The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-12

men. Together they hear things discuss
ed which young girl should learn only
| from her mother. Really, Wha the
dangers of going unescorted might be,
! think they would be less than those girls
face in attending these performances with
men"
Then, perhaps, you agree with the
| French author who said that the model
| young girl was the one who could say up
on the eve of her marriage, I have never
read novel; 1 have never seen play? "
| Mrs. Parkhurst laughed. and one of her
small hands rose in a quick gesture OF
dissent.
II don't think would go as far as
that" she said There are certain things
which a girl must know to meet modern
conditions. But she should learn them
in the home"
Then you do not think that, so far
as young girl Is concerned, purity and
ignorance of evil are necessarily synony-
mous?"
NO; I do not. The girl of 1900 perhaps.
was pure and ignorant but the girl OF
! 1900 should be pure with knowledge"
DO you think the education of the mod
ern girl should include domestic science?"
Mrs. Parkhurst laughed again. I'VE
didn't call 1t science in my day." she
said. DO you mean cooking and house
| work."
IdluSI SIldHleldCSuIy lOlu AcL lAat 4
did.
Every girl" she replied, should know
how to cook a dinner-to conduct home"
Can you cook?" 1 asked.
Yes, indeed. You know, 1 was brought
up on a farm, and my mother insisted
that 1 and my sister should learn to do
everything about the house. We had work
allotted to us every day"
1T has been said that you disapprovs
of the higher education of women"
I'm a way do. I believe that the pres
ent college system of educa ton UNITS a
woman for domestic life. If to the col
lege course of four years could be added
two of practical instruction in homework,
and after that, when it can be obtained,
two years of European travel to widen
the horizon, to make the character SYM
metrical. 1 would indorse the system thor
oughly. But, II 1t is, dt makes women
| disconnected, Vt makes them seek other
missions than that which is inalienably
theirs-the mission of wife and mother"
Then you believe woman's place is in
| the homer
II do. 1 think that when a woman en-
tiers into competition with men she must
| inevitably become unsexed."
DO you believe in clubwomen?'
Il do not. A woman with children has
no time for clubs"
L see lIldI the HISl PuDllC VlCllL1 VI AL
| English Woman's Love Letters has Just
| been announced. A Boston woman, says
| Dorothy Dix in the New Orleans Plea
yune, has just gone crazy from reading
| them, and has committed suicide. She
| was a rich and educated married woman,
who read necessarily and after indulging
in an emotional debauoh of that dopey
| piece of literature, she shot herself, be-
| cause she had taken up a mania that she
! was hopelessly in love with some man
| who wasn't her husband The other man
| existed only in her ina gination, over
wrought by excessive devotion to love
| fiction, but that didn't prevent the trag
| edy. -....
To my mind. AN English Woman's
Love Letters is the most dangerous book
| that has been published in twenty years.
For one thing, it is a wild wallow of SEN
| timeutality that is irresistibly fascinating
| to most women. For another, 1t throws a
! falo of poetry and romance about the
| biggest fool performance on earth. 1t JUS
| titles the sentimental letter. 1t makes at
| tractive the spectacle of a woman STOP
| ping over with gush, and spreading her
| heart out on paper, and ransacking the
language for red hot terms in which to
| express her devotion, and the worst of 1t
is that this baneful example is sure to
| have thousands of followers among wo-
men, who will be inspired by it to indite
| letters that they would give their eye
teeth to have back again. "A
| Deep down in every womans' soul is an
unsuitable yearntng to love and be loved
Economically. She may have gumption
| enough to realize that bread and butter
| are better and more satisfying in the
| long run, than fine words She would not
| even, in all probability, exchange her
| honest young grocer for any long haired
poet who ever indicted sonnets to his
Id.
timent is still there This the love letters
supply to her. 1t is the poetry and the
glamor of the affair, and the very mo-
| ment girl begins to want to express
| herself in mixed metaphors and high-fa-
| lutin' phrases Nine times out of ten these
lead her into saying more than she in
| tended to say. 1t is a kind of poetical
| license she allows herself, and she hasn't
| the faintest idea how they read in cold
blood to other people.
II these effusions, IN which a girl gives
herself away on every page, and bank
| rupts the dictionary on endearments, were
only addressed to the man to whom she
was betrothed, and whom she expected TO
marry, some excuse might be offered for
| her folly, but this is not the case Girls
write such letters quite indiscrimnately
to any man with whom they have a pass
| ing Irritation, and the wonder Is not that
| they get into trouble so often but THAI
| they escape at all.
A pertinent illustration of this is being
offered just now in New York. where a
few days ago beautiful young woman
who belongs to rich and fashionable
family, drove to the police station and
Historically begged the police to give her
package of love letters she had written
to man who had been arrested for
swindling, and which were found in the
| prisoners pocket. All she knew of the
man was that she had met him at a sum-
mer resort. and they had gotten into a
filtration. and correspondence, but she
had written him letters that began INV
darling sweetheart" and that run the
whole gamut of affection, Her family had
never even heard of him, and she declared
she would be disgraoed If the letters were
made public. She didn't get her letters
back, though. 1t is always easier to do
things than 1t is to undo them
Nor is this an isolated case. can
match 1t with another that knew per-
sonally OF In New Orleans last winter.
where the gushing and silly letters of an
innocent young girl fell into the hands OF
an evil and Jealous woman, and it was
Just by miracle of good luck and dinlo-
macy that she was kept from using them
and hopelessly smirching the girls name.
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