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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-17
ARE WOMEN ExTRAvAGANT?

The stories of "woman's extrava-
gance" are as ancient and as senseless
as the 'mother-in-law" joke. says the
Philadelphia Record. There are ex-
travagant women and there are extrav-
agant men; but the women are not re-
sponsble for the extravagant men.
while the men are responsible for the
eXtraVagant women. Women. as a
class, not being ge-earners, have not
the same reason for appreciating the
value of money as men. Husbands and
fathers, as a rule are either very stin-
gy or fail to let their womenfolk know
their real financial condition. In the
hrst case a woman naturally attributes
the doing out of money to her to pure
selhshness or lack of regard, and takes
natural delight in extracting and
spending all she can: in the second
case, she has no reason to think the
man cant afford it" or to realize that
economy is necessary; in either case it
Is the man. not the woman, who is to
blame.
The majority of women are certainly
not extravagant, declares a writer in
the Housekeeper. The reports show
that there are more women depositors
in the savings banks than men, and
they are slower in Withdrawing their
savings; and the mans bargain count
er" joke, with its odd cent price, is
conclusive evidence of woman's regard
for the penny.
Every man knows that a woman is
better and closer at making bargain
than he is. The woman's mind is con-
stituted to consider trif1es and it is
the trities that count in economy. The
average woman can get along on less
and make an appearance" than the
average man can. have never met
man yet who prated of the axt-aVa-
gance of women who stinted himself
on ciSars or his stomach or his neck
ties; but if the woman wants a new
90-cent shirtwaist this man will want
to know what she has done with the
one she bought two years ago.
If men had to become the housekeep-
ers and look after the children, we
would hear very little Of the extrava-
gance of women and much of their
wonderful ability to economic and
make things "go the farthest."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-17

been devoting ten years to studying
modern methods and aids to labor.
You shall and you shall not: you
must do it at this time and in this
way, is not always the surest meth
cd of gaining the end sought, either
as regards our servants or our chill
dren.
Between husbands and wives no
worse mistake can be made by those
to whom unity and tender understand
ing are precious than the requirement
that the rules of either shall control
the order of daily life. The ardor. the
actual pain of eagerness with which
many women go about the duties of
their daily lives often entail shipwreck.
Where the ideal joy of family life eX-
lists, you will find that there is neither
one who makes infleXible laws nor one
who sits in judgment. Where errors
and mistakes and imperfections try the
souls of men and women, they must
be met by reforming the scheme on
which the plans of yesterday failed:
the world and ourselves change-the
very teachings of our youth fail to
meet our needs: we must shape our
lives so that we can keep strong and
firm the principles which know no
change, and yet not bruise ourselves
against the obstacles within our paths.
So
Shall life be blest with Indian-sum-
mer youth
In bleak November. and with thank
full heart
Smile on its ample stores of garner
ed fruit.
As full of sunshine to our aged eyes
As when it nursed the blossoms of
our spring"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-17

party We're smoking. Yes, here in
broad daylight and in first-class
cafe on Broadway were four pretty
young, fashionable, respectable women
putting away at cigarettes as though
it was the most usual thing in the
world. Even to the New Yorker it
was shocking and he very nearly said
so. But he managed to gather his
wits and say:
"Oh, you mean those girls smoking?
Pshaw, that's quite the proper thing
nowadays They all do it."
We'll" said the Chicago man, "it
beats me-that's ALL"
Furtively, lest the Chicago man
should see that he was interested, the
New Yorker watched the progress of
the scene. He was not alone in his
interest for the whole roomful finally
became attracted to the group of
smokers and "rubbered" exceedingly.
But the smokers apparently were per-
fectly unconcerned. The women puff
ed away like experts, inhaling the
smoke of the cigarettes and blowing it
out in graceful clouds. One even dis
carded a finished cigarette and lit an
other. Nothing was said to them by
the walters, as the New Yorker
thought might be the case, and they
finished their smoke, gathered their
wraps and bundles and left the place,
making no sign that they thought they
had done anything out of the COM
mon, or had attracted any attention
whatever.
When the New Yorker got home he
told his wife about it. To his sur
prise, she did not seem astonished at
all.
Il thought it would come to that"
she said especially in that particu-
lar place, for they have encouraged
smoking among their women patrons
for some time Perhaps not in any of
their dining rooms or the cafe, but at
least in private.
In the Women's reception room, on
the second floor, cigarettes and
matches have been provided for the
patrons ever since the establishment
has been opened, and it is never an
uncommon sight to see two or three
women in there smoking. The first
time l was ever in the retiring room
/ thought a man must have been
there, the place was so blue with
smoke, but on looking around 1 saw
that the haziness was caused by two
young women who were contentedly
putting away a cigarettes. On several
occasions 1 have seen women who had
left a party at a table downstairs come
in and light cigarettes, take a few
whiffs and return to their friends
with the satisfaction of having stolen
a surreptitious smoke. No one is the
wiser except the attendant in the re-
| firing room"
In some of the bohemian" places
| which flourished more widely a few
| years ago than now feminine tobac-
conism was not frowned on in the
palmy days. In the midst of a merry
party some pretty girl would light a
| cigarette and smoke it ostentatiously,
but it was generally done in a spirit
of bravado and not because she really
enjoyed it. Even in those bohemian
resorts, free and easy as they were,
the action would invariably occasion
general.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-17
TAKE WARNING,
FACILITATING MAIDS

The girl of the sentimental blue eyes
sighed. "He asked me to marry him."
she remarked plaintively.
The girl with the new shade of ma
hogany tinted hair says the New York
Times. looked interested. And you
accepted him." she asked. with an up
lifting of the eyebrows.
mo. Like a fool 1 asked for time
in which to consider it,"
Indeed! And what did he say
than?"
why" replied she of the blue eyes
He was awfully nice and sympathetic
about it, Said he understood the inno-
cent shyness of a natural disposition
like mine: and that he would give me
three months to think it over"
And what did you answer to that?'
"Oh! l saw my mistake right away. 1
knew that three days would be ample
time; but l couldn't tell him so. could
I? Besides. he was so nice about it..
Thought no girl should be pestered UNI
der the circumstances. Upon my soul,
Gladys, he almost insisted on my talk
ing three months! l grew very thought
full and sad and silent, and we finally
compromised on three weeks
At this juncture the girl of the SEN
timental blue eye gave a dab at her
face with her dainty handkerchief, and
there was something suspiciously like
a catch in her voice as she asked:
And now, and now. what do you
suppose the wretch has done?"
Il don't know. I'm sure. dear" re-
piled the other maiden, with as much
sympathy as she could muster; what
has he done?"
why. he's eloped with that pasty-
faced Blinkins girl that detest so
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-17
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS.

A way of fortifying New Years res
olutions has been propounded by a
Germantown clergyman, who tells this
story to The Philadelphia Record II
have in my congregation a young mar
ried woman. who has for some time
past been trying to persuade her hus-
band to unite with the church. She
came to me the other day and said:
I think Tom is now in the proper
frame of mind. If he is going to join
the church at all he must do it at once
or at least before New Years Day
And why before New Years DayY
/ asked. Well said she, I've done
an awful lot of Christmas shopping this
year at the stores where we have ac-
counts, and when the bills come i'm at
the first of the year 1 think that, if
he joins the church in the mean time,
he'll have his newly acquired Chris
tianity to counterfeit the fit of pro-
family that he usually displays when
the Christmas bills come in!'
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-17
ADIEU TO THE WEDDING CAKE.

ut is not fashionable any longer in
New York. says the New York Press,
to send out dainty little boxes of we'd
ding cake" said a confectioner who
for years did large trade in we'd
ding cakes. "In fact, wedding cake
may. be said almost to have gone out
of use. We used to make huge ones
to be cut at the bridal feast and dis
tributed in pretty boxes tied with
white ribbon. 1t is difficult to find any
of these boxes now if a bride wants
a good, old fashioned wedding. with d
cake that amount to something. The
boxes are no longer called for in fash
icnable trade.
These boxes were quite expensive
affairs eight or ten years ago, and
usually were supplied to wealthy fam
lilies by the firm that attended to the
wedding invitations and the litho-
graphic literature sent out afterward
to announce to the world at large that
the marriage had actually taken place.
The cake boxes were decorated with
festoons of ivy leaves and such things.
They were a sort of consolation to
friends not asked to the wedding"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-17
1T CAME TO THAT.

A Chicago man, says the Chronicle
of that city. while on a visit to New
York recently expressed surprise to a
denizen of Manhattan Island at seeing
a woman smoking cigarette in pup
lie cafe. The resort, attached to one
of the best known restaurants in the
CITY. was crowded with stylish Wom-
en- and men, all slipping their afternoon
drinks and chatting. Beyond the Iact
that on every table seemed 10 De more
bundles and shopping packages than
Won are ant to see in this place of an
afternoon (Which, of course, was due
to it's being the Christmas season. the
New Yorker saw nothing in particular
to surprise him. He told the Chicago
man so.
CHATS what I mean whispered
the latter. pointing a trembling niger
at a group who occupied the table
behind him and near the center OF the
room.
The New Yorker looked more care
fully and did, indeed, see something
that almost made him expose ms sur
prise. But, being a good New Yorker,
whose creed it is to never let an out
of-towner know that anything can
happen in the metropolis to startle
native, he pretended that what he saw
was a matter of everyday occurrence
"Oh, that's nothing" he said.
As a matter of fact, it was some
thing out of the ordinary. There were
leaning over glasses filled with va
rious connections of the bartender's
skill, but that was not surprising, for
that's what this particular cafe is in
tended for.
What made the group out of the
common was the fact that all the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-17
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The story of His Life and ways.

The story of His Life and ways.
Near the river mouth three children
were at play on the sand, an Indian
lad, a small American girl and her
brother Suddenly the Indian stood
I'D. and shading his eyes with his
hand, gazed long toward the south
ward. "Zozoka comes" he said;
plenty fish"
"Where?". cried the white children,
eagerly scanning sea and sky.
His wife. too: 1t is good" said the
Indian. THE Great Spirit smiles on
my people. He sends Zozoka to tell us
that we shall have big catches of fish,
all we can eat and plenty to dry for
the cold moons"
The children could see two birds
coming from the southwark. Fascin-
ated. they watched till over their heads
swept a pair of magnificent ospreys
Fish hawks" they cried in the same
breath.
"Zozoka," said the Indian lad. "They
90 to their old home up the river
A mile from the rivers mouth. near
the cage OF a rocky Gill, IL great pune
tree, gaunt and weatherbeaten, stood
boldly outlined against the sky. Near
its top was a huge mass of sticks. En-
tangled in one side. a piece of old fish
net fiuttered in the breeze. like a bat
tle-scared ensign above a fort. As the
ospreys came in sight of their summer
home the air was filled with shrill
whistling, the lish-hawks way of eX-
pressing delight.
A CLEAN of silver showed just be-
meath the rivers blue. Like a shot the
fish-hawk dropped and was half buried
in the water before he rose. holding
fish i'm his strong talons.
Mounting with few graceful
sweeps of his splendid wings, which
spread over five feet, he seated himself
on his fayorite branch. and tearing the
fish into pieces, devoured it with great
relish. Soon Mrs. Osprey, who was
even larger than her husband. was
seated near him, also enjoying the din
ner which she had clutched from the
water below.
For a fortnight this devoted couple
spent many a busy hour searching for
material to repair their home. A few
rods from the bank was a dead tree,
and Mr. F'ish-hawk decided that some
of its branches would be exactly right
for propping up the sagging east side.
Then he performed a wonderful aero
baltic feat, something no other bird ever
dreams of doing. He rose in the air
to a great hight, and dropped straight
as an arrow 70 the branch he had Sc
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-17
HOW MEN AND WOMEN LOVE.

When a womans love is strong, says
London Modern Society, it takes pos
session of her to the exclusion of pref
ty nearly everything else. When a
mans love is strong it does the same,
and, as the records of everyday crimes
go to prove, with an even greater in
tensity; but a man has more self-con-
troll more discrimination, more cunning
which all go to screen his real self
from the eyes of his fellows. He may
not, l grant you. be ready to give up
his horses, his trade his books his
sports, or-unless, indeed, he is very
young and very love-sick-his dinner
but he, often enough, stakes his all
upon one throw, and, if unlucky, is
ready to give up far more than all
these put together-viz., his life itself
Here and there a woman puts an end
to her existence through hopelessnesS,
grief and despair; here and there she
droops and fades, whitening away 81
lently because she has lost her chief
hold on life; here and there she sinks
into a heart-broken melancholy or
gentle passivity; but how rarely do we
find even in the Veriest abandonment
of love and passion, that a woman will
be driven thereby to commit crime?
A man, driven to desperation by a
woman's pertidy or fickleness, kills
her, or his rival, or himself. A woman
in like case may suffer a thousand
times as much, but she will never
harm the one she loves, or has loved,
or her successor. She will make no
tragedy-but her whole life is the
tragedy. She will forgive-because she
is "a woman; but she will not forget
because she is a woman.
A mans passion is often lower than
human-it is brutal; woman's love is
often higher than human, for II is di-
vine. But many a man nurses his love
for some fair woman, and hides it in
his heart unseen and unsupported by
the rest of the world. It is a sweet
secret that goes with him through the
busiest hours Of even the busiest day.
And especially is this the case when
q man loves in vain. When he has got
ali he wants man is not given to wor-
rying. Then he has ''rest-and- be
thankful" sort of way Of looking at
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-17
THIS PARROT PRAYS.

The collector was waiting for his
rent in the hall of an apartment house
in East Eighty-second street. The door
was partly ajar, sufficient for him to
hear. says the New York Times:
Our Father. who art in heaven"
Does your boy say his prayers at
noOn?' he asked when the woman
brought the money.
She stared at him.
GO long" she said. Have YOU
been collecting rent from here for three
years without finding out that L am
an unmarried woman? That's Joe say
ing his prayers, and it simply means
that he wants his luncheon. Come and
see him"
Joe, the collector discovered, was a
fine Brazilian parrot in a gilded cage.
He continued to the end of the Lord S
Prayer without noticing the intrusion,
and was rewarded with a cracker and
a piece of apple. These he promptly
disposed of. finishing about the same
moment that the collector set down
his wineglasS.
For what we have received" said
the parrot. may the Lord make US
truly thankful"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-17

lected, breaking it with his weight and
catching it before it reached the
ground.
The fish-hawk, with his boundless
powers OF flight, is very poor walker.
Indeed IT is almost impossible for him
to travel on the ground at all, SO he
never descends to it unless he is forced
to.
While Zozoka was busy breaking the
tree branches, his mate searched the
shore and river banks. She brought
long streamers of seaweed, red and
brown. green sea-grass and a wisp or
two of salt hay from the marshes.
With these she wove a new lining for
her homes. and soon it held two spot
ted eggs, a little larger than a hens.
The osprey is a model husband. He
is faithful, even unto death. He
mates for life and shares with his
wife all the hardships and labor, as
well as the pleasures, of domestic life.
When the babies appeared there was
work indeed. Zozoka would swoop
down, dive into a wave and come out
on the opposite side, with a catfish in
his claws. Before starting for his
home UP the river he always turned
the fish edgeways to the wind, for he
was a wise bird, and knew that if he
carried it broadside out it would pre-
sent a larger surface to the winds re-
sistance. When he reached the nest he
tore the fish into shreds, which he
gave to the babies one at a time.
When they grew little older they
sat on the edge of the nest and watch
ed for their parents with round, solemn
eyes.
Before a week had passed they were
famous flyers. To learn to fish success
fully was very difficult indeed. After
many failures they were able, when
they caught a CLEAN of silver in the
water to drop like stone, clutch it
in their strong claws, and sail trium-
phantly to the home tree.
First the young hawks fished almost
wholly in the river, not venturing to
try their luck in the ocean, but one
day the bold son flew far out over
the breakers, farther than he had ever
been before.
Suddenly there was a splash and he
saw a great fish gamboling below.
Pausing for a moment to take a good
aim he shot downwards. struck the
fish and firmly imbedded his claws
He attempted to rise, but to his dis
may was drawn down, down, deeper
and deeper beneath the water. He
struggled desperately to disentangle
his claws, but now his lungs were fill
ed with water; his strength was ebb-
ing. His struggles grew more and
more feeble. His ambition had cost
him his life.
The next morning, when the hawks
flew seaward, they saw a great cod
fish lying on the beach. with u dead
young osprey grimly clutching Is
BAG
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-17
DOMESTIC TYRANNY.

1t would, venture to guarantee,
surprise the average young house
keeper to find what an infinitesimal
amount of thought she had given to
what would keep the family life warm
and eager in the evenings, and how
trifiing had been her provision for
free and untrammeled use of what
she calls her parlor or her drawing
room, according to her type.
Without a framework of rules, says
a writer in the New York Evening
Pest, scheme of living within which
the domestic life must fit itself, of
course, common sense tells us, no
home can exist with hope of peace
and prosperity, but it is folly to re-
quire that things shall move only ac-
cording to laws. which, made for one
year and one phase of life, are inn
possible without strain and fret as
time moves on.
l know an admirable housewife who
was kept in unending turmoil because
she fixed certain rules in each depart
ment of her house, requiring that GER
tain forms of work should be accom-
plished within certain hours. Quick
witted, well-trained Nora could do
what slow and plodding Gretchen
could not accomplish in twice that
time. Her home became a temporary
sleeping place for unhappy women of
every cline and nation, and homelike
peace ceased to be remembered I'M
der the roof. 1T has been done and
well done and could be done again."
The whole serenity of her own life
and the comfort Of those she loved
were sacrificed to an infiexible rule OF
no real value to any one.
There is also a form of domestic ty-
ranny which comes through the ig-
norance of the master. He does not
mean to ask mpossibilities-he wants
to be patient and unselfish-but there
are certain things which he demands
and expects to obtain invariably and
ii is often an impossibility to meet
this expectation. All work done I'M
der this exaction becomes onerous-
the heart does not enter into the ODE
dience of the children, nor does the
service of wife or servant take on
that cheerful alacrity which ensures
success There are men, in no way
Intentionally hard or disagreeable, who
by a certain pulling out of a watch
and a loud demand why dinner is not
served will set everybody interested
in its preparation in a sort of ner-
vous tremor, and insure for himself
an ill-prepared meal. That last five
minutes was needed for the perfection
of the soup, and is missed all the way
to the clouded coffee, over which he
makes a wry face.
individuality is at the base of all
cooperation; we are not all to be
srnoothed down to one surface, but
to join all our powers to carry out the
great principle of home loving and
family living by the contribution of
our seperate qualifications. We are
co-workers not aw-makers, and though
no little community can exist pros
perously without a head who gov
ems, homes are not absolute monar-
chies; we all have our right to repre-
sentation and a voice. Even the cook
has reasonable cause to ask for an
amendment when she sees that her
best efforts are hindered by laws which
suited some other woman's methods.
And have even known a well inform
ed mistress gain much useful knowl-
edge from one Of her maids who had