Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-05-28
ADAB" TALKS OF WOMENKIND
An Edition De Luxe of Femi-
nine Sweetness.
feminine CENSOR OF MORALS
compilations Are Very Apt
& to be Deceitful.
hose Coghlan's Yellow Gown tho Admit
ration of Mankind--Fred Gebhard's
Good Looks Departing.

summer months. New Workers, taken ii
a the mass like tuneful opera; one where
there are pretty girls, pretty gowns and
! pretty dancing The average man OF
woman doesn't care in the least whether
the music is suggestive of something else
or not provided it is pleasing. The aver
age man or woman doesn't care in the
least If an actress is GO provided She looks
3 10, and in this they show their sense.
DE WOLF HoPPER's NEW OPERA.
( The other night the theatre-going popu-
lation of New York crowded to SEQ The
opera that rejoices in the inellhuous name
OF Wang" 1t rhymes with sang and
it also rhymes with "pang,n and nobody
knew which would suit il best. have a.
ways regarded De Wolf Hopper as a kindly
disposed gentleman. with long legs and an
inclination to believe the greatest amount
OF amusement was gotten out of an arti-
ncial stomach and settler bottle.
AN EDITION DE LUXE OF SWEETNESS.
There were twenty dark-hared beauties
who wore blue and white yachting gowns,
and who looked as smart rs do the young
women in the swell London shops, where
the requisites are that they must have
pretty faces, good figures and agreeable
voices. But oh. OIL the sweetest thing in
Wang" was little Della Fox. Between
you and me, wanted to buy her, and put
her on brides cake. She was the dearest
thing in dress clothes you ever saw in
your life. but she wouldn't have been a
woman If she hadn't put her hands in her
pockets. As she is a woman, | can speak
plainly about her belongings, and say that
If any of the men in The audience had
better fitting trousers / didn't see them.
and if any Of them managed to kept their
shirt fronts smoother they were not WISH
bic, and that II single one among them
could have danced as she did and still had
his high collar i'll good shape, he had bet
ter go as an advertisement for some laun-
dry. have always liked little women,
and now am convinced, after seeing this
edition de luxe of sweetness and small
size, that am right.
FEMININE CENSOR OF MORALS.
Not long ago a woman said, Il don't
care to GO with that woman. Who is she?
Are you sure she is all rghtpi Another
woman said to me, "That woman is a
prude," and then she said, Listen, while
go over and lead her on She asked her
If she had seen Miss GREY. NV Lady
Prude announced that there had been
some talk about Miss Grey, and she hadn't
kept up an acquaintance with her She
then asked her how Mrs. Black was. and
she. was told that Mrs. Black was very
we'll, but added to this came the statement
that, though like Mrs. Black very
much, am told there is something oueer
about her marriage, and you know, really.
one has to he very careful with whom one
associates nowadays. wouldn't have the
name of woman who was the least bit
OH color connected with mine for worlGs!ii
MY friend came back to me and asked,
what do you think of that2'' And said,
.Suppose Christ had felt that way toward
Mary Magdaline. Suppose every one Of
US were ready TO push the other woman
down, down, down, until she hadn't even
the ladder Of hope to climb up on?p 1t
set me thinking and wondered if, when
my Lady Prude went to church there
wasn't some danger of her getting near a
woman who was what she called 'off
colon" and ! wondered, too, II she ever
entered the Gates of Heaven. which /
doubted. whether she mightn't find some
poor soul whose sins had been as scarlet,
and who yet had had them washed as
white rs snow. And then wondered BY
what right this woman judged all other
women. To decide this went to one Of
those old ladies who know everybody iii
New York and all about them, and said
to her, who and what is my Lady
Prnde2 And why is she counted the
censor of moralsP'
THE STORY OF PRUpE.
The old eentlewoman put up her glasses,
looked at me and answered: Has she con |
stituted herself that? Well, nv dear
when you come across a woman who finds |
no good in anybody else you can nearly |
always conclude that her own life and her
own heart are black Now, happen tn |
know the story of this woman's life, and / |
VIII tell It to you to point my moral. She
came, think, from Boston; she was a
pretty, healthy-looking girl, and her great
ambition was to go on the stage She got
there, and during her very first season,
with her eyes quite wide open and under.
standing perfectly well what she was
doing, she became more than the close
friend OF the manager of the company,
tnd she became notorious for her de
prayity. | can always forgive a woman
who sins for love or through ignorance-i
have nothing whatever else to say about
the one who sins from motives of policy
This woman came to New York; made nc
quaintances among lot Of fast men and
became the mistress of the semi-idiotic son
of rich family. lie was given no money,
consequently, while she went every place
with him. the money on which she dressed
and lived came from other men. She
blaekmailed little, she bulIdozed great
deal more.
ONE DAY SHE GOT A WARNING
from the woman in whose house she lived.
and who was dressmaker. She told her
If you are not careful, even that fool
will find YOU out and wont marry you.n
But one night, when ne was little
drunken than usual, he did marry her.
Now, If she had been an honest, true wife
to him and led quiet, decent life it would
have been all right; but, no, she had social
aspirations, and her idea of climbing the
social ladder was to tell of the blackness of
every other woman, thinking by that TO
make herself pure white. Women are
afraid of her. She has peculiarly smooth.
caresslng manner, and the stranger is apt |
to be impressed by her. Does the story
amuse you? Do You see the moral? No
woman can discover plague spots on
another who has not had them herself.
The Innocent woman HonSOtt lsnnut ubnt |
they are, and if the other woman were
only wise she would hold her tongue and
the world in which she is anxious to move
would never find it out"
Then, said |, "As she is no longer young
and as
HER GOOD LOOKS ARE GONE.
I may add to your moral that she is prob
ably prude because she can no longer at
tract by the charms of YOUTH Yes
nodded the old lady, that's the result Of
q great deal Of reformation, so called. You {
know / believe that drunkenness is a
disease, and too often the reformed
drunkard is the man whose stomach is |,
worn ont; and soft is with a rake. Not, nv !
dear, that people can't repent and do !
what's right, but don't think it is respect I
able for them to wait until they are old
and miserable to offer themselves as ex- !
ampies for other people to follow"
FRED dEBHARD NO LONGER HANDSOME.
The first night that Rose Coghlan played
Lady Barter, that marvellous play where
there are three acts and SIX gowns. NOT 10
mention an opera cloak, the actor who =
played the boy lover was made tip most \
perfectly to represent Fred Gebhard. The !
likeness was absolutely startling. don't !.
know Just why it was changed, but the I
,econd time ! saw the play he was his =
bL sell rather than the brunette i,