, 1890-08-21

nature or ways. No ZONE or season can
effect other than unimportant varia-
tons, such as, we will say, the turn of a
leaf or the flicker of IA shade.
The species-belle passee (genus cheir-
anthusEis high colored and in habit
spasmodic. As the main stalk Of a plant
often upbears a stiff bloom, dull in tint
and formal in arrangement, while lateral
shoots display the effervescence of the
rose and the gorgeousness Of the tulip,
so she who has once known how to at
tract and captivate may hope for other,
II sen i-occasional, successes in the same
line. Elderly men who recollect her as
IAN uncommonly fine girl revive senti-
mental "reminiscences Of their common
youth by Just a turn OF two for the
sake Of auld lang syne." Very young
and against their will sheepish fellows
find her easier TO talk to than the belle
of later seasons and far INC indulgent
of gaucherie and solecism. One Of them
is apt to marry her il she is matrimoni-
ally inclined. AS a wife land as many
women marry well at thirty-ive as at
twenty-two) the belle passee CLOVIS into
autumnal bloom hat sometimes sur
passes the crude beauty Of youth. She
is susceptible (measurably) to the infiu-
ence of changed soil and fertilization.
More difficult to classify and to ac-
count for upon any established principle
of human horticulture is the wall flower
who becomes and remains such against
everybody's expectation.
/ have in mind n family of three Sis
ters, who are well educated, well born
and well bred and absolutely good look
ing. Accompanied by a ~presentable
mother and once in n while by the
wealthy father, who denies them no
pleasure, they go to the Hygeia in Feb
ruary, to Saratoga in July, to Mt. Desert
in August and to Florida in December.
They dress tastefully. are not tsciturn
or prudish, and dance gracefully when
chance sends them partners-a rare &C.
currence. For the stamp of the germs
is upon them. Fresh fields and pastures
new signify for them only other walls
and renewed neglect. Bellies declare
them to be cover 70 nice" but cannot
tempt their own admirers TO catholicity
of devoirs. Hostesses say they are
charming, only-the men haven't the
taste to appreciate real worth"
For my WI part / know them to be
genuine women. sensible and lovable,
so superior to the average butterfly of the
ballroom that / never see them, in party
or picnic, that / am not reminded of the
groan of my colored ''man my" when
she heard q lively and beautiful spinster
boldly aver that she had passed her
thirty-third birthday.
ssIawdvt laudvt laudvt urbat q. A..
men aboutr'
l know two other sisters, the only I'M
married members Of a large family OF
boys and girls, and beyond question the
most attractive Of them all in
and appearance, who are now respect
lively IS and 81 years Of age. Neither Of
them has ever. within the knowledge Of
her Oldest and most intimate acquaint-
ance, had the suspicion of an admirer.
Their social position 10 unexceptionable,
and they are to be seen at all manner Of
routs, doing each season" winter or
summer, with cheerful fidelity. Nobody
asks them to dance or to go In to supper
except upon the i~nsistance Of the hostess.
AT the seashore they are, like babes in
the wood, left to their own devices to
sustain social existence. They are never
invited to drive or stroll, or even to look
ut the moon from the balcony. Yet, with
their own sex, they are exceedingly pop
ular, are adored by a large constituency
of nieces and nephews, and. as church
workers, leave nothing to be desired by
priest or parish. Still, the fatal wall
draws them to 1t, and robs them of avail
able charms as the tabled mountain drew
the iron bolts out of the sailors boat and
wrecked him in the very harbor.
What social vivisectionist can explain
the enigma of the non-analyzable wall
flower?
Sighted by men for women who have
not one 1.-THE of her moral or mental
worth, or to the unprecedented eye one
half her personal comeliness, each pub
lie appearance tends to fasten the stigma
upon her. When she has become herself
aware Of her reputation 1t is her fate.
Nothing succeeds like success, and moth
ing fails SO disastrously as prejudged
failure.
OF the pretty trio of sisters / men
toned just now a fippant correspondent
wrote to n New York paper, Disgusting
the names, for safety's sake. under mi
tials: They look with plaintive patience
upon the brilliant scene. Their blue
eyes, the fxity of the smile upon their
silent lips, their whole demeanor says:
I'VE are failuresl We know It'll We
would help it IL we could. But, Kis-
metz"
A plain old dame, whose husbands
money and ambition had brought up
and educated six fine looking sons and
three pretty daughters, was asked why
the brothers had, one and all, married
early, while the sisters remained single.
why, you see," said the good Great
ure, a ludicrous blending of shrewdness
and maternal concern proverbializing
her homely speech, 3'the boys, they can
askl The girls. they can't"
Until the situation Is modified the
wall flower, however redolent OF virtues,
however gifted with real loneliness of
soul, will continue to follow the foot
print of tyrannical fashion.
II she be a genuine woman, with right
perception Of the values Of life, abe owes
1t to herself, her order and human nat
ure to recognize the comfortable fact
that the blare and glare Of the assembly
room are not her rightful exposure.
There is n corner and there arc uses for
everything which the great Husbandman
has put into his garden. The snowy side
of the world is the least worthy. When