The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-11

| by tearing up their own garments and
making blankets and uniforms. They
wore their homespuns with proud de-
light after having made their wooden
dresses into fatigue shirts and remov-
ed the carpets from their floors to
make blankets to protect the soldiers
from the cold.
THE most beautiful virtue of the
southern women was their determine
tion to stand firm no matter what
might betide, for they knew that to
dishearten the soldiers at the front in
the manner in which women may dis
hearten their husbands and their sons,
was the loss Of the cause. Theirs was
the most beautiful manifestations of
self-sacritice that the world knows, yet
they did not murmur. They dashed
aside their tears and fought their bat
ties at home while their loved ones
faced the lannon's mouth, and 1t is
no wonder that a monument is now
proposed to the memory of these wom-
en-"
Mrs. Felton's lecture was beautifully
interviewer with medicines related in
both an entertaining and pathetic man
ner, although not without a thread of
humor. When she told of her own
hardships during the trying period, and
at last her return to her refugee home
in North Georgia at the close of the
war, finding the beautiful place dis
mantled and almost ruin, the recol-
lection dimmed her eyes with tears. She
told of visit that she made to Sa-
vannah during the war and of the
enormous prices that were paid for the
necessities of life; "of course" as she
remarked, Gin Confederate money, but
the people had to have something in
order to get even Confederate money"
An interesting story related by Mrs.
FELTON, last night and which was the
occasion of hearty laugh, was to the
effect that her husband, a Methodist
minister, was kept very busy even dur
ing the stormy period in performing
wedding ceremonies, most Of which, she
explained, We're at their own home and
at night. 1--WE experienced all kinds
of difficulties in supplying ourselves
with tallow candles" said Mrs. FELTON,,
land but for the fact that we feared
that we would be disturbed in our
slumbers, we would have retired at
nightfall and thus dispensed with the
use of light. But, as l say, we were
afraid that some couple who wanted
to get married would disturb us, we
were compelled to surmount the diff
culties and supply ourselves with can
dies. One night when my husband
was performing a ceremony by the
light of our last candle. l saw the anx-
fous groom cast more than one fear
full glance at the pickering light, which
was then about as big as the end of
my finger. Just as my husband said
I pronounce you man and wife,, and
had added an Amen the light went
out"
Mrs. Felton's allusion to sorghum
and its use during the Civil War was
immensely humorous. I'VE sweetened
our coffee when we had any, with
sorghum we virtually lived on sor-
ghum, and if it had not have been for
sorghum, God knows what we would
have done. / think that some poet
should write about sorghum. and 1
know that the women of those days /
speak of would appreciate it,
Savannah had much to do with the
Inauguration of the Civil War" said
Mrs. FELTON,, land it is appropriate
that this historic city should perpetuate
the memory of the women who did
their part in fighting the battles of
that war"
Mrs. FELTON, leaves Savannah to-day
for her home at Gainesville. While
in the city she was the guest of Mrs.
Richard Webb, on Oglethorpe avenue.