Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-08-28

OF later seasons and far more indplgent
of gaucherie and solecism. One Of them
is apt to marry her if she is matrimoni-
ally inclined. As a wife land as many
women marry well at thirty-fve as at
twenty-two) the belle passee glows into
autumnal bloom that sometimes sur
passes the crude beauty Of yotth. She
is susceptible (measurably) to the infu-
ence Of changed soil and fertilization.
More difficult to classify and to &C
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 family of three sis
tiers, who are well educated, well born
and well bred and absolutely good look.
ing. Accompanied by a presentable
mother and once in a 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 taciturn
or prudish, and dance gracefully when
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 lever so NICE" but cannot
tempt their own admirers to catholicity
of devoirs. Hostesses say they are
charming, Only-the men haven't the
30 = 30
For my own 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 nanny" when
she heard lively and beautiful spinster
boldly aver that she had passed her
thirty-third birthday.
''Lawdy! lawdyi lawdyI what is de
men about"
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 manner
and appearance, who are now respect
lively 35 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 is 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 insistance 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
at the moon from the balcony. Yet, with
their own sex, they are exceedingly pop
ular, are adored by 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 it, 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 it 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 1ippant correspondent
wrote to New York paper, Disgusting
the names, for safety's sake, under ini-
tials: They look with plaintive patience
upon the brilliant scene. Their blue
eyes, the fixity of the smile upon their
silent lips, their whole demeanor says:
We are failuresI We know it! We
would help it if 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, "the boys, they can
ask. The girls, they can'tr
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
Drint of tvrannical fashion.
If she be genuine woman, with right
perception of the values of life, she owes
it 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 a corner and there are uses for
everything which the great Husbandman
has put into his garden. The snowy side
of the world is the least worthy. When
a deep hearted, full Drained girl finds
herself habitually overlooked in places
that dazzle and satisfy lower natures
sense dictates as her wisest pol
icy avoidance of the modification and
misconstruction incident upon false
position. There is no written or oral
law obliging her to appear where she is
not appreciated and where she neither
gives nor receives pleasure.
llasees A~Ap.eZ.