The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-17


and beauty of human nature. Such sentl-
rents look well in black and white and
sound well in the parlor or from the plat
farm but ell the same human nature is
crIel bv instinct. Man is cruel and woman
Is cruel, but they are cruel in different
uavs Environment may have made this
difference, but more likely it arises from
me difference in their natures. Woman
is deliberately cruel; man thcUghtlessly
81 Nan needn't pat himself on the back
and Immediately conclude that he pos
sesses the less cruel form of cruelty. To
he tboughtlessly cruel carries more heart
aches with it. more disappointments, more
Hseouragements, than deliberate cruelty.
One knows how to meet and fight a wo-
man who is deliberately cruel, but one
never knows what to expect from
tboughtlessly cruel man.
An old woman, says the Chicago Inter
ocean. was saying these things to young
girl not long ago. She was a most fascin-
nattrg girl. with one mood to-day and to-
morrow another. The woman was old and
evnericnced enough to see trouble reflect
ed in the depths of this girls eyes.
WHAT'S wrong now, girlie?'' she asked.
Nothing" answered the girl, quite star
fled. and then she gave a little sigh.
"0b but there is" said the woman.
Tell me all about it if you've a mind TO.
Won know woman's sorrows generally van
sb with the telling. Can't your tailor give
vou your new gown for Eastern
"Nonsenser' said the girl, laughing.
"rm in a serious mood to-day. Tell me,
is it true that we women are as cruel as
men? hope not"
I'VE are not as cruelty cruel answered
the woman, serious and thoughtful at
once. Il knew some one had hurt you,
and YOUR eyes told me that it was
man. No woman can ever change the
whole expression of another Yoman's eyes.
You know, the eyes tell so much more
than the lips. / don't wonder that prize
fighters mind each others eyes If we
poor women could learn to mind each
others eyes and those of man we could
read and understand one another much
better But we were talking about cruel
ty. No. women are not so cruel to men
as men are to women. When a woman
does cruel thing to a man she goes at
it deliberately. She lays her plans, and II
nothing thwarts her carries them out, ana
then nine times out of ten sits down and
cries because the man is hurt Almost
invariably she goes a step further; tells
him how she planned to hurt him, and
then tells him that she is sorry. The av-
erage woman is tender, truthful, right
minded, with all her cruelty But, bless
YOU, man isn't cruel that way. He doesn't
get provoked with woman or want to
bring her to terms and then. deliberately
plan to it by treating her cruelty. To
hear him tell 1t, he is above such petit
ness, but to my mind he does something
ten times worse. He just goes on being
| thoughtlessly cruel to her indefinitely, and
II ne doesn't look out some day he wakes
up and finds that the real woman he cared
for has passed out of his life, and that,
so far as he is concerned, she is hence
forth masquerader. That's what mans
cruelty does-it drives us from them. Wo-
mans cruelty draws men to us because
after all it is the sincerest form of fiat
terry. We only plan to hurt them because
We love them so much, because by hurt
lns them We hope to make them more our
own"
That's ii, exactly" responded the girl.
wouldn't have said anything about this
10 you, but l know that you know about
hdlph and me. You see I've been too
Ousy. I've had too many cares on me to
care for anybody until l came to know
MN. Soon he was so much in my life that
wondered how 1 ever lived without him.
10 nm and with him 1 could be myself,
ou' m, as you say masquerader to him
now. It's all his fault. He has been SO
tHoushtlessly and persstently cruel for
gGf fgu
,".s April snow. How is he cruel? In a
hundred little ways. 1t isn't the things
.'al ne does which hurt; il is the things
mat hea leaves undone. And that's just
rem mans cruelty differs from wo-
man S. We hurt them by things that we
"o' 'hey hurt us by things that they don't
49, we can be sorry and atone for things
"al we do and show it and prove it,
u'' lhey can never atone for the things
'.'ey fall to do. the little things that mean
:" much to women There are no words
t''l are an adequate excuse for pure
t""1sntlessness. AS l was saying, Ralph
mas been cruel to me. 1t all began this
way lie won my confidence because he
S''Ved IT. | talked to him about my in
sen about my struggles, my aims
NV aspirations. He told me to come to
90" "hen anything troubled me just as
would have his little sister come
In people say that you can't miss what
y'' We never had, but I'm sure brother
slrl misses a brother. I always have
any rate, and il was such relief to
mat at last L had a strong, true man
ny Whom l could approach as a broth
| soon l had to decide something that
,'ea the cool deliberate judgment Of
"-palanced man. turned to Ralph /
'''e ana asked him to call, as ! wanted
W lt MN specially I waited week. He
' not come, and. worse still, did not
.le' Ihat was the essence of cruelty,
Use ne thoughtlessy disappointed me
ia ieIt town without writing, and after
'7 away several days wrote me a hasty
aging he didn't know when he could
y, put that I must write and tell him
4 , wanted TO say. A hasty note Is
Ir imam no note at all. The human be-
"yes not live who is too busy to write
'uldi line when IL is necessary, and so
i we up Things have been going from
bi 70 worse since. plan how I can hurt
r ana the truth Of the business is
g., nurt him at all, and he does and
M one thing after another that wounds
,., ne enjoys it all thoroughly, too. |
a. e II clearly. Since I've been study