Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-10
rapturous-he wishes to show his love by
kissing you continually.

tt'sso lOh
N ALMOST swINBuRNIAN.
M You are in trouble, he will be ex-
tfAely quiet and Just lick you hand, as
mNb as TO say, "Well, we are friends in
gooA timcs and bnd times, you and ~
But NJ try to whip him, and no matter
now Nich he loves you, l give you my
word ojhonor that the Society of Cruelty
70 Elephants even would come to see what
IS going y. The man like him? oh,
you know Nm; he is young and clever and
healthy andNean and well groomed, and
III the girls aS glad to see him when he
comes around\ and he is never credited
with possessing the strong feelings that
are really his.
Put up your mnoclc and look Of the
King Charles; his Aair is like silk, and
combcd and clirled and little perfume
put on it, and he we&Sa gold collar. All
OF the rest of the dog look at him and
smile; My dear, he isSNie dude; you can,
meet him any afternoon yins to learn to
Walk, and making an eiftSt to look like
man or a dog; YOU can decsAe for yourself
now near he gets TO it. This Sas the result
OF my, visit TO the dog shSS, which is
really the best show in New YISk.
HAS A DOG A SOUL A
a woman said TO me, do yd,A think a
dog can laugh % aud answeIN, you
must have treated your dogs pretty badly
Il they haven't laughed at YOU yeS' and
then she asked, DO You think a AN has
asoul!" Now, this may not be orthdpx;
never pretended to be orthodox. ThA\are
nuhureds OF men and women who ha>Sn''t
got souls-,nean, low, contempkNle
creftures, beside whom even d monANl
pup IS king. Am l to believe thabh
creature who can love- who can stick IN
you through sorrow and through ioy. who
can distinguish right from wrong, and wig
can sacrifice himself for somebody he low !
Is without soul? Certainly not. And..
the dog that ! care for hash got n soul
ana doesn't get to heaven shall be quite
satisfied to trot along with him wberever
he goes. 1t will be good enough for mo,
because Will be certain of one thing, thai
the dogs wont let liars and scnndal
mongers into their heaven, il they hayH
got to have one of their own.
STORY OF MARIE BAsHKIRrsEFP. u
l heard story the other day about thse'
ch.talked-of young lady Marie Basil
kirtseff. 1t may be old to you, but Il Is
new to me. 1t seems that one day size
went to have photograph taken aid
while she waited she was amused by seeiig
q newly-made widow have herself bic
tured after manner that is essentially
frenchi that is, standing in her dep
mourning with. all the floral tributet to
the late deceased surrounding her. These,
by the by, included lot OF diaboIcal
wreaths made of black and white bdids,
Inventions only possible to the Frhcli
mind. After the bereaved had depaJied
me young girl hunted around the stidio
until she found some black draperics land
these she arranged about herself until she
looked as II she were in mourning. She
rested ON one of the floral crosses which
had been forgotten, and for a BACKGROUND
she had strip of black on which shl had
written in white chalk, Marie, agql y,
Oct. 81, lsSl:" NoN, the queer part 4 this
was that this picture, taken aboht 10
it, for she died on the very day with was
in white on that black ground. ri pho.
tograph is, believe, in the possession OF
an American girl. The story is bit
spooky and rather gives one the cre.ps
woMANs sPRINoTIME WISHES
! saw an article the other day headed
What Will the Springtime Brink ~
DIDN'T read it. because / thought could
run a little hoping bureau myself.
! hope. the springtime will brig rad
ishes that are not spongy and STRAWBERRIES
that are not first cousins to lemons
hope the springtime will brilg hats
that will stay on ones heads without its
being necessary to poke bonnet pits IA the
vacuum Just under the hair.
hope that the springtime will bring
warm sunshiny days, so Che people will be
amiable end not three-auarters oxen,
with colds in their heads. IL
| hope the springtime will brj con
sciences to dressmakers and vi l-filled
purses to their customers.
hope the springtime will bring plenty
of flowers, so that they can be given away
and everybody can have them for the
asking.
hope that the springtime will bring
some good novels; the average novelist's
brain seems to be frozen out at present.
/ hope that the springtime will bring
good luck to every body-the real spring
day is such lovely something the sun
winks his eye at you to call youi attention
to the fact Of the beauty of tho blue sky,
and, if there is a tiny bit of a breeze, it's
TO make you to have the sense of the Eng
lishmnn, the southern woman and the dog,
who always choose the sunny eide of the
street. If you have any curiosity about
me, just look, and that is where you Il find
me; though | am not branded, still you
might get some knowing dog to tell you
who was and who wasn't Bah.