The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-28

! ever evolved about her
| "A normal woman would not be sour
/ ed by being Tilted. She would only be
a little wiser; little better able tc
/ judge between the true and the false
| afterward.
only a little better, 1 say. for nc
woman with heart ever really at
tains wisdom.
She would not be so ready to trust
all men, but would have just as much
faith in the one man as ever, should
she love again.
For faith and hope and love are the
natural heritage of the normal woman.
These qualities are as much a part of
her as life itself.
or woman, either, for that matter
tickle, who breaks an enga cement.
Again you do not want to generalize
There are girls of course whose ma
lures never recover from the shock of
being Tilted. Where there is inherited
weakness of mind, they sometimes
become insane.
With others, the humiliation is so
great, far outweighing all deeper feel
ing, that they regard all men with con-
tempt, even hatred, ever afterward.
They distrust all men for the remain
der of their lives.
These, however, are exceptional
cases. The one whose mind becomes
unbalanced because of disappointment
in love would be just as likely to be-
come insane after marriage if COM
PEELED to bear any great trouble which
would prey on her mind.
The other, who is soured by being
Tilted, would probably be just as I'M
happy If she had married him. She
is narrow minded to begin with, and
does not see life from the right point
of view. A man is running a risk in
marrying her, whether she has been
Tilted or not
THE wise girl. however, recognizes
That IL is better to be Tilted before
marriage than neglected afterward.
She may love him dearly and yet will
ingly give him up on hearing that his
heart has changed toward her. Neither
Will she blame him for this fact, even
though she may know the bitterness
of death on realizing its truth.
In her darkest hour she is glad
that he knew himself before he mar
ried her.
Probably the worst sorrow a girl
| can know would be hers, with the
knowledge that his heart has gone
from her to another. But even, then,
If she truly loves she would not feel
| bitterly toward him. She would fill
her life with earnest endeavor, that
she might not feel the longing for his
presence.
Perhaps this striving for forgetful-
| ness might teach her to do something
| great that never would have been
achieved had she been the happy, con-
| tented wife.
She would lose her childlike, girlsh
| trust, which led her to believe all men
| good and noble.
"She would be better able to dis
tinguish between the false and the
| true as a consequence. And If she
/ loved again, after time had healed the
| wound, it would be in the same blind,
| unreasoning, trusting way, if she was
| the normal woman.
IF she should then find that the
| second was the real love of her life,
| and the first the will o. the wisp she
| could appreciate all the more the love
| of the one she knows to be good and
| true. Instead of being suspicious of
| him, because of the action of her first
| lover, she would, instead, be sincerely
| thankful to the man who Tilted her,
and and thus placed such great hap
| piness within her reach. In any event,
| she is a stronger woman as a result
| of OUTLYING her unhappy experience"
/ To this point the Bachelor listened
| patiently. Now he smiled.
zone would suppose you might have
| been Tilted" he remarked refiectively,
watching the smoke rings curl around
| his head.
An there was silence for the space
| of half an hour.
Russian women are so fond of smok-
| ing that the Minister of the Interior
has ordered the railway officials in the
empire TO provide passenger trains
| with smoking compartments for their
use. 1t is said that nearly all married
| women in Russia smoke cigarettes. al
| leges Home Chat, and that the habit
has begun to obtain largely among the
unmarried, with the result that smok-
| ing carriages are now as much of a
necessity for travelling Russian women
as for men.
| Dreamy persons are apt to listen to
| only half of the remarks made in their
| company, and to allow their attention
to wander far afield. Such people, says
the New York Tribune, are generally
! able by long habit to catch up dex-
| terously with the subject matter un-
| der discussion every now and again in
order to make suitable rejoinders. but
| sometimes they miss the connection
| and betray themselves hopelessly.
How sad" exclaimed one of the alb
sent minded listeners sympathetically
at something her neighbor at a wo-
| mems luncheon was telling her: "hov
| hard for your aunt" Then, a moment
| later 81 never heard anything sc
! dreadful! Her mind must be seriously
| affected; they ought to consult a good
| doctor at cnce." The next sentences
| fully aroused her "Only a veterinary
| surgeon who lives in the neighborhood
| you say! But what criminal neglect!
| They should have taken her at once tc
| hospital" mo hospital for horses
| (this in crescendo), 'but l thought YOU
were talking of your cousin. Miss B..
| saying that she had such an attack OF
nervousness that it amounted to mad
ness. Only her marei Dear me, how
/ stupid of me- And 1 really might have
| gone away with the impression that
! Miss BIS mind was affected. Surel Y
| you must have expressed yourself
| vaguely" she concluded. in self-de-
| Tense.
Now, fancy her misunderstanding
| me like that" exclaimed the other in
| dignantly, whenwrelating the incident
later on. 81 do believe that half of the
malicious gossip that we hear
about people is made up by
| these wool gathering lis
teners, who only half hear what is told
| them and imagine the rest. You know
the MS" she continued. "And how de-
voted they are. Well, he had to go to
| Europe on some business mission. and
| some one remarked at a dinner that
she wondered how Mrs. B. would bear
| the separation. One of these absent
| minded individuals who was present
heard the word separation. concluded
| that there must be some marital trou-