Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-03

decay in the race. 1t comes largely from
tho TACT that men are becoming effeminate,
or else women wouldn't laugh ut them
when they put on tulle skirts and do q
.i WOMAN VINO LIKES BIG MEN.
Until the American man Is physically
bigger, women will, it is likely commit al
SORTS OF foilies. do not believe in womans
suffrage; what | do believe in is that fools
OF women, and unfaithful women, should
each have a sound whipping in the public
square. Goodness gracious I II this were
carried out there would be no getting past
Madison Square. and the druggists round
about would make fortunes from salves to
cure, not wounded honor. but bruised flesh.
This old lady would be splendid one to
train wives, but, like all people with decided
opinions, she has decided fads. The chief
oneis for big men. She carries this to
stich an extent that she goes to a church
where the parson is 6 feet 2, for she says
she wants to listen to man who, she
feels. can knock the devil out physically
as well as mentally. She doesn't even
care for small women. Her only excuse
n her heart for my existence is, that in
merit my size from a grandmother, and,
consequently, couldn't be blamed for It.
once pleaded with her for small but
delightful creature, and, although quoted
that woman should just reach to man
heart, was silenced by her look, and the
information that she ought to be on a level
with his brains, and so be some sort of a
companion for him.
RESERVED FOR THE MEN.
M What deal that companionship meansl
That companionship between q man and a
woman. that grows sweeter and stronger
and stiller as the months go by. say
stilier because, as two people learn to
know each other and to read each others
hearts, they do not need to speak every
word; look tells. And this companion
ship is no more possible between two
women than il would be between two
parrots. 1t Is formed of man and of
woman, L am very conventional, my
TREND l hope you are, too. | couldn't
love any woman in the world as could a
man, and couldn't sacrifice for any
woman i'll the world what | would sacri-
flee for man. The good God made us
that way. He didn't make us to waste our
love letters and our coquetres and our
hearts on other. women; no, indeed; they
We're Intended for men. Sometimes the
man takes the heart and cares for it and
loves It until i beats with pride and Joy
and love for him; sometimes he takes Il
and sights il and forgets It and hurts il,
and it beats with love for him Just the
same; and the brain that belongs to it
comes and says 10 it, HE doesn't think
he doesn't know" and the heart excuses,
and grows broader and more charitable
and kinder; and some day, when it ceases
to beat, everybody knows then what
dear, loving heart It was, and most of all
is its loss felt by
THE MAN WHO NEGLECTED 1T.
You think your heart would rebel
against this--this quiet submission, this
sublime bravery 1t might, but what
would you. gain by il? You would be no
better and no happier woman if you
opened your heart and said to the multi
tude, Come and look at my hurts p How
many would PIT oil on the bruises and
how many would put vinegar? Keep your
hurts to yourself, my friend; its decidedly
the best way for the world at large, and Il
makes better and stronger woman of
you.
After this you may be surprised to hear
me say that don't think much of ser
mons. Well, don't. Not as they go now
adays.
woMAN's IDEA OF A SERMON.
My idea of n sermon is one that lasts
about five minutes, and in which ! am
told to be less quick tempered, and you are
told how to be less sulky, and somebody
else is told how to be more generous, and
still somebody else is told how TO honor
his father and his mother. don't want
to hear sermons about creeds. / don't
want to hear sermons that tell the
twenty-five hundred different meanings
of one line in the Old Testament;
| want sermon that's going to
make you and me better in practical
way. l like sermon that takes the Ten
Commandments, and reads between the
lines. BAD.