The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-18
WOMAN'S
WORLD.

among the women of that city-remarks
that might be read with interest in This
city. In ner article she says:
1t is deplorably true that women, as a
general thing, have Very lax and hazy
ideas of their duty as citizens. They oriti-
else. and regret the shortcomings of their
town, bur it seldom occurs to them that
they are in any way responsible for the
faults they condemn. A woman Will grow
eloquent. for instance. denouncing the
filthy conditions of the streets, yet let her
own sidewalk 30 unswept and permit
her servants 10 throw trash in the gut
tiers, and to leave her garbage can on the
banquette TO smell to high heaven, and
offend every passer-by In the same way
she may deplore the lack OF prosperity
and of enterprise in her town, and CON
trast it 10 its disadvantage with the
progressive and thrifty cities of other sec
tons of the country. yet tell you in the
next breath that she always buys her
clothes in New York, and her furniture
in Grand Rapids. Moreover. she does this
with a serene faith in her perfect con-
sistency. She never dreams that she is
to blame, or that she has failed in her
duty as a citizen, whatever other people
may have done. When things go wrong
it's always somebody else's fault. Not
hers, thank goodness!
Not all women are like this, fortunately,
and notable example of the woman
whose patriotism really means something
was given last week when a Kansas City
girl presented an object lesson to the
women of her city that the women OF
other places may learn to their profit.
There was a masked ball given in that
town. and this Up-to-date young woman,
instead of going to it attired to represent
Marie Stuart" or "a Lady of the Time
of Louis ~" or something equally ro
mantle and far-fetched, appeared as
maid, who was made in Kansas City.
Every article of her costume was COM
posed of things manufactured in that
city and bore the name of the man
ufacturers and plants at which they were
made. On her wrists she wore bracelets
of twist tobacco, manufactured there; her
hat. gloves, shoes frock were oil of home
product. and she carried a little box from
which she distributed chewing gum and
candy, all made in Kansas City" 1t is
unnecessary to say that she was the sue
cess of the evening, and more than that,
she was a revelation to all the other
women present that their own town made
everything a woman actually needed for
her attire
The Kansas City girl is the kind of
woman who is a good citizen and who
helps build up a town, and her example
is one that should peculiarly commend
itself TO the women of New Orleans.
There is no one thing that keeps this city
back more than the fact that we have
so few women who ARE made in New
Orleans" The sending away shopping
habit is a worse blight on trade than a
quarantine, but we have it so badly that
even many women who have their clothes
made here are snobby enough to pretend
that they are made in the North. Only
fancy il all the women here who have
money to spend were made in New Or
leans, instead of Paris, and London, and
Chicago. what a boom to the retail trade
it would be, what splendid factories we
might build, what big, rich, progressive
city we should have,
God bless the wives who learn TO cook.
From teacher, magazine or book;
We love those lessons, lines and pages,
But In experimental stages
We think their products should be sent
To some far distant continent
Where dread dyspepsia never RACES
And an the men are saints or sages.
--Lalia Mitchell in Pittsburg Dispatch.
MY husband always thinks I have
stacks of clothes; he never seems to know
that l may need new gown
The speakers tone. says Golfers \, eek
", was piaintive. She was simply garb-
ed in a style of a cheap dressmaker. and
the only really elegant article of her cos
tune. beautiful wrap Of rich material,
was of fashion which had prevailed sew
eral years earlier; proba oily this garment
he'd belonged 40 her trOusseau. She ana
her friends passed on, deep in conversa-
ton. and / went my way, the scrap of
a sentence which ] had overheard un-
Willingly lingering with me and suggest
ing a long train of thought.
What does the average man know about
the needs Of woman in the ordinary
course of her life? Why should he being
a husband. distate as TO the number OF
gowns in his wife's wardrobe. or the bon
nets she has to match them2 Granting
that the mans means are not unequal TO
ga tisfying her reasonable requests why
should he interpose an objection in a do
main where he is Inexperienced and out Of
his element? OF course. " a man cannot
afford the money to buy new gowns for
his wife, she. as a sensible grown-up per
son, with his and her interests at heart
will not ask for them. If she does. when
i'm his confidence and aware of the need
for frugeiity, she Is a vain. selfish and sill
by creature. unfit for wifely responsi bill
". The large majority of women IN
smaller things, AT least, are rather eco
nomical then extravagart, and do not in
tentionely waste the substance Of their
nuSDdDds.
To mans eye a woman may apnear
perfectly well dressed, when every woman
who looks at her will inevitab bly, be i'm
pressed with the hopelessly dowdy char
acter of her clothes. ] do not know that
one likes man better for his accurate
acquaintance with millinery. or disiikes
him for his ignorance on the subject He
has his province, woman has hers. The
fact is THAI among the most charming
men in the world are those who do not
differentiate between a Paquin or a Felix
gown and toilet made by home seam
stress after q model cut from q cafalouee
The little woman bewailng her fate. IN
that her husband always credited her
with possessing quantities of clothes when
she was really in the condition of the ia.
NOUS Miss Blora McFlmsey with nothing
TO wear. stands for large class OF IN
fortunates There Is fer them 4 way out
OF their iabyrn hine trouble. a straight
way and clear way, the way of the reeu-
lar allowance. But they have not always
the tact or the nerve which enables them