The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-20
WOMAN 5 v 0RLD

-.,,ssin their struggles over the necessary
-r5 totally inadequate supply of men at
.nnnaer resorts. In the first place,
NC Dorothy Dix in the New Orleans Pic
me there is always the inevitable wi
dow beautiful, fascinating, just beginning
lie notice. and with the late depart
e5,s life insurance still in her pocket 50
.,esk. When she enters the arena the
..ss takes on the aspect of those interest
inc affairs of which we read in the police
-s,,,rt where an unsophisticated rustic en-
,,sas in a game with friendly strangers on
me ears. She is playing a game in which
al The cards are marked cards, and she
Knows them by the backs. and in conse-
onarce she walks off with the stakes. The
married hirt-the woman who has achiev-
81 kind of temporary widowhood by so
tas off for the summers even more dan
ge-7us. Like the widow, she knows all
tra ropes and possesses all the advantage
that The professional always has over the
amateur. with this further point in her ia
yor that there is a definite time limit to
r1e airtation She knows, and the man
knows that when the vacation is over and
upon her and sigh, and she will look up
srd sigh. and both will murmur If we
had only met sooner and that viii end it.
No tears. no future making good of reck-
less promises and vows, no scenes, moth
ing more expected of either one nothing
10 sneak out of and feel mean about
which men hate, 1t was a game played
ON top of the table between evenly matched
PLAYERS. and it ends in a draw
IF the women TO whom their summer
Airtation is as necessary a stimuiant as
his absinthe is to the French boulebardier,
would confne their amusements to the
unattached men," went on madame. L
should enjoy my little comedy with a light
heart but they don't. There aren't enough
single men to go around, and its when the
married men are drawn into it that real
trouble begins, and the comedy turns into
tragedy So far as her part
of the business goes the fiirt
has generally gotten a soft snap. The
married man is middle-aged, say. 1t has
been long time since anybody told him,
indirectly and insidiously, of course, that
he was an Apollo. He's gotten out of
the way of thinking of himself as a fas-
cinator. Perhaps, the principal subjects
Of his wife's conversation is to find fault
with him about the things he has done
or left undOne In a minute all that Is
changed. Here is some pretty young
creature, who SO far as he can see in his
laundering, masculine stup dity, is throw
ing over ali the young fellows in the
hotel for him; she hangs on his words;
She deftly compliments him, and it never
occurs to him he's a makeshift. By
George he says, complacently, I don't
see that l look a day older than l did
when l was rs, and, of course, it's natu-
raj Ia be more fascinating TO a clever
discriminating woman than those young
Whlpper-snappers that ought to be in
the nursey right now. They've seen
nothing of life. Why, their conversation
is an insipid as milk and water. Now I
and then he will sigh and think how
strange it is that his wife doesn't ap-
preciate him. then he stroils off with Mrs
or Miss Flirt. And they won't get home
until after late supper And the women
on the gallery. will ask his wife where
her husband is, and wonder where he
and Mrs. Flirt could have gone to be
away so long, and the poor wife will
either be sitting up with stereOtyped
smile frozen on her face, or else be up
stairs with her head under a pillow, ac-
cording to the manner of backbone the
good Lord gave her. OF course, YOU
aud when il isn't our huSband-Can see
IL all amounts to nothing. The man means
nothing and the flirt means nothing except
to amuse herself and minister to her own
vanity, but it is a dead, terrible reality
10 the wife, and the woman who has once
looked in the face of that kind of gnawing
jealousy never again looks on life with
all unclouded eye.
Few can play with fire and not get
. burned went on madame sententious.v
remember case-oh, it was years ana
years ago-there was a pretty girl staying
M I'M or ~ To-.
was one of these gentle, clnging little
creatures, with wide opened eyes, that al
ways made you think of a startled fawn
among the men was a handsome, dashing
lehoW, who came from, no one knew
Where, and was, no one knew what In
httIe While it was very evident that
ne was paying devoted attention to the
glrI' and her mother, anxious for her
laughter 10 reVel in the spurious reputa-
uoh OF a summer belle, made no obiec-
"oh' one night the girl came in with a
great diamond flashing on her finger. and
.hat look that a woman's face never wears
~ once IN lifetime-when 1t is glorifed
win the radiance of first love Then. of
course when it was too late. her people
SET investigation on foot to discover what
hlhu OF man he was who had won their
udugnters heart. He proved perfectly i'm
possible, with a past back with every
NlAd OF crime. He didn't even try TO de-
---N AA4A44Sel Wnen confronted with his
tecord' loved her he said, simply, ana
, some latent spark of nobility. per
laps lit by that love. inspired him TO
"o the only thing he could, and he went
AWAY and left her. But the girl never
De'o up mead again. Her heart was brol5-
e!l' ana before another year she died. 1t
was only an incident of a summer bote,
ana not half dozen people ever knew
H. put never see the way mothers let
'"elF yong daughters make indiscriminafa
uoqualntances at summer resorts wjtbout
wondering how often that little tragedy
repeats ltself?" ana madame sighed soft
~ 10 herself as she rose, for the supper
gong had sounded
Ihero is one quality in which the av
craze woman bather is woefully deficient
remarked cynical bachelor, "and mar
Is common sense. She is either reckIessIv
.ehlurosome or ridiculously um.d Tho
,.iIher type says the New York Tribune
"H plunge sally through the breakers
Oh the toughest days calling upon the
more cautious male swimmer 10 follow