The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-28

for a husband. Like the politician who
yields to the wishes of his friends"
IN accepting an office, she wells her
chase under glittering subterfuges, but
If is a nerve-wearing and an exasper-
ating campaign all the same.
Some women, says Dorothy Dix in
the New Orleans Picayune. are born
with a marriage certificate in their
hands, so to speak, and get married in
their first season. Other women waste
heir entire lives in a vain pursuit of
husband The majority Of the fe-
male sex, however. devote from two
~ ten years to the business Of hus-
band hunting. And what they go
through in that time-the WEAKNESS.
the anxiety, the boredom-is enough to
draw tears of compassion from heart
of stone.
The fool custom that prevents wo-
man from taking an active part in the
selection of her mate. makes her
martyr. All that she can do is to keep
herself on exhibition and make herself
agreeable to every chump in the hopes
that the right man in the procession
will happen along after awhile. She
must dance with callow kids, and smile
on senile old beaux who pay her the
same compliments they used to pay her
mother, and listen with an expression
of rapt enjoyment to the endless
rnaunderings of the man VINO knows
II all. and tells it with his tiresome
mouth. Oh, miserere, misericordia; Oh,
nv sisters, we have all suffered! We
have all been therei
And there is no escape. For woman
n get the reputation of being lard to
nlease is fatal, for her to withdraw
even for a moment from society is to
leave hope behind, to refuse to be bor
ed is to shut the door on opportunity.
If one wishes to win the race, one must
keep in the running.
Then after one acquires a husband
comes the trouble of keeping him. This
is a distinctly feminine difficulty. No
man ever worries his head about keep
ing his wife in love with him. but wo-
men get crows feet and gray hairs
agonizing over the question of how to
keep their husbands fascinated
This is the reason that married wo-
men generally look much older than
their single sisters of the "ame age.
The girl bachelor may have her own
anxiety and tribulations over the bread
and butter supply, but she doesn't
have to wait up until a. m. to deliver
a lecture to man who rolls in with
the rolls and the milkman.
Nor does she have to agonize over
the prospect of losing a love that is not
strong enough to stand a 32-inch waist
measure 1t is a pathetic and a sign1fi-
cant fact that all the physical culture
and banting classes l ever saw were
composed exclusively of married wo-
men. The old maids, having no one but
themselves to please in appearance,
took fat or Scrawniness as heaven sent
them, with an even mind, and made no
efforts to conform to ANYBODY stand
ard of pulchritude.
Another of our misfortunes that we
may fairly lay at our brothers door, is
the awful burden of dress. OF course
women deny that they dress to please
men. That is all right. Everyone has
4 right to her trade secrets, but II wo-
men don't paint because men admire
4 roses on a woman'S cheek, II they don
4 lace because men are hopelessly ana
4 irretrievably committed to the hour-
glass figure if they don't plncn their
feet and wear high heels because for
glorified little feet, will somebody kind
" arise and explain the phenomenon
Whv the minute women are alone, and
safe from masculine eyes, they get out
of their stays with a gasp OF relle1 ana
into kimonas and tiip-tlop slippers?
maintain that it is because of man,
and man alone, that woman is the VIC
tim of fashions that crib, cabin and
confne." Who invented the incompro-
missing skin-tight tailor-made? A man
-Redfern Who devised swathing, eel
like draperies that demanded inquire
as tall as telegraph pole and as slim
as fishing rod? Another man
Worth. In what countries do the wo-
| men luxuriate in loose Mother HUB
/ bard-like garments? In those Oriental
| ones, where there are no men mllhners
and mantua makers. Furthermore, De-
| loved. what forces all of US to wear
| those uncomfortable denominations that
bind and squeeze, and chokeE Again
l say man, for no matter how men may
derde our idiocy, and inveigh against
our want of sense in dress, 1T does not
escape the silliest of us that it is the
woman with the slimmest waist, and
the highest-heeled slippers, and the
most modish frock who gets the most
/ attention from the opposite sex. me
CRITICALLY man believes in rational
dress, but he would rather be dead
than caught out with female VINO
personally illustrated his opinions on
the subject.
There Is little danger that the dress
makers of Paris will be much anecseo
by the competition of the American
dressmakers who say that in the III
ture they are going to invent their cWi
models and not buy those that come
from the French capital
Paris is the source of all STYLES Iol
this country and always will be- salo
one New York dressmaker to the sun
of that city. There is not a 1ressnah
er in New York who does not expec'
to get her models this year from IA
ris just as she has in the past. we &c
not slavishly copy Paris models. bu'
adapt them to the needs of this coun-
try and to every special case that we
have to deal with.
Now the resemblances between
fashions here and in Paris are greater
Than they were, because women mere
nave taken to dressing much more
elaborately than formerly. 1t was
necessary once to tone Paris models
down before they suited our women.
only a mighty poor dressmaker o.
any country would spend her time
copying exactly the models that she
bought. Sometimes women want TO buS
an exact replica of a model In TINS
case we merely copy the dress exactly
But as q general rule the model only
serves to suggest to us possible pat
terms and designs that may be com
Dlned with others That is the service