The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-29
WOMAN'S
WORLD.

a fairly good amount of harm and very
little to the men whom she kills"
The lady killer, says Max O'Rell, in
the New York Journal, is an unmiti-
gated ass, who excites nothing but
contempt in sensible people. If he
boasts of the conquests he has made
he is a cad; if he boasts, as is not un-
commonly the case, of conquests he
has not made, he is a cur, who should
be kicked out of every descent club or
private house. The only redeeming
feature of the man who does really
make conquests is absolute discretion.
The man who has compromised wom-
an should Immediately protect her ana
shield her against the faintest breeze
that might injure her reputation. He
should shield her in public, in private
and even in a court of justice. 1 would
willingly undergo a years imprison-
ment for having perjured myself in
shielding woman who had a right
to claim my protection.
This pompous term Conquest is made
use of to express the homage of desire
eXtorted by it's object. This metaphor
is very just, for no hero could be vain
er OF number of battles he has won
than the fair are of that of their low
ers.
The arms they employ are beauty,
natural or artificial, the artillery of
the eyes, winning looks and smiles, airs
and graces, and all the powerful aux
aliary of dress. A general shall some
- Zines be less embarrassed in marshal
ing any army of twenty thousand mep
than a woman in arranging a curl, a
pin. What an amount of preparation
they make before they go upon an at
tack Two milliners, a ladys maid
a female friend and a dangling fop
privileged for his insignificance, are
not, with all their united skill, suffi-
cient to determine upon the looping Of
a gown on some occasions. The toll
cite is the council table of war-but
it would engage us in endless detail
to enumerate all the stratagems and
machinery they employ.
Dear womenl Archimedes was a
bungler then. Such a subject would
require an express treatise on the stra-
tegic art of some women. For some
society stagers it is the only occupa-
ton, the only preoccupation.
Unhappily, however, it too often hap
pens that, from judging of their con-
quests more by numbers than by
weight they are dishonored by their
success and disgraced by their list.
Sometimes-and this is the case with
the best of them-their plans of con-
quest end in being themselves con-
quered.
Some are even made celebrated by
their defeats. who, like some bar
barous countries, would never have
been known but for the name of the
conqueror who deigned to subdue them.
Others, with worse fate, submit to
these cruel xph
like provinces reduced, and which they
prefer to ravage occasionally than care
to take definite possession of them.
1t is oftenNmore difficult to preserve
a conquest than to make it.
All, my dear friends all this is sham
and humbug. There is only one love
conquest worth making and worth
keeping. That is a good honest heart
by another good honest heart.
A clever woman, in speaking to a
representative of the New York Trib-
une. said recently, in speaking of the
domestic cirtues, and the effect upon
them of higher education, that there
were three types of girls. One was a
natural homemaker, that nothing could
change or spoil: another wanted per-
ception, but might or might not be de-
veloped into a homemaker according
TO circumstances, while the third was
much better turn her attention tc
something else. Every mother OF
daughters realizes the truth of this
classification. Unfortunately, the frs
type is rare, but happily, also, the last
is still rare. The rank and file belong
to the middle type, which may be made
or spoiled by circumstance, training
and education. The mother who ex
poets that her daughters win volun.
tarily assume her cares and tighten hel
burdens by judicious and thoughtful
help will, in nine cases out of ten, b,
disappointed, but neither ought she
on the other hand, feel aggrieved o.
discouraged if such aid is not proffered
Young people are thoughtless and lacl
perception. and II is only by askinj
them to assume certain duties, and ex
pecting their help, as a matter o
course, that they feel their responsible
tiles.
There is a saying that a self-sacrifi
cling mother makes a selfish daughter
and a self-seeling parent an unselfis
one. 1t is easy to see how such re
suits would naturally follow, but
is also true that much that is calle
self sacrifice on the part of the moth
ers, comes from a Discrimination to b
interfered with and the feeling tina
1t is easier. To assume all the care
and then to expect that a girl who ha
been brought up 10 do nothing shout
suddenly become uSeIul ana helpful
Tnanifestly unfair.
Speaking of homemakers. however.
said a matron who with several other
had been discussing the question, "di
you ever notice what a difference Their
is in servants in that respect? HOY
attractive some of them make a roor
look, and how other persistently plac
chairs at uncomfortable angles an
never can be taught to arrange cush
ions and books property / had a coo
last winter who made the kitche
seem one of the pleasantest rooms 4
the house; everything looked so nea
and bright and nicely arranged. Eve
while she was cooking there was n
confusion or litter or discomfort Thi
year ] have a woman who is equal
clean and a good cook, but the kitche
always looks so dreary and uncomfort
able that / hate to go into il. No.
has gone to Minnesota to marry
farmer to whom she was engaged /
Sweden, and l often think what
comfortable. CHEEKY home she will max
for him. and how lucky he is to e
her-whereas pity the poor man VIII
takes my present treasure for bette
or worsel
"A born homemaker .n every sens
of the word is certainly the woman
choose for a wife IL young man did BIT
realize II, and could tell which of III
attractive young women of their az
quaintance possesses this most desirs
BILE qualification"