Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02

Special alCorrespondence of Gazette and Journal
NEW YORK, March 2Tth.-There is sum
shine somewhere and music and flowers
for to-day, and, as a natural sequence
there is an Easter bonnet. i think
woman with becoming Easter bonnet
on, walking with man of whom sne is
fond, is about as happy creature as there
is in this world; and for that reason one
Of the few rights that / claim for woman-
kind is the Easter bonnet. Give it to her,
fathers and husbands, even if you have to
forego little supper or box of cigars
for yourself. Don't laugh at her when
she has it on, but take her face in your
hands and greet her, rs they do in Russia
on Easter Day, with loving kiss and a
happy announcement that Christ has
arisenl You haven't right--not little
bit of one-to keep an innocent pleasure
from woman; and the woman TO whom
innocent pleasure is given is not the one
who is apt to look for any other kind.
DIFFERENT IDEAS OF GOOD TIME.
Though, by the bye, what queer word
pleasure is There are people who think
it is pleasure TO make great deal of noise,
to laugh very loud, to tire themselves
almost TO death, and to shout themselves
hoarse in an effort to sing I'VE wont go
home until morning" There are people
who think it is pleasure to pose for the
multitude and to utter inane nothings,
finding satisfaction in vanity. Queer, isn't
it? There are people vii think it is a
pleasure to be in their L ibis and tuck
ers, and to sit stiffiy and Ially at din
ner table, utter stilted .harks to their
neeighbors, and come away announcing
what beautiful time they have had.
That's queer, too. Now, what's your idea
of a pleasant time? Mine is to be with the
people like, to hear some good music,
some pleasant talk, to say "how do you
do with pleasure and 'good-byn with re-
greet. Not to have crowd, not to have
noise, not to have men behave like edu-
Gated donkeys and women like circus
riders. Perhaps my good time is quiet
one, but it is the sort that STRENGTHENS YOU
mentally and physically.
THE EASTER GOWN AND BONNET.
You won't have good time on Easter
if the new bonnet is unbecoming and the
gown doesn't fit. The week before the
average woman has looked as if she were
in bad temper. That's not a pretty hook.
for it makes the wrinkles come, shrivels
the skin about the eyes, changes the mouth
into hideous shape, with thecompression
OF the lips that gives it an air of severity.
Now, every blessed woman has had plenty
of time to get her easter gown and bonnet,
but the general one has just concluded
what she will do the week before, and the
most obliging dress-maker in the world
hasn't learned yet how, when she has 500
frocks on hand, to make the five hundred
and first in few hours, not only becoming,
but well fitting. The sweetest milliner YOU
ever talked to can't toss up bonnet like
an omelet; and the consequence is the dis
appointed women are complaining of
dress makers and milliners, and calling
them everything that is dsagreeable,
covering the alphabet of unpleasant words
from Alpha to Omega.
THE KIND OF WOMEN MEN LIKE.
A disappointed woman is always great
ffafpf oh hat fc f1n Al- L.
disappointment. She will cry-ergo, her
nose will be red. She will be cross-ergo,
her digestion will get out of order. She
will sulk-ergo, the man unto whom her
heart goeth ont will desert her for another
woman whose face is wreathed with
smiles, even if it is framed in winter
bonnet. Men do like women to be prettily
dressed, but, above all things, they prefer
that she should be pleasant. So that when
it comes to question of sulky women in
new Clothes or pleasant ones and old
clothes, they are certain to choose the lat
ter. Men hate sulkiness in women. They
count it as their own prerogative. PERSON.
ally | have come to the conclusion that /
what a man really likes is thoroughly
good, healthy, violent temper that wears
itself out in words, and is ready to besorry
afterward. There is type of man who
likes dishes thrown at him, but he is
special rather than general. There IS
another kind that is best governed by a.
violent attack of Mysteries. but with this
sort of man the game is not worth tho
sandle. But anything-throwing plates or
hysteria-is better than the sulks.
THE ORCHID AMONG WOMEN.
The orchid show has been and gone. It,
was interesting and curious at the sama
time. The curious part was to see how
the women naturally drifted to the most
expensive orchids, and these were by no
means the most beautiful. Do you know
that the first bunch of orchids ever carried
in New York city was borne by that most
perfect Of gentlewomen, Mrs. Thomas
Francis Meagher, on her wedding dayY
Mrs. Meagher was one of the three sisters
of whom Thackeray spoke in his letters as
being not only the prettiest, but the most
and natural in their manners OF
any among the American women he had
met. Two of this trinity of beauties are
dead-Mrs. Barlow and Mrs, Crawford
but Mrs. Meagher is as lovely and as
charming to-day as when Thacloray saw
her, and is that best type of the flower
garden of American women, gentle, dig
nitied and considerate, the orchid among
women the gentlewoman.
HOW FASTER BRIDES WILL LOOK.
The Easter weddings are going to be
many in number, but all of kind. The
bride Just now is after the French style.
She looks as if her widest dissipation had
been a view of the geological gardens and
the only books she had ever read had been
those illustrated by Kate Greenaway She
Is married in gown high in the neck, and
with sleeves that come in Valois fashion,
down over her hands. She carries white
worry or kid prayer-book framed in silver,
and she looks if she were frightened to
ieath-not because she was getting mar
led, but because she is among so many
leople for the first time in her life. AS
picture nothing could be more absolutely
and il has the effect of causing
he wicked old men about town to Weep
utterly, presumably for their lost inno-
ence.
MEN WHO OUGHT TO BE FRAMED.
It has usually been the right and pleas
IRE of fair woman to cry at weddings, but
lderly men are also now craving this
privilege, and they look very paternal,
When the blase gentleman begins to re-
ret, he is worth putting in gilt frame
nd in picture gallery, to point moral
or young men. There are several in New
fork who, if they had a background of
carlet and black cloth combined-the
evils own colofs-and in broad frame
t gilt Il would like to spell this with a
NJ in it,, would come out very effectively
nd would answer better by their personal
ppearance IN thousand sermons
w0rANLY EASTER WISH.
But, after all, these are not the peorle
ne wants to look at on Faster Day. Tie
ir is full of flowers, and every lilv seems
} ring out the chime that ''d2ah Il 80
,ore." Every rosebud seems tu MI 4s~s
ut there among all the other iiu,,..r-. y.