The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08

| mixed up in an Intoxicating draught. You have
naturally great deal moro disillusion to go
| through than il YOU had married q country
| squire, or Scotch laird, who would never have
| suggested any romantic delights One cannot
| go near heaven without coming down with
| crash, like the poor men in the balloons. You
have been UP in your balloon, and you are now
coming down. All, my dear, everything depends
on how you come down! You will think
me monster for saying SO, but it will
rest SO much IN your own hands; You
won't believe it, but it will. If
you come down with tart and good-l umor, it
will all be right afterwards, but if you show
| temper, men say of their horses, why then the
balloon will lie prone a torn, empty, useless bag
speak plainly, dear, if you will receive with
| resignation and sweetness the unpleasant dis
| oovery that San zenone is mortal, you.wont be
| unhappy, and you will soon get used TO it; but If
you perpetually fret about it you won't alter him,
and you viii both be miserable; or, it not Iniser
| able, you will do something worse you win each
| find your amusement in somebody else. know
| you SO well, my poor, pretty Gladys; you want
such an immense quantity OF sympathy and al
lection; but YOU won't get it, my dear child. quite
| understand that the Prince looks like picture,
and he has made life an errotic poem for you for
! a month, and the inevitable reaction which fol-
/ lows seems duh ditch-water; you would even
/ say as cruel as the grave.
But it is nothing new Do try and get that
i we'll into your mind. Try, too, and be as light
hearted as you can. Men hate an unamusable
| WOMhn. MAKE Dell0V0 TO 1augn az TIE peGltS
4 theatres if you can't really do it. il you don't,
dear, he will go to somebody else who will Why
/ do these demi- monde women get such preference
/ over us? Only because they don't bore their
men. A man would sooner flung q cham
payne glass at his head than cried for five min
| utes. We can't fling champagne glasses; the
prejudices of our education are against it. 1t is
| an immense loss to us; we must make up for 1t
| as much as we can by being as agreeable as we
know how to be- We shall always be q dozen
lengths behind those others. By the way you
said in one. of your earliest notes
that you wondered why our mother ever
| married. / am not sufficiently au courant
| with prehistoric times to be able to tell
| you why, but / can see what she has done since
| she did marry. She has always effaced herself
| in the very wisest and most prudent manner.
| She has never begrudged papa his Norway fish
| ing or his August yachting, though she knew he
| could i'll afford them. She has never bored him
| with herself or about us. She has constantly
urged him to 90 away and enjoy himself, and
| when he is down with her in the country She
always takes care that all the women he ad-
| mires and all the men who best amuse him shall
| be invited in relays, to prevent his being dull
| or feeling leased for moment l am quite sure
| she has never cared the least about her own
| wishes, but has only studied his This is what
call being ciever woman and good woman
| But fear such women are as rare as blue roses
| Try and be like her, my dear. She was quite as
young as you are now when she married.
| But, unfortunately, in truth, you are
| a terrible little egotist You want -
| shut up this poor young man all alone
| with you in kind Of attitude of perpetual ador-
ation-of yourself. That is what women call af-
1 fection you are not alone in your ideas. Some
men submit to this sort of demand. and go about
forever held tight in leash like unslpped
pointers. The maiority-wel!, the majority
| bolt. And am sure should if I were one of
| them. | do not think you could complain if
| your beautiful Romeo did. can see you ex
| actiy with your pretty little grave face, and
| your eyes that have such fatal aptitude for
| tears and your solemn little views about matri-
| mony and its responsibilities, making yourself
quite odious to this mirthful Apollo OF yours,
| and innocently believing ali the while that you
are pleasing heaven and saving your own dignity
| by being so remarkably unpleasant! Are you
| very angry with me! am afraid SO. Myself, /
would much sooner have an unfaithful man than
a dull one; the one may be bored by you, but
/ the other bores you, which is immeasurably
| worse"
| From the Princes di San Zenone Coombe Bysset to
the Lady Gwendolen Chichester, st. Petersburg.
| Dear Gwen-How can you possibly tell what
mamma did when she was younga daresay she
| fretted dreadfully. Now, of course she has got
| used to it-like all other miserable women If
| peopis marry only to long to be with other peo-
| ple what is the use Of being married at ala /
said to Piero, and he answered very insolently;
| II NY points, on lie savait.' He sent for
| some more dreadful French books-Gyp's and
| Richepins and Gui de Maupassant's-and he lies
| about reading them all day long, when he isn't
asleep he is very often asleep in the daytime
He apologies when he is found out but he
yawns as he does so You say should amuse
| him, but can't amuse him. He doesn't care
for any English news, and he is beginning to
| get irritable because cannot talk to
him in italian, and no declares
| my French detestable, and there is always
| something dreadful happening. There has been
| such terrible scene in the village. Four of the
| COOmbe Bysset men-two blacksmthS, car
| penter and laborer-have ducked Toniello in
1 tn
| their womankind; and Tonfello, when he stag
| gered out Of the weeds and the slime drew his
| knife on them and stabbed two very badly. OF
| course, he was taken up by the constables and
the men he hurt moved to the county hospital.
| The magistrates furious and scandalized
| and Piero!-Pero has nobody to play billiards
| with him. When the magistrates Intercepted
| ham about Toniello, as, of course, they were
| obliged to do, he got into dreadful passion be-
cause one of them said that it was just like
! cowardly Italian to carry a knife and
make, use Of it. Piero absolutely
Kissed at the solemn old gentle
people, he cried, are they so very courageousa
| Is it better to beat man into jelly, or kick q
| woman with nailed boots, your English mob
! does! Where is there anything cowardIys He
| was one against four. In my country there is
| not night that goes without rissa of that
| sort, but nobody takes any notice. The jealous
persons are left TO fight it out as best they may
| after ALL it is the womans fault' And then he
said some things that really can not repeat, and
it was mercy that. as he spoke in the most
| rapid and furious French, the old gentleman did
not, think, understand syllable. But they
| saw he was in passion, aud that scandazed
them, because, you know, English people always
| think that you should keep your bad temper Tor
your own people at home Meanwhile, of
| course, Toniello is in prison, and 1 am
| afraid they won't let US take him out on
| ball. because he has hurt one Of the
blacksmths dreadfully. Aunt Carrys solicitors
are doing what they can for him, to please me;
for rogue who ought to be hanged. And to
think, cries Tonieio, that in my own country I
should have all the populo with me; the very
carabineers themselves would have been with
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