The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-02-22

With sweet smile the naughty young matron
''You are very fortunate in knowing
anything about their habits or them; my ac
quaintances have always been in a different
set." AS this was audible to the entire room,
the would-be familiar friend was most beauti-
fully cut
That woman is an abomination upon the face
of the earth who goes around gossiping to the
rest of womankind about the habits, costumes,
and special friends of women of the other
world. She can never really account creditably
for this knowledge, and her listener has q per-
feet right to conclude that she has acquaintances
among them, although it is most probable she
has gathered her stories from different men.
American women are learning to do like their
French sisters. e., to entirely ignore these
ladies, and when they meet them to stare as
blankly as il there was no material figure near
them. This is the art of the woman of the
world who never sees the disagreeablein life.
RIDER HAGGARD LEAVES AN IMPRESSION.
1t is probable that nobody has left such
pleasant impression of himself-that is, no Eng
lish body-as Mr.. Rider Haggard. He was only
here little while, but during that time both he
and his wife were made much of and entertained,
and they showed that they thoroughly liked it.
Wide travel has taken away from them the in
sular prejudices of the average English, and
they ale prepared to meet the pleasant smile
with pleasant, not condescending one, and
to find good wherever goodness and kindliness
are to be met. Mrs. Haggard is most devoted
wife, her husbands companion wherever he
goes, and so pleased were they with the people
whom they saw in New York that they think of
returning this way to meet their new friends
again. Haven't you great liking for the man
who wrote skiing Soomon's Mines' and
cleopatra ?' And haven't you great scorn
for those people who, worn out mentally, talk
of imagination as if it were a language that
could be learned rather than a gift straight
from God at ones birth? And don't you think
these same piggish writers, who will give you
reams on the family purse, discuss woman's
/ position in the political world, whether society
women ought TO wear low-neck gowns, minis
ters white ties, and actors fur-lined overcoats,
would be much more desirable if they had a
little Imagination? Don't you suppose that all
the people who have given delight in books
from Shakespeare to Mother Goose, have been
people of vivid Imagination? 1t makes me
feel as if 1 should like to be John L. Sullivan
and fell to the earth those commonplace, mat
ter-of-faet critics who dip their pens in acid
and write words that mark them asses.
SOME PORTRAITS OF AUTHORS.
Apropos of writers, it is curious to hear th'
discussions about them when their pictures have
been seen. Mr.. Haggard is extremely pic
turesque-looking, and picture of him with al
orchid in his buttonhole is that of MAJ
earnest bright, imaginative, and agreeable
Two other pictures furnish curious contrasts
they are those of jerome X. Jerome and Rud
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