Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-19

she makes you feel that she was espec-
tally created, her own college specially
arranged for her, and that her fame as
its graduate is world wide.
woMAN's BEST SCHOOL OF LEARNING.
! haven't word to say against women
learning all they want, but even after
naturalization there is school for every
human being to go to, and that is the
famous one of experience. These girls
come out Of college with a "know-it-allo
idea, and they suddenly discover that
neither Greek nor Euclid will do so very
much toward making them earn their
own liyings, nor will full and com
plete history of the lost tribes Of Israel
teach them how to make an old frock
look like new or to do that very delicate
art known as washing the baby. "Oh,
hop says somebody, 9'Bab's off on her
same old fad" Well, yes, am. do
believe in giving girl the very best cd
ucation possible, but | cannot be
brought to see that is the edu-
cation gained in the college. There
have been brilliant women, women
who have made great successes
in life, women who are charming
socially, who are college bred, but these
are exceptions. These are the two and
three out of three and four hundred.
Somebody argues, "Do make the bread
any worse for knowing the laws of
chemistry" Probably not, :but do you
make it any betterg" Then somebody
says, "Shall become nothing but a cook
and u drudge just as You fancy A
good cook is usually queen of her
dominion and not drudge by any
manner of means, and good wife, such
as you want your son and mine to get,
is the women who, when he is sick,
knows how to make little dainties to
help cure him, knows how to measure
his medicines properly, and isn't eX-
plotting her chemistry on the doctor
while the man whose name She bears is
waiting for his next dose Of medicine.
But" says the obiector, "can you
cook" To be quite honest, can only
do two or three things we'll.
CAN BRoIL A REGISTRAR,
and that's more than half the restaur-
ants in the various big cities know how
to do, and can boil Il potato and know
when it is done, and no establishment
is going to starye where they can get
these two things well cooked. In a
sick-room | can mind the doctors or
ders, and when you can get a profess
sional nurse to do that YOU have got a
jewel. / hope | will not make the col
lege-bred women throughout the coun-
try envious of my accomplishments, but
when they yell, "Let us have more cul-
ture," feel like making the welkin ring
(by-the-by, what is the welkin y by
answering them with Let MS have more
hr1ilnd Inafe4.n.Iy- Int1aI
WHAT MEN WANT IN A WIFE.
Culture is very well for the well-fed
man who can go to sleep over it, but a
hungry man does not want Browning
and Euclid, the Latin grammar and the
Greek Testament, he wants beef and
potatoes. Heresy2 OF the ranIest, but
since we have beaten the Force bill, |
feel that | can express myself with
truth and distiuctness. It's true that [
do believe that woman with the heart
gets far away the better of imam with
the head,p and using Mr.. Tennyson's
quotations as a text, the average young
woman is advised to cultivate cool
head and a warm heart Her heart may
be hit now and then, but it wont be
broken. Hearts are curiously elastic
things They can be pulled here and
there, rent with anguish so TO say, and
then something delightful will come that
will prove an absolute ointment, and be-
hold they are in better condition than
ever before. Give me red roses and
heart girls ! If the average young man
will'put that on the banner which he
bears he will get wife who will love
him and whom he will honor and obey
without ever knowing he does it.
THE LATEST is THE OLD.
What is there new? Nothing.
The idiotic dude still imbibes nourish-
ment from his cane, and looks from
over the top of his collar as if he had a
white wall about him.
The so-called swell young woman still
displays her anatomy to the world at
large, doesn't get married, and wonders
that Tom, Dick and Harry don't want
to see more of her
The matchmaking mamma guards
her little chickens very carefully so that
no ineligibles will come near them, and
the result is that as the years go by they
they are seeking whom they may de-
vour and find none
The average business woman is Won
dering how the financial affairs of the
world went on before she was born.
The newspaper writer is surprised
that more people don't recognize him or
her when seen on the street.
And the babies, God bless theml are
the things nearest TO angels left to us.
Though, by-the-by, if the stork hasn't
brought a baby down your chimney u
fox terrier isn't such "a bad thing to pos
sess-at least, that is the expression Of
Bah.