The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-01

WORLD.


Don't you tell what you are going
to do or what you are not going TO do'
/ heard a wise matron say once; you
don't know what's in the future or how
circumstances may alter everything.
She herself had started out at Is to
make many plans and confided them to
the world at large, only to learn later
that it meant unkind ridicule II they
were not carried out. young woman
feels almost indignant and very nat
when an older person warns her that
she may do directly the opposite OF
what she says she is going to do. i
don't care" she declares; Il guess
know my own disposition and reckon
/ can tell little something about my
future" The older woman smiles in an
amused way and says nothing more
AS a matter of fact, says the New
Orleans Picayune, the young woman
cannot imagine all the conditions and
circumstances which are to come, so
she cannot imagine herself changing
her point of view. Reasons which have
been given for acting in a certain way
have not appealed to her in the slight
est and it is not until she arrives at
the same event herself that she realizes
that the true reasons are the ones
which are not given out to the punlic.
She may be thoroughly convinced tnat
a certain life is the only one which she
is fitted to lead, and twenty years
hence may find her leading just the
opposite sort because circumstances
have changed so that her point of view
has changed. She may be cocksure
that she will never do certain things
that her friends do, only to find her
self, several years later, doing those
same things.
1t does not always take years to
make a woman change her point or
view on small matters. l have seen
girl who has ranted about the foolish
custom of wearing a train skirt, wear
ing one in a years time, with all the
pride and haughtiness of her compan-
ions. She will shamefacedly excuse
herself by saying: You know the tall
or insisted upon my having long
skirt, and the others made woman
look gawky, and so what could ! dor
/ have seen a woman who declared she
would live way out in the suburbs
rather than live in a fiat dwelling in
the tiniest of fats in the heart OF
city all because John could not pos
sibly be so far away from his business
and it costs so much for car fare
When she had made her first state
ment about the fiat there was no
John" in sight, and the young woman
had never been obliged to consider the
cost of anything. / heard a young wo-
, man say about four years ago that she
thought evening bicycle riding with a
young man was wholly improper and
La, -1,..
joying such rides greatly, and in extern
uation she said: well you see, the
men are all working and they really
have no other time to ride"
A young woman with a keen sense of
humor looked quizzically at her hus-
band of a year and said: DO you
know, you are everything I said I
would marry? l declared 1 would not
marry a man who would make me
obey; that 1 would not marry a man
who would expect thousand little at
tentions, and who did not care a rap
about society. But, then / didn't know
you when / made that statement, and
you have so many qualities that like
immensely"
Women who like TO go, and long for
excitement, find themselves tanned
down into very domestic creatures, car
ing a great deal about their homes.
Women who only ask for housewfely
duties find themselves trotting around
to all sorts of amusements, and enjoy
ing the life. Women who frown on
Bohemian ways are transformed into
the least formal and most delightful
of hostesses. Women who are Bohem-
ian are surprised some day at the way
they are observing the conventional
ties. A woman is astonished when she
finds herself not only doing those.
things which she said she would not
do, but doing them willingly and glad
ly.
1t is not inconsistency which causes
a change in the point of view. it is
simply new adjustment to meet new
conditions. II is a happy thing that
one naturally bring ones self into the
line to be contented with what is.
Only it will be easier to adjust ones
self TO the new if the world has not
been made a confidant of ones early
plans and views.
Many women are in such terror of
being accosted on the street after
nightfall. says the writer of an article
in the Chicago Chronicle, that they can
scarcely be prevailed upon to venture
out alone But there is little danger of
such Observation-Disclosures less than most
women suppose. 81 have come to the
conclusion that women are not mo-
Tested on the streets unless some en-
couragement is given" said an attract
i've young female physician recently.
II am sometimes called out late at
night, and never was I spoken to by
man until last week, and then the cir
cumstance was amusing rather than
otherwise. / had been called out late,
and about o'clock in the morning 1
was standing at the corner of two
streets waiting for a car downtown.
Il had been waiting for perhaps ten
minutes when man came along. He
glanced at my bag and then started to
take me in from head to foot. After
awhile he spoke to me, very respect
fully, and said he thought I would
stand better chance of getting a car
on another street offering to escort me
10 that corner. ] replied that 1t wasn't
necessary, but he said he would fol-
low a short distance behind me to see
that / was not molested. At the next
street he again spoke to me- saying:
You are a doctor. aren't you?' 1 said
] was. Then permit me to give you
my card he said. We are somewhat
in the same line He waited until my
car came along, and when l was seated
] looked at his card. He was an under
taker."