Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-09-08

that the love that bubbled up in her heart
will 20 back there and only come bnbbling
forth again when Prince Charming is at
hand. Hut just now feel like taking
mold OF that man and asking him if he
knows that he Is breaking a butterfly OH
wheel. II is shame to treat the summer
girl way,
AN 1pYL OF THE DAY.
In this wOrk,a.day world OF ours the
summer girl is the nearest thing to an idyl
we have, and we want 10 keep her that. She
is sight good for tired eyes and which
makes hearts that long ago have ceased
beating with rapidity commence their
throp again. She is like story book. One
Of those sweet, old books where love is the
keynote and everything ends happily; not
one Of those horrid books of to day, where
the hero and heroine analyze each other
closely, where they differ on the subject of
either politics or religion, and where as
they should, they never do get married, or
worse still, do get married and then part,
never to speak TO each other again.
VI course, IL IS the happy marriages we
never hear Of IN real life, but we DO hear
so much of the unhappy ones. DO let lis
in our story books have a hero and heroine
who marry, u wicked man who reforms
and weds the herOiues cousin, and then
his oldest son, who is heir TO great for
tune, must marry the heroine's doughter.
who hasn't penny, but who is beautiful
as picture and lovely altogether. That is
the sort of story like. People do enough
nasty things III life without their doing
them IN books, and think it is quite time
that The publishers refused all books not
having the ending suggest.
PERFECT PLEASURE FOUNTAIN.
Thank goodness the summer girl seldom
reads saw one of them pick up Hardy's
httt Lnr,,r a., "A 4.
chapters she said it made her head ache,
and was glad it did, for if she had read it
through she would have ceased to be
creature. well. ! ' saws IS somebody Hi Who
knows a great deal, do You want to keep
our girls ignorant of everything except
pleasure" That is exactly what would
like to do. and if an application to Con-
gress would bring it about | would gladly
constitute myself committee to 90 and
make it. Pain is thrust upon us soon
enough and do not believe that pleasure
makes people selfish. Those who are rich
in pleasure, who have plenty of it, and
who give plenty of it, make the world
better and brighter for it, and never see
u pretty girl who is not having her fair
share of pleasure that don't feel like at
lacking some OF the millonaires and fore
ing them TO give her good time. I'd like
to keep her as ignorant as possible Of any
OF the blackness of the world. She is not
apt to encourage and commit crimes of
which she has never heard. ! like myself
to believe there is something in a girl so
lovely to look at, and so pure in heart that
nothing wrong dares approach her. There
in nutshell Is my reason for liking the
summer girl.
THE MISSION OF THE BUTTERFLY.
Somebody says: mistress Bah, what
about the thousands of girls who. day in
and day out, work away with hand and
brain To earn their own liyings2 What
about the thousands of girls who don't
even know what pleasure is? And what
about that dreadful thousands who gain
| their pleasure by selling their soulsPh
cannot answer these questions. My heart
| goes out in one great thrub of pity for all
these girls, and yet how are they to be
| helped? Still, / maintain, there is rest
and refreshment in looking at the summer
| girl, and | believe that when the day of
trouble comes to her, and 1t certainly does
come to all women, she will be Just as
brave and try Just as hard to do what is
right as any Of the girls who have never
been butterfly for single summer. You
must remember there is room in the world
for the butterily--he whispers something
| to the rose that makes IL blush redder he
flies away and daintily touches little
violet that it may know of his existence,
and then he stops respectfully before a
great white lily, that is to be laid ut the
feet of some one who is wearied of walk.
| ing in this world and who has closed
her eyes to its trials and tribulalions.
BAB,