Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-20

ANGELIC BLONDES.
There was silence after this, and
everybody sewed diligently, and then
girl said "Do you think blonde ought
to wear blue?" And young woman
who went in for art answered mot as
general thing. Blue, and especially
light blue, is inclined to dull blonde,
particularly if her eyes are light. She
had better wear rose pinks, deep reds or
browns, for they all will make her skin
look lily white, her eyes perfectly blue,
and bring out the gloss of her hair.
Everybody agrees about this except the
young woman who had asked the ques-
ton, and she said she had seen blonde
baby look like an angel in blue, and the
artistic lady said: Eyes; so have /; but
you never saw anybody look that way
except baby or an angel" and she
added in slightly sarcastic tone: 81
don't think the average young woman
of to-day is anywhere near an angel"
and, to say the least, this wasn't kind of
her.
vERANDA PAsTIMEs-FAvoRED ACTORS.
They wereall working hard with their
needles, most of them ON autograph
table cloths, but not the ordinary kind,
where people just write their names and
you work it out in red cotton. Oh,
dear, no This group on the veranda
was nothing if not original, and so
musical girl had had each friend write
her fGyorite composer, and the girl with
dramatic designs had each one her
favorite actor, and the politicians had
| their own candidate Just in the centre,
and tho rnct II ar,,,,nI ..ybi1n tha ,t.1,,,a,,
| who talked about love had most exquis-
lite sentimental quotations meandering
| all over their table covers. The dramatic
| girl had the most amusing cloth. Her
best young man had written "Harrigan"
in the centre, and then, on one side, he
| had drawn realistic sketch of the
tough girl" Another man had written
"Irving," and put a chime of sleigh
bells above him. Another one had writ
| ten "Sothern," and then drawn picture
OF him as he sits drinking the beer in
the "Maister of Woodbarrow," when he
| declines to be gentleman any longer.
Wilson Barretts name was down; SO
was Joe Jetferson's; so was Robson's
and Cranes, and so was dear old Stod-
dard's, and poor old Fritz.
WOMEN AND PATRIOTISM.
The political banner had caused so
much discussion that ii was being worked
| in the national colors, red, white and
blue, the candidates who it was thought
would be likeliest to lose being done in
| blue, those who were too good to win
being in pure white, and those who, as a
| slangy young woman announced,
would whoop it in" were in brilliant
scarlet.
Somebody said this sort of thing made
women patriotic. Perhaps it does; that
may account for MY own great lack Of
| patriotism. l don't even possess an
American flag; have French one and
| an English one, but not an American,
and think the United States ought to
| give me one with new star on it to
encourage me in the time of war or cleo
tons. spoke to the Secretary of the
Treasury about it, and he said he wasn't
at liberty to take any of the surplus to
buy me flag, unless the question came
before Congress, and they made an ap-
preparation for it. | suppose if | had
come from Ohio l would have gotten
that flag without any trouble. Now, as
my own country refuses to give me a flag,
shall remain an unreconstructed rebel,
and shan't feel, if the French or Eng
lish attack us, that am called on even
to encourage people fighting for the
"green graves of their sires," and en-
enlargement goes great way in this
world.
ENCOURAGING BAB.
You know you are encouraged when
YOU have tried your very best to do
right, and somebody says you have sue
ceeded, and says it with a smile.
You know you are encouraged when
you have been helping to paint the town
red, and cultiyating Tom, Dick and
Harry for the sake of getting in Con-
gress, and you get telegram from u
man you know saying You have gotten
there.
You know you are encouraged il you
are woman, when the man you are
married to tells you you are good look
ing, and adds emphasis to this announce
ment by giving you money to buy a
pretty frock to make you better looking.
You know you are encouraged, no
matter what you are, whether you are a
man or a woman, if the sun shines, and
people smile with the sunshine, and
everybody seems glad to see you who
happens to meet you, am judging you
by myself, my friend, for am encour-
aged when you have smile and C
greeting for her who is called BAB.