The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
WOMAN'S
WORLD.


poet. you recall, who, speaking for his
sex. declared that man wants but lit
the here below. nor wants that little long"
No one, not even poet, would be rash
enough to make such claim for woman
She wants the earth and the fullness
thereof Nothing less will satisfy her.
and she wants it forever. sensible
man early learns kind of practical
working philosophy that enables him 20
make the best of such pleasures as come
his way, and Mark Tapley-like, to be
Jolly under creditable circumstances. The
wisest woman has still to learn this art
She is always looking out for the thorns
of life, instead of its roses, and when she
makes even a pretense of being happy
you may be very sure that the conditions
of her existence come pretty near being
ideal.
Mans happiness, says Dorothy Dix, In
the New Orleans Picayune, is generally
simple Woman's is the most complex
thing on earth, and this popularity OF
the two sexes manifests Itself at every
turn. Take, for instance. such common
thing as a good dinner. How very seldom
do you ever see a woman enjoying one
with the frank delight of a man? He
abandons himself to the pleasure of the
moment. Yesterday he may have dined
off an adamantine ham sandwich at rail-
road eating-house; next week he may be
glad to get pork and beans in frontier
mining camp, but to-day he is reveling
in all there is of present luxury, enjoying
10 the fullest the daintiness of the ser
xrfna ha 6nH Of Utqn1S the
bouquet of the wines.
woman, on the other hand, finds ii
impossible to enjoy anything without re-
serve. If she is eating turtle soup and
terrapin, she spoils it by dreadng some
possible future time when she may have
nothing but corned beef and cabbage, and
If she can find no other shelton to sit
beside her at the feast, she can always
conjure up the dread spectre of dyspep-
STA to threaten her with unmentionable
fortunes at every mouthful. A man in
his determination 10 enjoy himself puts
all thoughts of the future consequences
away from him. You will observe that it
Is always the wife who is the kill-joy
who reminds John of the things he ought
not to eat, and that the doctor has for
hidden him. John. never remembers them
for himself.
Another pertinent illustration of how
many more things it takes to make a wo-
man happy than it does a man is af-
forded by the sorry spectacle we see every
day of the new rich trying TO buy them
selves into society. When a plain man
accumulates a fortune by hard work and
thrift it generally leaves him with simple
ideas of enjoying it. He wants a good,
comfortable house, a good horse the best
to eat and drink; but he wants to stay in
his neighborhood, among the people he
has lived among and liked for years. The
mere possession of money satifies him. 1t
doesn't thrill him with any mad yearn-
Ing to get into dress coat every evening
and dance the german, or to go and y4wn
through an opera that he doesn't under
stand That isn't his idea Of enjoyment at
all, and if he were let alone and permitted
to carry out his simple plans the possess
sion of their fortune would really bring
them happiness.
But his wifes ideas are dramatically
opposite, and it may be said that with the
coming of fortune the poor rich woman's
troubles begin. She feels that mere money
is dust and ashes unless she can pur-
chase a place in that society that begins
with a big S She decides on the exodus,
and leads the march away from the old
home and the old friends up into that
frigid zone of fashion where she never
gets acclimated and lives in a perpetual
frost. She learns what it is to feed people
who make sport of her over her own
champagne glasses, to support fashona BILE
dead beats who despise her for funkey-
ing to them, and all the heart burning and
envy that come from striving to get in
side of doors that are shut in her face.
To his credit be it said, not one man in
a thousand, on his own account, is ever
guilty of this kind of thing. The social
aspira lions department is almost invaria-
bly, run by the women of a family, and
many a rich man, torn away from his
simple ways and simple pleasures and
ruthlessly dragged about by his wife to
entertainments that bored him and a way
of living in which he never gets to feel
at home, must think enviousy of the days
when he was a poor clerk and could be
comfortable and happy. There is really
no more pathetic sight than that of a wo-
man., haggard, anxious and worn, with
striving in her frantic desire to get into
the smart set, when she might have been
so comfortable and so happy if she could
only have made up her mind to enjoy her
money simply like her husband; but for
tune always means fashionable society to
ner, and the combination oftener than not
spells misery for her.
Writing of Grand Opera in the Forrna-
tive State" in the April Womans Home
Companion, John Gilmer Speed tells this
fact, which will astonish those who con-
slider Paris the Mecca of the best in ar
tistic lines:
Recently an American artist who lives
York. He spent all the time he could at
the opera. His people were quiet folks
and could not understand the young
mans enthusiasm They thought his fond
ness for music was so great that perhaps
he had made a mistake in choosing his
vocation and should have adopted the
fiddle and the bow instead of the mallette
and brush. They were incredulous when
he told them that 1t was impossible to
hear and see in Paris such magnificent
presentations of opera as were common
in New York. They thought, as most of
us think, that every kind of art fiourishes
better in Paris than anywhere else The
idea that in practical America their ar
tstic son and brother could hear better
music than in Paris was somet hing of a
shock to them. And well it might have
been, for Paris is the home OF art, and
the votares have a zeal and an enthusi-
asm which compel respect Bur notwith-
standing this we have the price 10 pay
for what we want in this country, and
the liberality to pay as well. For instance,
Jean DE Reszka. who is considered by
some the greatest grand opera tenor the
world has ever seen ard of the daoo 40