Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-28
LONDON, June Is.

other man. The unrest of tine city life has
| taken hold upon him. Noisy, discontented with
| ms lot, ambitious, turbulent, he Is a complete
| contrast to his brother of the fields, whom he
| does not forget to pity and despise. The COM
| ing man expects a great deal, and, by the look
| Of affairs. means to have it.
| The chamber OF deputies is about to propose
| a bill which cmbodies the following clauses:
| 1. That an employer shall not have right to
| dismiss a workman except for theft or an
| equally grave offense.
| z. That the workman's salary shall not be
| liable 10 be retained to pay his debts.
g. That he shall work but eight hours a day.
t. Tina: lie shall participate in the profits OF
| his employers enterprise. (No word about
| anticipation in losses).
! 5. That n certain minimum salary shall be
! guaranteed to him by the state.
6. That his employers shall indemnify him
for any accidents that may happen to him in
| the discharge OF his duty, even when those ac-
cldents happen through his own imprudence
or drunkenness.
7. That he shall receive a pension after
twenty-five years work.
ADMIRABLE OPPORTUNITIES
1t looks as if the question, what shall we do
| with our sons?" was not ikoiy to puzzle the
head of paterfamilas much longer. If this
bill passes with all its clauses il Will be hard TO
find, Ill these hard days, position much safer
or more desirable than that of the workman:
T,
pension for old age and rapidly growing
power. political and social. Are there not hun
dreds OF extensively educated, delicately nur-
tured men who, in spite OF continuous efforts,
cannot attain to such blessings?
But why this favoring of the journeyman?
Why leave out clerks. shopmen, drivers. con-
ductors, hard workers OF all kinds especially
| the tiIler5 of the soil?
Well, / suppose the workman is about to
| occupy the envable position once held by the
Polish refugees III France. When was II
small boy all the favors of the government
were ShOwcr-d upon these interesting people
1t was sufficient to be Pole to obtain pretty
| nearly everything Il man wanted. The Chart
vari hit Off the state of affairs in mock
advertisement, which ran thus: Wanted, by
family man. highly educated and respected
a position Polish refugee"
TO return to our workman, there seems only
one flaw that see in his program. and that is
the omission o. a clause enacting that when he
Is not pleased with his employer he shall be
able to dismiss him.
SUICIDES IN FRANCE.
For some time past there has been quite an
epidemic of suicides in France. The victims
are generally young women, and the last case
of this kind was a very touching one. A poor girl
not having heard from or seen her swee theart
for several days gees to his apartments and
finding him absent. penetrates into his bed
room. The room bears traces of his having
occupied it but few hours before, and yet
there upon the table he her three last letters to
him still unopened. In these unread missives
she reads the explanation OF his silence and
neglect, and the knowledge is too much for
her to bear. Next day she is found dead in
her room, s,smocate3 with the fumes from her
charcoal stove. Balzac knew human nature,
and he made certain of his heroes treat their
sweethearts' letters as this poor girls lover
treated hers.
1t is a noticeable fact that women, especially
French women. have always had a weakness
for pouring out their feelings in letters, never
dreaming that they We're doing mischief A
woman not only wants to know that she is
loved ana to see proofs of it; she wants to hear
It, to have 1t constantly repeated to her. Judg-
ing man by herself. she thinks to attach him to
her the more firmly by treating him AZ size
loves to be treated. But man is of a different
mold. It gives him pleasure to know that he
Is loved. Love him then, mesdames But if
you want to keep alive the fame that burns in
HIS heart for you do not tell it him, and
above all never write it; you will spoil every
thing ii you do.
LOVE LETTERS OF WOMEN.
One might tell the whole history of love and
its victims by merely compiling the love letters
OF women Most women who have to COM
plain of the neglect of their lovers have been
the victims OF their own over-demonstrative-
ness. With little diplomacy and much
heart warm. But when it had once shown
signs OF cooling, the more the pen protested
their love the more the evil grew. until, when
reproaches followed upon pleadings, the last
spark of tenderness IN the truant expired.
Some of the strongest minded women have
succumbed to this fatal impulsiveness in love
matters. You no longer love nue. as much as
love you, wrote Madame de Stael to Camille
Jordan. Camille was adamant and turned a
deaf ear to the eloquent but useless com plant
Dfnnr Ind fl. MAJ,
experience of the kind. She had long before
penned letters of the same stamp to Benjamin
Constant with much the same result He was
Ill named.
Even Rachel the cool-headed, was betrayed
by heI pen into weakness. 1t is true that his
tory says her undecipherable billets doux
added certain attraction of mystery to the
love which their author had inspired. Never
thcless 1t is more than probable that a too
good acquaintance with the second of the three
KS might have made an unhappy woman of
the great tragedienne. Happily for her her
style was iaconic. There were reasons for this
photography aud caligraphy were not her
strong points, and as time is short, so were
poor Rachers epistoatory efforts
Lay asId o the pen, ladies, while YOU arc in
love. Ii you want to see your Romeo ALWAYS
ardent and attentive take q hint from Rachel.
adopt the telegraphlc style, and. il need be.
the wire instead OF the pen. No more long
letters, full OF sweet outpOurings of the heart
X, m.
sionai telegram, something in this style: BUSY
and tired" Don't come" Call Friday"
Health good, thanks" Nous avons change
tout celia, says Sgannrelle, when his patients
father mildly remarks that he always Thought
the heart was on the left. Poor little feminine
heart. it would not be q bad thing II ons could
put 1t on the right la SganareIle; il has
suffered SO long ON the left!
TAXING OFF SOCIETY,
The line which George Grossmith has taken
up seems likely to lead him speedily to for
tune There is nothing that English people
enjoy more, when it 10 properly and good
naturedly done, than q skit upon their own
manners and foibles. The inimitable creator
OF Ro-Ko and many other funny roles in the
Gllbert-Suilivan operas published his auto-
biography about two years ago, left the SAVOY
company soon afterward and has been travel.
ing the country ever since, giving humorou.
recitals unaided except by a piano. He ia a
small Gilbert and Sullivan firm in himseIf
The funny songs in which he takes off society
are OF his own composition, and all who have
seen him at the Savoy know what his by-pIav
is. very large audience greeted the old
favorite in the st James Hall few days ago,
eager to welcome him back to London and 70
enjoy the piquancy OF seeing themselves and
their society antics satirized by a bold hand
that put in the light and shade SO deftly, left
out none Of the wrinkles, but drew Q portrait
so droii that they could but laugh ut them
selves as seen through his spectacles
An acute observer of human nature ia Mr.
Grossmith. Nothing could be more true to life
than the remarks ho made about the want of
appreciation the successful man encounters
from his old friends After mimicking the up-to-