The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-22
WOMAN'S
WORLD.

IN the vacation schools opened last week
children and young people are being
taught how to cook, sew. swim, dress
the baby. care for the wounded and a
aoqen other matters of practical import
ance.
Every year, says Margaret Holmes Bates
IN the New York World, some new sub
;Aat is added to the course of study. Why
not engage a staff of Competent matrons
~ open a vacation school for lovers? If
such a school were patronized as it ought
10 be Madison Square Garden would be
TOO small to contain the class.
President Elliott of Harvard believes
that business should be taught in col
Ieges, and President Tucker OF Dartmouth
recently said that every college should
have a shair of politics.
If. therefore, we are to include business
and politics in our curriculums why not
teach also science of courtship? 1t
would do infinitely more good by adding
immeasurably to the happiness of married
life
1t ts common mistake to suppose that
Young people between the ages of seven
teen and twenty-five are old enough to
manage their own love affairs.
The truth is that all lovers are children.
Love and reason are like a pair of horses
that can be driven single, but not double
No matter how worldly-wise and clever
a young man and woman may be, the mo-
ment they fall honestly in love they be-
come fit pupils for a Kindergarten. Most
lovers know only the pleasure-loving side
of each others character before mar
rage. After marriage the serious, work
a-day sides of their lives makes different
human beings of both of them
If ever there Is a time when young peo-
pie need common sense and have so little
of it is when they are in love for the first
time,
Watch a pair of lovers as they sit on
the beach and touch hands in the soft
sand, or as they coo by moonlight on
bench in a secluded corner of a park.
What do they care about rent, or rates
of wages, or the price of Ice or the gas
bill? What do they know about laying
carpets or stopping leaks in refrigerators?
What to them are the subtle laws of tenn
permanent, upon which four-fifths of do
nestle happiness depends?
AS they whisper the old, sweet, silly
questions and answers, do they realize
for a moment that a time will ever come
when love will become a matter of course,
like ones meals, and when the only sub
ject of conversation will be the toughness
Of the steak or the weakness of the cof-
fee?
No. there is no place in loves young
dream for practical calculations. Every
thing is gilded with hope. Even the $40
a-month flat with geranium in the win
dow is TRANSPORTED into Veritable bow
er Of delight. The young lovers move in
an unreal world of their own, as widely
different from the actual work-a-day
world as ITO Have and To Hold" differs
from the multiplication table.
Yet these young dreamers are making
decisions that will affect their whole af
ter lives for better or worse.
Not many days ago a young Hebrew
was engaged to be married to girl who
was a devout Roman Catholic. His par
ents objected 20 the marriage and made
the young lovers life so miserable that
he bought revolver and ended his life.
This is one case out of scores where a
little sympathetic instruction might have
prevented a tragedy.
Half of US become engaged and married
before we are acquainted with ourselves.
When il is too late we discover that we
have made what Mrs. W, J. Bryan has
called "a horse and COW marriage We
have chosen for our life companion one
who likes what we dislike and dislikes
what we like. and so we go pulling and
jerking and jangling together through
the remainder of our lives.
OF course the divorce court Is alWayt
open but il can only change the future,
not the past. And so we come back to
the original proposition, which is not as
foolish as it first appears-why not have
a vacation school for lovers?
Conventionality, says the New York
Tribune, is in a great measure a thing
Of the past among fashionable people,
who secure in their own position, do as
they please and defy the cut and dried
traditions of gentility which used to be
he unwritten laws that governed society,
and which our grandmothers Wcud not
have dreamed of transgressing Fancy
one Of the latter receiving a visitor. who
was comparative stranger, in TINS man
ner: Madame is taking a bath eX-
claimed the French meid, who came down
to the caller after the footman had taken
up her card to his mistress, but II
mademoiselle does not mind re waiting
madame will descend in an instant. The
instant" stretches out to several min
utes, but in a wonderfully short time,
considering the circumS anceS, 'madame
appeared, clad in a bath robe-a gorified
bath robe certainly dainty with silk rut-
ne and embroidery, but an undesirable
sortie du lt' and no tea gown intended
obviously for company. MADAME was
one who could well and such deshabille.
and doubtless she krcw it. She was a
fresh, rosy creature, and around her
white forehead and neck chung little wet
rings of curly hair, the rest of which was
ii up on the top of her head, la Chi
nois.
IL really wanted to see you" she ex-
claimed with frank kindness to her WISH
tor, and, of course, could not think of
keeping you waiting, so l jumped out OF
my tub and put on this. I hope you do
not mind" Ard then, with the adapt
ability of a woman of the world, she APP
parently forgot all about her unconven-
tonal garb. and talked of this and that
IN the easiest way imaginable, and bade
her caller goodby without any further
reference 10 the subject
Japan has recently issued a new series
or postage stamps that will be of great
Interest to philatelists. They commemor-
a'e the recent marriage of the prince i'm
perial, which was described in these COL
umns several weeks ago In the oval
frame is pictured a low liable spread with
parer tie place where all japanese mar
miae are solemnzed. The table is dec
or with bamboo stalks and plum
''2 and blossoms, and at each corner