The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14

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tempted through ignorance to indulge In
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winch Is likely to be harmful.
A man once said his grandfather told
nm that once upon time there was a
man VINO maintained that women were not
as honest as men. With a view to getting
At the real truth of the matter. says the
New York Herald the questio was pat
20 some of my fair friends
Inc idea" said Dolly Wimpelrow, af-
ter she had made room for me beside her
m a street car. Men are horrid. Look
at the politicians who get rich on small
salaries, and the bank cashiers who steal
thousands and thousands"
Dolly had a book in her lap. She was
gong to department store to eX-
change it.
Il bought it Yesterday" she said.
And you read it last night?"
Yes, she confessed without a blush.
And now you are going to exchange it
for another?"
of course" she lisped, just as Innocent
~. why not? They are glad to exchange
if''-she gigled a bit-'1f they send the
wrong book home to you"
Dolly had nickel in her dainty fist.
y GU haven't paid your fare?"
He hasn't asked me for it, she said
He has passed by YOU half dozen
times, calling for fares
He hasn't looked at me once" she
pouted.
Mrs Westerly-West received me in her
library. She said she was glad l had
asked the question; it suggested a paper
which 10 fna
What I like about Mrs. Westerly West is
that she doesn't cry when you argue her
into a corner.
Women are better managers than men,"
she said, with more or less irrelevancy;
they are more economical"
Mrs. Westerly West he'd recently select
ed paper for her dining room. After il
was on the wall she saw another paper
which pleased her more. Then she told
the dealer that he had cheated her; that
the paper did not look as well on the wall
as it did on his easel; that if he did not
replace il with the other paper she would
never patronize him again. The poor deal
er reluctantly yielded and sent man to
hang the other paper When the man
came Mrs. Westerly-West concluded 10
leave the dining room as it was and have
the new paper put on the library wall.
The man refused to do this, though she
said things had come to pretty pass
when she couldn't have paper put where
she wished it in her own house and, be-
sides, it was no more work TO hang 1t
in the library than in the dining room.
Still the man refused, and the dealer up
held him.
That was simply an outrage Mrs
Westerly West answered me, Indignantly.
That you didn't get two rooms papered
for the price of one?"
There! That will do she said, stern
w. you needn't be brutal, even II you
are a stupid man"
Il suppose you will continue to patronize
that dealer?" dared 10 ask
Certainly not" said Mrs. Westerly
West, decidedly; the dishonorabie
wretch
Hortense Madison was still in the first
quarter of her honeymoon. 1t was hard
w worth while to ask her about the com
parative honesty of men and women, for
Jack glorious Jack, stands pedestalled
upon all the virtues, typifying to her the
sum of our noble sex. Still she told me
that when the wedding sewing was TO
be done Mamma did the cutest thing!
What mamma did was to drop care
IessIv into sewing machine agency. just
to look around-she wasn't fully prepared
to decide what make of machine she
would buy The manager begged the priv
ilege of sending his best machine to her
10 fry. All. yes. she knew they all worked
well for week or so. but. The man
ager begged her 10 keep il as long as she
wished-two weeks, a month-the longer
she tried ii the more she would like it,
.And they sent a woman up to teach us
all about running it," said Hortense, hap
PLY. 49,,
Perfectly lovely And, do you believe,
they never came for it until after the
wedding"
What did mamma say thenF'
"Ohr Hortense answered, she told
them she liked ii first rate. Mamma was
real nice to them. But she said she WASH I
quite ready to buy yet"
weren't you sorry for poor mamma
when they cruelty took it away?' l asked
sadly.
"Oh she can get another any time she
wants it," said Hortense. amy of the
agencies will let you try machine as
long las you want to-
The men OF our set have nicknamed
Mrs Wingate "Col. Jane" She is a dap
ner little widow, who dresses in a fetch
ing cadettish manner and walks like a
wee drum major.
"Id rather trust a man than woman
anv time" she said, promptly. Men are
biz. clumsy things but they're not up TO
the petty tricks oil women. KNOW many
woman who will do things for five cents
that man wouldn't do for a thousand
dollars. Talk with the butchers and gro
GERS; they can tell you something. know
any number of cases in which women have
rerorted that two or three eggs in dozen
were bad. or that a bottle Of milk was
sour. or that half a box of berries had TO
he thrown away because they were decay
ed. OF course. the grocers generally
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rhev must keep trade so they make up
he pretended losses and trust TO luck for
a chance to get even in some other way.
"There are some broad minded, honest
women" continued Col Jane, but for the
| ,,,oet mart we are shams, and the pettiest
ninds of shams at that. What do you
mink of a woman who viii get hold of a
| paris hat label and sew il into half doz-
en- successive home made hats?'
said had heard that men sometimes
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