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

WAsHIaeToY, July 3l.-I am back here
In Washington, where | can get good
things to eat, where ! can have pleasant
drives and find interesting people. It isn't
bad way to spend your summer. blythe
by to have pleasant headquarters, and
then go tramping around seeing pleasant
places.
IN SEARCH OF CULTURE.
My first experience was in search Of cul-
ture. 1t had been brought upon me, with
y force of a bucket of cold water that
hadn't the kind of culture that scorncd
pretty frocks, thought corsets an abomina-
ton, the history of my country as neces-
sary to life as bread and butter, OF how to
sketch in the open air, n blessing far above
the knowledge of how to make q good cup
OF coffee. For one whole morning be-
moaned my lack of culture. Then man
came to the rescue. Do you know that all
through it is generally q man that docs
come TO the rescue? And he said: Let
US go and seek cultured And we went.
THERE WE'RE PLENTY OF FLIES.
We went over one Of the most beautiful
roads Imaginable to place called Glen
Echo, where culture is dosed out according
to the capacity Of the adult and where
children under 10 can imbibe culture for
nothing. When we got there, u sort of
song and dance culture business had lust
been finished. | suppose the Glen Echo
school OF culture would object to its being
called that, but 1t was some sort of must
cal selections done on tumblers, while a
man read things that he had written HIM
self. We were too late for this. and we felt
that, at last, providence was good to the
Irish. SO we roved around, the man and l.
and saw how people lived cultured lives,
and learned to be great and noble. NV
friend, don't believe that you and will
be put at the head Of the class for great
Vauaa nd
that sort of life to obtain these virtues.
There were lot Of tents, and il them were
visible very crude household arrange
ments, uncomfortable looking beds, I'M
tidy looking women, and few dscon-
ISOLATE children, who seemed to find good
in nothing. And flies On my honor,
think flies are more eager for culture than
people are; for there were about 500 flies to
every person; and they were much more
active in their search for knowledge than
any of the women who sacrificed their
good looks that they might grow wise. |
don't think culture and family life, that is
culture as expressed at Glen Echo, are
harmonious.
ART MADE WHILE you WAIT.
The man who was my leader has lean
ing himself toward good pictures and good
plaster casts, so with the eyes of several
wise women upon me, disappearing eyes,
eyes that said, young woman, come away
from tho folly of cool-looking frocks and
white parasols, and the support of man,
and learn of the sweetness that come from
dramatic and humorous readings, from
chorus concerts, from stereopticon lectures
and from such culture as can only be
gained here" with these eyes upon lis we
went into the Fine Art tent, and conde-
scending young woman showed me an old
woman modelling boys head, and a
younger woman modelling something else
probably by this time she has made up Der
mind what II shall be. The man who was
with me, wishing to be polite, told the old
woman. who ought TO have known better,
that she had the boys hair down to a line
point. Now, that boys hair had been cut
" clipping machine, and COW could
have modelled it with her hind foot. How
Eer, 1t was taken MS a compliment, and
the young woman who was showing us
about, and VINO evidently felt sorry be-
cause we We're not like her, said that It was
the old lady's second attempt. Though,
by-the-by, she didn't say the .old lady =
she said her" That is one peculiarly Of
culture in tents. You are invariably ex-
pected to know who he and she, and her
and him, are, titles or names being counted
as of no worth.
THE GIRL LONG SOUGHT FOR.
The young lady who knew il all then
informed us that she went ont sketohing
every afternoon, and looked at her and
thought. "Grncious goodness she is the
girl all over the United states who writes
to the magazines and puts two questions,
and she always joins them and says: Are
you, Christian; and what will remove
frecklesp " had been looking for her
for years. ] had found her at last, and
feel perfectly certain that those are the
questions uppermost in her mind at all
times.
MILK IN SHAVING CUPS
At Glen Echo. if you are thirsty You
can get lemonade that was made in the
time when men were giants, and which
has weakened as they have with civilian
ton; you can also get milk; we took milk
and we little knew what we were doing
when we ordered it. 1t was served to MS
in shaving mugs, and my masculine COM
panion said he felt as If he was chewing
lather. while had sensation of having
swallowed razor. To aid culture, they
have furniture shop, grocery shop and
a cigar shop. The last was rather IA shock
70 me. as didn't know the extremely cul-
eivated who lived in tents believed In the
soothing influence of smoke.
LOOKING BACKWARD AT THAT SCENE.
When we got away from there looked
" the man, and the man looked ut me,
and said he what do you think of il %
don't know whether ii was the razor in
the milk that gave me The courage, or Just
what it was, but / answered as bravely as
possible sit is Fraud Yes" an
swered he, but some people like it," ~
know they do" said /; but some people
like TO murder and steal, and be bad
fathers and bad mothers, bad housekeepers
and bad cooks, but that is no reason why
sright-thinking people should approve Of
it," Then he leaned back in the carriage
with an air of polite martyrdom, and an
nounced his willingness to hear my
opinion OF Glen Echo. OF course, it was
the only Ohautauqua | had ever been TO-,
still l had an opinion, and | gave it to
him.
woMAN's IDEA OF IT.
First, the adjectives that describe II are
dirty, tiresome and improper. You saw
the dirt; You saw the evident effort to live
IN the untldy way that certain tyne of
women think geniuses prefer, maxim
cleanliness of so little moment that You
n know it will be many a long day before
they reach godliness. 1t was tiresome be
cause they had only just enough culture
TO make tfem think they knew every
thing, and 1t hadn't yet dawned on them
how little they did know, and what consum-
mate fools they were to permit their APP
pearance as dainty women to be sacrificed
" their greed for useless knowledge. That
sounds contradictory, perhaps, but you
wee they weren't getting the knowledge
that was worth row of pins. Then, rs
% its being improper, / do not think ii is
that. | think that when people had to
i've in tents, all those nice women in the
bible made their tents as comfortable as
they could, and, according to the Bible,
while the greater number OF them were
very wise women, they let their wisdom
be subserviept to that of their husbands
and fathers, and If they had been living
H to-day they wouldn't go and stay in tents,
# houses could be gotten, Gs they can,
n Another thing, living in tents brings
people too close together. Your neighbor