universal Father has made
this so to preserve the race. I never knew
what independence was until after | was
married. Single women are apt to mis-
take license for independence 1 know
every trend of thought that the so-called
bachelor girl the so-called independent
woman, has. She gets up early In the
morning thoroughly in love with the lot
she has chosen and starts out on her day
work. She meets rebuffs, gets discouraC-
ed. grows physically so weary that she
longs to fly to some one who loves her
better than all others, and have a good
cry. BY the time night comes she hates
, her lonely room or apartment and not in
! frequently sobs herself to sleep, about
what she knows not, but / do. II is sim
ply because her woman's nature is revolt
ing against a life of indepe ndent loneliness
or lonely independence, just as you please
! TO look at it. All that is best an her Is
stretching out after a home of her own.
after family ties. When she made herself
Independent in mind. manners and finances
she euslaved her affections. chained them
up, rendered them inert. No woman can
be really independent until she unchains
her affections and opens her heart 10 re-
ceive the love of some true man. PERHAPS
you two won't own it, but you know |
e speak truly"
There is no use denying that two and
two make four" answered Fan, rather
1 hippantly
z two" said Nell, "and for my part shall