Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-06-04

they had ever had, had come from women,
so had the greatest rudeness and the
| greatest misunderstanding 1t didn't make
them disagreeable to all women, il simply
made them beware of women. The trouble
| has been here, that woman has been
| put on pedestal and her virtues extolled
| until man seemed very miserable speci
men beside her. Now ii is Just about time
4 that she was knocked off this pedestal and
q little common sense beat into her head
When ! want to do any worshipping am
| going TO worship man; he's bigger,
! stronger, more naturally better looking,
| has n greater respect for the truth and de-
\ cidedly more charity for ones weaknesses.
II couldn't get a man 10 worship, think
| would give my affection to dog but
\ certainly nor to Il woman
YOU THINK THAT SOUNDS NASTY.
I Take up the question that is in the Eng
! fish papers and think it over: "Who among
| your women friends have found YOU most
1 faithful. blondes or brunettes lItnd you
/ will be surprised 10 find that it ism 4 gues-
| ton usually Of complexion, but that
| woman to her sister woman is generally
about rs faithful Is the original serpent,
! ''Oh," says somebody, "you are irrituted
| about something No, am not, am
sitting on the outside Of n ninetennth cen
tury Garden of Eden, and watching Lilith
and Eve talk together while am giving
thanks that nj leash am sensible enough
not to be in it well, 8 says somebody,
'you certainly must think there are some
| good women" Some good women Thank
God, there are millions of them, but they
not the women who 90 in for the ecstatic
friendships; they are the ones whose
friendship has grown III years with YOU;
the friendship that springs up like weed
in the night deserves to be jerked up and
thrown away the next morning,
WOMEN OF WHOM 70 BEWARE.
Beware Of the woman, my dear girl,
who tells YOU all about herself when YOU
first meet her Beware of the woman
who announces to you that she never said
n disagrecable word about another woman.
Gracious, goodness the air will he green
when she does begin. The woman who
never says dsagrceable word is like the
dog who never barks-hc bites, and he
bites to poison Beware of the woman
who Is over-rich in her caresses to you; BY
all the laws OF nature, d woman ought to
kiss man, and she is wasting the time Of
two women when she fools about this sort
of thing.
THE WOMEN WE WANT TO LOVE,
There are women we love, women We
love and trust and who love aud trust MS
women who care for us through every woe
that may come, who are joyful with us
and who don't misunderstood us, women
who take elder down ami wrap il about
the skeleton in our closets so that we may
never hear the horrible bones rattle.
These women are more Than friends, they
are mothers Nobody else can do that; no
woman IN the world is ever enough Your
friend 10 be to you what your mother is,
and If You don't realize that to-day you
will tomorrow, or some time soon and if
You haven't been To her what Won ought
TO he you will go off, hide your head and
wonder what made you so blind. YOu
will shed many bitter tear over this, and
shed them in vain,
THE TEXT FROM WHICH SHE breaches
It sounds little bit like sermon,
doesn't it? Well we all have our times
for sermoni2ing, and it's meant to be a
kindly little sermon; it's meant t0 be said
to each one of you, looking straight into
your eyes with a heart fill of Kindness
and thankfulncss. 1t seems To y0u bit
like somebody who wears the can and
bells drawing the crowd with the jangle
and then preaching Hasn't the fools
sermon often been good one? And this
sermon which is told from the talk Of
three women about other women has
ended up with very old text which reads:
Honor thy father and thy mother but
what the preacher wants to emphasize is
to "honor your MOTHER She suffered for
you, she loves YOU and sne knows You,
her woman child, as nobody else in the
world does, Just think over the text with
me, and then maybe you will pray as do
that when death walks into the house to
put his cool and rcstful hands on the ewes
that are so tired he may choose you first,
because Won would be friendless without
your mother.
WHERE SERMONS ARE IN SENTENCES.
There are good many things that
Ip1prta tn ha hanArnl tl,uf H. u
Won honor and are polite to your children
they will give you honor and respect in
return,
If You honor and are polite to those Won
employ you will get honor and respect in
return
If you honor and are polite to the
traveller you meet by land or sea you will
get respect and consideration for what y0u
have given.
# You honor and respect the laws Of
state, or OF corporation, you have right
to proper treatment
If you honor and respect every man,
woman, child, baby and dog that You meet
in your walks. If You give them the cotr-
tesy due, then You can be very certain that
politeness, and respect will be shown you
BY everything that passes You by.
The dog You kick is going to bite, tile
woman You are rude to is going to snub
you the child yOu don't consider worth
pollteness is going to be imperitent to Won,
and right straight through life where you
give honor and respect you will get them
IN RETURN many times a leaven of real
liking will be added
Honor and respect the preacher-her in
tentions are honorable, and if her sermon
has fallen little short ofthc conventional
type, remember that the seminary through
which she has gone has been that hard
one called the world, where the flesh
stands on one side and the devil on the
other, and 10 keep the evil spirits away yuu
have TO hit out straight and hard from the
shoulder. The text is good; the sermon is
meant 70 he, SO because Of what was in
tended be charitable to the preacher who
docs not dare 10 put prefix or atliy to her
name Dut calls herself only BAR