Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-01-21

thali take to visiting at a house where "a
little game" is always in order, and the
hostess is an extremely pretty woman.
Nine times out of ten she doesn't play her
self, just hovers around the man who is
brought there to lose his money and dis
tracts him so that he doesn't know what
he IS doing. This distraction does not
await him in a professional gambling
house. and for that reason your boy Is
safer there than he is in such q house as
the Gates
THE SWEETS OF ADVERSELY"
Did ii ever dawn on you what consum-
mate fraud Shakespeare was? How could
he ever sit down and write Sweet are the
uses of adversity2' The uses of adversely
are not sweet at all. Adversely has driven
more men to the madhouse and more
women to the devil, than anything in the
world. Bread and cheese and kisses are
good for awhile, but the bread begins to be
tasteless without butter, the cheese grows
moiildy, while a constant diet of kisses
does pail on one. would be willing to
bet anything in the world that Mrs Shak-
speare didn't think the uses of adversely
were sweet. ! would be willing to affirm
q never swear) that she got deadly tired
OF bread and cheese, and longed for par
fridge, a salad, glass of burgundy,
mouthfll of something sweet, then, of
course, she might have been glad to have
the kisses. 1 don't believe poverty is en-
nobling and that is the reason that have
an immense amount of respect for men
who work themselves out of it and get the
good things Of life.
"BABh GOES FOR SHAKESPEARE.
/ think ii is in the power of every man
who has got even half of BRAIN to get
rich IL he wants to. What is there en-
nobling in seeing your children want for
things that other peoples children have?
What is there enrolling in wishing for
books to improve yourself, in comforts to
make. yourself stronger, and in all the
beautiful things that money will get to
make you happier and better? / don't say
money will get everything; don't believe
it will, but it will go very long way
towards it. If il. is your girl or my girl, or
your boy or my boy, who could gain what
they desire If they only had the chance
and q little money; sometimes the chance
comes TO them, and the money does not;
but if they have the money they can
make the chance. tell you it is not easy
to sit down and be poor, and don't care If
shock every reader of The divine William
all over creation, 1 say it with intense en-
phasis. and with two lines under it, that
he was an absolute fool when he wrote
about the uses of adversely being sweet.
Ii he liked it, it Is pity he didn't live for
ever and enjoy it; nobody else wanted it.
MISFORTUNE OF BEING POOR.
In play now being presented in New
York, the rich man asks the workingmen
not to strike because of his daughter, and
there she stands beside him, sweet-faced,
gentle-mannered and refined. One of the
men who is asking for more wages throws
open door leading into the mill, and calls
to his daughter. She comes out, delicate,
ill-clad gasping for breath, with headache
that never ends, and asks with fear If she
is going to be discharged and the man
says Look at my daughter | must care
for her. And then you remember that
this is labor and capital facing each other
in the form OF two women. am not up
holding the so-called shouting labor
man. | am just saying in my own way
that it is not nice to be poor.
WHEN you HAVEN'T THE MONEY,
II is your girl who is sick and delicate
and of whom the doctor says she must be
sent where il is warmer, and you haven't
the money to send her. How do you like
the uses of adversely?
1t is your boy who has gone through all
the free schools and whose great desire it
is to go to college, that he may become a
great man some day, and YOU haven't the
money to send him. How do you Nike
the uses of adversely?
IL IS your Wire, who, long after the days
work is done, is mending over the old
clothes, freshening up the best ones and
trying to see what may be turned, so that
the girls will not be ashamed 10 go among
their friends. You think how well she
would look in a new gown; you remember
how pretty she was before the cares of
daily life madethe wrinkles come on her
face, and you wish, how you wish, that
you could get her fine warm coat for the
winter days, bat you haven't the money.
How do you like the uses of adversely?
1t is your baby sick, weak, crying, max
ing a pitiful moan, because II does not
have the proper food. Before 1t was born
its mother was not well-nourished and
cared for, you hadn't the money to do it.
How do you like the uses of adversely?
Get thee gone. Will Shakespeare; roam
over the country, half. beggar, half vaga-
bond. 1t sounded pretty to write that line,
but you never wrote a greater lie. have
no respect for you. and if your ghost or
yourself stood before me, should still say
''the fool speaketh of what he knoweth
not" Heresy? Probably. But when
see what poverty is, then know that am
not orthodox, and am not afraid to sign
my belief with my name in full. 1t is not
q long name, it is BAB.