Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-20

NpecinlCorrespondenc Of Gazette and Journn
NEW YORK, Nov. tA.-For lont
time the English papers have been writ
ing about her and finding fault will
her, but now the French papers hay,
taken her up, and they see nothing il
hef that isn't good and charmng--b,
her mean the American woman. Til,
English woman saw the little gaucherie.
she committed, saw that she was bub
eling over with the youth that come.
not ecly from scarcity of years, but
from purity of air and a new world, saw
that she was different from her, and
therefore, like the average Pharisee
concluded there could be nothing good
In her
FRENCH ESTIMATE OF AMERICAS
WOMEN.
The French woman didn't saw much
In the beginning, but She looked and
listened After while she said "What
beautiful feet and hands these Ameri-
cans haver' Then a little while after
that she said, "Ah ha these Americans
ere dressing better than we do; they are
taking the best of our milliners' crea-
,tions and the best that the English
tailors gives, and they look well on the
street and in the evening also" Then,
soon after, the French woman sat down
and began TO talk TO the AmGSean one,
and she contidentially told the man she
loved this: "Do you know that these
American women have not only our
quicllness of wit, but the English abil.
ity TO keep quiet when they want, and
they are the women Of the FUTURE
This is the French woman's decision
boiled down to a few paragraphs, but
nevertheless She keeps on writing pages
upon pages about the American woman.
After one OF us has read her articles, we
give look at the glass and say: Glow
llrsightcd these French women are
WHAT THE AMERICAN WOMAN is.
For my own part, n'tconsider the
American woman the creature of the
future. | regard her as the individual
Of the present. She is healthy, wealthy,
and wise--enough. We don't want her To
know too much--the nation objects to
II. We like her just as she is, without
one plea in favor of dress reform, or
physical culture, and we grow extrava-
gantly proud Of her when we see her
contrasted with other women. She may
be i bit like the lily of the field, toiling
moi, nor spinning, but when she is, it is
because the American man considers il
his greatest pleasure TO have lily in
his establishment and 10 admire it.
When she docs toll She does il in about |
half The time that it would take the
frenchwoman, and, if it is a question of |
mohey-maklng, can do more in one day |
than the average English woman could |
IN year, don't believe in her having |
to make money. belong to the asso-
al inn 1,,l n. -
clnse-to,a -man-and- being /
hul my heart does beat bit quicker
when J think how an American woman
can do it if she wants to. She has
lovely determination to ''get there
and she arrives on time. II is simply
and absolutely hlissfnlly beautiful. That
sounds exaggerated to man, and /
don't know whether those are adiec-
tives or adverhs, but they express what
mean and therefore do their duty in
life.
MODERN SOCIETY PLAY.
There are some things in this world
TO be more than thankful for, and one is
that the general American woman
doesn't write plays; exceptionally she
does, and they usually die saddened
sudden death. The reason | am glad
she don't write plays is because she
doesh in this way expose what little
Ignorance she may have to the pnblic
At large; she lets the men commit them
selves in that way. saw Il play the
lther night that had been talked about
Lor weeks; about which bothered and
Iretted for fear the masculine element
who was going to buy my ticket
wouldn get me near enough, and after
hat play | went home and put my arms
around my fox terrier and thanked the /
covers above that | was not the author
u that drama. II was supposed to be
picture OF the society Of to day, and it
vas really picture of society that /
Wouldn't have been tolerated by the !
'owboys. Doctors came into fashion
.0s drawing and talked about 7
vents happening upstairs, events that
re, 81 course, necessary, but +
WHAT DOCTOR IN DECENT SOCIETY Il
ives lecture on obstetrics before i
r1wd OF young men and women? Then f
IL the men wore huge dance cards and
encils as big as policeman's billies v
angling on the lower button of their
fastcoats, and they referred to these
ance cards with exceeding glee. The =
asst entered somewhat after The manner
the old nursery rhyme y
Here we come two BY two. 3
Dressed in yellow, pink and blue. =
he women all sat on one side Of the /;
age and the men on the other, the y
leep and the goats being divided. Il
linen, when u young man was intro !
uced 70 young woman | quiYered I,
lth delight, for | thought it was going :,
be something after this fashion, iudE- ~
q from the surroundings, Say, Name, =,
I me Introduce my friend Gawge," - =,
nd that Name would raise her eycsand 7,
"; lie amt no gentleman, hes got - -
flannel shirt ON, but instead Of that Z
icy said, "Mr. Temple, Mrs. Billings e
:, and soon after that somebody said, =, -
Are You going to church this even N
gE and all | could think Of was the ~ :,
imitable way in which Dlxey asked, ~
Seen 10 the sociable? Real oysters in - 7.
c stew" y
AS A WOMAN SEES IT. n
Men who can write strong plays and DC
od plays, and who Know very little is
out the rules Of fashionable society Of
d better let it alone, for the mistakes III
come ludicrous and queer any play. W.
len, too, don't You think people ought ag
look little like the characters they We
In this affair the gentleman he
10 was supposed 10 have done all the he
2 mischief, to have wronged u young cit
'man and basely Ned, didn't look
pable of doing anything more wicked 1
IN taking an egg phosphate and wip- Sal
3 his fevered brow. The audience
nly believed that the dead-and gone Ur
ing woman has made a fool of him he
d he hadn't done anything wrong at wi
, that he was physically and mentally the