The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-07
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 4 1902


praisement is necessary to hold what
we call society together. The trouble
is that it begets inSincerity and cynic-
ism. Words are made to do duty for
deeds so often that protestations grow
TO mean absolutely nothing and often
the people who utter them would be
very much surprised and not a little
Inconvenience if their figures of speech
were taken literally. One of the most
common forms of this imagery, so to
speak, is sham Invitations
" The rs have asked me to visit
them at Newport next summer said
an unsophisticated girl. evidently we'll
pleased at the prospect. Her sister,
who was older and wiser laughed scep-
tically. I don't want to discourage
YOU she said but the rs have a
little way of giving invitations that
never materialiZe. 1t sounds cordial
and nice. and perhaps they really mean
IT at the time, but somehow or other
the expected visit to them never comes
off,
won't you come to us some night
Tor dinner soon?' says another pretty
fraud to one of her friends L will
ask man or two, and we will go
afterward to the play I would love
to- says the other. at first entirely
taken in by the apparently cordial
invitation. Let me see,' continues the
would-be hostess anonymously; can
you come next Wednesday? No, 1 for
got, | dine out that night, and the
night after-in fact. I am deep in en-
gagements for the next fortnight. But
l will tell you what to do Just write
me line when you can come after
that and we will have our little out
ing. of course she knows / would
never write and remind her of her in
vitation! exclaimed the recipient of
the equivocal compliment Indignantly.
I do not believe she ever had the least
idea of really having me. and l am
quite sure that 1 will never hear of
that theater party again. And she
was quite right. She never did"
The census figures certainly justify
the Saturday Evening POSTS semi
1ocular assertion that women are the
people nowadays. The extent to which
they are spreading their energies over
the industrial field is wonderful. APP
parently there are only a very few oc-
equations in which they are not en-
gagged.
There are now in the United States
according to the census figures just
5 published. no fewer than 3405 women
clergymen, Four hundred and nine
women in this country are profess
sional electricians and 81 are civil en-
gineers and surveyors. 1t might not
be imagined that woodchopping was
an employment to attract the gentler
sex, and yet 113 women make living
in that way
one thousand and nine lawyers in
this country wear petticoats-an enum-
GRAFTON which does not take in DR..
Mary Walker, who pursues the legal
profession in pantaloons and a frock
coat OF women physicians and sur
geons there are 1899, and IA more are
veterinaries. There are 7S7 women
dentists-a rather surprising number
Wnen one comes to think of it--and
324 women undertakers.
Inasmuch as in all ages it has been
the task of women to prepare the dead
for burial, it is rather surprising that
more of them have not gone into UNI
dertaking. But one might suppose that
they were by no means so we'll equip
ped for running railway trains, and
1T is surprising to learn that there
are now in the United States As fe-
male locomotive engineers and fire
men and female conductors on steam
railroads. Add to these 81 brakemen
or should one not rather say brake
women?-and 10 baggagewomen.
What treat 1T would be to see a
husky baggage lady throw trunks into
car! But, for that matter, would it
not be even more enjoyable to listen
to female auctioneer? There are
three women auctioneers in the Unit
ed States, according to the new CEN
sus. Two hundred and eighty-one wo-
men work at gathering turpentine and
81 make living by keeping bees.
There are 81 female sextons-it would
be interesting to know if they dig the
graves themselves-and no fewer than
5,5S2 BARRIERS and hairdressers.
1aN 1x.A1 Il
bartenders, q are stevedores and 81
run elevators. One thousand and for
ty-two are architects and craftsmen
and 545 are carpenters, while 1877 work
as masons in brick and stone Within
recent years newspaper work has at
tracted many women, and it Is not
surprising to find that there are 2,I93
of them in that profession. On the
other hand, it is little short of aston
ishing to learn that 1920 professional
hunters and trappers wear petticoats.
There are eighty-five female boot
blacks in the United States, and five
pilots. Nine hundred and forty-six
women make a living as commercial
travellers, and 70 work as hostlers.
while 100 keep livery stables. Six
thousand six hundred and sixty three
girls and women are employed as err
rand and office boys, while 1271 are
officials of banks and companies One
hundred and ninety-six are black
smiths, and eight women make steel
boilers.
There are in this country 1,SO5 wo-
men who earn a livelihood as fisher
men and oystermen. Six hundred and
twenty-four women are coal miners:
SO mine for gold and silver, and SO
are quarrymen. Tere are actually two
motormen in petticoats employed on
the street railroads. In fact, women
are represented in very nearly every
kind of occupation, though as yet they
are barred from the army and navy
nor have they thus far bene able to
obtain employment as telegraph line
men.
1t is possible to spend the summer
at Newport on a very small amount
of money. although it is the swell
place of the country, according to the
New York Herald, for the sum of 80
a week a certain young couple lived
comfortably, even festively, at New
port this summer. This statement is
based on facts and prosaic figures,
which will put the proof within reach
of any anxious to visit Americas love-
Hest summer resort on limited sum.
The couple in question had, as the
world said, contracted a very foolish
marriage, and the world was right
if they had expected truffies and foie
gras Paquin gowns and automobiles.
But they didn't. They planned their
pennies with nicely that would de-
light financier, and when 1.-The boys"
boss said Newport for the summer"