The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-06


eco 900 left to her by her guardian. Those
who see her often, while mindful of her
childish lack of appreciation of what the
millionaire's generosity means to her, are
confident that when she becomes q years
old she will come into the property.
They have no fear that she will lose
the Creole fortune because of the unique
provision of the will which has recently
become known.
new law is under consideration in Eu-
rope. 1t is proposed 20 levy a tax on all
celibates of either sex who continually
refuse to marry Ever since the days of
our grandmothers there has been an oc-
casional testing suggestion made to tax
bachelors. Many a serious occurrence
starts in jest
To my idea, says Ella Wheeler Wilcox
in the New York Journal, it is right and
PROPER and just to tax single men after
the age of thirty-tive.
Club life has become so universal, its
comforts so complete, that men are more
and more inclined to avoid the RESPONSE
bility of marriage and acknowledged pa
! ternity and enjoy the freedom which
bachelorhood gives. With the latitude ac-
corded to man by nature and society in
the matter of morals, he is not depend
ent upon marriage for his association with
tractive 20 women and is susceptible to
their charms he is liable to become a
menace to the highest order of civilized
society.
Meanwhile maldens who would make
ideal wives and mothers are being de-
prived of their natural rights and privi-
leges and the worlds best interests arc
not advanced.
Every bachelor, therefore, who remains
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to be willing to pay a small tax for his
freedom, and this sum should be used
in the establishment of home for single
women incapacitated for self support
past the age of 40, or 40.
Nothing can be more absurd or unjust
than the proposition TO tax single wo-
men.
There are no advantages in the life of
single woman which would make her
choose spinsterhood. Deprived of the at
fections and comradeship of men, by her
own Unborn dignity, the law of nature or
the rules of society, she is in no degree
the free and independent and we'll loved
and petted creature which the attractive
bachelor is, even when he reaches the
age of white hairs and govt. Always, il
he has the gallant eye and the generous
hand, can he find some fond, foolish wo-
man to coddle him, without the ties of
marriage; and always there is the club
and hotel comradeship, which enables him
to pass agreeable evenings, denied the
aging spinster. 1t is the natural order of
the universe that man should care for
and protect and provide for woman.
1t is the nature of woman to long foa
such care. The man who refuses 90 es-
tablish home should be taxed. The wo
man who has been denied a home by
mans selfishness should not be taxed, in
addition to her own loss
The tendency of such a law would be
10 increase marriage among the well-to-
do classes.
Love and T.
We hold hands,
Love and /;
And sit together:
We spread the book OF life
Upon our knees and turn its leaves,
In fair or cloudy weather.
To see
But pictures there and poetry,
There may be hard, dry prose
Somewhere upon those
Pages; yet we see
But pictures there and poetry;
And sigh for those
Who only find the hard, dry prose.
William ]. Hampton in New York Sun.
1T feel very tired this morning." said
a society woman to the New York Tri-
bune reporter, as she languidly took her
seat at the directors meeting of the IS
Hospital, land you Will hardly wonder
when 1 tell you all 1 did yesterday.
had on hand a rehearsal for our charity
concert, poor Tom Miller's funeral,
luncheon party, a musical at Mrs Sing
er's, a dinner at the Clarks,' and, finally,
the Assembly ball, where / was obliged to
go to introduce my niece. And l got
everything int did not see you at the
funeral You were not there? That was
a pity, for am sure you would have en-
joyed it-that is, it would have interested
YOU. Almost every one belonging to the
old fashionable set of twenty years ago
was In the church-that is. all that are
left Of them-and they did look pretty
Grumpy poor dears! Mrs. Van Dusen
sat lust in front OF me, with Lavinia
Van Dusen. DO you recollect, when we
were girls, how grateful we were II either
Of. them took any notice of us? Miss Van
Dusen never asked me to her small dances
then. because ! was not smart enough, /
suppose and now she would be glad
enough to be asked to mine! But 1t was
nice. seeing all the old familiar faces,
and YOU ought to have gone. 1t is only
AZ funerals one meets the smart set Of
twenty-five years ago nowadays
"There is a certain absurdity about all
halls. II one begins to analyze the silly.
forced conversations one hears on every
aide and to try and discover reason for
the stereotyped smiles that are so far
removed from mirth," remarked cynical
old bachelor recently, says the New York
tribune. II always think people
at any dance look like collection of gal
vanized puppets, but OF all ridiculous, in
enc performances. . private masked ball
Is the wostl The silly, squeaKy voices
that are assumed to escape recognition,
the futile attempts at modification and
the efforts TO be playful are really pain
fuIi The last function OF the kind went
10 was too foolish for anything. As
went into the room a tall female figure
came IN, 20 me. and in a horrible falsetto
demanded. Art thou my souls eTctedT
ne, ! am not thy souls elected an-