The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-31

things, tell him that the plumber has
just sent in terrible bill merely for max
ing that little alteration, or say that stup
i'd Mrs. Jones has been at the house all
afternoon talking about the new house
her husband has bought and showing off
her sables as if she was the only woman
in the world that had them.
Generally it is best to avoid such be-
ginnings, although a woman's tact must
always be called in 10 help her out, II
one of the children has just been taken
down with measles or the cook has been
drunk all day and had to be sent away.
Don't talk too much in the beginning
on any subject. Conversation taken tor
rentially at the outset is likely TO upset
anybody who is a little tired after
days work and wants quiet enjoyment
of home.
1.-THE woman who follows this advice is
going to find her evenings pleasanter than
If she jumps at the beginning into the
heart of things, especially dsagreeable
things. A little tact during the first
quarter of an hour after the return home
is worth all the Early morning cheerful
ness in the world when it comes to max
ing the wheels move smoothly in the
household"
This is the first case on record in
which a woman ever objected to an ex-
cess of devotion, and it is a sad common
tary on the practical way in which the
sex is coming to look upon the senti-
mental affairs of life. 1t also seems to
indicate that we are beginning to take the
quality of love into consideration in max
ing up our estimation of it's value, as
we'll as the quality. Heretofore, with
woman, any old thing went in the way
of affection. She looked for no flaws in
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kiss was legal tender in the treasury of
her heart. Nothing has been more pa
thetic than the very familiar spectacle
of a mother clinging tenaciously to the
belief that her son loved her, although he
disgraced and deserted her, or of the wife
who was expected to console herself for
the blows a drunken brute of a husband
gave her by his maudlin protestations of
affection when he was SOLDERING up and
felt repentent and weepy.
The man who expects a woman to be-
leve he loves her, or to care whether he
does or not, when he is doing things that
wiring her heart, has his nerve with him,
and it is a hopeful sign when a wife has
such a husband arrested for bothering
her with his VOWS and caresses. Love
without works to back it up is as mean
ingless as a last years valentine. 1t Is
a love that stands between a woman and
home nest warm and soft for her, that
bears uncomplainingly the daily drudgery
for her dear sake, that is worth having,
and some day women will accept this de-
votion at its true value, no matter wheth-
er it ever puts itself in words or not.
A Chicago judge recently granted a
| new trial to a man, on the ground that
the accused was entitled to a rehearing
u 4nN
ed on the evidence of women, says Doro-
| thy Dix in the New York Journal.
This blow is enough to kill mother. His
Honor. however, softened it by saying
| that although woman's testimony on the
| witness stand wasn't worth hill OF
| beans, she had higher moral sense than
man, and the only reason she didn't tell
the truth was because the exuberance OF
her imagination prevented her from dis
tinguishing between fact and fiction.
There is a certain degree of truth in
this assertion. 1t must be admitted that
as a general thing women haven't the
| faculty of seeing dead straight. They
| see things upside down, or topsy -turvy,
| or cut on the bias, and shirred in the mid
| die, or like they want them to happen,
| or like they ought to have happened, to
be properly thrilling and dramatic.
| So far from this being drawback, the
|
| session of such a desirable quality as a
| lively Imagination, in good working or
| der. 1t may disqualify them for being
| star witnesses in a murder trial, but 1t
| is what gives the salt and SAVIOR to life.
What for instance, would society be-
| come If women were as unimaginative
/ as men? Conversation would degenerate
into a series of grunts, because there
would be nothing worth telling, and notn-
| t,ar hodx rad n Pn0nIp meet
together to relate fairy stories concerning
| themselves, and TO indulge in surmisess
| about their neighbors. If we only told
| what we really knew, just exactly as it
| happened, how dull we should be!
Women are never guilty of this fault.
| man will see a married woman and a
| handsome young fellow sitting together
under the palms at bah, and 1t is
! simple couple of people and a shrub to
him. and nothing more. A woman cuts
her eyes at them, and sees three-voiume
| novel. full of misunderstanding, and in
| felicity, and affinities, and scandal and
| divorce.
Charlotte Bronte's firse lover was Hen
ry Nussey the brother of her dearest
friend, says the Fortnightly Review. He
proposed to her by letter and here are one
| or two sentences from her discouraging-
| ly practical reply:
''You are aware that have many rea-
sons to feel grateful to your family, that
have peculiar reason for affection to-
ward at least one of your sisters, and
also that 1 highly esteem yourself-dc
not, therefore, accuse me of wrong mo-
| tives when l say that my answer tc
your proposal must be a decided negative
In forming this decision, 1 trust that
have listened to the dictates TO conscience
more than inclination. 1 have no per-
sonal repugnance to the idea of union
with you, but l feel convinced that mine
is not the sort of disposition to form the
happiness of a man like you"
Her next lover was a young Irish GU
rate. who, after spending one evening il