Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-12

Special Correspondence OF Gazette and journal
New YORK, March 6-The American
woman is disapproved of by Mrs. Stan
ley. She thinks her manner is bad, her
voice loud, and her dressing very objec-
tionable. She has spent all her time
looking for pretty women and can't
find them. Evidently she is not as good
an explorer as her husband. The
insolence displayed by this English
woman is also magnificent. Wherever
she has gone she has been well treated;
great courtesies have been shown herr
and in almost all instances they have
emanated from women, and this is her
"Thank YOU" Will the American
worm ever turn? viii it ever discover
that it is casting pearls before swine
when it goes in for extending kindly
greetings TO people who, having violent
attac' s of swollen heads, think that
they -se doing favors in accepting
them?
MRS. sTANLEY's TAwDRY GOWN.
Mrs. Aston, whom nobody ever
believed to be anything but gentle
woman, with the finest feelings and the
greatest consideration for rich and poor
alike, was asked to invite Mrs Stanley
TO her house. She did so, and among
the crowd of well-dressed American
women, the English one, who had so
unkindly criticized them, wore a crimson
velvet gown, so tadwry looking that one
could not but associate il with those
affected by the queen of Denmark when
Hamlet is played on the Bowery, Ii is
said that as u nation we are too sens
tive. Well, don't know that we are,
except where our women are concerned;
and we do object to having disagreeablG
comments made on them, especially by
the stranger within our gates, to whom
they have offered the bread and salt of
hospitality, and who have not known or
else forgotten that once you have broken
the bread and tasted the salt you re-
spect the courtesy shown you, and only
say words of kindness.
THE ENGLISH MAID VINO WATTS.
We have nothing in this country that
answers to the type represented by Mrs.
Stanley-the maid who waits. She is
very common in England, where hus-
bands are by no means easy to get, and
where women wait on far beyond 30,
waiting for man to take pity on them,
and grow TO have an eXpectant look on
prised to hear them cry, "Any man,
Lord !" That is why nothing good is
found in the American woman. She
can always marry; and when she don't
she isn't an eXpectant old maid, with
the stamp of prunes and prisms set
about her mouth and on her forehead
in i'll tempered lines, but she is a woman
who doesn't care to marry and chooses
to work out her life alone. For my
part, | say, "God bless herp for she
takes care of many another woman,
looks after many another womans
children, and does good in many
household. After the criticism of Mrs.
Stanley, however, it is to be hoped that
the American woman will close her
doors to so-called lions that are, after
all catfish in their actions. It's pity,
in the interest of society at large, that
the wife of the explorer does not go to
darkest Africa and learn there of the
sacredness of hospitality.
NEW SCHOOL FOR WOMEN.
Talking about women, there is some
thing going to be done for them about
which great deal ought TO be said.
There are schools that teach woman
everything except how to beuseful; and
this is something that Mr. George w
Childs is going to remedy. In the great
Drcxel Institute for Women, which is
now being built, they will be taught
how TO cook, how to sew, how to make
bonnets, how to keep accounts, how to
write shorthand, how to be good type-
writer's, designers, and to be perfect in
every one of the arts that are within the
reach of a woman's hands, A certificate
of the perfection in any one branch will
be enough to gain them a position in
any shop or mandatory; and the bon
net has to be as well made, the steak as
well cooked as the design is perfect or
the account properly posted. The
woman who graduates as a cook will
understand her business, and the one
who receives her diploma as n dress
maker will know exactly where pockets
should be put, how buttons should be
placed, and just how closely collar
should fit to look well, and yet be com
Portable. Isn't this the right sort of
school? And to show you how entirely
Mr.. Childs intends to carry ont this
idea, he has put himself in communities
ton with all the good artisan schools in
the world, and intends to get the best of
everything from them; to find out their
mistakes, and as far as possible to avoid
them. Only the other day, when a sec
rotary was needed, and Mr.. Ghilds was
asked to recommend a young man, he
said, mo, let ii be a woman; this is for
women, and wherever women can hon
estly earn any of the money from it
they shall hold the positions" Now,
that's what call good speech; and the
school promises to be that best of all
things-a help to women who want to
make life better, truer, and more abso-
lutely honest, for the poor worker is as
dishonest as the thief.
NEW YORK FULL OF DOGS.
The dogs have come to town. They
are aristocrats from the tips of their tails
to the ends Of their cold noses The big
ones scorn the little ones, and the little
ones nearly bark their outside coverings
off in an effort to prove that they are
not as insignificant as they look. Unlike
the beggars, none of them are in rags,
and their coats are glossy enough to be
considered as satin dinner gowns, That |
anybody who has personal attachment
for dog should put him in the show is |
a mystery to me. The big dogs are
,cooped up in places not big enough for
them, and they look downcast and UNI
happy; while the little ones are so ner-
vous that they spend all their time bark
ing, and when the show is over need Il |
months doctoring to get them in good
condltion again. However, without |
thinking about the poor dogs, the fash
ionablo crowd look and approve, and
are interested in the puppies, whether
they are on four legs or two.
"BAB's" WISE FOX TERpIEp