The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22

have not courage enough and back
bone enough to apply it. Boycott such
prigs. Cut the man off your enter
tainment list the minute he shows he is
not gentleman enough to appreciate
the hospitality you show him. Snub
the little cad good and hard who re-
CARDS your house merely as a free
lunch joint, where he can go and eat
his fill and criticise the cooking. Cut
the bounder who feels that a girl
should be hCnored by his deigning to
pay her any attention.
There are six women in New Orleans
who could reform this lack of man
ners in one season if they chose to,
for these little whipper-snapper' af-
fectation of Indifference about going
to places is all a bluff They are dead
crazy to CO. and if they were left out
of the invitation list it would break
their snobby little hearts. If they
knew that if they spent their time
hanging around the buffet, instead of
the ballroom, that they would not be
invited to any of the six leading pri
vate balls of the season, we should see
them prancing around with every old
maid in the ballroom, and the wall
flowers would have the time of their
lives. If they knew that they would
receive no second invitation to dinner
from house where they had neglect
ed to pay Il Dread and butter call, no
hostess would have reason to COM
plain of the lack of cards that were
left at her door; If they knew they
would get the cold shoulder in opera
boxes whose mistresses they had neg
lected, we should think the days of
Beau Brummel had returned, so suave,
so polite, so considerate, so courteous
would our debonair young men be-
come
No phase of American life is more
curious, anyway than that all of the
social drudgery should be thrown on
women. Go where you WILL it is al
ways the women who are doing all of
the work and making all of the con-
versational running. Look around you.
between the acts of the theater. 1t is
the girl who is toiling like a coal
HEAVIER to entertain some man who is
staring lstlessly around. Notice the
couples sitting about at balls. 1t is
the woman who is ransacking heaven
and earth to find some topic is which
the man is interested. She doesn't
care for racing or golf or groceries or
whatever the topic he does but she is
struggling with it might and main, and
1t never even occurs to her that the
man might try to find some topic that
she is interested in and talk to her
about it. Observe the average married
couple. Unless the woman carried on
the conversation, there would be a 81
lence that would last to the crack of
doom between them. The American
mar is grand signeur when II comes
to being entertained and he expects
all womankind to dance before him.
And as sex we do it. and it is a
painful fact that he is getting more
and more spoiled every day. No one
would, of course, go back to the old
times, when men addressed women as
goddesses, with hand on heart, but
there are certain decencies of life that
mark the line between savagery and
civilization. and politeness to women is
one OF the virtues of the past that we
can i'll afford TO dispense with
But IL the older women are respon-
sible for the lack of poiiteness among
the men they entertain, II is the girls
who are to blame for such incidents az
that of the youth who required 10
have a bonus thrown I'm for his society,
IL Is sadly true that II is not the young
men wh@ gun after the girls In these