Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-10-20

Special Correspondence of Gazette ana journal
NEW YORK, Oct. al have been
reading and hearing great deal lately
about women-workers. have read
about their possibilities, about their
energy, about their instinct, about their
purity and about their all-around
virtues, until in sheer disgust | wish
could find a woman who didn't how to
work; who was lazy, indifferent, and
who just sat around and let people wait
on her. You meet woman in the
street-car who paints-l mean on can
vas, not her face--and she enthuscs
about the women artists. She predicts
that in ten years time men will have no
place in the world Of art-with capital
A. don't say anything, but think
that SO far there has only been one
Rosa Bonheur, and one Elizabeth
Thompson.
ALL KINDS OF woRKINGwoMEN.
get on u ferryboat, and | meet a
woman who writes novels, and she in
forms me that She sees in the dim future
nothing but women noyelists. ponder
over this and it seems to me that Thack-
cray, was very much of a man; so was
Dickens; SO was Dumas; so was Victor
Hugo, and SO is Daudet. But don't
contradict her. Then, on the street, |
bump into q woman physician; She
SCOTS at the men doctors, and don't be-
licye that they amount to anything; and
l, who am bit of a fool, wonder why it
was that when God made men and
women lie made them so near alike,
that the disease of one must be under
stood to treat that of another, and |
know that the women doctors do not
walk the hospitals as the men do. But
! never utter u word; Just sigh.
Then my maternal parent reads me
an account of a woman clergyman. /
think of what st. Paul said and feel that
| should not be able to give the defer
enCe due 10 u
PREACHER VINO WORE pETTIcoATs.
Somebody talks to me about a woman
lawyer and enthusiastically recounts
how quickly she jumped TO conclu-
| sion, and ! think that that is a woman's
way. But what is she going to do when
it comes 10 her summing up? When the
thing has to be reasoned out, is she
| going to work like crab, backwards
| cannot understand it. According to
the women workers, there will be moth
ing for the men to do after the Chicago
Fair.
fully agree with them about one
thing--a woman can act. 1t is born in
her. You and |, my friends, put up our
lips to be kissed and wear pleasant
smile, and somebody says, "What u
happy little woman you are" and you
know you are not happy, and you know
your troubles are many, but you are
acting better, and you do it better every
day of your life than docs any woman
on the stage. Life is full of it, Acting
isn't an art A baby acts, so does my
fox terrier. Dear little hypocritel He
pretends he doesn't care for the milk in
the cup in the least, that his one desire
is to give me his paw and kiss my hand;
then he looks surprised when the cup is
pointed out to him, us if he didn't know
it were there all the time.
Some energetic woman hit man over
the head with an umbrella the other day
for smiling at her. All the newspapers
applauded this act and made heroine
of the woman. Now, il is old fashioned
teaching, but it seems to me that when
women ignore smiles, stares, or even
/ "SANSt hiSJ dAS HULL llOlC WUIlitlIS
than when they go round banging heads
with umbrellas. The best policy in the
world is never to see an insult, then il
falls oil woman like water off ducks
back, and she is none the worse for il
and has not made a rumpus. 1t has moi
been so long ago since read in one Of
the papers Il love the newspapers)
WHEN LOVELY WOMAN KISSES.
Now, a woman in Canada sued mar
for $4,000 for kissing her on the cheek
She claimed that the shock was SO great
that she couldn't perform her household
duties for two weeks. Poor thing
What would she have done if he haC
kissed her on the mouth? II is to BE-
hoped that she won her suit, unless, in
deed, they compromised and thu
wretched man agreed to prepare her FOL
any shock that he might offer her in tn,
future. Funny about kissing, isn't it
Some people like it SO much. 10 m,
way of thinking there are only twC
things in the world worth kissing-on,
is baby and the other is the man yo,
love, or rather the man who loves YOU
s, | have always thought kissing Cal,
must have been sort of consolation t,
Eve. A baby draws up its rosebud of
mouth, you lean over and put your lin
to it, pressing them slightly, and thei
you get the breath of all the flowers il
that one kiss.
! Kissing Il man is altogether a differen
' affair. In the first place little woma
invariably has the better of it, becaus
nothing delights the heart of man $,
much as 10 stnop down and kiss
woman. lie feels as the elephant doe
toward the mosquito-he doesn't realiz
its power and he fully appreciates ii
|, smallness. If had daughters shout
put weights on their heads to keep ther
from growing tall, for then their hGs
bands would excuse them when the
committed any folly. Nobody blame,
Venus for what she did, but if Jun
had cut up capers, it not only woul,
have been in bad taste, but, by Jupiter
there would have been trouble. 4 stu
dent in the art of kissing informs IN
: that woman should kiss man OH hi
cheek, on the tip of his ear, on his fore
head, and on his throat and let him kis
), her lips. | tell this as it was told to me
1t is study | really haven't time /
take up, because so much practice i
necessary for one to become perfect il
it. But that il is an art | do not deny
However, after the Chicago Fair ther,
is no telling what we women ma.
achieve.
, SENSIBLE CARD PARTY FAvoRs.
/ The great west is progressive-th
great west is evidently practical No
I long ago saw it stated that instead .
, favofs made of satin or porcelain, o
any Of the tribes usual for progressiv
card parties, that in one large wester
city, if You came out ahead Of every
body else, YOU got an order on n flirni