Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-08-24

Special correspondence Of Gazette and Journal
On BOARD THE YACHT LOVE LETTER. l}R-
You'd SANDY HOOK, Aug. lille called it
the Love Letter because while ii was
freshly painted every season it had the
same old foundation. According to the
newspapers-i mean the advertisements
In them-I had what was called that Tired
feeling" according to one doctor /; was
nervous pr0stration, and according to
another it had something to do with the
brain, but he declined to say exactly what
But knew better than any of them the
medicine that | needed-it was Whiff of
salt air and bit of life on the ocean wave.
There is nothing equal 20 it; 70 go sailing
over the beautiful blue sea With the
heavens above you, aud only those bits Of
humanity near You whom you like and
understand. Talk about steam yachts /!
Well. can only imagine man who has
I great deal of money and no brains
choosing one. for there is nothing that
compares with q beautiful boat that'sails
/ like swan over the water-like an
idealized swan possessing the mind of u
man.
MERRY YACHT OILERS.
We were very comfortable, the five of
us. The captain of the Love Letter, a
charming bachelor with heart big
enough to love all womankind, and
! whose marriage would have meant great
grief to all except the one lucky woman:
an interesting painter, who had seen life
as it is all over the world, who had
eketched in Egypt and in Greenwich vii
lage and adored the beauties of Chill. Of
India, OF Paris and of London, but who
always came back to an American
woman; then man who is bit cynical
because he has seen SO much of the shadow
ana SO little OF the sunshine of life, being
DOCTOR the other woman, excepting Bah,
who can't classify herself deliciously
healthy girl, who sees nothing wrong in
the world, because her neart is as magnifi-
Gently healthy as her body. The Love
Letter is not jewel casket or fashion
able woman's BOULDER; but it is an essen
TALLY comfortable boat, and tonight we
are stretched out on the deck, the men in
easy chairs, the Handsome Girl on lounge,
and l, because of my semi-invalid condi-
ton, on huge pile OF cushions. And we
are Just talking. The captain saws
Didn't we have fun the night we STAYED
over in New York, and went to see "rhe
Prodigal Daughter?" And we all said
''Yes," in chorus.
Then the Cynic thought out loud ~
do believe that in that melodrama there
appears every character that Jerome intro.
+ duced into his 'Stageland;' there's the
heroine who weeps through all the scenes.
the comic lovers, the severe father, the
villain, the honorable stable boy whose
conscience troubles him, the villains tool.
WHO eventually turns Queens evidence,
and the last act of all, where all the good
people are married to all the other good
people, and everything is forgiven and pre-
sumably forgotten.
Yes, answered the artist, ''they are all
in it, but how we do love theml The charm
of melodrama Is that it is like life-the
society drama is the drawing-room. tht
melodrama takes in all sorts and condi
tons OF men; the melodrama is an i'm
pressionist picture-the society play is 1
Meissonier. The man who Is educated t.
art takes up glass and looks at the last
admlring every fine point it possesses bul
the great mass Of humanity hang around
the other, do not need guide book to tell
them what it all means and are awed tr
silence. The playwrights are greatly given
Just nowtoo putting too fine point on
their pencil, On a white sheet of papel
they can only make light gray lines and
wnlle gray and white are cool looking anc
attractive to the educated eye, they arr
neither impressive nor truthful. for life il
sketched out in mordant strokes, and Il
tne gray comes in at all it is between tn,
piack and white, and the picture of life il
never gray and white
CLEVER TAKERS ON DECK.
That's all very WE'LL" responded tn,
Handsome Girl, but return to the play ID
SELF. why did 1t make the tears run doWr
the cheeks of the Cynic2 Why did |
make Bah sit quiet in the back of the HOY
And why did my heart beat so though
Eit Would break my shirt front? I'll tel
you. Because it is the old, old story o
love and forgiveness, of honesty triumph
ing over vice, and because it tells that ii
this cynical world of ours, it is time ",
Tememb ered that love and goodness, graft
tpde and honor are not confined to tn
drawing-room, but may be found in tn
stables or where they are least looked fol. ;
Then began the Cynic: ut was tn,
emotional side that fetched you women
NOW, It's beautiful mounting, and the goo
dressing of the men appealed to me.
YES answered the Handsome Girl
they amounted to good deal; but sa,
what we will, it's the heart-beat tina
anects us all, no matter how hard we ma,
Try to prove we have no hearts," Witt
this she gave u scornful look at the CyniC
VINO, taking his cigarette from his mouth
threw 1t into the water, and said laugh
lngly; There goes my cynicism. Now
III agree that we have hearts; but wan
somebody, to tell me what she means b
Tine Captain looked interested, and CAV
the trst answer. Its the-well. 70
know it's the something that makes 70
1eel that humanity has been touched, an
that each time your heart throbs there
another one to answer it,
ITS the reality" said the artist. "Yo
see u IN one picture and not in another
you know That one man painted becaus
he loved to- and because the subject M
close to him; while another did ii for til
hard dollars"
"lts-well," said the Handsome Girl i,
can feel it; but l don't know how to e,
PLAIN 1t, except to say that it is like tn
dl1ference between staring at your face /
looklng-glass, and seeing it IN clei
brook; the glass, no matter how true
may be, represents you as it prefers; ID
brook gives you natures pictures, an
shows you your face, as God AlmigLt
made it, and as you have marked it.
BAB AND cYNIC HAVE THEIR INNINGS.
From my cushions came this explain,
ton; TITS understanding suffering becau.
You have suffered; it's approaching 10y
because you have loved; il is the exquisit
sympathy between human beings thi
comes from mutual Understandings
The Cynic said NO, you are ali wron,
Men have written great plays, painte
great pictures, composed wonderful mus
and they have unconsciouslv portraye
the truth, and the truth will ALWAYS rim
clear and bring back an echo when
SPEAKS. The reason we love certain book
certain music and certain pictures is D.
SHtPS w iht al tiiIAh what alIllOSt ullcOl
seiously the worker put there. The boo
that is the fad of the hour dies in an hou
the book that is discovered by one ma
spoken of to another and in which v
meet the people we know and love, or d
spise, as it may be, is the book which
going to live. Why does Bah throw asd
the last new novel and pick up all old COP
of Dickens It's because she knows an
loves Mr. Micawber because she has mt
Bella Wilfer; because Sidney Carton IA,
been dear to her; because she wept at iii
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