Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-01-07

Special Correspondence Of Gazette and journal
NEW York, Dec. 31.-We have eaten
Of the Christmas good cheer; we have
eaten or drunk the New Year in, and
we find what difference there is in the
morning. Some of us have headaches
from indigestion; some of us have head
aches r.om other reasons. The head
ache from indigestion is about as vicious
o one as exists; II would require more
than than the patience of the average
female Job to endure il, and it will
make sinner out of saint by forcing
her to be irritable, cross, and altogether
nasty. About the other kind of head
ache-well, OF course, ! can't speak
from personal experience about it; all |
can say is that ! am told glass of cold
milk is refreshing, and that cracked ice,
judiciously administered, does much 10
make the patient feel better, and the
headache disappear.
THE WOMAN WITH A HEADACHE.
It's funny the different ways men and
women have headaches A woman has
headache, and she walks around the
house with it wrapped up in a handker-
chief dipped in bay rum, and she scolds
the servants, administers punishment to
the child that don't need it, and won
ders what in the world she ever got
married for; and wishes she were dead,
and then has a cup of tea about every
three-quarters of an hour. She says she
is letting it swear Off" but it's the
family who endure the wearing process,
and until headache has become moth
! ing but memory, the entire establish
| ment endures it.
WHEN MAN HAS A HEADACHE.
When a man gets headache he
comes home and announces that he Is
going to die, and then he goes to bed,
has the doctor sent for, takes whatever
he gives him, groans and makes great
time generally; gets the sympathy OF the
entire household, and day after to-mor-
row is quite well and read 40 go down
town and tell how near he came to
dying, what close call he had and how
only the skill of the doctor and the
nursing of his wife saved him. Now
the mans way is decidedly the best.
He gets rid of the cause of the headache
and as the entire household has been
moaning "poor papar' he has their
sympathy. The woman just let's the
headache go away; irritates and upsets
everybody, and it is certain that it will
come back another day. Why are the
women such geese? Why, when they
feel i'll, don't they just have it out by
going to bed and making the best Of it
1t is much more sensible way, and
much more satisfactory. Headaches are
absolutely the skeletons in some houses,
because they bring SO much terror with
them.
A FASHIONABLE woMAN's SKELETON.
| wonder if there is anybody who
hasn't a skeleton in his closet? And
how it does delight to trot out and
rattle its bones Just when you don't
want it to- But the skeletons that can
come out are not always the worst by
any matter of means. 1t is the ones
you can sec yourself and about which
you dream. There is woman here in
New York, whose skeleton is ever be-
fore her, and yet every girl who is bit
shabby, every woman who wishes she
had few more dollars envies her as
she drives by. Every newspaper re-
porter writes of her beautiful com
plexion; everybody who pays her a
compliment always finishes up by say
ing "But then you have such beauti-
full complexion" And every time any
body says this she seems to see beside
her slender, delicate child with long
blonde curls, and face as beautiful as
her own; that child was hers-I say was
because IL is no more, for the little one
is dead. Nobody knew how or why
but that most dreadful of diseases, the
smallpox, struck down this little one
IN THE MIDST OF LUXURY
that surrounded her. Every doctor Of
position in New York was called in tc
attend her; all of one part of the house
was given over to her; by her bedside
sat her father, her grandmother and hei
nurse, but her mother never came neal
it. Eagerly the child asked after her
and they thought out all sorts of tender
excuses TO make, the truth being, this
woman would not go near her dyinl
child because she was afraid she woulc
spoil her beautiful complexion The
little girl died. The last word she sale
was her mothers name; the mother who
never looked at her dead ,.who never
saw her committed TO the earth, kinder
and warmer mother than the one SHE
had left. There has never come another
child in that great big house, for yor
cannot call it home; and the woman
with the beautiful complexion driveI
and dances, laughs and frolics, yet, al
ways before her there is that little figure
that is the skeleton in her house.
A SOCIAL DEMI-MoNpE.
There is another woman whose skele
ton you wouldn't want-You will fine
your own, that of lack of money, o.
grief by death, or disappointment, ,
much pleasanter one. Nobody sees thi
woman until late in the afternoon, anC
then she is SO perfectly dressed, her vel
so carefully adjusted over her face, anc
she seems so bright and full of life tina
nobody would think she had a care il
the world. Her husband is handsome
and they are as well satisfied with eacl
other as many of the married people il
the extremely fashionable set. MADAM
would not do anything to make a scan
dial, but about her there are always tw,
or three young men, devoted for awhile
and who then forsaker her. Why
because, although she is a mar
fried woman, although she lives in wha
the penny-a-liner would call "grea
magnifcence," still she as certainly sell
herself as does the wretcbed woman o
the town who does 1t for fine clothes, 0
perhaps bread and butter. The differ
ence is this: Madam adores diamonds, an,
latter she has permitted man to ador
.aier for certain length of time, ant
she has in her possession affectionat
letters written by him TO her, she ask
4lim for $4,000 or more to buy diamond
bracelet, necklace or pin. II he shoulG
refuse, she manages to make him under
stand quite delicately, you know, tina
she win be forced to show his letters t
her husband and then the poor un