The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-02
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.

If you are asked many times Wnal IS the difference between Northern and Southern women you will he obliged to formulate some reply.
 Inst now I am more struck with tho fact that the Northern woman gets the reward of her labors. Her own works praise her in the gates
 The Southern woman often does as good work and receives a pittance in pay and but a moiety in praise.
 How is 1t? Why Is it7
 Is 1t because widespread education has made a better market North for ThOught- Products?
 Is 1t because much luxury here has created an appetite for Poesies as well as for strawberries in Januaryf While we os the South prefer waiting till our own berries are ripe in our own gardens about the last days of April. And we want our poetry well seasoned. Poe Is entirely modern enough for us.
 I saw today woman whose reputation Is worldwide, She thinks great thoughts, sueaks wise words She Is in feature beau" tifui. in expression saintly. Do you know who thought of as l looked at her, lis- tened to her, realized that her interna- tional reputation was deservedT 1 thought of a dear friend in Alabama. Just such great thoughts filled her mind' to me in hours of quiet converse had she voiced just such new, great and world uphearlng theories; with just such loity spirituality had she lived.
 The long grass waves over her now and moi more than ten or twelve people ever knew of her greatness. Why is this! Why should so much worthfulness be on earth. unapprized? God knows.
 That is what strikes me most as the dIfrerence between the women of the North and of the South. .
 These women enjoy the fruit of their labors. Our women of equal ability ana brain force live and die unhonored ana unsuIng-more still. unsinging. For what torture worse to a Hitting creature than dumbness.
 What ls 1t that hides the light under th,, bushel? Is 1t convention7 We are mere slaves to convention than are these Northern women.
 Is 1t pride of position? We are great stIclslers for the "has been" Thus and thus have our forehesrs done from time immemorial @
 Are we too cared for and too sheltered?
 Is the caro and tho shelterpg, sweet as it is, worth the loss it entails? Let inc club women debate it. do not know.
 when we come right down to practical matters, every day doings, we see thnt tha Southern woman undoubtedly puts more money, time and thought into clothes than does the Northern woman.
 A Northern woman q mean one whom tbe world knows, one who does things) wears the same coat seven seasons and puts as much money as the yearly coat would cost into books. etchings. travel. lessons. theater-tickets, and even flowers. into things that are educative, uplifting insniring. You can see the result.
 Now nobody loves new coat better than I. But I begin to realize If 1t came to choice between the new coat and the new eult--well.
 Again we give the greater part of our tiu1e and lives to social life. It never occurred to me that people actually rotired from the world, refused to see Friends. lived without the joy of al- most continued converse over tea-cups. in carriage drives. and in clubs with congenial spirits.
 But these women whom the world knows are not to be met everywhere or every day. One asks them to re- cautions. to tea. to various functions. they say simply: They can't come. They are too busy.
 TO be in the small inner circle where they some times can be met and heard begins to be a much appreciated privi- Iege.
 Perhaps. after all, we each get what we deserve, If we choose to put our fancies into fashions charge and our. best time. and energy into social sue-