The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24

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South Africa presents an inviting
| field for women who are weary of sin
! gle blessedness, for there is great
shortage of fair ones in that part of
the world. The deficiency IF women
| in Cape Colony in 1898 amounted to
I IA 1926. So far as can be learned the
excess in numbers of white males over
| while females in British South Africa
| is represented in the following table:
! Cape Colony ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10000
Orange River Colony ............ 5000
| TranSvaal Observation-Disclosures. 4S,OOO
RhodeSla NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 3,OVU
| Total shortage of females .... GO, 900
I'm population of whites only num-
| bering about 100000 in all, this def
cheney of women seems at first sight al
most incredible" says writer, and
| it is the more remarkable and 1aplor-
able inasmuch as beyond a doubt the
greater part of the deficiency exists
| among the British section of the pop-
lation.' 1t seems that about one man
in every four of the British in South
Africa could never hope to find a wife,
whether. Dutch or English, before the
war. The actual disproportion N the
immediate future will be far greater.
No scheme of adjudication in South
Africa, the writer points out, can be
effective which neglects the inevitable
consequence of a lack of women. The
Boer women are gaining upon the Brit
ish at the rate of about 1000 year.
If an organization were created which
would insure the dispatch Of 5000
women from the United Kingdom in
each year 1000 would be set off against
the natural increase of the Boer wom-
en- and the remaining 1000 would go to-
ward filling up the shortage which ex-
lists, and this would be accomplished
in thirty-f1ve years, or one generation.
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A we'll known contralto singer. says
the New York Herald, has opened a
studio in New York city for the pur-
pose of teaching the American girl
how to modulate to sweetness her US
ually shrill, harsh voice in speaking.
The American beauty has been prais-
ed and admired at home and abroad
for all of her charming attributes, but
her voice has not been numbered as
one of them.
This excellent thing in woman" is
a thing to be acquired, says this new
idea teacher of voice, but only by dint
of eternal vigilance, which is the price
of other valuable things besides lib
| erty.
The project was the result of a sug-
gestion from a statesman at Wash
ington reception. Listen to this chat
teri" he exclaimed in her hearing.
when I get the money to spare L
shall endow college whose curricu-
lum shall contain only the correct
methods of talking. The voices of these
women are anything but musical"
The best points to be considered in
! the culture of the speaking voice are
| deep breathing, which has a marked
tendency to lower the tones from their
! present disagreeably high pitch; care
/ of the throat during colds and hoarse-
! ness; the strict avoidance of scoldins,
and all tendency to cry out loudly UNI
! der excitement and anger, and, above
all, to watch ones information at all
times.
With careful observance of these
simple rules a very great charm can
be added to the feminine makeup
| one which most of our women sadly
| lack, unless. some exception might be
made in favor of the soft spoken
Southern girl. But even there may
be found much to correct--the slurrine
lazily over the syllables of words, fol
instance, which is nothing more or less
than imitation of the negro speech
which is copied, unconsciously per-
haps, but still perceptibly.
A loud or unpleasant voice will
| counterfeit a dozen other most exem-
| plary traits in a woman. No one,
| least of all a man, can like a girl
the street, and though she may be a
| model of sisterly and daughterly
| sweetness in her home, he will not
give her credit for those qualities.
1t is well to have the charity of st.
Paul, which vaunteth not itself, but 1t
is infinitely better to add to that the
| tongues of men and of angels" which
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sounding brass" to linking GYM
| bal"
A telephone girl in an Oregon city
| has recently married a wealthy bank
| er of that place, who took her to Gu
rope on her wedding trip, and gave
| her, an automobile, among other we'd
ding presents. He was first attracted
to her by her sweet, gentle voice in
calling What number, please?" over
the telephone. 1t brings to mind a Gu
rtous speculation as to the probable
matrimonial chances. of the average
New York hello girl" should she de-
pend upon the rich modulations of her
voice alone to attract admiration.
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| What an immense undertaking some
people seem to make out of nothing at
! ALL said matron, according to the
| New York Tribune. ITO those who
| really bear the burdens and heat of the
! day the strenuous efforts of the self
! indulgent woman would be amusing, If
| 1T was not so provoking to hear her
complaints when they consider the why
| and the wherefore. In month or two
! from now, fortunes favorite will have
| to open her house in town, and she will
undoubtedly be perfectly worn out with
! the effort of having the rooms cleaned
and more or less reorganizing her
! household. To be sure, she will not
personally have to exert herself in the
very least; neither will she have to pay
the bills. Nevertheless, she will feel
| the task to be herculean, and will talk
! to all who will listen to her as If she
could not stand the strain" Such a.
rush and a worry / am nearly dead!"
said one of these heroines, speaking Of
J her great obligations. THE amount
of work I have done and still have to
do is appalling. Just as soon as 1 have
/ a breathing spell / shall have to go to
| the Hot Springs to recuperate."
| Now, what do you suppose she has
I really done?" said one of the group to
whom the overworked woman had been
| speaking, as the latter rustled languid-
! ly away. "Done!" echoed another
! why, she has probably told one wo-
man to scrub the paint, and another
! to put up the curtains" And they all
! laughed unsympathetically.
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