The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-23

let you tell her your troubles and who
never comes back with her own.
Fifth A woman should have a
sense of humor Nothing so bores a
man as a woman who doesn't under
stand joke and who never sees the
point of his witticisms, but a man
loathes and fears the female who has
gift of saying smart things herself
The reason there are no woman humor-
lists is because every time a woman
attempts to tell funny story she gets
sat down upon. A mans idea of a
woman with a proper sense of humor
is one who will laugh at his old jokes
forty-seven times handwriting and
never attempt to tell one herself.
Sixth. A woman should be religious.
1t gives the average man genuine
shock when he hears a woman ex-
press a belief in the new thought, or
the higher criticism, or any of the
agnostic fads of the day. His ideal
woman always says her prayers before
she goes to bed, and preys for him and
goes to church, is as orthodox as
the confession of faith, but he is per-
fectly willing for her to monopolize
the virtue of piety. Therefore, a wo-
man is a saint as long as she goes off
to church by herself and leaves man
to the Sunday papers. If she makes
him go with her she is bigot and a
fanatic.
Seventh. A woman must be gay and
lively, because men want to be amused
and entertained, and in this country
women have to make all of the run
ming. They must be able to play a
good hand at cards, because it bores
men to play with bunglers. They must
read the new books that deal with the
vital things of society, because men
want to discuss them. They must go
to see the problem play because men
take them to see 1t, but mans ideal
of femininity is still artless ignorance
and unsophistication. Therefore, wo-
man must know her world and main
tain the air of vestal virgin. She
must be able to play professional po-
ker like an amateur. She must drink
her cocktails with an expression of
imbibing fresh milk.
Eighth. Before she is married, a
woman must be a butterfly, all beauty,
grace, and airy frivolity, one of the
fragile creatures who has done moth
ing all her life except dance and fit
about from flower to flower. As soon
as the wedding ceremony Is over she
must be metamorphosed into house.
hold grub who knows how to cook and
sew and make herself generally useful.
Therefore, an ideal woman Is one who
combines the delicacy and beauty of a
china cup with the staying powers of
an iron pot.
Ninth. A woman should never.
never desire to have any life outside
OF her own home. Heaven put her by
the fireside and she should never move.
The woman with the career Is mans
bette noire. He never pictures the per-
feet woman as anything but a cling
ing vine. who is content TO hang on
a wall and take thankfully whatever
is given her. and ask some man every
now and then what he thinks she
thinks about things. stu, he expects
this fiabby creature to know how to
get out and hustle when the time
comes when she needs 20. and when
she can't DO Il, because she has no
backbone, he knocks her for n. There
fore. a woman should know now 10
cling enough 70 be interesting and 20
work enough 20 be profitable.
Tenth. a woman should be domestic.
She must be able 70 keep 8 clean
hearth and manage her household