The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-24

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period, but after all It is the hon1ely vir-
tues that wear the best, and a man might
do worse than choose wife on account
of her housewifely merits
A Topeka Kansas dispatch - the New
York Sun says: The wearin+e. of boomer
uniforms by baske tball team OF girls at
the Kansas State Normal school has
started a row between the fac thy and re-
gents which has been CARR 81 TO Gov.
Stanley and which may result in several
removals. During the past few months
Miss Anna Stone. who has ch11rSe of the
department of physical cultu -e at the
State Normal School, has be in training
| two teams OF girls for match game of
basketball, to be played as a pa TT of the
exercises of commencement wea X. The
training took place in the & rmnasium,
where the other students We're ct permit
| ted TO see the girls in uniform,
The question of the propriedf of the
! girls wearing their uniforms I hring the
| public game came up and Miss kone final
ly gave her consent. The appe Hrance of
the girls thus attired crea ted qu Ate a stir.
A photographer placed his canlsra in
convenient place and secured God pic
ture OF the players and Miss Ste ne. The
latter then refused to permit the .same to
| go on unless the authorities of me 'nsti-
| tuition should secure the plate. The rho
| tographer refused to surrender H.
The impatient auditnce began shouting
| Play bal.' and the girls mutt hied and
played the game against the order Of
| their teacher. Miss Stone earn ed the
matter to President Taylor and I.ed that
| the refractory girls be suspend I'd. He
sustained Miss Stone and was about TO
take action when John Madden, resident
member of the Board of Regent 8, inter
/ fered.
Both sides are making firm stan d. The
! faculty is selected by the board OF re-
gents The members of the boar / of re-
| gents are appointed by the Cove rror. IL
he sustains the board there will probably
! be several designations in the facu lty as a
result of the incident. A special meet
ing of the board has been called all will
be attended by Gov. Stanley.
Mr.. Madden made and won the Fl ght for
| the retention of Prof. Chrisman, WHO re-
Gently offended the Congress of SLt thers
at Des Moines by declaring that m, n Go
not love. 80.
/ The status of farmers wives is seci ring
unusual consideration these days in the
columns of agricultural journals Through
/ out the country as we'll as at gath erings
of farmers. At a recent institute eld in
| Kentucky Mrs. Lucy Cleavor Nc nlroy
| spoke some pungent truths rege rotng
these drudges of the farm "At
/ the first gray streak of dawn" she said,
! the WifeS pet rooster crows long ana
loud. He does it on purpose TO oval ken
her from her beauty sleep, and is alw AVS
| successful. She has obeytd the Erum-
mons so often that 1t has become 81 coma
| nature and before she realizes IL 81 he IS
out of the warm blankets, noisei essly
trembling in her clothes lest she wax e the
sleeping baby; half clad, her cold fir gers
still fidgetinR with her brooch, she sea mp
ers to the kitchen. Once there a nef< 'ous
fear that breakfast may be late sc Hes
her and she rushes about until 1t is on che
table and the family seated, when Sne
draws her first long breath White Tne
blessing is being asked. The breakf st
bolted in hot haste and the man OH 10
work, she resumes her hurry scuIlH 5
through the dishwashing and kitehfS.
work. hastens through bedmaking nne
housekeeping skins over milk vessels
| refrigerators and churning, hurries 10 the
garden for vegetables, rushes through oln'
ner makes her fingers fly on the after.
noon sewing and securing, so she mh Y
worry through supper at the proper hou e.
to sink exhausted into cha.r at Dest
time too weary to speak or think.
How would our Southern farms I'M
proye If the women would but know tnat
a part of their true position on the ,a1la
is TO make farm life beautiful. Can there '
| then he a question that the true position .
| NJ woman on a farm is yet among tn
problems OF the future? When the tarh
progresses to the position of weil-order
ed business, having its debit and credn
account with each OF It's fields ana 'iaus
| tries. when It's capital is fairly apporuoh--
| ed to the different branches of work, anoi
tic receIpts are correspondingly divided;
when the farmer admits the wife as mis-
| business partner, entitled to her just snare
of the profits of the farm, and wnen ne
| remembers that woman won does TOT
necessarily mean that neglect ana inoIl-
| Ole to the VIE db
| srder and attention were 70 me
sweetheart - when the woman ON
the farm realizes that UPON
her depend not only the cookinS' tns
| care of the children and other oomest-
| duties but that everything that makes
re- On the farm pleasant as far at neat
| nese taste and establishment can make
n ore her especial charge, and that sne
| also must remember In the haTd-WorhunS'
aging husband the lover OF her youth.
then. and only then, Will woman true
r.osdtion on the farm be reached, ana the
garden OF Eden will find again place on
earth. a rural life will become the envy
~ those bred and dwelling In the connne-
ments of city life"
ct did ten strokes better in golf this
morning" said young GIRL as she thre"
herself down on a chair by her mo,ne,;
| The latter laughed: do you know why
|
YOUR stays before you put them on ana
| Won were in such hurry you. never no
iced IT," Thereupon. says the New YORK
| Tribune. followed brisk argument, ana
| ~ course the usual assertions on the
mart of the young woman-how she always
wore her clothes "looser than any girl
che knew" etc-all the protestations with
| which every mother Is familiar.
"But why Is it," queried the parent ig-
| rorlng the usual asseverations, that you
| ond your friends consider small waists
co desirable? What possible difference
can a couple of inches make IN your ~
ture except, perhaps, 90 render IL misers-
| HE NV causing ill-health? Who VIII ad-
miro YOU more because OF II, or love you
better for the reason that your waist
measures q inches instead OF "A or 70 IN
| ches? 1 cannot tell you how FOOLISH 4
think It is of you girls to sacrifice so much
| for so litte| 49,.
| what is that story" exclaimed the
daughter mischievously. THAT your moth
or used to tell you about Mary with a
| thick waist and Emma with tiny one
| and how Emma died with consumption
and Mary married Emma's loverY But
Emma had the lover. you see, in the hrst
Mace. and why o dearest mamma, was
! il necessary to tell you that story? DID
YOU not, perhaps, pull the strings OF your
| corsets also Just little bit ught?'
| Whereupon her mother laughed consci-
ouslv FOR she, 600. had been proud in days
u. A. AerfNWn