The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-07

easily, and who does for her family only
what she is able to do, but who is gentle
and sweet to her children, and loving and
companionable to her husband, doing her
duty any less than the nervous, irritable
woman who feeds and clothes her family
to perfection, but who is so overweight
and -overworked she snaps them up at a
word, and flies into a tantrum at the
slightest provocation? Are tucks more
important than love and gentleness?
Which will a boy remember the longest,
which will influence him most when those
sudden crises of life come when when a
man must choose between right and
wrong, the blanc manages that mother
used to spend her time in making, or the
long, peaceful, quiet heart to heart talks
| There is another side of this subject
that 1 want to call the attention of the
good, conscientious, women to, and that
| is that it is often Just as much wo-
mans duty TO live for her family as 1t is
| to die for them. It's a platitude to say
you can wear out any kind a machine un-
| less you give it rest, yet many women go
on tn etheory that the human body, the
most complicated and delicate machine in
the world, never needs to be rested up.
1 once heard a very clever doctor tell an
| overworked mother, who was so nervous
| she couldn't sit still, that If every wo-
man would lie down every day for half
an hour in dark room, with closed eyes,
that his profession would be gone.
But, DOCTOR" the woman exclaimed,
that is impossible for me! 1 couldn't
| think of neglecing my children like that!
Who would care for them?
Probably the same people who viii
| take care Of them when you die" he an
swered, cynically.
She was too conscientious to heed the
advice, and, really, 1 must say their STEP
mother is doing a very good part by the
children now. 1 have gone to many a
womans funeral where / didn't know
whether to revere her as a martyr, or
mourn her as fool who didn't have sense
enough to live.
| Much as modern progress has done for
women we owe it some grudge for hav-
| ing robbed us of the restful woman. She
| it was who used to have time to listen to
our troubles, and to the stories of our
hopes and ambitions and dreams. There
are no such women now. when even
grandma listens to US with one eye on
| the clock that warns her of her commit
tee meeting, and the average womans
day is so trimming over with society, and
housekeeping, and mother classes, and
charities, and studies, and clubs, you
you feel that you have to state your bus
mess and get away as swiftly as If she
were a consulting physician, or the head
of billion-dolar trust.
Nobody would turn back the hands of
the clock of progress, but it is undeniable
that as sex we are trying to do too
| much We have too many clubs, too
many charities, too many entertainments,
too much fashion, and too much study.
1t gives us a mental and physical dyspep-
| STA, and we want to get back to simpler
living, and a quieter life, and to realize
| that often the woman who does nothing
| does the most. They also serve who only
| stand and walt"
A little conversation on a Kansas City
| street car the other day between Mrs.
| Carrie Nation and a woman who came
| up to speak to her was characteristic of
| the anti-saloon crusader. The woman
| seized Mrs. Nations hand and exclaim-
| cd: my, what a lot o. backbone you
must haver'
Mrs. Nation half turned in her seat and
| for a moment made no reply Then she
said quietly: mo, not backbone. Only
| faith and love"
The people on the car stopped talking.
| They listened intently.
'Give me a little of your faith. / need
| it," said the stranger.
II havnt any to spare" said Mrs. Ma
ton. "Only enough for myself"
Where can get some?"
"You must suffer as l have. You must
find 1t at the cross, where I found II.
There's a great supply OF IL there"
No one laughed at Mrs. Nation during
the rest Of the trip to the depot, but
when she got of all followed her with
their eyes, many making whispered COM
naents.
European royalties. says the Chicago
Chronicle. like other people. have their
Municipalities, and In nothing are these
more pronounced than in their preference
for perfumes. Queen Wlihelmina OF the
Netherlands was not always and In all
cases a very respectful daughter a fact
which may be explained by the absolute
difference which exists In the characters.
Compartments and tastes OF the queen
mother and herself. one Of the many
causes Of disagreement was the exaRger-
ated taste Of Queen Emma for strong ana
not altogether refined perfumes. More
than once the naughty little princess, ana
later on fhc somewhat disrespectfui
young queen, bas been seen Dinching her
winning htle pug nose ana making faces
when Der mamma entered her apartments
Up ~ nov Wilhoinina has not patron
i3ed sny scent. but che is very particular
ail0ut hfr eau o. cologne, which she only
uses co. her bath. never alioBinG any