Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-11-02

"Oh, II it is bad don't want TO hear il,
because shan't like IL; and If it is good l
don't want to know it, because it will make
me vain" 1t takes considerable courage
to do this, because from Eve down we
have always wanted to know; but If we
ran just start the throwing of this cup of
cold water on the tou-willing talker, we
will be surprised at the result, / tried it
once, and may mention quite casually
that it worked very we'll
What's the matter with the world at
larger Why does it want to make people
feel disagreeable? Why shouldn't it want
to make them happy? sometimes wish
that the preachers would talk against
lying and scandalmongering SO Sundays
in the year, and give you my word that
wish they would make the matters per-
fectly personal and refer by name &c the
members Of the congregation. Religion
ought to be personal; when it does not
apply to YOU or to me directly and dis
tinctly it is doing no good The faith which
generalizes will never save many people.
/ wouldn't give straw to hear the finest
preacher in the world talk about the
meaning of verses in the Old Testament
| want them to tell what lying is, define
stealing, make the difference between
right and wrong in everyday life as dis
tinct as possible and teach me and teach
you our duty to our neighbors. want a
preacher who will say that, even to lose
his salary. he wont flatter his congrega-
ton. ] don't know exactly where we will
get such a preacher, but l am hoping for
him.
THAT'S A BLEssING-Is HOPE.
When people effect you so unpleasantly
that you seem to taste the bitter waters of
life, It is very good to be able to hope for
something better Say to yourself: "Oh,
well; never mind; there is tomorrow,
and il may bring something nicer" Or
even to think "Well in time there will
be honest politicians, brave men, and
women who will speak the truth when it
is necessary and hold their tongues when
il isn't" 1t always seems TO me us ii hope
were good bit like sponge cake. Hou
know exactly how to make it, and you
look forward to the result with great
delight: then, instead of beautiful yellow
loaf resembling the sponge it is named
after you get a fiat, heavy, UNBEATABLE mess,
tasting OF eggs and sugar. You give sigh,
and throw it, metaphorically, TO the dogs;
i'll reality, the dogs respect their stomachs
too much to eat it. Tomorrow you try
again. Your method is the same but the
result is different. It is a lovely, fine,
iaky loaf Of gold, that melts in your
mouth, and for bit of which the dogs
will do all their tricks. You can't explain
it; you did your best both times, but if
you had declared at the first failure that
YOU would never try again, you would
have been miserable unhappy woman.
II is tine keeping all the time in your
heart belief that, after a while every
thing will be as you want IL that makes
life worth living. For it is, my friend,
after all. sit down to chatter with you
and | am indignant about something, and
| say Just what | think; and after have
said il, ! feel a deal better, and begin to
get CHEEKY, and remember the people who
are altogether nice, and whom | hope
will meet. ! try to think there is some.
thing good in the other people. As some
body wisely enough said, man can be
bad all the way through, but woman
always retains little of the divine spark.
lqtllte believe this; but wish she wouldn't
he so mean. | would rather she would be
a murderer of bodies than of regulations
because, after all, one only dies physical
death once, while n mental agony a thous-
and times worse than death is endured a
million times. With the beginning of the
tea-drinking season, it is a very good idea
for all of US to make resolution or two.
Of course, We mayn't keep them; but it is
worth while to try. You like your tea
properly made; you want the water i'll the
Kettle to boil and bubble, and then YOU
pour 1t over the fresh tea, which in two or
three minutes is ready to drink, amber of
color and exquisite of taste. You drop in
u little sugar, and perhaps a little milk As
you drink it you eat a bit Of cake or some
bread and butter. That's tea proper, and
as you delight i'll IL, you want to tell about
the pretty girl You have seen, the nice
things you have heard, the play that in
terested you, or song that delighted you.
KITCHEN AND TABERNACLE.
Now, the other kind Of tea is put in a
tin pot, deluged with water, stands on the
kitchen stove and boils, and it is black as
murder and bitter as gall. You take a
mouthful of it and hate the world, and all
the wrong that everybody has done comes
to the surface; and as you take second
mouthful and get the tinny taste, you
don't believe the pretty girls roses are her
own; you remember the disagreeable part
| OF the play, and you can't think there was
any melody in the song. All of which
means just this. The kitchen is very close
to the tabernacle and unless we give people
the right things TO eat and drink we can't
expect any virtues from them. Material,
| isn't it? But then that is what we all are
| Flesh and blood, and very assertive flesh
and blood. Claiming to be properly
catered to. 1t is very nice TO be able Ia
| paint great picture; It's very nice to be
able to write great book; it's very nice
to carve wonderful image; it is very nice
to do all Sorts of great things, bat yor
know il is not the great things that make
life. Every man L know will agree with
me in thinking that the finest thing Q
woman can do is to order a good dinner
She then appeals to the material, the in.
tellectual and the spiritual side of man
That man should marry a woman be-
cause she writes good book is O mystery
to me- but that he should marry one who
thoroughly understood how to feed tn,
brute is perfectly comprehended by
Bah.