Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-12-21


the children who had no right to it arc
bearing it. Old New Workers know who
these people are, bni the people who form
society to-day were sweeping stress or
washing clothes when this old family was
counted among the elect.
ruE oLuu MANS SOCIETY TALE.
Duplex? That's one. Tommy Toddles
of the Cad Club drops in to sec me and
have a cup of tea. Tommy isn't us much
of fool as ne looks. He is Young, and he
will probably be all right when he gets a
little Older. Tea acts ON him as it does on
old nurses; it loosens his tongue and makes
him gossipy. Here is what he told me. II
interested me because it was another du-
pick life. "Mr, and Mrs. Goodheart one
day saw at an asylum to which they were
liberal contributors, u pretty little girl
about seven years old. Mrs. Goodheart
has five bows and she thinks sho would
like little girl around her, so this child is
taken. She is not adopted, and neither Is
she made servant OF, but she is well edu-
Gated, dllsts the priceless bits OF china that
Mrs. Goodheart would not let anybody
else touch. reads and writes for her and
eats her meals in what used to be the nur.
scry. one day the oldest GOodheart boy
drifts in there and asks her TO mend
. glove Tor him. She is Just max
ing herself Il cup OF tea, and
as she has been taught TO be polite,
she offers him one. He drinks it while
she sews and lie watches her. He never
noticed before how black her hair was,
nor how blue her eyes, nor how slender
her shape, and her voice--he never heard
such u sweet voice before outside of
Ireland, After that. he seemed to want
her to do great many things for him,
and his mother was delighted to think that
t iIhie little girl was of some use to the boys.
Three days after her 18th birthday She
disappeared; nobody knew where, nobody
seemed TO Know anything about
her She left most heart broken note
begging Mrs. Goodheart TO forgive her,
and saying that some day she would be
able to tell her all. In couple OF years
time the family knew that she was III New
York i'll pretty house. living very quietly
and that she had a little baby. Well, you
can guess who was the father OF il. As
the months andyears went by, the oldest
boys devotion to her became more CON
spicuous, and she and her two beautiful
children were seen everywhere that lady
| could be-
| ONE DAY OLD GooDHEARr
| got frightened, and went to see her. He
| told her that he wanted his son to make a
great marriage, and he told her that he
would settle half a million ON her children
II she would promise never TO marry his
| son at any time, even in the most distant
future She signed the paper and brought
the half million TO the babies.
Now what Tommy roddles wanted to tell
me was that the news had just come out that
they were married. that the family had
accepted them, and that it was all right
and Tommy said with grim WASN'T
u clover III her to promise not to marry
him? Why, she had been married to him
ever since the day she ran away from ole
Goodheart's house. And he was nyinf
around among the girls, and they were
trying to catch him because of the man,
millions that would come to him. and ali
the time lie was just stringing EN-"
confess to joining Tommy in his giggle
because think girls who run after met
for their millions deserve no better treat
ment than strangers" as he so beauti
fully put it. That is another duplex his
tory.
THE RICH NOT ALWAYS HAPPY.
The butcher, the baker. and the mani
cure all know the duplex histories. The
butcher can tell you of the man who is re
puted ~ be rich, who entertains superbly
and who, when nobody but his owr
family are there, gives them absolutel,
less to eat than a clerk at $50 a month
would offer his family. The baker cal
tell you Of the woman with reputation
| -. Nhniie9 WIZ phNs extensively IRON
him, who gets him to put down on his bill
gallons upon gallons of ices that are neye
sent to her; he hands her the money. an(
she tells him she is going TO use 1t for he
| poor. Out in her carriage is a smooth
faced, demonstrating young man, waitinl
Tor The money that sne pays him for keep
ing secret he knows about her. I'll
manicure can tell you of doing the nail
OF young girl ana getting SIS from her TO
hNr
to man at the clubhouse. But most o
all, can the professional nurse tell YOU o
the. skeletons that walk about and rattl
their bones, while under their tleshles
teet are the richest of carpets, about then
are the most beautiful belongings, and Q
one thing in the world there is plenty
money. But. of belief and honor, an
kindness and consideration, there is a
absolute lack.
THE POWER OF MONEY.
Money is very good thing. It isn't tn
best IN the world. Money will never dow
skeleton. 1t makes life easier: that
truei put money never united peopl
through good report, through evil repor
through suffering, even through sin, an
made death no parting. 1t takes love to d
that. And you can't buy love with none,
You can fill the scales with golden dollar,
and you can gain beautiful women, yo
can gratlty your passions, you can ha,
all the luXuries you want, and every tim
! you put III piece more of gold you wi
| get something else but when you come
buy love, you have got to put love in
weigh 1t by. Duplex? Well, If the dl
! pick lamp that is burning So and the dl
! plex. lives that are SO general, mean tn;
/. one-half is to be a skeleton hidden ava,
' but of which one is always conscious, the
: ! think we had better go back to the oil,
I fashioned candle. 1t needs little trim
e ming now and then to freshen il up, but
D SHEDS its beam very far. love-ilke,
: shines right Oh in this naughty world b
I ing neither complex nor duplex. An
1 that is the best way to nave things-simp
: and bright. Duplex and duplicty alwa,
7 seem to me to go together. | wonder
4 words ever wed themselves in your mir
I as they do in that belonging to BAB,