The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-31

I
er she will make. Marriages of to-day
are happier than those of yesterday
because of the emancipation. All along
the line woman is growing in all that
makes toward perfection, but a wo-
| man receives a smaller wage than a
man simply because she is a woman
and as she becomes conscious of her
| powers she will demand and command
equal recognition with her brother
| man.
"Tom dear" said Mrs. Newlywed
the other evening just as they were
| about to leave the house for the the
alter, i've left my fan on the dress
ing case in my Foom, and 1 can't go
without it. Won't you run up and get
| it, that's a dear?"
Tom went UP three steps at a time.
A moment later, says the New York
Times, his voice was heard awfully
sharp for a man who had been mar
rled but three months.
"It isn't on the dresser"
"Why, yes, 1t must be, dear. Look
in the upper drawer in that long blue
box in the left-hand corner Don't
nuss things all UP. Is it there?"
mo, it isn't
''oh, it must be. Look good. Found
it2"
mo, l haven't"
well, don't get cross about it. May
be left in on the bed. Is 1t there?"
mo. I'll be-"
"Tom! If you can't do a little favor
for your wife without swearing about
It,. you needn't do 1t at all. Look in
the second drawer of the dresser in
that pink box. Is 1t there?"
NO it isn't, and 1 knew it wasn't
before I looked"
"You didn't know anything of the
sort Do find 1t some place. We're
late now. Mavbe it's on the mantel.
know 1 laid it down some place
while I tied my bonnet. Is it on the
mantel?''
mo, it is not on the mantel. I'll be
eternally-"
Toni If you don't stop. I'll take
off my things and stay at homel If
| you'd look for the fan instead OF
prancing around you'd find 1t. See il
it Is in my bonnet box. Sometimes
drop it in there. Found ftp
Found it," snarled Tom, jeeringly
Talk about a needle in a haystack
It's nothing compared to a."
Tom Newlywed! Just as sure as
you speak that way again I'll stay al
home. Look on the chairs and table
and-what are you doing up there,
anyhow? Upsetting chairs and kick
ing over things and growing like
some wild animal. I'd be ashamed
1 suppose I shall have to come up and
hunt for the fan myself, tired as
am. Can't you find it,"
Find nothingl A man might as
we'll hunt for the north pole or Capt.
Kids treasure or some particular
grain of sand in the bottom of the
sea, as to look for"
There, therei Stop making such a
pitifu1 spectacle of yourself. II I were
a man, I'd be a man! Look in the
closet-oh, here's the fan. 1 declare
if it hasn't been lying here on the
| hall rack all the time. remember
now that I laid it down when-Tom
| Newlywed! I'd be serving you right
If l didn't go a step with you. Using
| such languagei Come on. l suppose
you'll snarl and sulk all the way
| down town"
| And he did.
| "a Plea for the Mem
| Oh, pity the men in summer time
When their homes are closed, / pray,
| And cupboards are bare of everything
Because the wives are away.
! Oh. pity the men who have socks to
mend,
Yes, a hundred and one disagreeables
to meet,
Because the wives are away.
| Oh! pity these men, and lend hand
To the struggling ones to-day
Who are doing their best to keep on
their feet
While their wives are all away.
Just think of the men who toll in the
heat
All through the long summer day
For the wives and the children to get
good time,
While they simply pay. pay, pay.
Oh! we wives and mothers, wherever
we are,
Come back to your homes. we pray,
For it's lonely and dreary for men in
town,
When the women are all away.
They sit on the stoop all alone, you
you see,
After working hard all day,
And long for the voices they love so
well,
But in vain-they are far away.
Hurry up, hurry up and return. we
with the children and trunks right
For we men have stood IL as long as
we dare,
And the wives must SHOW up" to-
day.
We will take our turn at the market
ing, aye!
Wen promise you lots of payi
II you'll only come back to the home
again
And be our sweet wives to stay.
For the kettle won't boil and the lamp
has no oil,
And everything goes astray
When the home Is deserted in summer
time
BY the wives who go away
IS. +. In the New York Press.
Now that Miss Mary Johnston, author
OF ITO Have and TO Hold" and Aud
rev." has decided to make her home
IN Richmond attention is called 70
the fact that this city Is noted for
something more than It's beautiful wo-
men.
II has become the literary center Of
the South. says the Philadelphia North
American.
Miss Ellen Glasgow, author Of ''Yox
PopuH," and THE Battlefield" IL a
Richmond girl. and there are a num-
Der ~ other Unknown literary peo-
pie who have gone out from that city
and vicinity.
Conspicuous among these Is Dr.