The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

| quarters in summer hotel or boarding
houses? OF course. If one owns country
| mouse the advantage of the change is OBJ
yious; but for The great majority Of persons
| VINO make the annual exodus from New
York home comfort in town would be a
{, luxury compared TO the privauons which
| they endure year by year for the sake o.
custom prescribed nOminally for the
health's sake by Dame Fashion.
Writing In the Pittsbrrg Dispatch about
the women of to-day Su:an B. Anthony
| says:
The woman of to-day is as much su-
| perior in the capacity Of a wife for the
man or to-day as a person with all his
| Faculties is superior to one who is men
| tally deficient. Does he want simply
| doll stuffed with sawdust to sit in his
| parlor, ride in his carriage and wear the
| pest clothes he is able to buy for her?
| Does he want merely a housskeeper an
| upper servant to superintend his meals,
Keep his wardrobe in order and act as
nursery government for his children?
| Or does he desire in the woman who is
| 20 ne nearest to him always an intelligent
| companion, one who can enter into his
intellectual life with sympathetic appre-
cation; one to whom he can confide his
business affairs; who will understand
them as would a partner, and wisely
| graduate the expenses to suit the income?
Does ne want only one who can see that
The dinner is properly cooked end beauti-
fully served, and sit at the table like a
handsome lay figure? Or would he prefer
that In addition to these accomplis hments
she should be able merely to minister
to the material wants of the child en-. or
shall she be their assistant and companion
IN mental and spiritual affairs up to and
all through manhood and womanhood?
when the man was pioughing and SOW,
| ing and reaping, and a woman was spin
| ming and weaving, and churning and
( tai oring, and doing scores of things which
nave long since been taken out of the
Rome. they were approximately equal and
| satshed with each other. During the last
few generations ambitious men have
| made long strides forward. Much of the
work which they formerly did with their
| own hands has been delegated to machin-
| cry or to those who are not yet fitted
| for anything higher.
4 While men were thus progressing it
| could not be expected that women would
stand Sill. TIL re is no more a new woman
| to-day than there Is a new man. The
| husbands of the present would be no bet
| ter satisfied with the old-fashioned wife
| than they would be with the old-fa shon-
ed clothes or articles OF household use
| or means of locomotion or implements of
| work. We live in new age, of new
| Kings and new people. l do not wish to
|
adapted to the husband of the past but
do most enphatically believe that there
| was never so much intelligent and SYM
| pathetic comra3eships between husbands
| and wives in general as there is at the
| present time and that woman is better
htted for helDme.t and companion.
One of the most novel exhibits in the
| colonial section of the Paris Exposit on
| The Pail Mall will \ D.,
| plete set of b hancings manufa ctured in
| Madagascar from the silk obta ned from
| the halabe, an enormous spider that is
| found In great numbers in certain districts
| of the island. II was a missionary Father
| Camboue, who was the first 10 conceive the
| idea that these insects might be made to
| replace the silkworm. He succeeded with
out difficulty in obtaining a sufficient guam
| uty Of silk 10 be of practical use but
! he did not pursue his efforts beyond the
purely experimental stage.
| The matter has since been taken IN by
| M. Nogue, the head of the Antauanarivo
| Technical School. The results he has al
| ready achieved show that the production
of spider silk should quickly become
| highly important industry. TIE chief Prob
| lem TO be solved was TO find a practical
| process for extracting the silk from The
| female spiders NJ Nogue has invented a
most ingenious appliance for this purpose.
| 1t should be said that the female hslabA
| allows herself to be relieved of her silken
store with exemplary dociity and this
| in spite of the fact that she is distinguish
ed for her ferocity; her usual treatment Of
the males who pay her court is to cat
| them. and she feasts without compunc ion
on members of her own sex weaker tran
| herself. NJ. Nogues apparatus consists Of
a sort of stocks, arranged 70 pin d5wn
L on their backs dozen spiders The spi-
| ders accept the imprisonment with resig-
| nation, and lie perfectly quiet while the
silken thread issuing from their bodies is
| rapidly wound eff en- to a reel by means
| of a cleverly devised machine. worked
by hand. Each Of the twelve spiders thus
| "milked" simultaneously yields from 200
to 400 yards of silk. AS soon as a spider
has yielded up all its silk Il is replaced
by a fresh insect, and the work Of reel
ing Off the thread thus goes on with very
slight interruption. The spiders WI 81
threads have been exhausted are set free
and ten days afterward they are again
ready to undergo the operation. The silk
Of these spiders. which is of he most ex-
traordinary brilliant golden color Is much
| finer than that of the silkworm, but its
power of resistance is remarkab e. and il
can be woven without the least difiiulty.