Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-06-25

to the cart where love-l mean hockey
pokey ice crcam-is sold; you lay down
your penny; You demand your square.
It's given to you on a piece Of brown
paper it looks fascinating; you walk back
To the pavement and you conclude not TO
take IL down in a gulp, but to enjoy it by
slow monthfus. All first it is delightful.
The second mouthful is cool, but sugges
tive of oleomArgarine; the third mollthful
is waxy and sticky; and then you take the
last with a wry face and are Disguised with
yourself for buying it; feel that il has up
set your heart--l mean your stomach--and
THAI you never want any more again. And
you don't, until the next time yoI are
warm and the enticing hokev-pokey comes
along to lead you to new loves and new
pains.
THE BRAINS SPRING DISEASE.
regard love as the spnng disease Of the
brain. The system is all upset, and We
take sulphur and molasses and spots come
out on our faces and we feel generally dia
bolical. Then the heart and the brain get
themselves agitated and the girls and boys
get to thinking themselves the only per-
SONS in the world who thoroughly under
stand the advantages and delights of
hokey-pokey ice cream-l mean loye--and
SO they rush ont with their complimentary
coin seeking whom they may devour. This
springtime fancy may last during the SIM
mer days, but at last, like the hokey-pokey
ice cream, it disappears in the early autumn
and platonics and chestnuts take its place.
! feel that have said all that / can about
love. trust that haze given SOME tips
to the unwary as TO the eating Of hockey
pokey or love,
A woMAN's RACING "TIF."
Apropus of tips. | am not a very super
stitious woman, that IS no more so than a
woman who feels what life really is ought
m h..
race the other day that seemed u little bit
odd. | had no intention whatever of
going, but the night before | dreamed that
] was there and that | saw the board go up
announcing the winners. People were
congratulating me on having made SO
much money, and was trantically way
ing to the horse as he was led off the track
anu expressing my devotion to the Jockey,
who was as black as the ace Of spades.
When | Weakened up in the morning had
the paper brought me Il really would
rather go without my coffee than my
newspaperl, | said to the maid who
brought it Find the racing column and
let me stick hairpin i'll it. She held il
an arms length from me so that | could
not possibly read. ] stuck the hairpin in
and there it was, same horse. Then
said; II don't know its number. but |
will count thirteen up and down until
see which horse is thirteen" You won't
mind my saying I'm be jiggered' when |
discovered il was the same horse.
NO woNpgR THE MEN LIKE HER.
That day told my story 10 two or three
men, and each one of them offered me
large sums to put on it $50 seems very
large sum to woman but declined, for
fear the horse might lose. didn't SO To
the race, but the first news sent to me by
telegram was thar that horse had won
Now, every man ] know feels that in
suited him personally, and kept him out
Of a good thing and that | did 1t OH plr-
pose! How could help il, that ! was
given mysterious power? The objection
that have to it all was, that il didn't do
the same the next night, and give me the
name of the winning horse, for should
have plunged with the enthusiasm of
donkey, and probably would have lost.
There is no special moral to this story; it
is Just q statement of facts.
THINGS THAT ARE FUNNY AND OTHERWISE.
Facts are sometimes funny things
1t is fact that II we want to live we
have got to pay our bills; that isn't funny.
1t is a fact that If we go to the races and
bet, we occasionally win, and that is
funny.
1t is q fact that the little babies are going
to suffer terribly, and die from lack of
food and care in this great, rich city, and
that is not funay
1t is a fact that girl who has once been
told her waist is small, will draw herself
i'll until she looks like an elongated hour
glass, and that is funny.
1t is a fact that there are some men who
are brutal and selfish in their own homes
and polite and delightful outside Of them,
and that is not funny.
II is a fact that red parasol. with nice
girl under it, can do great deal toward
influencing young man, and that is
funny.
Ii is a fact that there are thieves, crimi-
nails liars, scandal-mongers and doors of
all evil who if they had ever the chance,
or had ever had a helping hand put out to
them. wouldn't be what they are and that
is not funny.
1t is fact there is no subject woman
likes 10 talk about as much as herself, and
thar is funny.
1t is fact if keep thrusting facts on
you you will throw your paper down, and
you will say, That is not funny"