The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-20

say I. l like the dear creatures nicely
soWned on shore, but after nv various
! experiences l always steer clear of them
IN the water"
saved a woman's life while 1 was
oathins the other day" said one of his
did it,"
How?' queried the first speaker. seeing
'hdI some remark was expected.
ny by simply telling her to stand up
'Ae water did not come up 10 her armpts
| OUT she was laundering about. shriekng
IoI help and kicking up her heels at a great
RATE l verify believe she would have been
G'"WHea' Tor she went out of sight before
Z could get to her and came up with her
race planched with terror. Save mer she
SIieY as 1 got near her. and as l caught
hef oy ner dress she flung her arms about
me ana wildly chung 10 me. But you should
nave seen her face when. after her frantic
embrace, l said encoura giugly:
II is quite safe, Mrs. -; if YOU will
only put your feet on the ground YOU will
Hnd that the water isn't up to your neck
AFTER few plunges she regained her
equiHpTIum, and then, seeing laughter in
| my eyea-although l tried my best 70 1o1k
seIlous-she turned from me and waded to
| ward the shore without a word of thanks
Nay, more, the ungrateful creature was
peIIectIy furious with me, and actually
talhed or my ungentlemanly conduct. Pref
y nard, I-think considering l saved her
life"
WeIiH' here interpclated a youn woman.
VINO had been listening to their criticisms
OF her sex: Il saw a pair of ninnies in
"@lhlnS TINS morning who We're not WO-
men. They We're great, big. strong men.
out 1 never saw women behave more ridic-
uIously. 1t seems that Mr. A. stepped
suddenly into a depression and thought he
was gong over his depth, so, reaching out.
ne caught Mr.. B., who was piacidly bath
ing near MIN, by the neck. and gave him
an Involuntary ducking. The latter came
! up suffering and very ansry. and think
ing 1t was horse play seized poor Mr.. A.
VINO was trying TO keep nimself up, and
soused him thoroughly. Mr.. A becoming
wildly frightened. again pulled Mr.. 3. I'M
der, who also stepped into the hole They
both went down gasping, and if it had not
been for another woman and myself, who
pulled them out. they might have been
drowned, for neither of them could SWIM
There is probably no other creature on
| the face of the earth, says Ella Wheeler
Wilcox In the New York Journal, who
asks and receives so much advice land
who follows so little of iD as the Ameri-
can girl.
The peculiar part of it is that, as a rule,
she neither asks nor receives this counsel
! from parents or guardians, but from abb
| solute strangers.
it has come to be a necessary feature
| of almost every American periodical,
| whether daily, weekly or monthly, TO pub
iish an advice" column for this young
| person.
Persons of more or less literary attain
| ments preside over this column and so
| licits the confidence of girls in need of
| advice.
1t is possible that many of the queries
propcUnded by correspondents in these de-
partments are really written by young
girls, but it is more than proba BILE that
| the greater portion are the production of
mischievOus masculine brains, bent on
making women ridiculous.
There Is a sort of fascination in a sim
| pie, Uneducated girl to see herself, even
under an assumed name, in print.
But she likes to promenade her little
worries and heartaches through loaded
| lines and to feel that her questions have
obtained the distinction of reply in black
and white type
Yet it is hardly probable that she ever
fo gets, even in her lowly position, the
dignity of womanhood sufficiently to pro-
pound some OF the queries which are at
tribUted to her in these advice" col
umns
And it is certain that she does not need
| the Instructions which are frequently Civ
en- her.
A great many people are no doubt bene-
fitted by the Information Obtainable in
print regarding table etiquette and the
code of cards and matters of formal be-
havior in which neither nature nor kin
bred has instructed them. But no girl
needs a magazine or newspaper chaperon
to tell her "hOw TO be fascinating" or
chow TO be modest" or how to behave
in the presence of young men," or how
to entertain the man she loves"
inc fIaa g..lt 1fy,
American girls when this sort of instruc-
ton is given them by the column. 1t
may amuse them, and it is quite possible
that they sometimes draw il forth merely
for the purpose OF amusement But it Is
absolutely certain that they do not at
tempt to follow the dictates of these I'M
known cOunSelloTs. The American girl
is a unique creature. Nowhere else under
the sun exists anything like unto her.
She is at once modest and bold chaste as
a nun and wise as a woman Of the world;
as tantalizing as a kitten and as austere
as priestess if her delicacy is shocked.
She does as she pleases with men, but
no man does as he peases with her until
she chooses him for her master.
She has heard and read all about wick
edness and knows it exists, and she Is abb
solutely good, because she wants to be.
She is a paradox to the foreign mind
and a delight to the American man.
He dQmlfeS ner lot neF independence,
her common sense and her powers of
comradeship.
She is The most companionable and en-
tertaining creature on the face of the
earth. He is not afraid to talk on any
subject with her, and he usually gains
new ideas by doing so. She can dance,
play golf, swim, dive walk, read Brown
ing, talk philosophy, or fiirt, as his mood
may be.
have known scores of such girls, and
1 am meeting new ones every day.
What impertinence, then, il seems for
any one to attempt to teach this sort of
young person how to be entertaining! AS
well tell the butterfly how to be grace
full and attract the sunbeam
Prof. Mary Roberts Smith of Leland
Stanford. Jr., University says the ST.
Louis Post Dispa Oh, thinks that it is an
extraordinary Inconsistency in a Demo-
cratic society that the dressmaker, the
mitlirer and the shopwoman may demand
respectful treatment, while the waitress