Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-10
"BAB" ON LOVE AND WOMEN.
She Chats on the Calamity of the
Sentimental Southerners.

all the blood in your body get warmer,
and whether you are from Maine or
Florida, San Francisco or New York, you
have an inclination to keep time to IT,
What is it2 1t is not one OF Wagner's
masterpieces, so-callcd; Audran Ind moth
ing to do with its compositions; Strauss
could not have composed it, to have saved
his soul, and 0ffenbach never had an idea
that reached It. II has ceased to be sec
tional, and has become the possession of
the entire country. You all cheer up
when. yon hear ii, and nobody is too
downhearted not to give passing smile
when It rings out its melody, whether it is
from the best trained orchestra, from a
hand-organ, or whistled by the newsboy
who sells you paper. Don't you know
the tune? Why, its "Dixiem
SONGS OF THE SOUTHLAND.
Somehow those southern tunes with the
quaint words that go with them, have a
curious fashion of pulling at your heart
strings, until tears that do not mean sorrow
Indeed, are those of general memories
and a quiet happiness-come to your ewes.
Do you know why? Get some man who
Is Keeping back a great deal of affection in
his heart, and induce him to tell you He
Will say ut is because those songs in
variably tell something about home. some
thing about those one loves something
about loyalty. and something about d
memory; and always do they touch that
SPOT in man heart that teaches him the
respect due to all women, and the rever-
ence he should have for his own
home and people" All Of them give you
this impression, and none of them are so
well known as Dixie"
SOUTHERN POEM IN DRAMA.
never saw this so fully exemplified as
the other day, when | was one among Il
Zig audience looking at that poetic play,
'Alubama." The orchestra had played
Dixie had played about the "Suwanee
River" had dwelt on the "Old Home in
Kentucky. and all through that house,
crowded with women and children. there
was perfect silence. You saw 4 handker-
Chief quickly lifted to wipe u tear from an
eye, and ii you looked very close you saw
a mother put her hand on her daughter,
and everybody felt the better for the songs
Of the south-tho songs of real people.
Llkeall good southerners, Thick this is one
great country, since as they say in the
play, I'VE can breakfast in PENNSYLVANIA
and sup in Alabama;n but still, like all
southerners, lcannot forget my home and so
the, play. with its sweet, pure story of love
and loyalty, appealed to me. Go down in
any southern town and you will meet
Colonel Moberly'' of this play. with his
frock coat buttoned tight anu his soft hat
crushed in; no business is too pressing to
keep him from showing courtesy to a
lady; he is a past master in the art of
chivalrous words. and, if little bombastic.
II a little inclined to dwell on the past
magniticence, you can't blame him be-
cause he comes from the south. It's the
same in the south all the world over.
WOMEN WHO MAKE COOP WIVES.
The south of France produces such men
linen to whom speech comes before
thought, men Daudet showed when he
created "Numa Roumestan;" il is the result
of the atmosphere. You meet just such
women as Carey Preston, young, loving
and trusting. They are the women
who make marvellous good wives and
mothers. You see the hospitable habits OF
the south, and its out-of-door life, and i,
makes a most charming picture. You
smile when the colonel calls the attention
of the northerner visitor to the moon, and
asks him If the moon is like that in the
north, and for an answer he hears that the
moon looks more golden, and then the
colonel says, with a wave of his hat
Yes, sah we think the girls born under
that moon have more poetry and love in
their hearts, and are more tender than any
other women"
MAGHoLIAs OF THE SOUTH.
Of course, this is the man of the south
speaking; but why do 30 many northern
men marry southern women? Ill tell YOU
it's because they haven't had years oil re
preston over their heads; it's because they
are not afraid to speak the love they feel
and it's because man likes affection
especially from his wife. 1t is bccaus,
from the beginning of the world, mer
have loved beauty and sweetness, and to
! quote from the play again; "Alagnolia:
| don't grow i'll Massachusetts" II is q
loyal play, too. The young lovers claim
to position when he asked for the hand d
the southern girl, the girl whose forum,
was only herself, was this; My fathel
| southern woman, who accepted his offer
answered him 80 was General Lee.n
We hear OF all sorts of dreadful things
we are forced to know so mich that i
| wicked aud ugly, that ! say to you, my
| friend, II 1t comes your way go and see th
play--you will come away from it fcelinj
that honor and chiyalry are not dead tina
goodness and virtue does exist, and that /
is worth while to see it, even il YOU have I,
| go to ind IL, Way Down South in Dixie
nab FoRGRTs HER bible.
read the other day of man, at lea4
they called him that, who threw som
dreadful acid in the face of the girl whom
lie claimed to love. The acid had destroye
one eye, was eating into the check an
that girl 10 years old will probably live
| Now, what would YOU do to that man
lie had better have taken a pistol and sht
her, for, all disiigured and half blind, wha
is life going to hold for herl You thin
the law Will punish that man, do YOU
II She lives, it may give him two years i
the pcnitentiary; ii she dies he will poss
bly, be sent up for manslaughtcr. She wi
probably live. Every hope in her lie ha
been crushed, and joy will go from it, an
he will get two years on very easy coniin,
ment, with u good many days off ii he b,
hayes himself half deecnily. | wish
had the making of the law. lwould max
one that would cause acid to be thrown i
that boys tace Just rs it was in the girl,
and tllcn ! would cast him adrift on til
world.
LOVE ELEvATEs AND NOT DEDAsEs.
lie makes that mean, miserable cry thi
he did it because he loved her, and va
jealous. How many, many, crimes az
committed in thy name, oh, Lovel hi
lie love her when lie went and got tn;
stuff, when he waited for her 10 con
home, that he might throw il at her
Certainly not. His miserable vanity vi
hurt, and that was the way he revenge
himself. Love don't make people hu
each other, willfully. Love don'tmake
man shoot woman, no mater what 81
has done. Ii she has disgraced his nam
. hc can forbid her bearing II. Ii she il;
shown that she cares for some one u.
more than him, let him lock his love up i
his heart and let her 20 into her life La
PLY and With the lIindest thought of hin
l)id You ever think that even tine love ihi
il not returned makes better men an
women? The day always comes whe
there is somebody who wants that 10y
and then ii is ready to give; to give !
great measure, the measure that is presst
down and running over.
AN EYE ron AN EYE.
For every man who hurts a woman
would demand the punishment accordt
BY the old Jewish law | would ask tin
there might be given AN eye for an ey
a tooth for "A tp,th and "A lifa For a II "a