Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-03-02


tremcly pretty with great dark eyes and
oval face, and q mass Of golden brown
hair; and, as she laid among the cushions,
dressed in rOse-colored teaguwn, she
looked like one of Madclain lcmare's
watcr-colors. If you looked at her very
closely, you saw that the skin which when
one is - ought TO be pink and Willie was Il
deadly white; you saw that the ewes were
brighter, because of the heavy dark lines
under them. and the nervous witch Of the
fingers suggested that the woman herself
physically was not as perfectly placid as Il
woman ought to be; but she was pretty,
and She bore all the marks Of good birth,
good breeding intelligence and an assured
position.
MISS RosEBrD FRANKLY TALKS.
She repeated my words, saying. Does it
pay ?" Well, / don't know. Two years
ago, when was married, had very vague
ideas Of life. My mother had raised me
after the fashion of the old school, and
was prepared to believe that the right thing
| to do was 10 devote myself to my husband,
to make his home pleasant, to go among
| the set that my mother had always known,
| and to accept nobody outside of it. In
one month ; time found ont that if did
| this, | should be called queer; | should
weary my husband, and that the world
| itself laughed at the idea of excluding
from its drawing rooms men or women
| who weie, well, 10 put it very plainly.
what my mother called Adventures. |
realized that my husband was not satisfied
| with knowing himself that my neck and
shoulders were beautiful, but that he
| wanted me to exhibit them to the world
at large so that they might approve oil his
! choice; that he wasn't satisfied with my
dancing with him, but that he felt if other
men didn't ask me, he was insulted. And
so, from being Il tenGer-hearted, modest
| little creature, ! became what | ana
woman Of the world of to-day, who will
never be called to account for her sins of
omission.
| on, sly, APPEAR EVERYWHERE!
see every new play; go to every great
dance in our set, and like many other
women among us, done zip in a domino
and mask, | went to ball where | saw
my own husband, unmasked, carrying
around French dancer on his shoulder.
He seemed to be getting some fun out of
it'll wasn't Jealous, but it simply APP
peared uninteresting and vulgar to me.
How do my days go? Well, am not
wakened until II o'clock, and then it takes
me over an hour to dress to go to some
breakfast, and during that time my baby
is brought to me to look at Yes, have a
baby. 1t seems funny, don't it? That's my
one opportunity during the day to see him.
| When he was born | cried because he
wasn't little girl, and expressed vague
hone that some day might have daugh-
ter, but my husband very promptly told
me that now that lie had son | should
never again be i'll such a situation that it
would be necessary for me to retire from
society for few months. Then | am
| dressed and start out for the breakfast
there are usually a lot of women there
and possibly two or three of the men who
hang around fashionable women, who
I IL,
| worse STILL blackmail them, and who
above all things, must be cDnciliated.
| chatter with the rest, and when il is about
3 O'Clock, depart, go to my dressmaker's
for little while, and then start out for an
afternoons visiting 1t is near o'clock
when ! get home. have cup OF tea in
my dressing-room, perhaps my husband
comes in to see me for Il few minutes, if he
! doesn't, ! sleep. | am Weakened up TO be
dressed for an clock dinner, and we are
at the table until II, then we go to the
| Vaudeville Club come home, throw off
| the gown that smells of tobacco smoke
put on another, and 90 TO dance, some
| times with, and sometimes without, my
| husband.
RESTLESS EVEN DURING LENT.
Four O'Clock finds me home tired to
death, and glad to lay my head on the cool
pillow and keep quiet. Sometimes we have
! there is nothing that adore so much as u
melodrama where virtue is its own re-
ward, and where the wicked people drop
| out of existence and the good ones all OBJ
| tain their rewards lcnt is nv resting
time, for, although belong TO classes to
| improve my mind, to bowl, to play bill
lizards, and to make me mentally. morally
and physically better. still. when the
learned teacher talks, can manage to
| look interested, while my mind is an abso-
| lutte vacuum, and my body is resting We
are very fond of talking Of the fast set in
London or in Paris, but in each place there
| are houses where man or woman against
/ whom breath of scandal had been ut
| tered, where the woman's good name was
| doubted, or the mans honesty questioned
| houses whose doors would be closed
| against the renegadcs. and closed firmly
| There arc houses in London where the
! women and men who belong to the So
called Prince of Wales set would not be
allowed to enter; where, e.em visit from
his royal hishneSs, unless he We're accom-
! panid by his wife, would not be counted
an honor; but among the fashionable set
| in New York there are no such houses
| Money will gid lnleccncy of life and dis
/ honesty OF purpose, and the man or
| woman who can do something original
to amusc us will not be questioned very
much.
OUR DOUBTFUL VISITING List.
My mother cannot understand it, She
| looks at my visiting list in horror, and,
! when She objects 10 Mrs. OFT ol0r or Mr..
! rhiel-in-Purple, tell he: they arc re-
ceived everywhere, they are popular. and
! that Mrs. uft,Colur' hides he! skeleton
| under ruSClIuci curtains, and that Mr..
| Thet-in. Purple gives meet original break
| lasts She still Cgnr@t understand Why
! they are encouraged. III her day Thief
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