The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04

made the same request of her. Quickly
she sprang to her feet. held her wine
glass in her hand, and smiling as only
that fascinating woman could smile, she
bowed to her rival and said: "Grace,
beauty and youth make Triplett." 1t is
scarcely necessary to- say that to Miss
Ould belonged the honors of the day.
And now-well, now Matte Ould is
sleeping on the banks Of the James river
with her little baby in her arms, and her
grave has for its cover the daisies she so
well loved. When they laid her down,
there was no hymn sung, but instead four
verses were lifted up and the angels in
heaven wondered at their sweetness as
they heard them sing her favorite song,
Under the Daisies" And the other
beauty? Well, she married rich man.
She is almost as handsome as ever, for
people have to have strong emotions to
lose their good looks; but, after all, ask
any belle of to-day. and she will tell YOU
she would rather have died Matte Guilds
death If she could only have had her life.
Then for several seasons Page Aylett
was belle. With her it was largely the
beauty OF expression that charmed, and to
those who knew her well, the kindness of
heart. To-day she is Mrs. William Royal
OF Richmond, who looks so handsome in
the embroidered mulls she so much likes,
and who is as much interested in what the
girls are doing and as eager to help them
have good time as ifshe were still among
them. This is pretty phase, this mother
feeling. Somebody said there were no
mothers in fiction, but evidently he forgot
the stories of southern life, for even when
Ihackeray came to write of "The Virgin
ians" he made the mother heart OF Nine.
Esmond respond when her boys were in
trouble and always beat most lovingly for
the one who suffered the most.
Men? Plenty of them. There is never
any scarcity down here. They come sea-
son after season as bachelors, benedicts
and fathers. They are a few old beaux
who might have lived when George
" was king, and whose cachet is usually
given to the girl who wears the crown of
honor for the season. These old beaux
like 1t here; they play at whist and count
the honors; they compliment a mother on
her daughter and the daughter on her re-
semblance to her mother. They are not
scoded at as thev would be If they were at
Saratoga, and the garnet brocaded velvet
waistcoat receives as much admiration as
If it were a low cut one of the latest style.
Most OF the girls ride and ride we'll, but
their habits are not as masculine looking
as those We see in the park, and they do
not live mp to the standard which requires
them to look like man from their waists
up. Instead, they have liking for great,
soft felt hats caught up at one side with
fancy buckle or a birds wing, and they
can put them on in a wav that makes
them look like the duchess OF Devonshire
herself. Gossip may exist, but scandal is
frowned When there are the babies and
Nancy and that young northerner, and
what papa has written from Richmond,
and what grandpapa has written from
Louisville, and the dreadful mistakes that
peoples cooks do make, and the inhos-
pitality in not Offering a visitor a glass of
wine and bit of cake to talk about, how
can there be scandal? That's it my friend.
If YOU and | and my neighbor concern
ourselves only about our own affairs,
scandal will become q disease as seldom
found as leprosv, and the scandal-monger
will need to be treated as the leper is
put of on an island by herself.
Do then think the girl at the "Old
White the most desirable of all? Yes, |
do. Do think her without faults? No,
| do not. But there are faults that are
essentially womanly-fau is that are wiped
out In time by her many virtues-faults
that when she is a good wife and good
mother are forgotten, and she is certain to
be these. Her quick temper will be in
valuable in her rule over the kitchen and
also little subdued; it will serve to make
her train up her children in the way they
should 90. Her sentimentality lessons as
she grows older, but there is always
enough OF it to make her husband feel
that she values his love. So after all the
men in search of wife had better come
here where the air is clear and where he
will have the extreme pleasure of seeking
the girl rather than letting her regard him
as her prev. And men want to do the
hunting, don't they? BAB.