The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-30

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With equal facility. But the absolute
perfection Of the strenuous girl as an
automatic machine is her absolute lack
in the sex attributes which the gusher
! possesses and lavishes so freely. The
gusher confdes, idealizes, believes,
] loves. The other girl disdains any
expression of deep feelings, reasons
out conditions and people, and always
I reserves her opinion, expressed or
otherwise. She always allows her sus-
picion OF human nature the benefit of
| a doubt
The girl strenuous is the result of
the bad aim Of the suffragist who, true
to sex tradition, struck wildly on the
outer edge of the target she aimed at.
The result is that soon we shall have
no Doras outside of the nursery, but
the question is, what manner of wom-
an shall we have?
To-day the leading women of the
suffrage movement of twenty years
ago sit placid and serene in their ac-
complishment, but really aghast at the
achieving woman of to-day, like mod
est hens who, by their united and
long-continued efforts, have succeeded
in Matching out a Dodo bird
Woman has ceased to weep as the
poet said she must, and has begun to
work She is too terribly in earnest.
and her OVERRIDING of the present
must calm down in time to more
sane condition before she begins to
attain her best success.
The paradoxical part of the present
state of things is that it is the fem
ininity which still remains in the girl
strenuous that causes her to put away
her emotions with her curl papers.
We're she more logical. reasonable, and
above all, plucky, she would not make
a show of being so over-brave.
The question as to whether she can
work side by side with men in the vo
cations and the professions has been
answered in the results that have been
achieved. She is not only arguing the
courts and dissecting in the hospitals,
but she is running elevators and cable
cars in the West, and the question as
to whether her hat is on straight or
not perplexes not her soul.
She is becoming emotionally if not
mentally, bifurcated. Above all, she is
at sea, carried away by a wave that
has landed her far out in the ocean of
endeavor. farther out than her strength
fits her for. SO she battles with the
spray in a frenzy of competition. keep
ing her place on the crest of the wave,
but really beating out her strength
against breakers that her brothers
learn to dodge.
cessful woman so-called who is UNI
normal unsexed and, above all, un-
healthy. AS Dora was a silly little
fool so this twentieth century girl
as she has evolved is something of
feminine monster. If the conversation
at the club meetings does not reek
of society platitude and purple tea it
sometimes utters daringly unwomanly
sentiments thinly cloaked in the gauze
g ,frr,-, av7for hot
man has always composed.
While Dorasm must die and silli-
ness and sentimentality will go their
way, it will be a sad old world if
ideality and enthusiasm in women are
to be battered out against the wheels
of progress. A woman cheering a
football game is an inspiring sight,
but in it she would be a very pathetic
sort of a guy
The danger that besets the path of
the strenuous girl is the danger of
forgetting in her forging ahead. If
she is going to sacrifice her femininity
in her achievement, she can only reach
hybrid sort of happiness at best
Carrie Nation and Mary Walker are
both women of conviction and of
brain, but can it be said that they
represent anything more than forces
side-tracked impotent, infinitely sad
and hopelessly feminine
The girl strenuous must learn to
! plan calmly, to think and work hold
ing fast above all to her sex supre-
macy, her hair pins and her blue baby
ribbon. In a woman's hands a pow
der puff will always be more powerful
than a hatchet, and a lace handker-
chief Will make flag of truce that will
carry her safely through the lines of
the enemy
StrannOnG pir ri
gusher weeping into her ice cream
soda as she tells of her matinee hero
and smiles pityingly. Yet she is quite
as impossible in her own OVERRIDING
The worry. fret and stew that beset
women in domestic life is not escaned
Wnen they take up the world outside.
me nerves become unstrung, the
voices rasp unpleasantly, their minds
ana natures warp just as their gowns
grow more severe. The strenuous girl
wins a mans chumship, but he win
marry the gusher girl ninety times ont
OF hundred Then he is quite ant to
pick out some young-minded business
girl in whom he will confide the i'm
becility of his wife
Women must learn to be sane in
their endeavor and restful in their
successes. She must try to keen some
OF her illusions in pickle for occasional
holiday use, unless she wants To he
come hearths tone cooler, with some
fetlsh In the way of business or art
set up before her, blotting out the low
ana sorrow, the song and the prayer
that life should be to a woman
The gusher may suffer herself. but
the girl strenuous will cause others TO
suffer. She will always be like a. mel
edy full of false noteS-a discord
harsh and brassy. The gusher some
times grows pathetically foolish as
she grows old, but she rarely grows
sour. or cynical.
The strong girl must learn values
in life and must never place the fever
of accomplishment beyond home.
friends, health and appiness-those
old fashioned prizes of life that some
how have never lost their value. She
must temper her striving with sweet
ness and learn to have faith in a few
! infinite truths.
The vaudeville women who lift ia
bles and pianos with their teeth are
never physically beautiful. The over
developed mental muscles of the siren
uous female leave her stale and dis
| torted; and whatever the particular
star may be for which she chooses to
exchange her birthright of sex she
Will find It, when 1T reaches her walt
ing arms, as unsatisfactory as a very
mess of potash" as some woman, who
was not Intellectual, once remarked
in our hearing.
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