The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-21

give you. Go and see if you can earn
calico one for yourself. Our home is too
plain for your taste. Try life in board
ing house third story back hall bedroom
for awhile. Our life is too quiet for you.
Go ard taste the delicious excitement of
pounding a typewriter, or standing be-
hind a counter eight hours a day" And
If the girl were made to go, my word for
it., she would come back a chastened and
a different creature, who would simply
radiate contentment at every pore. You
would hear no more of her Imaginary
woes l never yet knew of a working
woman who found fault with her home.
when she got one.
One IDEAL of feminine charm is the con-
tented woman, whose days are full of
ieasantness and peace, but surely we may
we'll spare a tear of COMMUNICATION for
the vast number of women who have
somehow missed the road to happiness,
and whose means and groans of discon-
tent are forever ringing in our ears. To
men there is no more pathetic spectacle
than they present. for they are the mis-
fits in eation--women too big for the lit
tie things of life, and too little for the
big things; women who have neither the
courage to lead the life they want, or to
live bravely and cheerfully the one they
accepted of fate.
There is a shoemaker, says the New
York Times, who lived at one time IN
Far Rockaway who has a stock story to
tell of the melancholy time when he
cheated himself. There lived in his neigh
borhood a poor woman who had rented
one Of the summer cottages which she
was able 10 hire at a low sum for the
winter because no one else would take it.
She lived in only a few rooms in the
house, the kitchen and little room out
OF 1t, a dining room, where she had
small, smoky stove which had gradually
darkened the walls to cloudy gray
Everything about the house was of tile
simplest, even of the poorest, and the
kind-hearted shoemaker felt sorry for the
poor woman who lived in this uncomfort-
able fashion, She brought him shoe to
mend one day. He did the work in his
best fashion and when she came for it
refused the money.
1T is nothing, madam he said, cheer
fully Il was glad to do it," The woman
thanked him and left.
why didn't you charge her?" asked an
astonished witness of the scene.
She is such poor woman l didn't like
to- answered the shoemaker apologetic-
ally.
'Poor!' cried the spectator "She is the
richest woman in this country. That was
Hetty Green.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore was recently
requested by local woman's club to ex-
press her opinion as to whether woman
has refrigerated in the last generation
Her reply. written to Mrs. Frank Bliss,
of the Literary Committee of the CLUB,
says an Attleboro CMass) special to the
New York World, was read yesterday af-
ternoon at the meeting of the club. It is
in substance as follows:
'It is not true that women are retro
grading or that they are refusing to mar
ry or be mothers. The world is not lack
ing population at this time and there are
more than enough people to carry on it's
business. 1t is said that there are 100000
men out of work and that women are TAX
ing their places. There is not enough
for the men to do, because machinery,
not women, is taking the places of these
men.
Nobody will deny that we are in need
of better men and better women than
we have persons of brain, of conscience
and sobriety of character than will lift
the world to a. higher plane.
Married persons have no more right
to become parents of more children than
they can property educate and train to
be good citizens than they have to live
in finer house that they can afford or
to horses and carriages and money that
40 IOl .pclOilS W lDeIn. we OlQ not for
merly think of these things, but now.
when Il costs more to rear family to
maturity, It Is our duty to think of
them
Another thing. There are, according
to some statistics, 1900 more women in
MASSACHUSETTS than there are men. and
the question arises as TO how they can
marry when there are not enough men to
marry them. 1t is only in the Western
states that you find an excess of men.
There is a vast amount of nonsense
talked about the refusal OF American wo-
men to marry. They are more particular
whom they marry. They did not use to
be, and regard this as vast improve
ment. For a woman 10 marry a drunk
ard, tippler or licentious man, to hout
the laws of God and commit a crime
against posterity, to invoke the gift of
little children into family where there
is no bality to make life a blessing to
them, is to sin against those children
fdarfully.'