The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-18
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whether a person deserves to be pitied
or fayed alive. Her mission is simply
| to be unfortunately sorry to be all
ways ready to slop over with SYM
pathy and keep her tear ducts always
open.
In theory the idea of the woman
whose tender heart pities the sorrows
of the whole world is beautiful. In
practice it is simply administering a
kind of mental and moral dope that
saps the strength and befuddles the
will, and is one of the most dangerous
/ things on earth. If we could get at the
secret of nine tenths of the failures in
life, be sure that we should find that
{ they were the direct result of this mis-
chievous feminine sympathy on which
women pride themselves so much, and
which they esteem such virtue.
There comes time to each of us
when we line up face to face with the
crisis of our destiny. when the heart
fails and the courage wavers, and a
word will turn the scale, and send us
| either on to fight out our battle, brave
ly, heroically, VIGOROUSLY, or else
make us turn in craven fear and skulk
| back into the tents to be camp follow
ers all the rest of our days.
1t is then that the deadly womanly
sympathy gets in it's work. and the
woman who loves us Stays us with her
pity. She feels so sorry for us for all
| the hardness of life we must endure
| she Will never blame; she will only eX-
cuse if we throw up our hands and
give up the fight, her very sympathy
| seems to justify failure. 1t is all so
| comforting, so sweet and so terribly
| fatal to every energy and ambition. 1t
is what we want, but not what we
| reed. In the time of stress the real
friend is not the one who says:
I. l.. g.
and how discouraging it is to fight
against such overwhelming odds Give
up the struggle and come back and be
soothed by my pity" but the one who
says:
Don't be coward. OF course, It is
! hard. Everything worth while in the
world is, but have some grit. Fight
out your battle, and win your victory.
Come back to me with your shield, or
on it,"
That kind of a woman may be called
hard and unsympathetic, but she is
the one who helps. She is behind all
the great achievements of life. In an
interview with one of the most promi-
nent of the railroad magnates of this
country, man who has risen from be-
ing track-walker to the head of a
great system, he said the other day
that there was a time when he was so
/
slow and the work so hard, and the
pay so little, he was tempted to give
1t up, and went to his mother to tell
her So but she held him to the career
he had undertaken. She encouraged
him, and sent him back with new de-
termination to succeed IF she had
given me one word of pity" he said,
''she would have ruined my life right
there, but she didn't. She gave me
| brace instead"
A mothers sympathy It is our syn
onym for all that is beautiful and ten
! der in life. Oceans of sentiment and
! tons of poetry have been written on the
subject, but it is time now somebody
was telling the truth about it, and
pointing it out as one of the greatest
| dangers that can menace the we'll be-
ing of an individual 1t is passing
strange mothers never consider 1t, but
! 1T is a fact nevertheless, that to be
brought up in an atmosphere of chick
en-hearted pity is as enervating as to
be brought up in an air full of deadly
malaria.
Abstractly, of course, every woman
wants her children to be brave self
reliant and successful, but she doesn't
take the trouble to try to cultivate
those qualities, or rather she wants the
good things of the world to come to
them on wings. She doesn't want her
children to have to go through the
travail, and work, and worry of win
ming the prizes, and when they do face
the necessity of fighting their way like
everybody else, she overwhelms them
with pity, and they give up, unless
they are made of stern stuff.
Home-washed fiannels, says the New
York World, are nice and last longer
| when one knows how to do the wash
ing.
The chief points to be remembered
are that fiannels must not be put eth
| Ell into hot or cold water; they must
not be dried too quickly nor yet al
lowed to hang about a long time wet;
and to preserve the color ana texture
| of the wool no alkalies should be used.
Take a quarter of a pound of soap,
shred it very finely and put 1t into an
enamelled saucepan; cover with one
| pint of cold water, bring 1t slowly to
boil, and when all the soap is dis
! solved it is ready for use. This is suf-
hcient to lather two or three gallons
| of water.
If fiannels are very dirty they re-
| quire two washing waters, the tenn
perature of which should not be above
80 degrees Fahrenheit. Pour some of
the dissolved soap into the warm wa
ter and by briskly moving the hand
! ABOUT II make a nice lather.
Put the flannel into this lather and
squeeze and press ii through the hands
! (but do not rub it, as this hardens it,,
squeezing it on the right side in the
first water, and on the wrong side in
the second. White and light colored
flannels should be washed first, and
then the colored ones.
After thoroughly washing the fan
nels rinse them in warm water, and If
the water is hard a teaspoonful of am
monia to every four gallons of water
Will soften it and make the fiannels
| feel soft and nice.
Ammonia must not, however, be used
for colored fiannels, for it will draw
out the dye; if the water is very hard
soften II with a very light lather of
soap, and little salt can be added to
! fix the color.
All fiannels must be freed thoroughly
from water before attempting to dry
them, not by wringing. but either by
passing through wringer several
times or by twisting them in dry
| towel.
I Never Knew
l never knew before the world
| So beautiful could be
As l have found it since l learned