The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-25
WOMAN'S
WORLD.

DIX in the New Orleans Picayune, have
no better or more reliable memories than
men. Probably there isn't any middle
aged woman who ever listens to the con-
versation of a right young girl and her
hobbledehoy beau without a shudder at
the idiocy of their remarks. and a throb
of gratitude to think that she never could
have been that silly. Never, she is firm
" convinced. was she ever guilty of ut
tering such inanities, never did she giggle,
never could she have endured the society
OF such a sap-headed youth. On the con-
trary, she is positive that when she was
young she and the intellectual young man
who visited her sat up decorously and dis
cussed art and literature in an edifying
manner. Society, among the young lacks
the dignity and tone it had then" she
says with a melancholy shake of the
head. She has as entirely forgotten. as
II It had never existed how she and her
girl chum used to lie awake half the
night exchanging condolences about that
too perfectly sweet young man who part
ed his hair in the middle and clerked in
the dry goods store. and how she used TO
read sickly poetry and underscore the
dark and passionate passages and write
how true" opposite them, and was al
together so silly and sentimental the won
der is thnt she escaped the fool killer.
What mother in advising her daughter
ever failed to hold up her own mpeach-
able youth for their admira ton and emit
lation? Dear me. how proper we were
then! How respectful to our elders. how
dutiful to our parents, how willing to
listen to them and be guided by them
when they picked out for us the good
young man who leads the prayer meeting
instead of his scapegrace brother. who
leads the german, whom we had picked
out for ourselves. She never fiirted, oh,
no! She never sat out dances In dark cor
ners, with impecunious, but fascinating
young men. She always kept everybody
at their distance, and as for kiss in the
dark-fie, the idea l-such a thing was new
err never done when she was young.
And how did you ever get married? ?"
asks Miss Pert, and mamma breaks off
her homiiy in confusion, because she has
happened to remember that things
weren't so very different then. after all.
What does youth, on its part think of
age? 1t is every whit as intolerant and
as sure of its view point being the SUI
perior outlook in life. Il Is a terrible shock
10 our vanity to realize it, but it is true.
nevertheless, that youth does not regard
those of US who are older as models to be
initiated, but merely as object lessons Of
what to avoid. What mannerism we have
acquired that excies their derision, how
antequated our most cherished ideas ap-
pear 10 them, and as for dress, they are
inwardly convinced that though they
should live to be a million, they would
give n "a p
ing a turnover collar and a string tie
and broad-soled shoes, or leave off their
stays, just because il was comfortable If
their conversation appears to us insane,
don't for moment suppose that they re-
gard us as anything but bores The silent
chit Of young girl thinks that she rs be-
slowing an inestimable compliment on the
wisest man by giving him half an hour OF
her valuable and enhancing giggles, while
the youth of 20 who devotes ten minutes
10 conversation with an eldery woman, no
matter how distinguished and brilliant
she may be, does 1t with the conscious air
of comforting a favor on her that she really
didn't have any right to look for at her
time of life.
MY husband always thinks I have
stacks of clothes; he never seems to know
that may need a new gown"
The speakers tone, says Margaret
Langton in Golfers Weekly, was plain
tive She was simply CARRIED, in a style
which TO trained eye was eloquent OF
cheap dressmaker and the only really
elegant article of her costume. beauti-
ful wrap of rich material, was of a fash
Ion which had prevailed several years ear
lier; probably this garment had belonged
10 her trousseau. She and her friend pass
ed on, deep In conversation and I went
my way, the scrap of a sentence which I
had overheard unWittingly lingering with
me ana suggesting 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
husband, dictate as to the number ~
gowns In his wife's wardrobe. or the hon
nets she has 40 match them? Granting
tnat the mans means are not unequal 10
SATISFYING her reasonable requests whv
should he interpose an objection in a DO
main where he Is inexperienced and out
of his element? OF course if a man cannon
anord the money to buy new gowns for
his wife, She as a sensible groWn-un nor
SON WIN his and her own interests at
heart, will not ask for them. If she docs
when In his confidence and aware of The
need for frugality. she is a vain. selfish
and silly creature, unfit for wifelv resDons-
ibility. The large majority of women In
smaller things at least, are rather eco
nomlcal than extravagant and do not in
teniionally waste the substance of their
husbands.
To a mans eye, a woman NAV ennear
perfectly well dressed, when every woman
Who looks at her will inevitably be i'm
pressed with the hopelessly dowdy char
acter of her clothes. l do not know tbat
one likes man the better for his accu-
rate acquaintance with millinery. or dis
likes MIN for his ignorance on the sub
teet He has his province, woman mas
hers. The fact is that among the most
charming men in the world are those who
do not differentiate between a Paauin or
Fehx gown ana toilet made by
a catalogue.
The htue woman bewailing her fate. in
that her husband always credited her with
possessing quantities. of clothes when she
was really in the condition of the famous
Miss Flora McFlimsey with nothing 90
wear, stands for a large class of unfortu-
nates' Ihere is Tor them a way out of
their labyrinthine troubles, a straight and
clear way, the way of the regular allow
ance. But they have not always the tact