Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04
N. E. FAL LCONER

has about as much use for husband as for a
white elephant, had little fun with the
| reportorial inquisitor in this wise:
| My ideal, ah he is too awfully lovely for
| anything He has tall and slender figure.
| and dresses with immaculate taste. He has
large, moulnful, blue eyes shaded by long
dark lashes. He has the thin, delicately
| chlseled nose of Greek god long silky
blonde mustache droops over a mouth Of
| Womanly sensitiyeness. His work should all
oe done by his agents and he should spend his
Tune IN his grand old library meditating upon
the intiniteness of the whichness of the what
and adoring his adored with an alteration that
| is terrifying in its intensity"
Ihere is III one OF the rooms in the Pleasant
| school demure little miss to whom some
| irreyerent mortals would apply the adjective
| dark hair. and eyes, and wears the
! neatest OF garments. She gave a
description of the orthodox ideal man as he
appears in the books. and growing conf
DENTAL, intimated that he might be all right
as an ideal, but he was considerable of a
chestnut.
''Now, what like" she continued, ."and
you mustn't print it for the world, is one of
these big, red-faced, two hundred pound
men. They have big voices, big hands and
big hearts. They stride through the world
with laugh on their lips and all the little
worries and petty troubles of life are brushed
away like cobwebs by their brawny hands
i know they drink lots of drinks and are bad
small about them and smallness despise
linen, you know, to most women it
is some satisfaction TO know that their
protector is big enough and strong enough
TO elbow his way anywhere. 1t does not make
so much difference about his brains so long as
he IS NOT n Tool. l don't want him to be
philosopher nor poet nor musician but |
really would like him to know how to drive
hOfses ana Train dogs. Something like the
typical English squire, / think, is about my
idealn
A pessimistic view is taken by one of the
teachers of the high school Nature never
intended her for a cynic. She is far
too bright, rosy and altogether interesting
She has blonde hair and wears all the flowers
she can get. She SAYS
Anything with the least semblance of
manhood is supposed to be the schoolma'am's
ideal, isn't 1T! Well, it doesn't make so much
difference after all. If | map out my journey
down the years with life companion who is
OF the Augusta j. Evans order
who poetizes and rhapsodizes and
yearns and all that, the chances
are that VIII some time find myself linked
to a clod who sums up the good things of life
under the heads of eating, drinking, smoking
and sleeping. have an ideal, but have not
the remotest idea that he over lived or ever
VIII live. He is perfectly honest, trustworthy
and constant He is neither namby-pamby
Miss Molly nor thicl1-headcd brute He NAV
take drink II he feels like 1t, but he is so |
far above his appetites and passions as to |
lead people 10 think that he has none. Phys |
lcally he is perfect, His breath is sweet, his |
teeth are white, his nails are clean and well |
trimmed, and his linen is spotlcss. He is |
neither sanctimonious nor vulgar nor pro- |
fame, though l think there are occasions when |
forcible expressions are 10 some extent iusti- |
liable. He may have genius, but he must (
not be crank. He must have refinement |
and culture. He knows a good poem or piece /
Of music when he hears il and he loves |
honors, protects and defends his wife with |
the devotion and chiyalry of medieval
knight.
Nov, isn't that nice and isn't il impos
sible ] never met such man and never ex- |
pect TO and, consequently am resigned 10 a |
HE OF single blessedness on misery as the case
may be till my days are in the sere and vel
low leaf. You think win marry somebody
some day, see, Well women are all fools,
and there Is no telling what may do
Down at the Pacific school, that relic of by-
gone days and prehistoric architects, is a
stately maiden. There is a mellowness in her
voice, heartIness in her laugh, brightness |
m her eye and, Withal, a comelincss in her face
which readily attract as they deserve consider
able attention, Could she have had an ideall
lueried the scribe And yet she must have !
mad because who has not one ia the class of
intelligent women whose bread is earned ia
.he education of youthi II was diiiicult
natter 10 photograph her thought The neg
ltiYe was not the best in the world, but il !
Vas that OF "a mortal who had never arrived.
Physically, he was an Adonis who knew not |
~ al least, seemed insensible OF his graces
Mentally, while not Webster or a Burke, no