The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-29
WOMAN'S
WORLD.

WONAUe
City Magistrate Crane. writing in the
New York World on the subject DO
Widows Make the Best Wives?" says:
Widows are popular in the marriage mar
ket. Father Philip McEnvoe of South
Bethlehem, Pa, who has recently been
making some original investigations into
the question of marriage. reports that
what strikes him most forcibly is "the ex-
traordinary demand for widows" He an
nounces that 70 per cent of the would-be
husbands in his parish express a prefer
ence for widows.
Men prefer widows for good reasons. A
widow is more apt to make home happy,
because she is more settled and domestic.
She is more prudent. She is likely to
think more of her household duties and
less of finery.
A widow has a more sensible idea OF
what marriage means. She has developed
beyond the sentimental stage and knows
that life is not all love and kisses. She
understands the needs of a home. She
does not expect her husband to be con-
tent with a smile when the house is I'M
tidy and the dinner spoiled
"A study of the records of the divorce
court will show that when man married
a widow there is less danger of trouble
In the home.
Too many young girls have no idea Of
wifes home duties.
Imagine a young woman with any de-
gree of social standing in New York mar
rying a poor man and going into the kitch-
en- to cook the beefsteak and sweep the
floor! Such wives were common enough
forty years ago
Marriages are based more and more up
on money, insteadN Of upon eongeniality
and cooperation. Young girls read the
fashion notes until their only idea of mar
riage is to find rich husband who viii
pay their millinery and dressmaking bills.
So it is natural that young men who
want wives are expressing a preference
for widows. In the struggle for success
no man wants to be hampered by a life
partner who will not share his efforts
Don't Let the Song Go Out of Your Life
Don't let the song go out of your life;
Though 1t chance sometimes to flow
In minor strain 1t VIII blend again
With the major tone, you know.
What though shadows rise to obscure nfe's
skies
And hide for time the sun;
They sooner will lift, and reveal the rift,
If you let the melody run.
Don't let the song go out of your life;
Though your voice may have lost its trll,
Though the tTemulous notes should die in
the throat,
Let II sing in your spirit still.
There is never pain that hides not som,
gain.
And never a cup Of rue
So bitter 10 sup but what in the cup
Turks measure Of sweetness. too.
Don't let the song go out of your life;
Ali it never would need to go,
II with thought more true and a broader
view,
We looked at this life below
Oh. why should we moan thataife's spring
time has flown,
Or sigh foe the fair summer time?
The autumn hath days filed with paens
of praise
And the winter hath bells that chime.
Don't let the song go out Of your life;
Let II ring in the soul while here,
And when you so hence il shall 70 low you
thence,
And sing Oh in another sphere.
Then 10 not despond, and say that the
fond,
Sweet songs of your life have flown,
For If ever you knew a song that was true,
It's music is still your own.
kate r. Stiles, in Boston Transcript.
Every now and then. says tho New Dr.
leans Picayune, We -cad in the papers
about some eccentric Individual who takes
offense at his neignbo-s and builds he
tween himself and them nigh barrier,
that popular opinion denominates a spite
fence. OF course. ot-erer than not the
obstruction works just as much hurt to
him as it does to anyto ~ else. 1t may
block his view of a bedl!tll scene, or
darken his windows. or disfigure his
grounds as much as Il do his neighbOrs
but, nevertheless, he shuts himself with
~ tie walls his v,n1iCsiVe humOr have
r,G4ed, and stoically puts up with the in
convenience-a p2Ch etc dEl ridiculous
victim to his o~n Te Jens:c
T. any healthy min lnG man or woman
nothing could SCI m more egre2ieus piece
Of folly, and forum AIcly those who erect
actual spite fences ara few ami far be-
TT Gen. but the PROCESS is not as unconl-
mon IN the inner life as !t is IN the out
wa-d. All of US kno v people With VIII 1m
We ne er come in contact without feeling
OF reserve, or distrust, or cynlcism, that
shots all the sweetness and brightness Of
life out from them, just as completely as
the ill-tempered crank's visible spite fence
shuts out the sunshine from his windows.
One of the most frequent causes that
leads to the building of this kind of in
tangible spite fence is the loss of prop
erty That is an affliction that only the
most courageous and soundest natured
seem able TO stand, and still preserve a
kindly attitude towards life. The others,
like so many melancholy Jacques, are con-
tinually crying, come and let us rail to.
gether at fate. They grow bitter and sus-
picious, their conversation is a perfect
jeremaid, and wnen friends grow weary
and acauaintances avoid them like they
would the plague, they say they have
been dropped because they were poor
Nothing could be less true. They have
been dropped because they had built a
spite fence around themselves that mo-
body thought it worth the trouble OF
breaking down.
Sometimes-it happens very often with
women-the fence is a picket made OF
sharp speeches. A woman has the gift OF
repartee, of saying bright and witty