The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-17


"Joost think of the poor fellers," re-
marked Pete. as he handed in my plug.
married men, who can't chew, nor
smoke, nor drink, nor have any fun,
just cause woman says they moosnt.
Why. terbaccy is one of life's bless .ngs,
and if weemen folks only knew it they'd
use 1t same as men, but they haven't
sense enoof"
yes. sir" I answered. "but It's dir
ty habit after all. It's all right for men,
but not for women"
"What?" he said In scornful surprise.
why? Are weemen any better than
men? Are they any more p'ticular about
what they do? Does a woman wash her
face any more than a man? Hey? She
don't. She puts vasoline on 1T or glycerine
on that cold cream stuff, and then she
swabs II off with towel and calls 1t a
job. She don't chew terbaccy. No, it
makes bad breath, she says. but she eats
candy and cake and sweet things till her
teeth are bad and her stomach's out of
plumb and her mouth smells like a
slaviers main hatch, and II you offer her
a chew of good navy plug to freshen It
COP she's insoolted.-Yah-weem folks
be -" The Old man stamped down the
bridge, pered ahead and astern. sang out
something to the lookout and returned to
the window
Does a woman know anything. any
how" he continued. "She thinks she
knows 1t all, and banks on it, and when
things don't go right she blames some
man who didn't do what she told him.
And she's always ready to tell him what
to do. and how to do it, and when to do
it-1oost as if she knew Did you ever
notice leetle girl, joost old enoof to
go out and play-how she tells her leetle
brother that he moost do this. and he
and that was not right? She don't know
anything about it any more than the Ieetie
boy. It's an instinct-joost the same as
makes ieetle kitten growl and spit over
a bone Now, nobody wants that bone but
the Kitten, but ii takes her back to the
"lIderness-she thinks the whole wide
word is conspiring to rob her of it, and
She thinks she is soaring other animals
away Same way with the leetle girl She
sets from the time-way back-when
Weemen were bosses. and men sawed
wood men they said nothing. And so
sue begins preaching when she learns to
speak and she never stops-no never. She
HeVer stops. Young man, don't you get
married When a man gets married he
uol only binds himself to support another
person but to consult that person apout
eVeTything-as to what he does, what he
wears where he goes, whom he knows,
a.iu what money he spends. Yah-men
ore oam fools to get married"
thought of brown-eyes-and -dimples,
enu smlled-pi,ying y. He saw the smile
~ the light from the pinnacle and hast
ehed to speak.
Must have had a hard time, sir in
your married life"
My married life? o, no. I've had
s sIost Kinds CT hard luck, but not that
eull' | came near it-bout your age, too,
or leetle older"
was interested and expressed my in
S,eIest He visited both ends of the bridge
.oohed at the compass amidshlps to see
eudt was on my course, and leaned his
e'ooW on the sash.
ABOUT your age l went to sea with a
tuIl crew Of married men and their wives
ulonE With them That cured me- / had
d glrl at the time-daughter of Liver
pooi grocer-good girl. too, as girls go
p"o she was to wait joost one voyage till
mad saved enough to stock a leetle
"one Tor her. ] had a masters certih-
-1'e, out had never commanded q ship;
al / hoped for was a chief mates BERTH
anu was goin to save my money and
Sts tnat girl and be a happy man.
u,1 not know But | learned that the
EMP Hyderabad. loading for Singapore.
~snted a skipper. and / struck for the
700. Then knew why she wanred a
asN'Pper-Wanted him bad and couldn't get
I'm, I'm, Liverpool was fun OF shippers look
~ Tor SHIPS 10 sail, and ! was the only
Iihh who was willing to try that ship.
"Ats becnuse ] was young end goin' 10
married You eee, her owaer was o
s"ulb man, too and rel x Gus; and be
,s1d his Bible steady; and that Bible told
,',p mat u was not good for man 10 be
1'on'' ana be figured that n meant that
ought 70 have q woman long with
I'M 20 what does he DO but pat d new
,gIrafd house IN the first Of hla ships that
~-Nis hgme, ana sink 81 down 20 the