Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-15
The discourse Upon Petit
coats of Flannel.
SMUGGLING IS WOMAN'S RIGHT
The Slot Machine That Tells
Your Age.
The Invention of n Brute of a Man--AIl
Women Can Fool Man--isut Man is not
so Bad After All.

ROMANCE IN FLANNEL PETTIcoATs.
Flannel petticoats are ut present con
eidered the most desirable of gifts from
female Damon TO her feminine Pythias.
or course, the Damon has her special
color the one in which her room is drapcd,
oil which her paper is the proper shade
and her wax corresponding in hue; conse-
quently her flannel petticoat harmonizes.
Ii is really thing of beauty. A young
woman, who had assumed as her fayorite
hue that much admired shade of lavender
that is n favorite with the Princess of
Wales, had given her on her birthday a
flannel petticoat that suggested mitigated
woe rather than anything else. A small
dog IN the family had died, and for this
reason, dull colors were being worn, but
the skirt itself
WAS SOMETHING TO DREAM ABOUT.
The upper part of it was made of laven-
der flannel, light in weight. and smooth as
possible. The edge was band of laven
der satin ribbon, then camea row of laven-
der black lace insertion, then one of the
ribbon. and last of all full frill of black
lace. The band around the waist was of
lavender silk, and the ties in the back with
an inch wide ribbon Of the same color.
such petticoat as this would console
woman, even for the death of the dog.
They are shown in white and pink, pink
and black, white and blue, and black and
white. The last is, it must be confessed a
little startling. but anything that suggests
the magpie combination is liked.
THE POLITICIANS own BROADWAY.
Were you ever politician? And do You
zee any use for their existence? Some poor
title dot is dying with fever next door a
'oung woman who can only count 10 years
Is Ill with IL justa across the street. and some
body's mother is so very ill with it that il
seems as if death will soon hover over the
household, and the fault of all this lies in
the hands Of the politicians. Three sum
mers ago I'LL New York city was dug up TO
let steam heaters go in. The next summer
it was redug to make new pavements, and
now ii is in an open condition that the cable
car may traverse the streets and that the
population may die of fevers and low
sickness brought on by the frghtfu smells
you couldn't call them anything else
that arise from tho depths OF the Streets
You know wouldn't say one word if this
was done to help anybody; but it isn't. 1t
Is simply done TO put money in the pockets
of the politicians, and we submit to it be-
cause we haven't got n particle of inde-
pendence i'll cur bones. In fact, ! think
we. have reached point when, after
awhile, we will regard getting the bones
under ground as the best thing that can
possibly happen. / didn't want to be
steam heated; the old streets were bad,
but they were no worse than those we
have now; and, as for the cable cars,
don't suppose they will ever let dog ride
in them, SO am out of them.
Raj DOESN'T LIKE POLITICIANS.
New York just at present looks like a
country village, with an occasional large
hotel here and there Women twist their
ankles trying to cross the street, small
babies tumble in the mud in an effort to
learn how to walk, and man. lovely man.
a nv ,c
occasionally drops his hat in the mud and
then | yearn for a choice collection of
words, that are not really bad, you know,
but simply expressive, and ] would give
all the money ! possess to a "little
pickanny from down ole Virginia who
would do song-anddance act on that hat
POLITICIANS are perhaps necessary, so are
those ahominable beasts that inhabit beds
and which are so prettily called in London
y "Norlolk-Howards.n But ISM there some
sort of powder that can do away with The
"Norfolk- Howards'' and the politician,
At the same time? Civil service wasn't
worth q cent, and we have got to get some
thing better than that if we ever expect Ii
point to New York city as even moder
e1ely clean place.
woAAN's PEaeHANT Foa SMUGGLING.
All women who are coming over from
the other side are having beautiful tim,
smuggling. ] wish it to be distinctly uii
understood, though | do believe in the
\ Bible, the Koran, the Talmud and tn,
Light of Asia, regard smuggling as til,
one right that woman has above all others
piece of lace is not worth row Of PIN
unless 1t has been carefully put in q dres
pocket and smiled past the inspector. A
new diamond brooch has no charm unles
it's put on ones hair and a hat worn owe
4 i. oh, there may be pleasures on earth
but there IS nothing quite compares witt
IA this as for the women inspectors, l.,
"a jump overheard before | would let one o
IN Them touch mel Just fancy the way the,
M would pull and haul your clothes and asl
X. ID a sreck that fits you like glove is you
n 'swn.
HN WHY'RE WOMEN LOOKS BEST
Women should not occupy politica
offices. The only office they reall
4 occupy well, and where they can stand, !
Y that just in front of looking-glass, witt
'tea mans arms around them, and thei
faces 10 the glass, so they can see just hoy
& They look, even at that critical point whcl
a man tells you that he loves you as h
4 never loved any woman before, and yo
are willing to take his word, though 20
< can still see there's a smudge of powder o.
n your nose.
E HERE, INDEED is A BRUTE OF A MAN.
W A brute of a man, ] can call him moth
:, ,Hing else, has invented a machine by which
" hen you drop penny in the Slot you
X tage is told. Now. who but a fool of
413nan would ever do such thing as that
he would know no woman would ever e
ll,l on 1t, unless she was quite certain ii wa
out of order, and he might also know thu
{no man with any respect for himself woul
N S get upon it unless he had reached tn,
I e most fashionable age of A. A man
sstlpposed to be like IL back duck
~ not worth picayune unless he is a littl
high. The man who made this machin
iaa Doctor Somebody and the only thin
" lett for him to do is to go to colore
3 Agpd woman's home, for there they are 5
deadly fond of telling you that they WEI
t % four years ago; that for once trut
would be mighty, and prevail.
iw1IERE TRUTH STRONGLY PREVAILS.
l know woman who has been tellin
her Friends for several years that she WI
E Is, somebody, some mean cat Of womal
got her on that thing, telling her that
W Wns p weighing machine, and to her llorrt
y she registered'iS years Now, this sort
thing is going to bring trouble in Il
~ family, you know. When a man thinl
I, 40 has been kissing 80 it's rather a com
H dawn for him to know that he has bee
4 M deluded, and that the darling of his hea
s, i8really 50. That's where he is gentl
Y uIah donkey.
ALL WOMEN CAN FOOL MEN.
l{e ought to credit woman for HI
N oI{yerness and give hor three or four ext
IH3cs because She could fool him, and 81
W H{it,wjth capital II and the other tv
N I,ers the next size There has never bet
n. aENfu1nnn vet who couldn't fool Il man. /
W x1iy have written the Constitution of
N "A 3t{jthdAnce; he may have made the NJ
\ <. "A + [nley bill; he may be able to tell the
N Moi things are all wool or not he ms
q \; a{lmeiently nervous to climb oyer
W<i{6enw he goes out to get a drin
N tb}lt x Small Innocent ignorant lookii
NV 6<fi& GiTl can prove to him that black is
N 3IV Made Of white, and that, thoul
l1olrH people may flatter him and tell hi
= -ull4II0 4 11rent man She DON'T say IL in