Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH:
Bessie Bramble Sends Cupid Afying
by Showing That
MATRIMONY'sAMAyTER OF MONEY
Poor Men Must Not Mate With DelicatelY
Reared Girls.
WOMEN MUST HAVE BoSEETs, ETC
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsrAron.I

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June as the month of roses, but here in the
South in early May the roses are a-blowing
with illimitable and magnificent profusion.
In every garden along the streets, every
where, are roses, the beautiful La France,
Gloire de Dijon, Marechal Mel, Puritan.
Jacqueminot, Victoria, Grand Duke Charles,
Souvenir, Queen of the Prairie-every va
riety are to be seen with such wealth of
bloom ds isnever beheld in the North. The
: whole air is perfumed with roses, honey
q suckles, sweet old-fashioned pinks, and
almost every flower that grows.
1 If people in the South ever get up energy
enough to write poetry, Thompson's ''Sea-
sons" will be completely upset and Long
fellow and Whittier, who have glorifed and
made famous the "New England Spring, /"
will be found month or more behind time,
with their robins, and blue birds, and lilacs,
and primroses, and cowslips in sweet and
beauteous May. But the Southern poet,
with all this inspiration of flowers and
sweetness and wealth of beauty in early
rosy May under his nose has not yet immor-
talized himself in any Miltonic fashion
nor even given any picture of nature as seen
in the sunny South as equal to good old
John G. Whittier on Northern spring and
winter. Latent inspiration amid such beau
| UC,
are too lazy to work it out into immortal
verse or put 1t into words that glow and
burn.
mid SWEET PERFUMES.
On piazza, shaded by, it would seem, a
million roses, white and yellow, more beau
tiful than can be expressed in words, and
overlooking garden full OF roses, yellow
| jasmine, fragrant pinks and honeysuckle
and other brilliant odorous blossoms sat a
company of ladies, all from the North, who
were drinking in the delightful air, and in
haling the perfume of the sunny Southern
! garden. It was woman's meeting devoted
to cheerful gossip, small talk and fancy
work and altogether a merry company of
old girls, representing perhaps half dozen
of the progressive Northern States. They
were engaged in what men are wont to call
useless work, but as an accompaniment to
running tongues, and as tending to the cul-
ture of the esthetic, and the beautifying of
homes, it may be counted as work of more
utility and less expensive than smok-
| ing cigars, or playing billiards. or
horse racing on the boulevard. One
was ornamenting in outline sketch
! bureau cover in cobwebs and Iris
design. that was so greatly admired that the
worker was impelled to a vast squirt of in
dustry so as to show its elegance when done.
Another was knitting up orange worsted to
make oranges for a fancy tree at fair,
where the crop of oranges that adorned it
were to be utilized as twine bags and sold at
81 piece for the benefit of the heathen
Another was drawing threads preparatory to
working in the "hour-glass pattern" and
'cobwebs" and double matrimony
stitches" and all the rest of the intricacies
of drawn work for a tray cover, and doylies
to enrich the dining table at home. An
other was doing" washable silk embroid-
cry of the most delicate description on
DAINTY DEVICES
for the luncheon table. Another more given
to the practical was knitting silk STOCKINGS.
and another equally devoted to the. useful
was knitting ribbed silk shirts which cost
like sixty" at the stores, but as the profit
of picked-up minutes realized more than 100
per cent. These and other occupations made
that piazza regular working bee equal to
any sewing society. It was largely the re-
suit OF reaction from the exertion of doing
''the lions" of the town, which, though few
in number, had been made the most of in
the line of something to do and somewhere
to go. They had visited the schools and ex-
hibited vast interest in the advancement of |
the cute little "darkies," they had done
"Sand river" and the ''colored graveyard" |
and the 'cotton-ginning, and the "cake |
walks" and the ''Schutzenfest," and tired !
out they had settled down for a Quiet time |
on the piazza in rocking chairs, state of |
pleasure so. mysterious and unknown TO |
foreign writers on American subjects like |
Max O'Rell.
In this state of beatitude-so INADEQUATE
ly pictured-they discussed men and things.
as might be expected, and principally the
former, as women are wont to do. A text
was found in an article setting forth the
views of sundry and divers men setting forth
their ideal of wives and their hope of secur-
ing them.
In these views of dozen men as to what
they wanted in wife it was pretty plainly
shown that what they desired was wife
not so much as lover and a companion and
dear familiar friend as one SO gifted with
physical beauty, so up to the highest mark
in housekeeping, so endowed with pretty
accomplishments, so possessed of the virtue
of economy as to be always able to make one
dollar do the work of two or maybe three.
SO unselfsh as to be willing to give up glad
ly all their own ikings and desires in defer
ence to those of men, and so
HAPPY TO MINISTER
unto their husbands in all things. and ac-
cept their doctrines in all matters. as to he
glad and willing to become "door mats for
their feet, and to sew on buttons and serve
as kitchen drudges as if such work were
felicity enough for them to hope for or
dream of. These ideals of wives as DOR
trayed by men were not expected to have
brains-in fact brains seemed to be held as
rather an objection and as tending rather to
than the subjection deemed to
be so lovely and desirable in a wife, They
were to give up all for love and deem it
good bargain to find husbands to accent
their alteration and ministration. Like
most men, these brethren showed by their |
ideals that what they wanted were
beautiful beings, whose like was never seen
on sea OF land. Not one of his own showing
seemed to grasp the idea that woman
to become an able housekeeper, a good
a fine domestic 6nancier, must
have brains, and lust such :
brains too as men possess who run mills.
manage manufactures, and achieve success
in any sort of business One man objected
to his wife knowing too much of matters
outside the home on the ground that il
would make her discontented--would not
care to have her take any interest In politics
as he could attend to that-he wanted her
thoughts centerd alone upon him and the ]
Iamily, and especially did he want an :
wife, who could make both ends
meet on a small income. He did not state
What he proposed to give in return for all ,
his affection and devotion and perfection.
but his description showed clearly enough ,
hat he expected some beautiful and bril-
liant girl to be delighted to receive her :
BOARD and clothes on his own conditions.
WHAT he WANTED, /
Another wanted wife physically perfect
kind, and capsble Of /
making comfortable and tasteful home in
which he could find comfort and spend his
pare hours in the pursuit he loyed-and ali T
his to be done on the moderate salary of
4 200 per year. Hewas fond of the little
ifceties and modest elegances Of lie. How G
le expected all that he wished for the sum
mentioned isone Of the mysteries that SO S
6eeloud q mans mind, who has
and the relentless. eyer-d 81
ecurring rent day. A thousand year in Al
he country seems a snug competence. but s