Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21

dresser One feels inclined to take her aside
and say to her some thing of this kind: MY
dear, mon are deceivers ever and marriage is
sometimes q failure. Be brave girl. leave
hobln to his new love or his club or cigars, as
the case may be, and go and try typewriting or
millinery or something"
HOUSED FOB THIRTY YEARS
At Glen, in Hungary, a curious figure has
just faded ont of existence. Fraulein Lima, a
maiden lady, who for more than thirty years
had not been out OF doors. has lately left the
house for the churchyard. Disease killed her.
but it was not disease which had kept her OF
home. On the eve OF feast day, thirty years
ago, when she was young and pretty girl, her
lover extracted from her promise that she
would not walk abroad to see or take part in
the approaching fete. The account says that
the embryo home ruler did this to try her love
and obedience; the italics are our own. The day
came, and the girl broke her promise.
Straightway the offended swain called upon
her, remarking that n lady who could not make
so small sacrifice was quite unsuitable 70 be
his wife, and released her from her engagement.
| Thereupon Fraulein Lima vowed never to leave,
the house SO long as she lived. And she kept
her word this time.
That young woman was born before her day;
the times were not ripe for her. The one
poor little thrust of mans unreasonable
tyranny was premature. 1t is hard to see what
she thought to gain by it. She had all the
womankind Of her country before her eyes,
placid creatures for the most part. submissive,
obedient, as well-bred frsus should be. Who
could hope to SOW in such the seeds of revolt?
That daring daughter of England, the wife of
Prince Fritz, had not yet made her influence
felt in Germany, and even now, after her
many years Of work for the social emancipation
of the women of her adopted country, they are
hardly beginning to realize that there are such
things as women's rights, even with small r.
WOMEN IN GERMANY.
Did Fraulein Lina's faded face light up some
times, wonder, as she read or heard Of the
schemes Of the Empress Frederick for break
ing the lethargic bondage of the German
woman? What time she must have had for re-
Election in the long evening hours, which in
earlier days were sped with happy lover talks
and projects of what they two would make of
life together. Perhaps In the first months she
hoped he would come back. She looked at her
still pretty face in the glass and wondered if
memories OF its charms would haunt the Of
Tended one and whether the report of her self
imposed imprisonment would touch him But
there was no softness in him. What,
go back and let her think he could not live
without her! Ach. himmell what would be-
come OF the dignity Of the Fatherland if such
things werel
He saw visions of wives going out and COM
ing In at hours OF their own choosing, daring
to have a mind Of their own; and far away in
the distance the figure of the womans
Fighter doomed. Such step was not to be
thought OF. discipline must be maintainedr'
Had not the fraus Of Ofen food in plenty and
beer in reason. clothes to clothe themselves
wlthal and roofs to shelter them? And should
it be said Of him that he knew not how to ex-
act obedience in return for similar blessings2
ST. Joseph forbid! Death was the only BRIDE
groom that came to fetch the poor fraulein,
and she waited for him many years.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF oBEDIrNcr
In a country soaked with militarism it is nat
ural that obedience should be reckoned one of
the most necessary and exalted of virtues Two
illustrations of this remain to me as souvenirs
OF prison days spent in a German fortress in
1870. The chief of the fortress had a way of
calling his wife. which, novel as it seemed to
me, was clearly quite effective. When he
wanted her, II she was within hearing, he sim
ply whistled and she came. The first time
was witness of this little Teutonc scene l
started IN amaZement; the second and third
times IL still interested me; but the novelty
wore of, AZ novelties will, and ceased to Won
der why the good frau did not slap her hus-
The second illustration may be called lit
orally striking one. A company of land
wehr were being drilled in the fortress and up
and down the line went the officer command
ing. Among the rest one good round
about fellow, whose circumference near the
had ranged himself well in line in 'front.' and
was oblivious of the back view. Presently
the officer passed along the rear and quick as
lightning the protuberance there caught his
eye. He hesitates not an instant, no super
fuous words does he trouble himself to utter
but bang! comes a neat application of the sole
Of his foot which promptly brings the too luxu-
RANT form of Fritz into line with
the others! A French soldier 80 treated
would have turned and knocked
his superior down, even if he had to die for it,
The good fellow neither turned nor showed
signs of turning. And these were no raw re-
cruits, fresh from school either, but middle
aged men. fathers Of families men of standing
very likely in their own town. Looking at
them thus reduced to mass of machinery
said to my fellow prisoner, captain of my
regiment: THE sooner France concludes peace
the better. With our regular army In prison,
our young levied masses can never hope to
compete with this" MAX O'RELL