Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-01-19

at that time believed that everything was
black, and there was no hope for any one.
That was Alexandra Dumas, pere. and the
mother of Alexandra Dumas, fills. Do you
wonder that he is a pessimist p
EVER FASCINATING CAMILLE.
There" said the blonde, after have
studied heredity for two weeks, you, with
ont studying II at all, have cot a better
story than any Of mine. But, speaking of
Dumas the younger, makes one think of
his plays, and forces one to feel heartily
Disguised with all the English.speaking
people for understanding them 50 little.
Camille is usually played in English, as If
Camille, herself had been next door to an
angel, and everybody goes away after see
ing her beautiful death bed, hoping that
they may live Just such lives and die Just
such deaths. a woman absolutely told
me that she didn't consider that Bern
hardts Camille was as splrituelle as Mod
Jeska's And am sure she thought was
crazy, because | greeted this with wild
laugh. When Dumas wrote Camille. he
drew. the picture of a woman perfectly
well known in Paris-a woman named
Aiphonsine Dnplessis. 4 woman who
was by no means spirituellg. but who
showed in her character certain cross
that was interesting. That is to say, she
was capable of good pure love of short
time, bnt the physical side Of her was so
strong that with the kiss Of an honest
man, still wet on her lips, she would seek
for an impure love. lie told this story to
point a moral, and that's the way Sarah
Bernhardt shows il. He never Intended
that Camille should be anything except
just what She was"
Yes, know" interrupted the brunette,
"a demi-mondaine.n
"There you areagain," sighed the blonde,
twisting around words from their origi-
nal meanings The demi-moniaine, rs
Dumas meant her, for he, believe,
created the word, was not the woman like
camille. She was i'll society, and yet her
carrylngs-on, so to say, were such that shu
was at any minute likely to fall out Of it.
She knew people she had no business to
know, because she was attracted to them
by lack of cnnvenuonaiity, or some
| special talent they possessed. She risked
great deal that she might be amused,
put Still she had position. And she only
raSeous for even her husband to approve of
PEACHES AND WOMEN.
| The demi-mondaine is best described by
| Dumas peach story. Monsieur goes into
a fruit shop where there are some beautiful
peaches. He asks the price. Each will
cost six francs. They are too expensive
| As he starts to go away the shopmun calls
| him back, and points to some peaches
gust beside the others, and tells him he
can have them at SIX SOUS apiece. But,
| said the buyer, "why should these peache:
be cheaper than the others; they are just
as large. the skin is Just as velvety, ant
| with the same pink Hush upon ii, anC
they have evidently come from the SAME
tree YES, said the shopkeeper, "al
that you say is true, but way down in the
heart OF this peach----the one at six sous-i:
u tiny speck that will gradually grow anG
grow and grow until The whole peach is
| spoiled. The demi.mondaine is the
peach at six sous-only the expert knows
the difference between the fruit.
Dear dear" said the brunette. what q
delightfully."- sensible talk we have had"
Yes answered the blonde, even t.
ones most intimate friend one likes tc
SHOW once and a while that one isn't the
fool one looks"
best way to subduc the rising generation.
is ADVICE REALLY DESIRED?
Personally, | thought that the swltcl
winch was recommended for the risini
generation, wouldn't be a bad thing i
given in proper doses to that which. pre-
sumaOly, has already arisen: but didu'
ike to say SO. Advice of this kind is neve
taken kindly. By-the.by, whoever doe
care for advice? We ASA for it, knowin
| just US wen us we possibly can that W
are gong to please oufSelves-we intend
as sort Of compliment TO the people L
whom we are talking, and yet in Il way it
great iupertinencc. Why should you Q
waste our grey matter considering
situation, giving advice to the people VIII
are i'll it, realizing all the time thai the
don't want advice: that they lust wan
gossip over their affairs, and hear wha
you have to say about it, II is bit i'm
pertinent to conclude that everybody i
Interested and always ti.iuk the man o
woman who goes about seeking advice j
putfed up with vanity.
The only advice worth having we hay
to pay for.
pay the butcher to give me his adyic
about a leg of mutton
pay the doctor to give me advice abou
my digestion,
! pay the ieweler to give advice aboy
my watch.
nay tine gas company to give me alvic
about the meter.
pny clergyman for his advice abol
the right road to pleasant climate.
pay my taxes to got advice about III
} weather.
in lacg, take it for all in all, any adyit
worth having is worth paying for, an
that which is given for nothing usual
amounts 10 nutniag. As chose wofue
sald, everybody must haze fad Ith!n
lllstart a school to give advice to mel
! not loo young,un the tesirauilityOf uude
: standing woman, and all the funny lit
!, ways she got should charge very hig
! Tor my advice; | Should insist on bein
. plld III advance and no man could De a,
!, Nlsed WHO hGdu' I his dill reccipted By