The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-27

ing who could be the septuagenarian who
ventured to romp through coillon figures.
Mr.. S. she answered. do think old
men like that should not expect US to
dance with them AS Mr. S. was my
classmate at college, a couple of years
my junior, and as he is a remarkably
good-looking man of forty. l did not think
this crit cism was un, a led for.
" Mr.. NJ is dreadful old bore, isn't
he?" l heard another girl remark. He
means to be kind, know, but he always
comes up to me when l have some par
tcularly nice man I want to talk to-!
Alas. how are the mighty fallenl 1 re-
member the time when to have M. pay
any one attention was mark of distinc-
ton, and / assure you it gave me quite
shock to hear him spoken of in that flip
pant manner. Where do l stand in the
estimation of these young iconoclasts who
are thus ruth essly shattering all my
idols?' I ask myself"
In spite of our much Wanted level
headedness, says the Ladies' Pictorial,
we have occasionally run into strange fam
cies and lost our heads over things, which,
when the fit is past, have sickened and
shamed us by their Stiffness. Dress and
amusements are generally the craze We
have followed most wildly, and though
pages of Punch remind US OF some which
are unknown or forgotten by this gener-
alton. The pictures of the time when
Bioomerism was the fashion, when the
strong minded women of England threat
ened to follow their transatlantic sisters
by adopting an emasculated form of dress,
Is well known to those who study the
back numbers of the Punch of the time.
Then it was to be all the fashion for a
in RI tul a
up all the pursuits of a man. She was to
shoot, ride, drink and as much as possible
shape her life on the same lines as her
lord and master, and generally be as clev-
er an imitation of him in his life, faults
and virtues as she could be. Some of us
remember the horror and surprise the
half-trcuser and half-petlicoat which was
the garb of the bloomer adopted.
The bloomer was, however a healthy
woman. She was of flesh and blood, with
no desire to escape the obligation of her
sex. Nor was she ashamed of or unwil-
ling to admire the superiority of man. She
only wanted to copy him as close as
might be, her object being to prove that
he was not a much better fellow than
herself.
Some decades later saw the birth of an
other female development, but the new
woman took herself much more seriously.
Not only was she physically prepared to
take her stand with man, but morally and
intellectually she would take no lower
pace in the world. Her mission was a
complete reversal of the law of the sexes.
and in no way was she satisfied to be on
the same level as men; hers was a higher,
a more exalted aspiration; the o.d-fashion-
ed career of the wife and the mother was
to be thrown aside, and in the neurotic
atmosphere of a fin de steele society the
lives of women were to be entirey
changed.
The new woman made a great deal Of
noise and attracted much attention. We
were tod the whole structure Of society
was to be shaken to it's foundations, and
that the lives of men and women were to
be placed on a higher, purer, nobler ba-
sis and that the obligations of maternity
ana wifehood might be left to those wo-
men who were content to follow the Old
fashioned, aimiess career of their ances-
tors The new woman has. however, had
her day and has disappeared.
The next time Mrs. Smith needs any
thing she'll have to buy it herself. So
Smith says, and he vows he means it.
That comes from Mrs. Smiths saying she
needed a pair of silver curling tongs and
Smith remembering 1t when he wandered
into silversmith's and saw on the coun-
ter a tray of silver handled articles that
opened like hair curriers'.
That's just what 1 want for my wife"
remarked Smith as he chose a pair. Send
EN- home"
Mrs. Smith looked pleased. but puzzled
when Smith reached home but she kissed
Smith and he assumed an air of deserv-
ing it.
They're lovely, dear" said Mrs. Smith,
exhibiting the present, "but have glove
stretchers already. Why did you buy
them?'
Glove stretchers,'' shrieked Smith and
then he foolishly owned up to his mis-
take. Mrs. Smith has the other things,
as well, now.