Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

culated to inspire anything but love.
Then, too, the new colors-the pale
greens, the deep crimsons, the royal pur-
pies demand more dignity than the
peroxide girl ever possessed, and the
fact that Worth himself is always yearn.
ing to dress dark-haired woman, and has
expressed this desire, may be another
reason why peroxide has gotten into
disrcpute.
YOUNG LADIES IN THE KITCHEN.
Fad number five is very sensible one.
The fashionable girl is making great
effort to show her abilities in the house
keeping line. She invites her most in
innate friends to II little supper where
she cooks on the chatting dish, dresses
the salad, makes the coffee her own
sweet self, and has only her maid to
attend on the table. This is very diplo-
matte. Mademoiselle Wisdom knows
that she looks charmingly feminine as
she callers, in her pretty way, to the APP
petite OF her CHESTS, and she would not
deserve her name If she had guests be-
fore she had become mistress of the
chatting dish, dispenser of the salad and
queen of the coffee. She docs not re-
gard, thank heaven these intimate
friends es dogs on whom she is TO try
amateur cooking, but when she controls
two or three perfect dishes she then
sends out her invitations and makes
every bachelor think how perfectly de-
lightful II would be to have so womanly
a creature at the head of his table and
catering to his desires.
AT these suppers she wears an apron,
IA a Gt1 fV,.a 10 La l,,N
muslin one with BIB, and with rutlles
and strings, and as the bachelor eats the
lobster a la Newbourg, as he puts his
teeth in the tiny birds with overcoats of
bacon, as he notes how the oil and the
vinegar are blended on the green salad,
as he realizes that
THE ooFEEE is AS BLACK AS HApEs
and strong as love, then his eyes stray
To that apron and he wishes that he
were the strings about her waist, and
he envies the little gold pins that hold
up the bib, and, infatuated creature he
believes he would like to be small
enough TO be put in one pocket. And
then he goes to his hotel or his bachelor
apartment and kicks things around and
curses everything, and before he closes
his eyes says to himself about 40 times
"All the fine furniture in the world
don't make q home unless there is a
woman In it.n And Maidemoiselle
Wisdom has achieved her desire and
made man, whom woman, with a capt.
tai w, calls the tyrant, realize of how
little Importance he is before the eternal
feminine. My friends, this is fad to
be encouraged. like 1t immensely; in
fact, l think it is so good that ii is a
shame to call it fad, for anything that
tends to the making home pleasanter,
and which increases the desire for matri-
mony, is to be commended.
IDEAL LIFE AT HOME.
Matrimony, to my way of thinking,
is the solving of great many riddles.
A loving marriage aud a home will blot
out more Anarchists than the police. A
home OF ones own and a baby in it,
and the proper management of that
baby so that Its father believes il spends
most OF its days thinking of him and
his great ability, will keep more men
out OF mischief than all the sermons
that were ever written. l once heard of
a woman who said she didntlik babies
i never believed she was a woman;
eA0 AVN ehhb Oll L AllSlTuSlcu her.
One may not be overload of children IL
and IA years old, but for woman not
to like baby, dear little, helpless
bundle OF sweetness that relies entirely
on your goodness and your generosity
why, woman who doesn't like baby,
would not like dog, and woman who
doesn't like dog, wouldn't like man;
and she would be wrong all around.
That is a happy woman who has little
oaby In her arms, an agreeable dog who
adores the baby, and is waiting for the
master OF the three of them TO come to
| dinner One says the master" and
then one smiles; because in any prop
erly conducted establishment the master
is that mysterious bundle of soft flesh
and lace and lawn, which is held with
such care. and before which both man
and dog bow down in admiration. |
wish women understood better the great
power that motherhood is. | wish they
knew better how to use that power, not
only to make their children love them:
but to keep the love of their husbands.
WOMAN AS A HOME DIPLOMAT.
| wish instead of telling women how
/ to read some obstruse writer, how to an.
P'NSt'tS oiu Wibh % GuJllul ~, now TO
grow cultured with capital G, and
how to grow less womanly with a
capital w, some very wise teacher
would tell them how to make live happy
by love with capital L; how to make a
home by consideration with capital @;
how to make man happy by tenderness
with capital 7, and how to use every
weapon to make life sweet with all the
capitals in the alphabet. Every woman
is diplomat, and woman who realizes
her power as mistress of the house, and
caters to mere man through cooking
with a capital q, through that tie OF
affection, the baby all in capitals,
and through her own wifely devotion
and wisdom and care, which there are
no letters big enough to describe, is the
woman who is going to rule the world,
To steal from the suffrage people, she is
the coming woman, but she will not
come accompanied by brass band, and
with shouting and screaming, but her
influence, like that of all diplomats will
be fine and intense, and she will sue.
coed. Don't YOU stand ready to greet
her? l am sure you do. Every man
does. And with them, among all the
other sensible women, stands BAB,
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