The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-20

planted our lovely Aunt Tabithy of
other days, and I'm blest if I know
who is the happier for it. Certain
ly the new woman isn't, for from crack
of dawn to midnight doth the lady
protest, and with equal certainty the
lives of those about her are not made
easier by her incessant Jeremiads.'
you are severe suggested Mrs.
Pedagog.
Not l." cried the Idiot. She has
my sympathy, not my reprobation. She
is just as much product of modern
life as the Ferris wheel. She can't
help being any more than a piano can
help being played on by this new me-
chanical Paderewsk they call the
Bangerola. We should not permit our
selves to be severe with condition
that confronts u.s. but should reason
with it, do what we can to alleviate
it's misery, and to bring it either back
or forward to the normal, and of all
the fields for scientific investigation
now open / know of none better than
that of the old maid of to-day. What
to do with the trusts, the negro ques-
ton, who wrote Shakespeare, Bacon,
Raleigh or Daniel Webster, all these
problems are comparatively easy of So
luton alongside of What shall we de
with our old maids? If she were con-
tent to be an aunt, as she used t. be,
we should have no serious trouble with
her, but that day has past. She'd
rather be a member of Congress, or
golf champion. She has got an idea
in her head that it's disgrace, or at
least a fearful disadvantage, to be a
woman, and since for all the acres of
heaven and earth she would not be so
, vile a thing as a man 1t is very diff
cult to find a place for her. To be sure
she might become a Willieboy, who in
the language of Poe is neither man
nor woman, but she has too much
brain power for that. She thinks and
that is thing the Willieboy couldn'
do"
That's the trouble with her." said
the Bibliomaniac. she thinks too
much"
Nonsense" said the Idiot. Nobody
can think too much. But she don't
think broadly enough and there has
come a reaction. Up to within the last
quarter century she has thought only
| of man and how to make his life easier
| Had she flown to the other extreme and
| thought only of herself. and the only
way to make her own life easier that
! she knows anything about is the mar
way. Therefore she reasons that al
| that man has she must have She
wants to vote She wants to run fol
| President. She wants to belong tC
| clubs. She wants to smoke cigarettes
and i'm some cases to drink cocktail
! She thinks she'd like to serve on juries
and go TO the primaries, and do every
| thing else that men do except drive
! cabs and Join the police force And the
| funniest part of all. these dear. lovely
maiden aunts who are wasting theii
sweetness on the desert womans pa 9,
and letting their nieces and nephew'
run wild. really think that they car
| be- manly without losing any Of theil
/ feminine charm. They think that al
the bloom OF domesticity will remHlr
with hem 20 the end despite theh
/ brushes with the rough things Of a
mans life
They don't think anything abou
/ g." said Mrs Pedag0g. All thcb
/ seek is ~ accomplish something in the
/ world. and 10 they resent being De-.
/ Corded as On only f0f nursery work ir
/ THE iife . don't blame EN- There are
! times Bheg he apron string IL 4