Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-09-22

| WIN Dltacneu mar and white sailor
hat. Cheeks colored with bushes that
were paid for Lips rosy, because that
rosiness can be easily applied. Fyelids
ana eyebrows pencied with heavy
black that nature never uses. Hands
Offering with diamonds. A iaunty,
tallor-madc get.up, suited to woman
much younger. What sort of q time
has madam hadf She has dressed four
times day. Her Jewels have been
described in every newspaper through
the lana, and she is referred to as the
young and pretty Mrs. Falseness," al.
lhough The very people who wrote this
knew that she was neither young nor
pretty. The number of her trunks have
oeen told; the kinds of shoes she wore
nave been described; and right straight
through she has lived in the glare of the
electric light, until she ceased to be a
woman, and only been the model of the
uressmaker, the shoemaker, the glover,
the Jeweler, and the dealer in paints and
powders. She thinks about nothing but
dress; considers children trouble; regards
her husband as bank that will always
cash her checks, and sees nothing 10 do
IN lie but to outdress some other
woman. she has had rival this sum.
mer, and SO she has gotten little peevish,
ana little more determined to dress
inner than ever before. That is what
the summer has done for her.
THE DARKEY AND HIS "MAMMY."
Ihere is party of gay, happy darkies
ON board; they have been on an excur-
sion to Niagara. Their hats have long
RIBBON streamers to them, their frocks
are as flne as tiddles, and the gentlemen
Oh the party are gotten up in broad
trousers with exquisite creases, fancy
Walstcoats and straw sailor hats that
nave an arrangement of string on them
strongly suggestive of fishing tackle.
lhey laugh at everything; at q train
wait OF two hours they sang and LAUGHED
and were as utterly unconscious of
other people as only children and
darkies can be. One of them. n raw.
looking chap named John, made us IN.
derstand that he was waiter in a big
hotel in Florida. He said: ape Girls
SAID to me, Johnny, suahly you amt
a-Solng TO take you old nanny alon'?'
and up and spoke, and | seq, You
young thlngs can be ies' as foolish as
ever you want, but my nanny she
took care of me when was mighty lit
Tie ana no earthly account, and now
am well to do, am a-goin' to take care
OF her and see she sees de world. ~,
ANA she was seeing it. She had on a
black silk frock that fitted her, as She
SAID, suitable to her age" She wore
bonnet with two pink roses upon 1t,
over her bandanna, and in her hand she
carried large umbrella and pair of
Dlack Kid gloves that had never been
worn. But if she had been the Queen
OF England she could not have been
treated with greater respect than she
was by Johnny.
HER OPINION OF THE FALLS
was not strictly original, although she
did not know this, for, when asked if
she did not think it wonderful to sec
that mass of water falling down. she
said, "Lord, honey, you certainly didn't
'spect to see it fall up" Neither did
she think much of the North. She
gave very emphatically her opinion of
1t when she said, pore souls how can
they live without any hot bread for
breakfast" But she was as proud as
peacock; and it was the most beautiful
kind of pride-it was the sort of pride
that is lovely in everything that has life
it was maternal pride. To think that
her John should bring her all the wav
on and let her travel as she did was a
happiness almost too great. When she
said goodbye to me she added, "Honey,
you must have owned slave or two in
your life, for nobody else knows how to
be polite to colored people," And John
was bigger, better and drawer man be.
cause of his love for his mother; he had
an opportunity to show it by making
her enjoy herself. And he did it. And
that is what the summer time did for
him.
FEMININE WEEDS AND FLOWERS.
A good many people don't stop to
think what the summer time does; the
sun glares bright and warm and makes
every flower blossom, but just 50 Ger.
tainly does it cause every weed to spring
up. And some people can't distinguish
between the weeds and the flowers.
sometimes the sun has made rose come
forth and bloom, surrounded it with
lovely green leaves, then up around it
have grown tall poisonous weeds, and
people who don't know the difference
reach out and grasp, perhaps the weed,
perhaps the flower, and very often, too
often, they are satisfied with what they
have gotten, and don't discover the diff
ference until their hands are poisoned
by the weeds, their eyes are hurt, and
even their hearts are made to smart.
How shall we know?
There is young, pretty girl, sweet in
manner, honest in speech and thought,
good to be with, as well as to look at
that is flower.
There is young woman, who speaks |
as you wouldn't like your sister to, who
dresses very loudly, who may attract
you, who may even get your love, look |
out-that is weed.
There is man, who is faithful to his
wife, honest in his business relations,
kind to his friends, and gentleman in
his bearing-that is flower.
There is another man, whose manners
are most too fine, who can argue YOU
into believing that the wrong is the
right, who takes off his best manners as
he does his dress clothes-that is a
weed.
There is woman over fifty, dressed
in u dignltled way, who has raised her
so that they honor her, and who
VN-Nuy - SttNy w oghiPutilAt Will aug
ono in their sorrow or your joy-that is
a flower.
There is another woman of the same
age, she bore no children; they were too
much trouble, and she dresses like girl
of sixteen, and acts like the fool she is
that is weed
Well, in the Garden of Life there will
be found both weeds aud flowers. NV |
friend, you and | want to learn to pick |
out the flowers and cast away the weeds.
Though, God help us, perhaps, we are
vnnle pursalyas I can't ons,ynr -, |