The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-09-02

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The other day a willfui. l5-year-old girl
Ia neighborng city, disobeyed her mar
ents, and when she returned home her
wra,hful father emphas zed his rebuke nv
/ giving her a good shaking whereupon
/ ne went promptly forth and had her
stern parent arrested for assault end bat
terry. In which she was upheld by the
magistrate before whom the case was
tried. who contendcd that fifteen was mast
the Smoking age limit. and fined the man
| for inculcating obedience by physical
/ force
Perhaps. saws the New Orleans Plea
/ yune, the mag strate was right II the
/ girl had been spanked sufficiently when
/ she was little. she wouldn't have needed
a shaking 80 badly when she was older.
/ and - ought 20 be a solemn warning 20
all parents 10 befin in tim on their chill
dren. but the Incident calls attention once
more to the hardships OF having 20 treat
] as reasonable and sensible human beings
hose who are nothing hut spoit chill
I drcn-who never outgrow the shaking age
| IN mind ana charscter-and who fought
70 lie dealt with on that basis. We all
/ know 50 many people who are running
| their own and other peoples lives, and
/ who might be Ngenerated and made
| agreeable memters OF society, II only
here was somebody who had the right
TO give them a good shaking every now
and then. and make them behave them
selves.
And oh. wouldn't YOU like 20 be the
| lord high executioner?
Think OF all our disconnected. disgrunt-
led friends who with all the materials
for happiness IN their hands. deliberately
throw them away. and get nothing but
| misery for themselves and others out OF
/ life. and let us. brethr ami sisters
| hcave a sigh over the fact that custom
and law put a time limit to the age M
which PEOPLE can be forclbly reminded
Of their blessings. n they can't be APP
penled 70 in any other way.
There's the domestic woman, for in
| stance. who has a good husband. and a
confer able home. and little children yet
| who Is always bemoaning the slavery Of
| her lot, and exalting and envying the
n cd3m OF the bachelor woman. She
complains that she is forever ordering
meals and darning stockings. and clean
ing up the house, and washing little faces
and tieiug up hurt fingers. rs this an
/ adequate way for an intellect Ike mine
TO expend itself?" she demands tragically
What DO ct for my labor beyond my
1 food aul clothes. and--er-er-perhaps a
trip TO the seaside or mountains In the
| summer and things like that?' The idea
OF such a woman making bid for pub
lie sympathy. on the grounds OF her mis-
fortune in life Is a public outrage. yet
| there isn't week we don't h, ar one do
T., and the queer ihing about II all f.
that she Is IN dad earnest and considers
herself a poor. put-upon. down-irodden
member Of the community.
/ Dcesn't she need somebody 10 give her
a good shaklrg and make har remember
her morcies? She talks about the liberty
u the bachelor woman, and never stops
70 think that liberty's other name for a
woman loneliness. The woman who can
Z 20 and come as she pleases IL the most
forlorn creature on earth. because u
mears that nobody cares. when she goes.
I whether she ever comes back or not The
I hous keeping woman complains OF her
drudger.. Doesn't she have { me every
day 81 her life 10 lay down II sire feels
I h,5iv7 Dcesu { she have leisure 10 gossip
| with a neighbour Does she have even tho
| slightesf conception OF the work OF the
hard-driyen woman IN n store or office.
I who cant even AFFORD herself the luxury
/ Of time 10 b. sick2 As for the pay, count
I mon YOUR fingers. my dear, Disseminated,
/ damestic woman all the busins - and pro-
/ fessional women you know who earn
I enough TO enable thcm 10 live In the style
YOU do and tell me n you don't think
| Won have got a pretty good paying. soft
/ t-b7 ANY woman who has got a good
| husband and a good home has drawn the
/ capltai prize IN the lottery Of life. and
/ she has no right 90 be anything but hap
pv herself and make other people happy.
| ,Another woman who would be benefited
IA, a GOOD shaking f. the married woman
Who clings TO the idea that she Is fas-
| .,r.ter. i don't mean the wicked wo-
mon. who may be- trusted 20 look out for
/ .,,o,,seivea. hut Just those muahy. silly
| scrtirr entail creatures who carry on mild
| mutations with any man they meet, ASd
/ 80 are always talking about afiiniiles.
/ srhov wear a PARKWAY. pathetic look. and
tier strong suit Is being "mlsunder-
| GOOD - Their husbands never understand
! ,h.rn By any chance. and they vaguely
MINI that they are pining away under the
,ytthering blight. Poor. dear, john Is good
81 course They don't criiicise him (herc
tbev heave q sigh but he i >, martial.
ffo tsnt soulful ike hey are he couldn't
I s,mnlv live on Ella Wheeler Wilcox. he
couldn't repeat single passionate lite