Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-06

snoulu nave no trouble whatever in select
ing specimens from his audience. The
paper which they issue has all the fresh
ness Of the ARIZONA Kicker" without It's
intelligence; it speaks of young woman
VINO sings, and who seems very tall when
| she takes high c." Another one is de-
scrlbed as having the Laughing face of
| child, yet possessed of the feeling and
strength Of a woman" Another famous
~ lecturer says Women have made me"
Well, that sort OF thing is matter of taste;
| nut when it comes to facts, ! hardly think
that would go. The physical culture class,
u is announced, has been discontinued.
That is the one class, in looking at the
| hgure OF the women, that would seem of
some use. 1t is probable that they felt 1t
might end in making them better-looking,
and the type of woman who seeks culture
in tents would draw the line at being any
thing like a beauty.
WOMEN IN HER NATURAL FIGURE.
Here the man interrupted me and said {:
viii You please tell me why the women
are all either so fat that they look like
| cows, or so flat that they suggest stretch
| ing board ~ with pleasure answered,
IN the language of a friend of my sex,
| they have. thrown aside that demon, the
| corset, and yon now have the pleasure of
| looking upon the natural figure of women.
You now see her at her loosest, and you
know what she looks like when she is out
of the embrace of the demon" He NUT
tered something that sounded like she
would have to go back to the embrace of
the demon Ii she ever hoped to get any
man to embrace her. Upon which, gave
| a regular cultured sniff and said that her
soul was above men.
CHRISTIANITY FROM woMAN's VIEW.
Then he asked me with little moie
| solemnity in his tone, Don't they claim
that this thing is rcligious?n and said,
YES: they do, and do you wonder that
men laugh at religion Do you wonder
that it Is made. jest and II by-word? ?
When, because she happens to be at one
| Of these places, girl Of is has the con-
summate impudence to come mp and ask
| You i You are Christian; does she know
whether she is one? She knows she be-
lieves, or thinks she does, in the tenets Of
Christianity How has she been tried
How dare she question the right of any
body to believe what they WANT And
| how dare she by her absolute ignorance,
make Christianity something from which
! men are driven rather than drawn to (?
She things she knows wint being Chrl9-
tian Is. She hasn't half the knowledge of
it that dog has who has been with YOU
through sorrow and sickness and suffer-
ing; she hasn'. half the knowledge of 1t
that many an ignorant woman who never
U
it means, but who keeps the house clean,
who has good supper for her man when
he GENES home, and who tries to keep
him home and ont OF temptation, by max
ing the house pleasant for him, and the
children polite to him, has Between cul-
ture and suffrage we are in a fair way to
have the home made place just to sleep
and eat in, the mother just breeding an
imal and the wife woman who for some
polite reason Of her own, chooses to marry
you.
RELIGION IN EVERYDAY LIFE.
~ saw something religious the other tiav.
saw II man kiss delcate-looking woman
good-by, kiss two sickly-looking children,
and tell them not to forget papa; saw him
stay on the train until it was started, and
then he jumped off and called to me,
who conld see him when his wife could
not Won't you please tell the lady |
got off all right. And | went over to tell
her, and heard what ii all meant. The
delicate woman and the two little babies
were going west to see mother; it was a
| long journey and an expensive one, and
the husband had saved the money and
surprised her with II; and she, who left
home a bride, was going back to make
them thoroughly understand what good
husband she had. and to exhibit, with all
a mothers pride, the two babies who be-
longed to her. She cried 4 little bit, be-
cause she knew John would he so lonely,
and while one Of the babies PLAYED with
the silver bells on my chatelin, | thought
to myself, that man hasn't got band on
his arm telling it, that man wouldn't go to
Glen Echo and question the Christianity
Of visitor, but that man is Christian.
He is going
TO MAKE TWO WOMEN HAPPY
and he is going to stay at home and worl,
all summer long to do this. You see it is
just the difference between denying ones
self something for somebody else, ana
walking around in a perky sort of way,
overlooking with culture ana egotisiG tnat
makes the difference between the Christian
/ and the other. II is the old story of know
ing them by their works"
And then stopped talking, and looked
at the river and at the great tall ngjes'ic
trees fringing 1t on each side, md IL
seemed TO me that the folly OF % aces like
| Glen Echo was never 50 upparej.t rs when
compared with the stately mcjesty of the
works Of God, Himself, and The silence
that is prayer
1t is bit Of sermon. Well, yes, but
hate frauds just rs do all the skim milk
of life.
THE SKIM MILK OF LIFE.
A good many things are SKINNED and
| SKINNED until the milk is very blue
| Lney Gun huNertlse u as lreSn country
| milk, but when you taste it You are glad
that the untruth of that advertisement
does not rest upon the sonl of the editor of
the paper il belongs in the business de
partment.
1t is mighty, mighty thin mill. thut is
| served at Glen Echo rs culture.
It's mighty, mighty thin milk that is
served at such places as religion.
! It's mighty, mighty thin milk that is
paraded at such places as politeness
It's mighty, mighty thin milk that is
served at such places as neighborly kind
ness
It's mighty, mighty thin milk that you
| behold there as comfort. 1t isn't milk for
babies, for grown-up people, for dogs, or
! for ghosts.
| Do you know what they do with skim
! milk in the county9 They use il TO fatten
! the pigs, and. as an onlooller, must say
that the skim milk of Glen Echo seemed
to be tit for that and nothing else. At
least that is the conclusion reached; after
visit there by yours for reality, and for
milk on which may be found the cream of
good-fellowship, of kindness and of true
! goodness, Bah.
GIGANTIC BANK SWINDLE.
Deutsehc Bank Loses 100000 Through
Dishonest Clerk.
BERLIN, July 3l.-By conspiracy, for