Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-10-05

pecialcorrespondence Of Gazette and journal
NEW York, Sept. 29.-Are you believer |
in heredity? Do you think that in that
mental and physical something that you
call yourself may be found the virtues
and the vices, the weakness and the |
strength of your ancestors? And that, |
over Il all, will come your own personality, |
which, if it be strong, will control the
birth-given instincts. and if it be weak
will yield to them with scarcely astruggle?
AS for myself so often see the child as q
reflection Of the grandfather, the son
showing certain traits of the mother, and
the daughter expressing in her feminine
way the indomitable will and energy of
her father, that | cannot but believe that
thesins and the virtues of our forefathers
descend upon us, even unto the second and
third generation.
READING THE HUMAN HEART.
lola, that badly translated writer; that
great reader of the human heart, the
human brain and the human body, has in
his last book, which to me seems his great
est, shown how, starting out from one
woman, four generations wrought out
either their happiness or sorrow; how
those who came from the honest and best
side of this woman, were yet tainted by
the slumbering wickedness within her,
that showed itself in disgraceful
love with a brutal man; and how, even
where this faint existed in her children
and grandchildren it was overcome either
by those who had strong will or Il strong
faith. For from this woman who, in her
girlhood. WAS an honest wife and mother
and in her womanhood was faithlesS
wife and the mother of children whom
she dared not own, hegenerations brought
saints and sinners, priests who went to the
Scaffold for their faith, sisters of charity
who walked through hospitals where hor-
rible diseases were, and cared for the bodies
and souls Of those who We're ILL men, who,
by their force Of will, ruled the nation;
women, who, by their wickedness, ruined
men, mentally and physically; and men,
who, by their weaknesses made manhood
a something to be scoffed at. How can
you deny what her heredity means when
yon think of all this2 But, what lola
has written hasn't so very much to do
with my story.
Over hundred years ago in county
Wexford, Ireland, once in a great while,
the spirit would move a gentle Quakeress
to speak in meeting, and always when she
spoke there came into her little sermon this
great text lie who is without sin let
him cast the first stone" This Quakeress
WAS Mistress Barbara Hilary. and |, who
am her great-grandchild, feel thai because
OF the number of letters that have come TO
me, that am moved by the spirit to speak
IN behalf OF the other woman. She has
always been called that. Even when she
was at her greatest. Ii she were Cleopatra
or Aspasia, she was always the other
woman. She was not the wife, who must
be above suspicion; she was not the
mother of sons who bore their father
name; she was only the woman who meant
to men hours of pleasure, intellectual or
physical, and she was the woman who
could be forgotten, or cast off TO suit tie
caprice of her master. Sometimes she
mastered him, but not for long. Her
reign has invariably been a short one; and
she has always found that the wages Of
sin were death. Not just the mere dying
that is nothing but the being forgotten
while still aliyei the loss Of beauty anc
wealth, and the having to solicit as beggal
where she once was giver.
Bah HELPS AN ABANDONED WOMAN.
Not long ago, crossing Broadway clost
. midnight, as / was coming froIu thu
heatre, from out the dark side street thert
tepped woman who touched me on TIT
arm; the man who was with me did no
want me to stop, but / would. She tolC
me she was hungry; and when asked he
more, she told me that she was - year
old; that she knew death wasn't very ia
from her, and that she had been driyel
out of the house in which she had lived
because she was no longer an attraction
because her hollow eyes and her awfu
cough disguised men. The man who wa
with me gave her some money, and toll
her to meet me the next day at plac
where knew she would be taken in an
cared for until she was either cured or
and then could say no more. Next day
found her there, and in little while til
good Sister had her in "A comfortable bee
and she was to be cared for, poor soul 6
long as she lived, which, by-thebye WI
only four weeks after first met her.
! suppose ought to draw a picture
beautiful repentance and a inaryelol
death bed, but il l did il would be Ii
That woman was so sick and so worn OF
that all she realized was that She had
quiet life, some people about her VT
were friendly to her, and that at the las
when death came, She sank into n gent
sleep, from which she never awakene
When she was dead her youth came bac
to her, and she looked as sweet and ,
pure as did your daughter, madam, whe
she died last year. And l, who stood
her bedside, could only wonder VIII
would be Gods Judgment on the 9th
woman l have talked very much wi
the Sister to whom | took her, u gent
practical woman, who sees and hears
the worst side of life, and whose dai
work is among the other women, not
their prosperity, not when they are ",
and wealthy, but when they are ill al
poor and forsaken. And what she b
told me is what am going to tell you.
WOMEN WHO LOVE AND BELIEVE MUCH
The other woman oftenest comes fro
small villages: she Is seldom the product
large cities. Sometimes she brings abo
her ruin for love OF dress from u desi
for luxury and greed Tor gold and wi
it will give her. Where she gets II
knowledge OF luxury, inasmuch as l
own people usually live very SINH
life, is unknown; sometimes from readi
silly books, but oftener from some far
ancestor.
Sometimes she joins the ranks of [
other women because she has loved a
believed too much, and, frightened a
ashamed, and not knowing where to
ga she comes to the great city to hide herst
and finds soon That what she first thou.
was her shame she can make her dishon
and dishonor which, in the coin of
realm, pays her well. She affects to
lieve in the honor of no woman; that
her part, for at heart is always a desire
talk to good woman, and when she cal
she revenges herself by pretending to
lieve that all women are impure.
day comes when, perhaps, she is ill,
unto death, and she goes to the hospi
The Sister talks to her gently and kinc
urges her to live better life, and wi
she is well she faces the Sister with I
question, who will help me?" She
lived life of luxury and laziness III
she does not know how to work, and
some unknown reason she positively
fuses to be sent to a strange countr,
take position as maid-servant; when
is we'll, she goes back TO her old life,
turns to the hospital perhaps three or
times, and eventually comes there to
Can you do anything but pity her?
an honored WIFE loved mother, how
you say one word against her? Put "
self in her place and think out the ridd
Sometimes the other woman comes fl
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