The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-02
WORLD

business, or how much he takes ad-
vantage of people in other ways, when
ne plays cards with his friends he
plays fair game, or else he is ostra-
cized. Men steal every day to pay
their so-called debts of honor. The
, man who was even suspected of cheat
ing would be kicked out of any club,
and the most opprobious epithet in the
whole language is that men apply to
the man who plays a dishonest game
among gentlemen. A woman's virtue
is no dearer to her or more jealousy
| guarded than a mans honor in sport.
But among women this chivalrous
sentiment is totally lacking. Only let
| the prize in progressive euchre game
be pretty enough, and not one, but two,
| or three, or even more women VIII be
caught factoring" the score cards,
with apparently no consciousness that
| they are committing a crime that the
| whole civilized world has agreed in
branding as the very quintescence of
blackguardism. Nor do other women
| look upon 1t in the same light men
| do, for you will hear women roundly
| accuse other women of having cheated
| at cards, yet the offenders are not cut
| in society or denied admission to a
single game.
That women are responsible for
much of the general dishonesty of the
world there can be no question. Men
make the laws. but women interpret
their spirit, and as long as women
| have no code of ethics on this subject,
| just so long will men steal. AS matters
stand now, it is only too true that wo-
men are disposed to look only too len
| iently on dishonesty in themselves or
others so long as it is not found out.
and that, in effect, they say to the men
of their family, as the old man did to
| his son: Get money, get money hon
| estly if you can, but get money"
Many boy commits his first dishon-
est deed to get the means to crafty
| the Unsuitable demands of the girls
| with whom he goeS-nice girls, too, but
who require a constant offering up of
bonbons and theater tickets and bijou-
| terie. Many man falsifies accounts
and robs his employers to get the mon
ey to indulge his wife in luxuries be-
| yond their station Few women ever
| ask or care where the money comes
| from so they get it, and these women
are accessories before the crime of the
| dishonesty of the man who steals for
their sake.
Nor is this intangible moral influence
| all. How does the woman who Steals
| hotel spoons and cheats at cards and
buys goods she never expects to pay
| for expect her sons to be honest? She
| has set them an example of thieVing
all their lives, she has taught them by
| precept and example to be dishonest,
and she has no right to turn anything
but Jail birds out of her nest. For my
part, when 1 hear people plying the
poor mother of a defaulter, or young
boy caught tapping a till, never
waste sympathetic tear upon her, for
1 know that SO times out of a 100 she
| is dishonest, too. and that the boy
learned his first lesson in stealing
from his mothers lack of principle.
This may seem a harsh arraignment
of my sex, but it is no more than the
| truth What we need is a renaissance
it must begin with women. A stream
can rise no higher than it's fountain.
| and dishonest mothers are filing the
| world with dishonest sons.
| Daughter-That man who advertised
all the latest popular songs for 81
| is a swindler.
| Old Man-Eh? Didn't he send any,
thing for your money? I'll report him
to the authorities at once.
Eyes; he sent the latest popular
songs, just as advertised, but they
were only the words-no music at ALL
can read them, of course, but 1 can't
sing them"
my DEAR that man is not a swind-
Ter. He's a philanthropist." New York
| Weekly.
The fashion of wearing jewelry of all
kinds in which human hair formed
some prominent part was in its very
| zenith about the time when the Grim
can war was at it's hight, it being
mainly due to the fact that thousands
of soldiers. whether officers or men.
exchanged locks and tresses with their
lady loves, and that these locks and
| tresses were set in beautiful and con-
venient shapes, says the Chicago
| Chronicle. The fashion took hold of the
| United States on the outbreak of the
southern rebellion, and for many years
held undisputed sway.
Shortly after the close of the war
hair jewelry became more or less a Gu
riosity nIerely-often curiosity
| fraught with many a vague if tender
| memory-rill the war in South Africa
began to drag it's sad and wearisome
| length along. Since about the first year
| of this latter war hair jewelry has I'M
| dergone a revival of such magnitude
that most of the jewelers. with whom
l the hair has been left have scarcely
| been able to find enough skillful sur
| vivors OF the old calling to undertake
the commissions, many of which have
| had to be sent abroad, where the old
| fashion has fitfully survived, especially
| in Holland and Switzerland.
1t is notable fact that. aside from
the using of hair for jewelry, almost
| the only persons who have continuous
ly employed hair in fancy work are the
women convicts. The unhappy women
! in convict establishments have always
| had a Partially for this kind of work,
the hair most frequently being used
for making monograms and initials on
| handkerchiefs and so on.
| Many prison chaplains and officials
preserve beautiful specimens of work
of this kind, the hair used invariably
being that of the worker and giver;
and one of the chief visiting chaplains
| of the British government tells really
| pathetic story of one such diligent and
| truly penitent woman who was nearly
! heartbroken because her once black
hair turned almost white when her
task was half completed, the original
pattern thus being spoiled.
Give us-ro simple thing