The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-29

The man we want! This is the subject that
fills the souls of the girls Of to-day. We all
expect to marry at some time. We all have
our man pictured out, and though we may not
have seen him yet in flesh and blood we know
just what he ought to be and how he ought to
look. At least this is SO of most Washington
girls, and the publication of my talks with
number of them may bring him to the front.
| called yesterday at the home of the Secretary
of Agriculture and asked Miss Rusk to tell me
her ideal husband. She replied: II have
never given the subject serious thought though
you will scarcely believe me- and have never
formed an ideal. | don't believe in ideals
which have neither form nor flesh, and besides
what would be perhaps the ideal for me would
not be desired by another. One woman for
instance, wants domestic man, while another
wants one fond of society, and at their we'd
ding in most cases both have chosen the direct
opposite of what they thought to be their
ideals. In my opinion, perfect husband
should combine love of domesticity with
sociality. He should be able and willing to
take his part upon occasions in the innocent
enjoyment of the social world, and share his
wife's tastes, whether they be domestic or
otherwise. Above all things, he must have
intellect and in these days of absorption in
money-getting it is difficult to form an ideal
among men who seek first to know the value
of the fathers bank account before riskinr
their heart and hand upon the daughter.
Would you credit it," continued Miss Rusk,
while Indignation flashed from her gentle
eyes, "only a few days since gentleman ac-
nI1ojDtappa nf bo1 a1I ;o.L
confided to me that he had urged a certain
friend to devote himself to a certain woman
of wealth simply because of her money.
THE WESTERN MAN THE BEST.
sin the East think the young men lack the
energy and push which so largely characterzes
the men of the West,n Miss Rusk continued.
"More especially in Washington there seems
to be considerable proportion, both young
and old, who having nothing wherewith to
occupy their time, give themselves up to an
exclusively fashionable existence that must
inevitably tend to their deterioration of
character. Their highest aim is to kill time
in as pleasant manner as devoted attendance
upon as many teas, dinners and receptions,
and the destinations of club life life will per-
NIT. Doubtless there are as many busy work.
ers here as elsewhere but the number is mostly
confined to poor clerks in Government employ,
who can seldom afford to indulge in the diver
slons of the gay world outside of the four walls
of their daily drudging Here mems bright
intellects are yearly sacrificed to the present
needs of family, who if unhampered in this
respect would build for themselves name and
fame in professional or business careers and
whose talents would fit them to adorn society
tits in fact now useless to look for a hero of
romance outside of the covers of a novel, and
my only ideals are bound in pasteboard and
not in flesh and blood,'
ONE CHIEF JUSTICES DAUGHTER's PRIZE
The eldest daughter of the Chief Justice, Miss
Grace Fuller, will on Easter Monday marry
Mr. Archibald Brown, of Chicago, and the
ceremony at the historic old church of st.
Johns will be followed by large reception at
the house. This event has long been looked
forward to with interest by the fashionable
world of the Capital, who will thus suffer the
loss of another faYorite.
''Have you then found your ideal ?'' asked
of the bride prospective,
She laughingly replied; ~ have never once
in the past even considered the question
strange as such an assertion may seem, for, to
tell the truth, have never associated myself
the present time felt convinced that / should
always live life of single blessedness.
must confess that my change of views has
greatly surprised even myself, and | can only
account for it on the principle of fatality.
Doubtless, as l have never formed an ideal, l
shall be all the happier in the man of my
choice, who, though differing in many respects
from the picture | would have drawn, is all
and even more than my widest dreams could
have fancied l believe it is Adelaide Proctor
who says, Whom first we love we seldom
We'd but in my case lays the exception, and L
consider myself especially fortunate in having
drawn prize in the great matrimonial lot
terry"
MISS MINNIE wANAMAKER's IDEAL,
Miss Minnie Wanamaker is one of the most
loved and universally admired daughters of
the Cabinet She is a tall, graceful blonde,
with sweet dignity of manner and vivacity
that wins for her friends wherever she may go.