Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-03-02
Sheridans, were like rhinestones as to
diamonds; but in society to-day so.


diamonds; but in society to-day so.
MANY PEOPLE WEAR RHINEsToNEs,
the play hits so many of us beautifully. /
looked at the man sitting next to me, a
grandfather, fop, r0ne, and a most in
tcresting man, as the actor said, MEN
grow old, but they never grow good" And
tie applauded it violently. ] looked at
Mrs. Oif-Color, when somebody else said:
THE love Of a married woman is the most
truthful, the most exquisite the most in
tense, but married men never know any
thing Of it" And she laughed with her
escort and said that really, there were
some naughty things in the play" And l
smiled at my husband rs ii was said "A
cynic knows the price of everything and
the value of nothing" There was one
little line that appealed to me; it was "We
are in the gutter; but we can look up at
the stars And | could not but wonder
how many of lis ever trouble ourselves
about the stars, and how many of us were
satisfied with the gutter. 1t is worth going
to see that play; it ought TO teach every
woman that She doesn't want to live that
life, and it ought to teach us who are in it
to despise it. But we don't. We are in
the world we don't know how to get out,
aud am tempted to think we don't want
TO get out.
SUICIDE PREFERRED TO OLD AGE.
| have made up my mind that at the first
sign OF my good looks going from me
shall take dose of chloral. Accidentally,
Of course. You think | would be afraid?
Not a bit of it, No hereafter can be worse
than the present As we women of to-
day are living interrogation points, al
ways seeking Tor something new, have
rather an interest as to what the future
will be like, Blasphemous? Not at all.
We are q nation without religion, and
what | had has been knocked out of me
by what have seen. Does it pay? No.
it doesn't. | would give. anything in this
world; ! would give all that possess to be
the wife Of a man in the middle class of
society, whose greatest happiness was to
have her husbands love, to educate honor
ably and purely the children she bore him,
and not to have social aspirations of any
kind. OF course. | am firmly fixed my
self, but there is always the desire to do or
be something original unless, indeed, one
is content to follow the leader of the black
sheep. A thousand times no, it doesn't
pay to live the fashionable life of the New
York Of to-day.
This was long answer to my question,
but when woman starts to tell the truth
she lives up to the law and tells the whole
truth. As we parted, thought, what does
pay?
MAKE THE BEST OF EVERYTHING.
It pays to keep our ideals, and to believe
that all women are good and all men
honest.
|, pays to be loving and kind because
kindness and consideration are wonderful
Goals of fire to heap on the heads of our
enemies.
1t pays to be contented, for what do we
know about the unhapplness of the other
people?
1t pays to be cheerful in bad weather and
in good weather, for cheerful heart
makes good weather even when there Is
no sunshine.
1t pays to be made happy by little
things, for the accumulation of them
make up the sum and substance of life.
1t pays not to be envious for the velvet
gown may cover u woman who would
gladly exchange places with you.
1t pays to make the best OF everything:
at least, / think 1t does. Sometimes / get
nasty and compare gorgeous mansion
with flat servants in livery with neat
maid; fresh strawberries in January with
those that were done up last summer, and
then stop quite still, and remember that
ii | were in palace [ couldn't call out 10
the puppy from my bed to come from the
kitchen and have bit of toast; that the
servants in livery inightn't have as intense
an interest in all my affairs, or mightnt
trouble themselves about the honesty Of
the butcher boy, and the dollhouse straw
berries would not have been arranged for
me by somebody who was catering
specially To my taste. Oh, it pays TO make
the best of everything 1t does. | never
make an emphatic announcement unless
it is from experience, and this one comes
from the personal experience of Bah.