The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-09
WOMAN 5 WORLD

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statement that, next TO shopping and scan
dal, will making is the thing dearest to
woman. The remark proved that the learn
ed lawyer doesn't know as much about
women as he does about law. Women
aren't fond Of shopping. A tradition, in
vented by men, says they are, but the wo-
men know better. AS for scandal, that
isn't taste exclusively feminine
But the lawyer, says the New York Sun,
was right in his theory that women love
will making The amount of entertainment
that a woman can get out of her last will
and testament in the course of long life
time would be quite inexplicable to the
masculine mind. A man makes a will be-
cause he wants to have his affairs in
shape. II is purely a business matter with
him. With a woman it Is usually matter
of sentiment The man, except in rare
cases. doesn't care what becomes of his
personal effects. If he makes any DISPOSE
ton of them, he probably Jumps them in
with some other bequest; but the woman
plans for the future of everything she
owns. down to the plncushions and salt
cellars. Perhaps she owns no valuable
property and so makes no formal will; but
she is sure TO write out instructions in re-
gard 10 her personal effects and funeral ar
rangements The average man doesn't lie
awake nights Tuning about his pallbear-
ers and his tombstone and the order in
which sorrowing friends shall follow the
hearse. In these progressive days he may
express a mild prejudice in favor of crem-
"a hnV n
his friends; but it is different with a wo-
man The social instinct and training in
the art of making functions go off we'll
stav bv her, even when the event in con-
temptation is her own funeral, and she
finds melancholy pleasure in choosing
clergyman and hymns and epitaph, and in
deciding upon the gown in which she VIII
be ta.d away.
Everv wife occasionally cheers her hus-
band by telling him exactly how she wants
her funeral run and her belongings dlstrlD-
uted, and all healthy, middle-aged moth
ers of families, when they have attacks
Of Indigestion call in their oldest children
and give them directions as to the last rites
and the division of spoils.
The lawyers verdict about women and
wills is founded upon long experience with
feminine clients, and he can tell scores
of stories to prove his point. why wo-
as they change their gowns he says
positively They will may remain the
same in its important features, bnt bless
YOU a woman always puts in so many
little clauses and requests that she has
TO come back about once season to shlIt
things around q bit 1t wasn't week
ago that / found one of my clients wait
ing for me when I reached my office one
morning at 10 o'clock. She was nervous
and fiustered, and as soon as she was in
my private office she burst out with:
d" oh, Mr.. Blank, 1 want my will chang
ed right away. You know / left my dia-
mond sunburst and my silver to Clara
and the horrid little cat has been working
against me in the most underhand way in
the club election. found it out only last
night and I positively couldn't sleep, for
fear something would happen to me be-
fore l could get down here and fix that
will
I've altered that woman's will five
times in as many years. She had her ar
Engagements all made to be buried in the
same grave with her first husband, and
the provision for it was put in her will;
but she married two years later, so we
had to cook up a new will. She's a widow
again now, and that upsets things once
more Another widow among my clients
established a record for wills, and then, at
the end, died with everything in a tam
gle. She went abroad with her two chill
dren last year, and left a will with me-
made out in favor of the two children,
Il of course Just before starting for home
she happened to think that she and the
boys might all be drowned, and the money
would go to a nephew whom she doesn' t
IKE So she called in a London lawyer
Il ana made Will in favor of cousin. She
came back to New York safely, but a
week later she took pneumonia and died. 1
produced her will, but one of the boys
mentioned the London will. We looked
me matter up, and, sure enough, that fool
woman had legally annulled the will left
with me by making later one. SUD-
pose she thought it would be all right Il
she Just tore the later will up and didn't
of things.
Then, here's another case. About ff-
teen years ago 1 began making wills for
rleh old maid who lives near New York
and has religion on the brain. She wanted
70 leave most of her money to hospital
Dut said she would like to make beouest
oi 5000 to her spiritual adviser-pastor of
FL the Baptist Church in her town. drew
up 'he Will and she went away satisfied.
ABOUT eight months later she came again
ana sad she and her parson had had some
uiihculty and she had decided to quit the
eHurcn. She would leave her will just as
'# SiAiJ phi AHe MN
ls'er in place of the unruly Baptist I'm
Consregationalist myself, so / made the
transfer joyafully. but we didn't keep the
money IN our church long. 1t wasn't five
"a weeks before the old lady came storming
III ana wiped the parson off the slate She
FL sald no man who had doubts about the
miracles should have any of her money
80 she gave the Presbyterian clergyman
'riaL He didn't last long; and then the
Methodist and Episcopal clergymen had
oriet attacks of legacy. Two weeks age
mat peripatetic old Christian wrote me
mat she had been cured of her rheumatism
by Christian Science and had gone over
20 me faith. She said that she would be
9oWn in few days TO see about her will
OUT she hasn't turned up yet. I suppose
she Is going to make over the 5000 to her
1 PEI healer, but the first time that healer
sips NJ on a headache the old lady will
TURN Spiritualist, and will he money TO her
control If the religions hold out lone
enough IN have that 5000 myself. Where
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