The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-21

marries her viii have to toll like a
slave to support her extravaganza
When he finds that he cannot argue or
make Janet Sc reason on the simplest
subject does it need a prophet to tell
him how exasperating such a pig-head-
ed Ounce will be to deal with through
the many problems of domestic life?
To me one of the most pathetic sights
in life-and it's very common-is the
broad, intelligent, cultivated man mar
ried to the doll baby woman whom he
! has hopelessly outgrOwn. Sometimes
she still has the pretty face that is the
| visible excuse for his folly. Sometimes
she is getting old. and has lost even
that, but always there is the tragedy
of utter unsuitability and lack of COM
| partnership She does not understand.
she never can understand the things
that mean most to him, and between
! them is a gulf deeper than the grave,
and wider than eternity.
Why? why2 why? we ask ourselves
of such marriage. How could he ever
have dreamed she would suit him?
What made him do It? The answer al
| ways is the same-he refused to heed
| to warning. He was bound to see that
| she did not know the things he did.
He couldn't help seeing that she was
| silly and childish. pleased with childish
toys and gew-gaws, but he was charm
| ed with the pretty face, and he that
| he could breathe soul into his saw
| dust doll, and when he found out his
| mistake it was forever too late.
We can lay no more important truth
| to heart than that marriage works no
| miracles We do not acquire a new set
of angelic virtues with our trousseaux.
| When we marry a person we marry
their bad qualities as well as their good
and IT is a wise man or woman who
scrutinizes the faults of their future
partner before marriage and is blind to
| them afterwards.
We still need a training school to
teach the very rich how to use the
trappings of their wealth. In front of
famous store in Fifth avenue there
stood recently. says the New York
Post, a luxurious carriage with a
coachman and footman on the box
Both servants, but particularly the
footman, were models. The owner of
the turnout came out of the shop, walk
ed to the carriage, and opened the door
for herself. The footman never moved.
She gave an order to the coachman;
still the footman sat like one of the
Pharaohs, except that he kept his arms
crossed, which they did not do even
when laid out to be mummies. Finally
the woman stepped into the carriage,
shutting the door for herself, and the
equipage Whirled away without any
sign of life having been given by the
man beside the coachman. The ex-
PLANTATION was that the owner of the
carriage, who had recently attained to
riches, and also New York, had heard
that it was the proper thing to have
two men on the box; so she had them
and kept them there! She probably
classed the second man with the crest
on the carriage door, as an ornament
of certain significance. but no prac-
teal use.
Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago, says
the New York Times, while in New
York recently, found her portrait on
the advertising literature of new
face powder. She wrote to the firm
telling it IL the picture was not removed
she would sue. She received this terse
reply I'VE advertised for a photo
graph and the name of the best-known
American woman except Mrs McKin-
ley. The majority of the names sent
in was yours. If you sue us we will
get more than any damages we would
have to pay you in free advertising by
being sued by the 'best-known Ameri-
can woman" Mrs. Palmer was saved
the solution of a vexing question by
the failure of the firm.
I1dNt YOU carefully COnSluefeQ all
that | have said. my boy?" asked the
old gentleman the day after he had
given his son a little fatherly advice,
says Leslie's Weekly.
Yes, father" replied the young man.
meekly.
You are getting near the age at
which young man naturally begins to
look around for a wife, and l don't
want you to make a mistake"
tYxy anf 20 fatT
mo butterflies of fashion, my boy,
but girl of some solid worth; one who
has some practical accomplishments.
Yes, father"
Never mind the piano. playing and
Delsarte lessons; never mind the dane
ing and the small talk. When you find
girl who can cook my boy. it will
be time to think of marrying. When
you find girl who can make up her
own bed. knows how to set the table
without forgetting something. is able
to put up the preserves, and, above all,
is good at sewing. go in and win her.
my boy, and you will have my bless
ing"
81 have resolved, father, to seek such
a wife as you describe" said the young
man with determination. ~ see the
folly OF seeking a wife in society.
Will go to an intelligence office this af-
ternoon and see If can find one that
will answer. And then I'll have mother
call on her, and-and-"
Young man, I'll break your neck in
about a minute!"
But you said"
Never mind what 1 said I've
changed my mind"
The following stray thoughts about
women are by Max O'Rell in the New
York Journal:
Discretion is the quality women
praise most in men. The man who
boasts of the favors he has received is
a cur. The man who compromises wo-
men and boasts of favors which he has
not received, is the scum of the earth.
A well known titled Englishwoman, as
clever and witty as she is beautiful,
once surnamed an Englshman of the
highest society. named Sir William X,
William Tell" That man had to dis
appear from England. The motto of
man should be: by your words and
deeds shield the women" Even per-
jury is pardonable IL it is committed
to protect a woman. An offense of this
sort may be an act of heroism. The
man who abandons the confiding wo-
man, who. through love, has yielded 10
him, ought to be refused admission into
HARD TO BREAK.