The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-01

forced sweetness that degenerates into fat
/ terry. Such an attitude is unworthy. The
/ first definition Of 'amiabe" given in the
dictionary is worthy OF love" To lie
worthy of love we must get ourselves into
/ right relationship with the world. Love
| begets love, and the woman who would be
amiable in the highest sense must learn
to love her fellow man. She should seek
out the older people. and find what de-
/ lightful companionship she has hitherto
missed II she will sympathize with the
younger boys and girls she can be most
helpful In their affairs of heart and ambi
ton. The love affair of Jack of p and
Betty of IS may seem TO her foolish IN
the light of her larger. deeper experience
but she should remember her own lif
story, and bring some of the great tender
ness which seeks f0T an outlet to the I'M
ravelIng OF their tangled skeins of per-
plexity.
Woman's position in the Egyptian cap
ital, says the Century Magazine, is mate
rally benefited by the movement looking
toward the education of native girls. TWen-
ty years ago native ladies regarded educa-
ton as the learning of sufficient French or
Italian to read novels or follow the plot
of the opera. The last few years has de-
veloped a desire among the upper-class wo-
men to have their daughters educated VITA
as much care as boys are, and an import
ant adjunct to the household, consequently,
is the European governess, most often
English. A sister of the Khedive, the
Princess Khadija, is an active agent in
improving the educational status of poor
girls.
Most women visitors to Cairo are curious.
to see the interior of a harem. But this,
as Europeans understand it, no longer ex-
lists in Egypt. Every native house, how
ever, has its haren division, set apart for
women, as the salamlik is for men-noth-
ing more In this department reside the
wife or wives and children of the master,
with the addition, perhaps, of his mother.
In this case, her rule is probably absolute
1t is she who chooses instructresses for the
children orders the affairs of the house
hold, and even prescribes the fabrics
fashions, and ornaments of the women,
who are simply the wives of his excelleucy
the Pasha. II is mother-in-law rule, lit
'erally. The windows of the harem usual
ly overlook a courtyard or rear street, and
are screened with mushrabeah lattices,
penetrable only by the gaze Of person
within. To minister to the wants of the
women's division, a small army of ser
vants-shiny black "slaves" from Nubia
and Berber, and possibly a fair Circassian
or two imported from Constantinople-is
essential Slavery of this sort Is
scarcely bondage. It is the law of Egypt
that manumission can be had for the ask
ing, with little circumlocution. or de ay.
These servitors are kindly treated, value
their home, and shrink from any move
ment toward legal freedom. Except TO
the master and sons of the house, the ha-
rem is closed to all men, but women
friends come and go freely. The tau,
high-che ek-boned black men guarding me
entrance to the harem, in these progressive
days in Egypt possessing no suggestion OF
the houri scene of the stage are trained
from childhood TO keep unauthorized per-
sons from intruding, and have highly
developed aversion to sightseers.
Every now and then a great change
sweeps over the social world, and one such
has taken place during the season whose
epitaph has just been written. For once
more the girl has come to her own, the
maiden has been reinstalled; and the
Young matron, pretty, p!quant, attractive
as she may be, has had to unmistakably
stand aside in her favor The change is
welcome. The young married woman has
had it all her own way far too long, and
the girl has not been improved during the
time she has had to stand aside and see
every eligible drawn into the train of her
sister already rangee.
Freed from the restric tions of maiden
hood, better dressed, less hampered con-
versationally, and no longer dangerous
from the matchmaking point of view, the
young matron naturally has great advan-
tages over the girl, and for a few seasons
il has been she alone who has commanded
the attention and the admiration of the
other sex. She has had it all her own way
at balls and at the country-hOuse parties;
in fact, at all times and in all places Bur
by one of those sudden and iuexplicable
revolutions of the social wheel, the turn
of the merry maiden has again come
round.
During the past season the girl has
triumphantly danced and dined and fiirt-
ed, and been petted and f1attered and duly
married off, while the young matron has
looked on. And, having won her place,
she must see that she keeps it. Man is
tickle creature. His moods need to be stud
led. and the married woman's experience
teaches her ever to be on the lookout for
the least shadow of turning.
The best known of the Oriental
princesses to adopt European customs is
Nazleh, daughter of the notorious Pasha
FAIL who is supposed to have given the
Khedive Ismael the cup Of coffee which
had such disastrous consequences for him.
She has long since passed the years of
girlhood, and lost the great beauty which
made her famous then and the heroine Of
books by French and English authors,
She was realeo, says the New York Sun,
under the care of an English governess,
quite as a girl of the aristocracy in Eng
land would have been. She was a blonde
and then perfect specimen of that type
of beauty. She was freed from most of
the exacting restrictions of Mohammedan
life by her father, and even allowed to ride
horseback dressed Ia the habit of Euro
pean women, escorted by a groom import
ed from England. This violation of ORR
entail etiquette was too great however, to
continue. Such an example of emancipated
womanhood might have a bad effect on
the wives and daughters of other noble