The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-09
The SOCIAL WORLD
 AWOMAN'S DOMAIN
Mrs. ,. II. dsCottss,

chivalric orator, who points heavenward, and in stage whisper, mentions that "the hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world" He is afraid to speak loud for fear he may arouse q daughter. perhaps many daughters: mothers should not be mentioned in their august presence.
 The old woman can well understand why some companies of daughters" were formed; whose work is intended to hedp their fellow beings, by stregthen- ing the chords of sympathy and charity under the guidance of . Divine Spirit. To such belong the Kings Daughters" the Daughters of the King and 'shaii I say 1t. the Daughters of the Con- federacy!" Tho influence of the latter, has been likened of late to that of the Anarchist Emma Goldman. byt 50 long as 1t needs the cries of want. from desti- tute veterans. who shed their blood, for honors sake, and brings to light truth to be written in the histories of our Southern soldiers. our women will uphold and revere this order of U. D, C.; and the 'old-time- woman will say Amen"
 What puzzles the old-woman, however. Is to know to what good end some other division of daughters are tending. What good does 1t do. or what renown will 1t bring to be known as a Daughter
 
 descended from "royalty?" The only an- swer the old woman has ever had vouch- safed her. is "oh! 1t is an bSritance to be transmitted to our children" Now the only two Daughters of the crown" the old woman had known. had no chil- dren, one with no hope. fer she was . spinsteFj che (the old womanl recollected something she had heard about "ne cross. mo crown" so she concluded. the want of children with these daughters must be their "cross," therefore they de- serve to wear q crown"
 Another chapter of daughters" the "Colopial Danes" bothers the old woman no little. They seem to be such mixed hard to tell which belong to which, She thinks that the Pilgrim FathsEs" would not at all approve of their female descen- dants galavanting around the country. attending stately and pompeus balls, with the descendants of ungodiy Cavaliers ands vice-versa. what Cavalier would have his daughter in company with . 'psalm-singing' Puritan The represen- tative "Celonial Dame" of the present day. could she have lived with the "Pil- grim Fathefe," would doubtless have been burned alive. or drowned as were the witches. for she now poses as little better, eF far more be-witchins. than the common herd ef D, A. Els for she is "C. D." . choice daughter; but the old woman didn't choose her."
 Another chapter of "Daughtefs' she is raeking her brain about, is known as the ID, A, R,'s" She has turned those let tsrs round and twisted them, and turned them again in her mind. and finds they might mean many things; but from all she can hear, she has concluded that they represent ''Rempants of ArtsteeFacy Deceased" Deceased because the men who revolutienized this eeuntry, and broke 1t loose from feudalisnn, wished aristeeracy to die. Those men always did as they wanted, and their sens have likewise ever since. Men of low estate are constantly rising to hish places and This fact was recently illustra ated by the head man in the government, In bis ehaiee of company for dinner. The old weman does not mean to say that she approved of his choice, but did not think SC badly of him as some did, since she heard hls family were in mourning for the foFmeF President; in such deep mourning, thst 1t was meet to have black gueats," But this is Aggression, the old woman ia talking about the D, A. R.'s and wants to know if they expect to bring about another TeNoIulloh anu SsknpiisH all dttS- tocracy in this democratic land. She can't understand why they want te cut loose from so many of their fellew heings and why they should so to 70 great trouble to estahlish the fact that they once had ''grand-father," and that grandfather had q father, and 80 on for ever-proving in the end that these fathers disapprovea of formsF fathers, and left them, and settled in new eeuH- try where they could make Iaepey and do as they saw it, without conforming to the conventional rules of an "Aristo- eraey." If these daughters gained any money or any great prestige, the cid woman would net mind the risks they Fun, while searching for ancestry, Another thing to be considered, is, tt has been predicted by scientific teacher of the present day, that the white inr habitsnts of NePth America will eventual ly became Indians. His theory is thRt every continent has ita eharactaFistie ''nera" as we'll as "faupai" and that peoples, also plants will when tFaHs- planted. gradually partake of the natgFs of the country in which they live. Now if this is so. what good will an aristoeraey do our daughters? What will be their fate when we have all taken to the woods with the Indians? Can it be in- dieative of the fulflllment of this pro- nheey. that so many are now found climbing trees? The old woman has heard that they do climb family trees" and that so many of them get out on