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

ened with a fine. and, still protesting,
barred their arms to the needle After the
operation those who had protested most
vociferously were so indignant to think
that their fears had not been Justified
that they were sullen with rage. One
girl said wrathfully: IT told YOU so! He
only half did it! 1t won't take at am!
should like to see women swear OH
from worrying, it does no good. 1t plows
burrows in the cheeks and precipltates
doctors bills, and the thing we worry
over never happens, any way. II ID some
thing we weren't looking for, ana hhoil !
worried about a particle, that occurs. VI
course says Dorothy Dix in the New Or
leans Picayune, it's natural for every wlle
and mother to think she is the PIN thHt
kesns the universe together. She dies and
another woman steps in and marries her
husband and keeps her house ana raises
her children just as we'll as she coulo
have done. Let's resolve to take me
cheerfuller and not to worry over the
things we can't help or those we can help'
We shall be happier for 1t, and, after all
we might trust God to run the world ne
made
| should like to see women swear on
from so much novel reading. The much
heralded free libraries are fast becoming
a public menace instead of public bless
ing There are plenty of women VINO
spend their time doing nothing but deVour-
ing one novel after another, and VINO I'VE
in one continued debauch of false IDEALS
and false sentiment and highly-spiced TO-
nance and sizzling passion that is every
whit as demoralizing, mentally ana NOR
ally, as any other jag. There is reason
in all things, and temperance in novel
reading is Just as much to be desired os
ternnerance in drinking whisky.
l should like to see mothers resolve 70
brace I'D and do their duty by their chill
dren. Because little Johnny is seit-Wileo
is no reason for not controlling him. Be
cause little Mary is determined on having
her own way is no excuse for INDUCING
her in it. OF course 1t is hard TO make
children obey and teach them good man
ners. Most duties are, but nobody but q
coward shirks them on that account
There is no other thing on earth tnat
stands in such urgent need OF ietorm as
the way in which children are raised. II
IL an issue that no mother can Dodge
IL the shiftless, lazy mother, who lets her
children grow up on the street or any
where else, so they don't worry her, or
the over-tender mother, who loves her
children too well 10 make Them mind, mad
alone to suffer the consequences OF their
follv and sin 1t would not matter so
much But every one Of US are the vic
Tins OF her errors, and 1t would be mat
ter for general rejoicing IL 'he women OF
the country would establish a new donles-
tic policy that would call for the expan-
sion of the spanking industry and the sub
iugation of the infant terrors of he house
hold
should like to see young girls swear
off from talking slang that soils their
pure lips, and from trying to be hoodlums
instead of ladies.
7 should like to see debutantes swear
off from writing gushing notes to actors
and sentimental letters to men. 1t is
worse than wrong. II is vulgar.
| should like to see girls swear off from
taking presents from poor young men and
resolve to eat enough at home to sustain
them until they get back again, without
having TO hint for oysters and ice cream
every time anybody takes them out
l should like to see the social strugglers
give I'D the wearing task of trying to
know people who don't want to know
them and of clinging frantically 10 society
by an eyelash.
| should like to see clubwomen swear
off from espousing fool causes and reserve
their strength for work that will count In
the general good.
] should like to see women swear on
from telling their troubles TO their friends
and then wondering how on earth such
thing could ever have gotten out.
/ should like to see shopgirls swear of
from trying to be imitation society ladies',
with moppy hair and pinchbeck jewelry,
and be respectable working women. It's
just as honors BILE to stand behind a coun-
ter as it is to stand up in ballroom, and
a deal less laborious.
zone familiar with the results that Eng
lish women achieve when they set out
to design their clothes might not suppose
that they devoted much time to the sub
ject; but, as matter of fact, they think
as much about dress as the most modish
Partisan woman who ever rode In the
Bots de Boulogne. The English woman's
bad taste in dress cannot be attributed
to carelessness. although the means to
improvement which she adopts are some
times puzzling. An American woman
sitting in the waiting-room of the best
known London tailor tells O story which
reveals the method Of the English wo-
man when she starts out In quest of her