Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-03-09


children's Children; il may be that all this
affection is centerel on one little grave;
but u is there, and that is the reason why,
putting aside every other. the moral and
social obligations, the wife has always
been and always will be, pray God, the
strongest among women.
LOVE, SUNSHINE AND PEACHES.
The girl who wrote to me said she didn't
want me to preach. | wonder ii have
done it. If have ] am unlike most
preachers, for | believe what saw. Love
Is said TO come like a thief in the night. |
don't believe it. believe love, like,
perfect peach, is the result of careful
training; of plenty of sunshine and of no
cold biting frost; that 1t needs to he cared
for and protected alike from too great
heat, or too great cold; too many showers
or too fierce drought; but alwaysi it wants
care, and given this care, il will be as per-
feet specimen of fruit as ever Il gardener
dreamed Of. Neglected, it will be tastelcss
shapeleSs, hacking bloom, and without the
Intangible something that makes either
love or peach worth having. My dear
girl, you are quite too anxious for love,
ana You are not willing to test it, and sec
II u IS really love, and if it is worth the
training. You are like most Of the dear,
delightful women OF our own country;
you are in too much of q hurry, Some
body said that womankind will never
pave reached the great art of repose until
sheis willing to appear ignorant of many
things she really knows. Voltairc said the
wlscst woman he ever met told him there
were three folies Of men which always
amused her: The first was climbing trees
to shake the fruit down, when, il they
| waited long enough, the fruit would fall
| itself the second was going to war to kill
one another, when IL they only waited,
they would all die naturally; the third was
! that they should run after women, when,
| if they refrained from it, the women
would run after them! Now, ii you will
| Just reverse that last. we can all agree with
Noltaire about that wOman's wisdom.
DEATH AS A DINNER GUEST.
Is getting into anecdotage sign Of old
age? hope not, for always love to hear
| the after-dinner stories. The other night
! some men were talking about the most
tragic deaths they had ever seen. The first
said Il was travelling in Switzerland, and
went to table d'hOte dinner; there were
| only two seats vacant at the table, which
| was n long one. Many af the people were
invnlids but after | Sat down ! was sur
| prlsed To see that was regarded at once
with sympathy and curiosity. could not
understand it. ordered i. hottie af Bur-
gundy and was drinking my first glass
| when chair was wheeled beside me IN
which sat a man. | say Il man, and yet
|
il seems to me IL was simply the soul OF a
| man in the frame of bones and skin-a
| vcritable skeleton at the feast. | was
young, healthy, but for a minute even my
| courage failed me; then, To the astonsh-
ment OF all tho people asked my strange
neighbOr to take Il glass Of wine with me-
His eyes glowcd and he said in n whisper.
Sir, you are the first human being who
has had the courage 10 speak to me in two
years. will drink your health III my
wine and you will drink with me- He
made motion to his servant, who left the
room and came back bringing bottle of
almost priceless Lachrymi Christi; he
filled our glasses | lifted mine, touched
that of my stranger, who said to ME in a
bless you lie drained the glass. his hand
fell. the glass was in dozen pieces, and
the man was dead, That was the most
tragic death have ever SEEM
DEATH ENTERS THE GALL ROOM.
The second man said: II was at one OF
the public balls in Paris; a party of us had
Il box, and when we were tired of being
on the floor or wished to give our partners
glass of wine, we took them up to it.
saw a woman, whose figure was very
charming, who was beautifully dressed
and | asked her to dance with me. Sht
consented, and after the dance as stood
tanning her, a man came up and spoke t.
her; the language he used was neither
French, Russian, Italian or German, as
know all of them.
HE was evidently very angry, anC
pointed with indignation to two other mel
who had asked her to dance; she wills
, pcred something TO him, he smiled, anc
She told me in very good English sh,
would dance with me again. Alter this
! suggested that she come to the box ant
have Il glass of wine. As we went Their,
An 4. L.. Il
spoke to them i'll the same language sh
/ had used to the other man, which | nov
think was Roumanian they then left
! She was standing i'll the box with glas
! of wine in her hand, when the other nIai
: came to the door still holding the wine
} she walked into the lobby behind the box
! and | watching them with certail
! move, something flash in the air, the win
9 glass fell from her hand and the womal
e was dead. Stabbed to the heart. In
, second the police were on hand and III
e man gave himself up. In 10 minutes til
+ body of the woman had been taken away
t there was no sign OF n tragedy, and
polite trenchman said to me: You ca
now go on enjoying YOURSELF But fu
s me that night there was 10 enjoyment
. When got home found that / had hel
!. the black lace fan that had belonged to tn
!. woman, and that had uncunsciouslv pu
: ii in my pocket. | have it tackled up j
q my bedroom now because it represents t
, me the most tragic death ever saw.
r TRAGIC LOVE STORY.
G Then they looked at me for my story
i. Years ago there were two people VIII
e loved each other they were young, an
5 the troubles Of life seemed as nothing q
+? long as they were together. but poverty
Il that tSef of love, came and tried to SEPT
o rate them. They were faithful to eac
o other and each battled in whatever wa
1t was possible with the world, and when til
e working hours were over they were Il
& gether and would laugh and jest and
e rs happy as only people can be who al
young, who are healthy, and who 10y
e each other. At last poverty had so niue
e the control that the cheeks of the woma
Y grew thinner that life was made full
e woes, and the man found that health WI
st slipping away from him. Unused to worl
If he had tpiled like slave. and not havir
d had q training for it, he had broken dow
II The woman could not work, because 81
had to take care of him, and she saw ever
thing, her little store-holiSe OF Jewels eve
, her clothes, going to that refuge of Il
i pooT-the pawnshop. One day n lett
~ came, Il heavy letter, which the postma
. wouldn't leave because there was Il
ne money TO pay for the extra postage;
"a good neighbor, for there are neighbo
n. among the poor, went to the sign of Gold,
q, Balls and pawned the wedding ring tn
~ the letter might be gotten. Yes, it hi
N. good news in it; news that there "
IL plenty of money news that meant JOY al
~ rest, and happiness for both, and rs q
no wife leaned over and whispered to h
n husband, she felt her face flushing wi
n. delight, for she thought of all it would
~ for him, and she put her lips on his al
re- he whispered, but one word, Love
III Then the lips grew cold under her ow
y mud cnlHer inl rnllnr and Che IhrnM