The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-18

Most girls wear shoes three sizes too
small for them, and when man keeps
them standing on the doorstep while he
makes his adieus. she isn't saying like
Juliet: L could say good-by, good-by
til it be morning." On the contrary
she is regretting that all the stories
about papa's boot and the swift watt
out are fiction instead of fact, and she
would be willing to pay out good money
to anybody who would accelerate Ro-
meo's descent of the steps.
OF course, no general rules can be
laid down for winning the fancy of the
fair sex. What has been said pretends
to be no more than the most elemen-
tary facts. but a guarantee goes with
each suggestion that it will work.
The Stork.-
The stork is an uncertain bird;
When hearts are sick with hope de-
ferred,
And naught will minister to joy
Except it be a newborn boy,
He puts whole kingdoms in a whirl
By toting in a baby girl.
And yet the stork is not to blame;
Life is a complicated game;
'Twixt dewy eve and cleaning morn
There are so many babies born
That, tired and vexed, he little recks-
Takes what comes first of either sex.
Or may we hopeless mortals find
Behind the stork master mind,
Forethinking all that is to be,
Unraveling lifes mystery.
And shaping with benignant hest
The Graded babe. the bird in nest?
S. E. w, in the Philadelphia Record.
OF all the eccentric checks which
have been drawn in the world the
palm, says the Philadelphia Times,
must unhesitatingly be awarded to one
which was presented to the cashier of
one of the Tonawanda banks recently.
This check, which was for $40, was
made payable to 1.-The sweetest of the
sweet" and was presented to the CASH
Ter in the ordinary way. The cashier,
naturally startled by the unusual ex-
preston in the body of the check, asked
in innocence:
who is the sweetest of the sweet?'
Il am" replied the lady.
Kindly indorse it that way" said
the cashier.
She did. And as her husbands &C
count warranted it, for, like a prudent
man, he had not overdrawn it, the
sweetest of the sweet" received her
money.
Golf has been held responsible for
many and varied things, but the latest
accusation brought against 1t, is the
most serious assault yet made upon
the good name of the royal game. 1t is
that golf is leading women into pro-
family.
At least, says the New York Sun,
that is a theory advanced wherever
two or three are gathered together to
discuss the frailties and misdemeanors
of womankind and to anyone who has
experimental with the game, the prop
osition, although shocking, does not
sound liner edible. If anything could
tempt femininity to a big big D, golt's
the thing to do it.
There are golf situations that would
make an archangel painfully conscious
of the limitations of his vocabulary
Eut does the golf girl swear?
That was the question which sun
reporter TREMENDOUSLY put to a. number
of persons who should be authorities
upon the up-to-date young woman.
The answers varied, but a majority of
them were distinctly depressing to an
admirer of the eternal feminine.
There's no doubt about it" said one
woman whose social standing gives her
opportunities of knowing what is what
in the set dubbed smart Women do
swear IOM dQdJSs ANOb Gal "CA'~AAt 80
know. Very few, thank Heaven. Still
the thing is growing.
Il don't believe golf is responsible for
It, 1t seems to me the thing is only
part of the mania for mannishness, the
jolly good fellow idea.
'Womanly standards have been
turned topSy-turvy in late years. Girls
haven't the old ideals of the proper
thing and there isn't any definite well
defined new model, so there's lot OF
experimenting going on. Liberty is so
likely to mean license, you know.
women think it is knowing and
swagger to be emancipated, and some
of them don't have the discretion to see
where good taste draws the line in the
emancipation. The fast young woman
has had a certain vogue.
Her brusque offences against con-
ventionality have been called original
ity She amused men. Other girls
thought her clever and saw that she
seemed popular, so they picked up her
mannerismS.
give an idea the swearing began
among a certain set of young married
women. 1t isn't altogether American.
I've heard quite as much of it in Lon
don as I ever heard here.
ITS really a very inferior order of
profanity, you know. 1t shows a pitt
full lack of both experience and imagi-
nation. Damn and hell seem to be
the Alpha and Omega of feminine pro-
family.
81 don't know whether the women
don't-know anything worse, or are
merely afraid to go in for anything
stronger. 1 suppose there's nothing re-
markably sinful about saying DAMN
but 1 can't say that think it i'm
proves a woman's conversation.
81 fancy the thing began in a mis-
taken idea of humor. Women thought
there was something amusing in say
ing damn instead of gracious when
they burned themselves on their curl
ing irons or fooled a drive. The in
congruity of the thing on the lips of
charming woman make the average
man smile, even if he disapproved.
When 1 first began to notice the
swearing only the very exceptional girl
or woman perpetrated it, but the thing
has spread and know any number of
women who are a very nice sort in
most ways, but who damn quite freely.
It's atrociously bad form. It's vulgar.
Something ought to be done to stop it.
A New York man with a record as
squire of danes echoed the verdict.
Eyes, dam does seem to be coming
into fashion among young women. 1
don't know that golf is responsible.
Just judging from personal experience.
l don't see how a golfer can get along
without occasional cuss words, or an
explosion, but 1 suppose it can be done.
1--WE heard more girls use forcible
language on the links than anywhere
else, but perhaps that's just a happen