The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-03-30

triumphs, and she has followed her to her grave,
believing that IL her sin was great her repent
ance had surely wiped it out.
woMAN's LIKING FOR woMANLY THINGS.
There is something essentially fine in a woman
liking to collect womanly belongings. 1t is
much keener femininity that displays itself in
this way than is shown by the gathering to-
gether of ugly Japanese porcelains, of huge
black bronzes, and of papers on what the astral
body of man would do il the material one did
not govern it. If l were a man 1 would much
rather marry a woman who sat four hours at an
auction to bid on a watch once owned by Marie
Antonettc than would one who spent the same
four hours in careering round getting signatures
to petition to raise the status of woman and
make her a sef-protectng citizen. She ought
not to be a self-protecting citizen. She ought
TO be protected by a man. The Lord meant it
that way else he wouldn't have made Adam
first, and there never was word said in the
Bible about women earning their living by the
sweat OF their brow. Self-protecting, forsooth
She can take the most beautiful care of herself
in the world, If you can only let her get close
enough to q man to make him understand how
much she needs his protection, and how deter
termined he is that she shall have her own way.
MRS. BRADLEY MARTINS ENGLISH CUSTOM.
The fashionable woman, as illustrated by Mrs.
Bradley Martin, has introduced an English GUS
tom here that is very sensible. In city where
the porte cochcre is seldom seen, the steps of my
lady to her carriage when her feet are clothed
in satin slippers, have always been very dainty
ones, unless she wore very heavy overshoes to
protect the pretty satin. She has changed all
that by having her footman roll down from the
doorstep to the carriage a strip of carpeting,
over which she walks with unsoiled feet. We
are rather given to laughing at English fashions,
but this is one worth following, for it means that
in damp weather the feet are protected from the
cold, and at other times the thin slippers, in
stead of touching the chilly stone, sink into
warm carpet such as they are supposed to tread
upon.
WHAT Is GOOD SOCIETY
Somebody said they would like to get into
good society. 1t started the question, What is
good society?
Good societyis that where toadyism is frowned
down upon and scandal-mongers are not ad
mtted.
Good society is that where one earns ones title
of gentlewoman not only by birth, but by good
manners.
Good society is that where men are respectful,
| where off-color stories are not told, and where
the women do not smoke cigarettes.
Good society is that where to understand
Greek is of less Importance than to understand
courtesy in all its laws.
Good society is that which is not personal in
its talk, but which finds sufficient topic of inter
est to discuss without dlating on the sins of its
neghbors.
Good society is that where the art of welcom-
ing the coming and speeding the parting guest
is graciously practiced.
Good society is that where women are not
hastily judged, but once they are believed to be
untruthful, decetful, and ill-bred they are os-
| tracized.
Good society is that which can give dinner
without sending notice of it to the newspapers,
can introduce daughter without having her
frocks made the subject of paragraph, and
which believes that the family and its happiness
is of more Importance than the booming of 8
beauty or the being counted among the Foul
Hundred
Good society is that which, while it recog
niZes the value of all the conventional rules, il
yet sufficiently strong to be guided occasionall,
by hearts, and not of necessity to follow leader
as sheep do.
Good society is that where mother know
that her daughter or her son are safe.
Good society, my friend, is that which i
formed when two or three are met together il
pleasant converse. You can, if you will, thougl
yours be only room in clearinghouse, max
the best society in the world there. BAB.