Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-09-22
COMING BACK TO NEW YORK
What the Summer Has Done
for the Wanderers.
IN THE WEB OF A SOCIAL SPIDER
Weeds and Flowers Among
Men and Women.
Tho Youth of More Money Than Brains
when Wonan's Beauty Conquers--
Mutton Dressed as LAMB Other Choice
Gotham Specialties.
Special Correspondence Of Gazette and journal

NEW DIRK, sept 1b.-Ihey are COM
ing back to town, They come by boat,
by train, and where they are very swell
by yacht Sometimes they look rested,
sometimes they don't. The children ap.
pear as If they had the best time in the
world; they are brown of face, clear of
eyes and merry of heart; but, alas! the
prodigal sons and daughters outnumher
the children. There comes the son of a
man who worked hard to gain fortune;
worked hard with the future of his
handsome boy before him, and then,
well, not so very long ago he died sud
denly--somebody said it was heart fail
ure, but do believe there is such a thing
as broken heart.
MORE MONEY THAN BRAINS.
For this boy, the one he had shaved
for, the one for whom he had been so
ambitious, was nothing. That is 10 saw,
al he amounted to was to dress well,
belong TO three or four fast clubs, to get
very drunk once in a while, and to have,
as MS ideal OF womanhood, Madcmoiselle
Giltedge. He will give laugh, and
say Clever woman, that knows how
to get fellows money from him with
out his mindingp This specimen has
returned, and you and l can work out
his future as plainly as possible. The
money will be spent and spent until it
is all gone, and the someone of the
numerous Giltedges, to whom he has
been generous, will give him some place
to live and something to eat--he will
ask, until he can't borrow any more,
then, like the wretched coward he is,
will either shoot himself or fall into the
river But just now he is at the height
of his glory, and he thinks he is very
clever when he says, like the cub he is
Il don't want to know any women who
expect you to marry them; if have got
to know somebody, introduce me to the
lively married ones" Although he saw
the beautiful blue sea, the flowers dane
ing all around, though he saw the
beautiful blossoms and the lovely long
summer days, this imitation of a man
comes back to town little worse than
before he left it. That's what the sum.
mer has done for him.
WHEN woMAN's BEAUTY CoNoUERs.
There is a handsome girl comes in on
the train; a handsome girl, with an air
of satisfaction. Her figure is perfect,
here cloth gown suits her to perfection,
tAN- ti'iA - bi@iAbu oo tuhJ IlOL u lDCh Is
out of place, everything about her is
exact; II you had anything to complain
of, it would be that things are too exact,
But, my dear friend, that girl has sue
ceeded. Ever since she can remember,
she has been taught the catechism of
polite society. 1t differs from that of
any church. Ask her the chief object
i'll life; she would not reply that it was
to serve God by doing whatever good
her hand found to do; but she would say
ii was to get a rich husband and go in a
good set. She has succeeded. You
would guess that she would from her
firm jaw and clear, cold gray eyes. Her
husband-to-be is neither young nor
beautiful; but he is rich
They will be married this fall, and she
will always be credit to him. There is
no danger of her ever falling in love with
anybody; people with eyes and jaws like
that don't do it. Her children will
never be particularly affectionate, but
then their mother will not consider
affection good form. She will see that
they are well-dressed ard well-cared
for, and she will be inclined to teach
them the same religion that was taught
her-the religion OF Mammon, not of
love. 1t is just possible that her hus-
band may wish once or twice that she
would put little more warmth in her
kiss, or that he could tell her Of few
of the worries and troubles that come
to him; but he will get used TO her after
a while, and forget that. 1t is a curious
phase that while men can get used to
women who have ice water in their
veins, somehow they get to having a
feeling of irritation; they miss some.
thing and they are not wise enough to
know what it is. However, this girl
started out with determination to get
rich husband; and that is what the sum
mer has done for her.
IN THE WEB OF A SOCIAL SPIDER.
On one of the boats there came in a
pretty married woman with two dear
little babics-little tots that you wanted
to take up and hug and kiss, because
they seemed so far away from every
thing that was wrong. When she went
away, their mother was as sweet and
innocent as they are; but now-well,
now, there is dancing attendance on her
fashionable elderly man noted for his
conquests, and three or four of his spe.
cial friends. She has been flattered by
them, she has been driven out by them,
she has been taken out on their boats,
and down in the depths of her heart
there is feeling that if she hadn't mar.
ried that dear boy, who has been in the
city all summer, if she had waited a lit,
tie longer, she would have made q great
match. Poor little fly! She doesn't
realize that these men never mean
marry; that they are simply the spiders
of society, who find their greatest
happiness in getting just such pretty
flies as she is in their nets, and meta
phorically, swallowing them. 1t may
be that she will never see these men
during the winter, for the fly is
essentially summertime bird, and if
she is as weak as she looks, how wretched
she will be, and how wretched she will
make everybody else. That is what the
summer time has done for her
THE EASTERN GATE OF LOVE.
There is girl on one of the trains
as if she was so overlooking with happi.
ness that she wanted to hand it around.
as one does bits of sugar candy. You
don't need to loolI far to guess the cause
of this. There is a big, good looking |
fellow beside her, and when he thinks |
there is nobody looking, he squeezes the
folds of her dress with rapture that
only belongs TO true lover. They met |
by the seaside and the waves sang but |
one story to them. 1t was love, love,
love, and they came back engaged to
marry. They think the world is full Of |
beautiful things; they see future full
OF love before them, and they cannot |
imagine that anybody in this world can
he without love. l feel like raising my
hands and asking that thnu nnnu nnrnr |