The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-02
.WOMAN'S !.
WORLD.

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VIE +ris saws Dorothy Dix, in the New
olo.ns Picayune, l feel like making
asu,ar. Everything that is good and
ans and wise in human nature. -
nv 9r,era is no other profession that re-
- such wide. diversity of gifts
u taleuts and requirements, and If
a., banedcent fairy should endow a
SIN with every grace and every vir-
W. she would not have bit more cap
.,s1 than she needs to do business on
rroperly as a wife.
,rbe perfect wife, however, being as
oh = myth as the perfect husband,
non is unreasonable enough to ex-
-oct 10 Get her. He knows his choice,
ost Is a second best among faults
,,ibles and weaknesses. In a way
n women look alike to man, with
.oora or less attractions, and ways that
=. doesn't understand, and so it is no
,,,order that when he stands, upon the
,,.irk of matrimony and eonteHnplates
w. somewhat disastrous experiments
81 his friends, he asks what qualities
oro most desirable in wife, and are
,yost lfkely to conduce to- connubial
,,eace and happiness ~ ~
pV,ty first word to such young man
,,.onId he a word of warning Beware.
.ho beauty. OF course, she is ilatu-
.nnv a mans first choice, as weiall pre-
go the Injuries to the necessities of
10 but the man who gratifies his aes-
-Lsti, sense by marrying a living pfct-
'Iro generally pays the price in starva-
finn of heart and soul. l have never
i t'Ul a single beautiful woman who
isn't abiectly selfish and vain, and
,,bo didn't expect every body; to- eentfn-
"5iIv burn incense before her. A life
lime OF being on ones knees is a trifle
fatiguing, and, when all is said, it is
nIsasanter to- be admired than tits to
have to admire another. Fortunately,
tbsre are so few beauties that. most
men are protected from marrying one,
bnf in the matter. of looks fair degree
Of Dulchritude in the woman will be
found the safest risk. Not having to
take up all her time .conteanp plating her
own charms will leaYe a wife leisude to
admire yours M
The next quality should look f6r in
wife is good hard common sense.
There is hope for everybody ins5this
world but fool. A girl may, have Been.
ever so badly brought up, she may
know none Of the things she ought. to
know. but if she has got sense She will
rise to the emergencies Of life. If mis-
fortune comes to you, she win brace
you up instead of sitting down gand
wrnging her hands and .weepingSs If
poverty comes She will roll up her
sleeves and go to work, and help you win
another fortune. You need never be
afraid Of a sensible woman nagging
you, or being insanely jealous, or2ySast-
ing your substance in riotous extrava-
gance She win be rational. She will
know that a business man cannot all
ways come home to the minute for.5din-,
ner, that professional man must have
secrets he cannot in honor, s4steli. his
wife; that because a man is gFapaonss
and charming to other women is mo
sign he is in love with them, and that
no man can get rich in&the face of
Wasteful Wifes $3.50 yFg
know that ethe. frivolous little but
terhy gill who doesn't know anything
but friIls and frivols, and the clinging
little cfsa aliG Ashu, gaxesNpp in your!
eyes and asks. what you think She
thinks are very attractives especially to,
strong men, We ALI have our hours
when we like comic opera and relish
bread andemilk; hut think of a steady
diet Of comic opera pap, of a lifetime
of silly chatter and insane gossip about.
Inc n-ighbOrs; of a wife. who, never
can rise to your nights, and who fails
you when you need her most just be-
cause it isn't in her to be anything but
4 the silly, brainless little doll, she is.
4 Never my brother, marry any wo-
n man who doesn't take a sane, calm,
8 Rtona view of life, and to whom you
4 amt so with all your troubles Sc
n cure of getting wise advice and in
4 tlIigent sympathy. A wife is either
q ife-buoy or a milestone about her
husbands neck. She saves him or
a she browns him.
Marry no girl who isn't domestic.
The most potent factor in domestic
happiness is a well-kept home Love
never sat long at the side of an I'M
swept HEARTH or fingered around an
lAkept table. Indigestion is death to
romance and good temper, and no wo-
man though she were Venus and
MherVa and Aspasia combined, pos
seSses enough charms to make a man
happy and satisfied in a home where
tne meals are never on time, and waste
anu Encouragement run riot.
BESIDES this, to marry a woman who
- .aVoWedly ignorant of domestic. af-.
uoas' of the fact that they couldn't
sew up seam or boil water--is de-
noerately to handicap your future.
very man worthy of being called a
nan mas an ambition to do something
81 yhe world. If he is a clerk, he looks
Inward - to being a merchant. prince
- ue Is struggling young professional
nlah' ne is striving towards that goal
Wten ne shall be one of the author
l,IeS IN his calling. To achieve his
bnss IT is absolutely necessary that
Nv should have a well-kept home--a
1.i whose affairs are administered
cally. any
wife who spends every cent Of her
n rIoai.aAds salary win keep him on the,
N Inn Nm stool to the longest day he
SUI NO professional man ever yet.
N dio'1i.Ieu IN being anything above me-
81 ~, MY II he had to go home and wor-
"a S, WIN the servants and walk a teeth
M ot2 udny' and be haraSsed by all the
NJ bner little domestic MS that fretted
n ana nerves and exhausted him bodily
N mentally until all the fine fire of
n be,uslasm burnt itself out and he
n hack. i''"s put a. proIessfohai
4 two %oo ga temper and cheerfulness are
SAM OSllei Qualities that are indispen-
briat. III wife. The girl who can say
q peo,I l ana cutting things about other
IN, ~ IS very entertaining. but reflect
sbo ,s sHe TIME win assuredly come when
pao,,. n sharpen her wit on your own
Il Ia llies, and very few of us have
81 iog enough sense of humor to en-
bsnS .1Ne on ourselves. On the. other
has ule woman who is good natured-
WAT louchstone that turns away
"A fn,,,1.a ana smooths over domestic diff
FL ior CO. She isn't always looking out.
|M 'tAfilSe, and har ororffa xrror1o a.4I