The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-26

Countess contributes to an English peri
odical she seeks to rid the mind of the
fallacy that outdoor exercise is a special
attribute of the women of the present day.
Our mothers and grandmothers, she re-
minds us, could sit a horse, WELD a sal
mon rod and use an oar We know, too,
that Mary Queen of Scots could never
keep her breath unless she rode twenty
or thirty miles a day, and that the ladies
of her court accompanied her when she
went out hawking. Both the women and
the men of past days led. forcedly, lives
which were in the main quieter than ours,
locomotion being so much more expensive,
fatiguing and difficult.
Many things which formerly were done
at home by the mistress of the house
and her maid servants are now best ac-
and do not often bake-at least, for the
entire household. The doctor and the
chemist of to-day are more reliable than
those of the past; therefore, the mother
of the family does not find it necessary
or even advisable to concoct medicines
for those about her.
Certainly the principles and practice of
to-day appear to have created a race of
fine outstanding young women, many of
whom leave their homes, where they have
been loved and delicaretly nurtured to
follow their husband, enduring all man
ner of hardshps without complaint.
Many of these women who have never
done days hard work in their lives 20
to the colonies and what their hands find
to do that they bravely undertake. Their
mental training would have been of the
wrong Sort indeed, had it not taught
them the dignity of the necessary labor
of a woman for those she loves.
The tune was See the Conquering Hero
Comes" and the whistler. hidden some
where behind a pile of dry goods boxes,
was rendering the music with spirit and
precision, says the New York Sun.
THAT boy is a good whistler" said the
customer.
"Boy?" said the manager OF the depart
ment. THAT is not boy, IL is a woman.
She is our assistant bookkeeper, and she
certainly is one of the best whistlers for
an amateur 1 ever heard. She must be
unusually busy now, or she wouldn't be
rafting off that tune at such a lively
rate. I've noticed that the deeper her
intei est in her work the better she whs-
ties. The first time 1 heard her whistle
back in the office 1 was inexpressibly
shocked.
why, my dear Miss MellIn," I said,
really this is most extraordinary
Yes. said she, I suppose it is, but
We BOA " dO ~ witch Il SCI hONH 10 real
hard work. II you expect me to get
through with all these accounts to-day,
you've just got to let me whistle
80 she whisted, and she's kept on
whistlng. whenever we have an unusual
rush of business. 1 don't know that II
looks any worse 10 see a woman whist
ling when going about her work than
when walking along the street"
The customer gasped. DO women
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question.
do they?" said the manager. III you
had kept your eyes and ears open that
question would be entirely superhuous
why, the number of whistling women seen
here is one OF the first things that strike
a visiting foreigner as peculiar. Haven't
YOU heard them? Haven't you seen them?
American men long ago earned for us the
name OF whstling nation, and now the
women are doing their best to keep up the
reputation.
IF you will watch them hurrying along
the streets you win find that fully 50 per
cent. have their lips puckered into whist
ling shape. Sometimes this preparatory
quicker really amounts to something and
they emit shrin. unmusical noises,
white again they are content with the
dumb semblance OF a whistle. In most
cases these women, like my bookkeeper,
are unconscious OF their astonishing ia
cial contortion. and merely whistle or
strike the whistllng expression as re-
lief 10 their high nervous tension.
Before became superintendent OF this
department ] was on the road for several
years and I noticed that the womn OF
other cities are also given 90 whistling
You just ought 20 hear them out In Chi
caEo. There h no haaf-hearted comprom-
ise about the whlstllng out there The
notes ring OUT loud and buoYant. The old