The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-13
WOMAN'S
WORLD.

bt+ants live in boarding houses
li' hotels than do those of England.
ai'I oIeo TO a much greater extent
anv other country of the world
',' ,ond Of equality and community of
oe+e, between men and women. If
+olres the typical American hus-
e5 and wife one will certainly find
tsot their common interests are many;
49, the wife is a companion to her
,..hond and that, knowing she is his
,..,uoctual equal, the American man
'o,,ssas freely and confidentially with
Mic wife his professional and business
,.1ations to far greater extent than
aoos the typical Englishman. cub lie
an,orr married men is not nearly SO
,0nmon in America as in England.
rhronehout the length and breadth of
49,. rrnited states thousands upon thou
.oods of husbands and wives spend
choir evenings reading together the
,ooLs and magazines, or the wife do
mo bit of fancy work or mending
while the husband reads aloud from the
,,orenaners. Many American husbands
ond wives have taken up what Is
rrown as the "Chautauqua courses;
many a Western farmer and his wife
Inns spend their winter evenings.
Then let us take the young, unmar-
,ed men and women of my country
surely they do not lead very separate
lives, and their interests in common are
many. Who takes the American girl
of q fn the fhRafpr
70 the concert? Who sends her presents
of bonbons books and flowers, all for
the pleasure of her society and COM
nanionship? 1t is the American young
man He can do it too without feeling
that his attentions will be misunder-
stood. for America is the land of good
ccmradeship between men and women.
There friendship, deep and lasting,
without any thought of love- making or
marriage. may exist between the I'M
married of the two sexes, and 1T seems
to be the only country in the world
where il can exist. Certainly such n
state of things between the young men
and the young women of country
points not to a separation but to a COM
munity of interests.
SAYS a writer in the New York Tri-
bune: 81 dislike the words my and
the very much in conversation" re-
marked a critic on manners. "A wo-
man who says my carriage, my
horses. my house, etc, is, if you no.
tce almost always the autocrat. and
is often, moreover, inclined to be
boastful. Such reiteration Of the pos
sessve pronoun regarding personal be-
longings always gets on my nerves, and
l find myself waiting for it with GER
tain people with sort of unpleasant
anticipation.
The employed in the sense have
remarked, is even more annoying, as
it is an arrogant little word, with great
pretensions. I always particularly
like going to the AS house parties,
remarked a woman to me recent
ly for just 1.-The set are always sure
to be there AS she knew perfectly
we'll that l was not invited, the dis
tinguishing article was certainly SUI
perhuouS. The expression the best
people also always seems to me too
unnecessarily presuming, when, as ev-
cry one knows, the best people are by
no means those who appropriate the
title, and that there are others who
are much more clever and wellbred,
and, therefore, the truly best. The
dance of the season, the belle of the
winter. etc, are also instances illus.
the is employed as a descriptive ad-
Jective. instead of being the modest
little part of speech that the English
Grammar intended, that it becomes
annoying and sometimes impertinent."
Compensation
Where have they vanished, the mys-
FERROUS lands,
Which oft, far-off beholden, bathed
in gold,
With genii and wonders manifold,
And great palms towering from burn
ing sands,
We fashioned with imagination's
hands
From unforgotten legends, strangely
old?
Where have they vanished ?-Science,
swift and bold,
Has torn the fairy fabric into strands.
Yet we have stolen from the coming
years
The undiscovered srealms that once
were ours,
Not in revolt; but conscious that the
hours
Hold rich reouital for old homes and
fears;
And in these changes unperturbed we
see
Inc patient purpose of Divinity.
Felix N. Gerson. in October New
Lippncott.
Inc grandmother may not have dis
APPEARED altogether, but her outward
anu visible signs have changed enough
10 make her very different from what
sne used to be. The woman of so to-
Jay looks as little like the ideas for
merly entertained of that age as she
wants to.
II the ideal Of thirty years ago. says
ule New York Sun, is in her mind, she
nay look like an old woman. If she
prefers to follow the mode of the day
sne may look as young as the dress
ni@Aers and her own natural condition
VII enable her to appear. And this
attention.
- her hair be without a suspicion OF
Gay and her figure slim that will be
r, more unexpected than the youth
~ lS'less of her dress; and the woman
ot S 9O may now dress like the woman
oV and still observe the best stand
Sai S OF taste. She may even dye her
tr without committing any such
sSb"enSsression of the laws of taste as
Wv, 1e would have been guilty of several
81 ago. Even If she dies it yellow
nv VIII be criticised no more sharply
t g'au the woman of 80 would if she did
''e same thing.
of Wv middle age has the privileges
ssis outh and is at liberty to keep IT.
H. DIS attractive looking as possible.
ANY, woman of SO is not TO be put
ra'IS the aged nowadays merely be
ted she happens to have accumula-
a o,r certain number of years and is
grandmother. She is not for that