Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-12-13


commenced to talk and to write about
how important 1t is to read disagreeable
things. OF how useless are good novels,
and how altogether desirable it is to
count US of great worth those heavy
articles and essays that really and truly
tire one almost to DEATH There are too
many good books in the world for any
body to submit to being bored by those
that arc stupid, and, after all, what
good do they do one? Nobody remem-
bers that which is tiresome. Instead, we
think of the weighty book, with feeling
OF heaviness that comes, not only to the
brain, but absolutely affects the stomach
II people who have the dyspepsia would
often read good novel, the disease
would be forgotten. For really good
novel is like Aladain's lamp. 1t rubs UP
the brightness and makes one Think.
just now the world at large ought to
feel immensely indebted to the man who
wrote "Trilby," for, in addition to the
lovely story, there are those delightful
pictures to look at; and they are so good,
and tell so much, and make you so well
acquainted with the people, that you
feel like giving your very best bow and
saying your very sweetest 'thank you"
for the hours of pleasure that have come
to you.
JoY-GIvING BOOKS.
What a lot it must mean to have writ
| ten a book like that2 A book that
makes joyous hours for people, takes
| them out of the worries of this life, and
makes them appreciate goodness and
| kindness and brightness. 1t was wise
man who said, "Neyer read book that
| you do not like" The forcing your eyes
to look at stupid pages, insisting upon
your brain digesting tiresome sentences,
only results IN weariness; whereas, a
| good book, and by a good book I.mean
book in which there is good plot, in
which the characters are well drawn
and in which the English is good, will
| make the minutes and the hours go by
SO quickly that you will exclaim, not
only ut the shortncss of life, but at its
| pleasures. Somebody asked what was
an immoral book, and have been
thinking it over and wondering how it
could be described. 1t seems to me that
the immoral book is not the book in
which there are bad words, because that
book disgusts the reader, and is quickly
thrown aside. No, the immoral book is
that one which, in beautiful language,
makes sin seem attractive, and Il wicked
life the most desirable. One has 10
learn about books, learn to divide them
as men are, into sheep and goats, and to
select from them the ones which will
give the greatest pleasure, and at the
same time do the greatest good.
BOOKS AS COMPANIONS.
A happy book is good book, for it
makes you forget for little while the
misery that is in the world, and forces
you To appreciate the good. Generaliz-
ing, do not like religious books. They
are too namby- pamby; but there are
books which draw pictures of beaut .ul
lives, and makes goodness and sweetness
and virtue seem at once the best of all
things, and the most desirable to obtain.
You like an amusing book? l do.
like pleasant book, that makes me
laugh, because it is absolutely funny:
but don't like book in which the wit
has sting, and makes jest of what
you or | or somebody else holds, sacred,
That is why like rhackeray. Some
times his pen was dipped in gall, but
that is when he is showing up the mean.
ness Of humanity; when he wrote OF
goodness and patience and virtue and
loving kindness, his peu went into rose.
colored ink, and what he said was
written in clear words, that lie who read
might understand.
Books mean so much in the lives OF
people that it seems to Inc more thought
Iu5ht 10 be given to those that come tc
live with us, and are our daily com
panions. /! you are bit heartsick, auC
a little lonely, you don't want to TAX.
up book that tells of the petty spltes
of the mean malice, and Of the stingi
ness and viciousness Of the world; bu
you want to read about somebody whe
is CHEEKY and bright and funny, anC
Who will make you forget yop own
worries, and give ali your thought t.
the story and its hero. You want t,
, have Dumas, or Dickens, or Thackeray
! or Jerome, or Zangwill, Or some 81 til
clever women,
LIKE MES. BURTON HARRISON,
A who write dainty stories OF life, thes
s are the people whose books you want 4
n read, and To be part of your existence
+, And ! want 10 tell You one thing; i
i you are going 10 read much, You mus
: conclude that there are number q
j. things OF which You are ignorant, an
f you mustn't be afraid to refer to the die
o tionary. Mine is worn ont bv coustaIr
d reference, and the fact that one Of tn
n dogs ate the back off, but still il is use
n full. Once you conclude that there ar
e some things you don't know, and yo
n will find that you are on the high rna,
IS to extreme knowledge. But, go0dues
gracious! what a lot | have preached.
d One thing did learn; a Ioag time d q
c when Louis the Fourteenth was KIM
10 and men locked like pictures, and fin
" laces We're appreciated, and morals wer
# not all they ought to be, II was the Gu!
&c tom of tile King to give to the lady VIII
e had been gracious 10 hln, gold girdl,
l. so those ladies who thought more 4
IS their regulations than Of the King
&c pleasure, had this saying; ga goo
Ie name is better than a gold girdle." Now
Y adays, it would seem as if one migl
Il possess both the girdle and u 900
V name, for fashionable women inyar
q ably display one as an adjunct 10 the
smartest visiting gowns. Perhaps the
are not troubling themselves about 700
names, but really and truly, 1 don
1T think ever saw
so MANY GOLD GIRDLEs
Z, in all my life. Glrdles that are tigh
II girdles that are loose, girlIles that al
1t wide, girdles that are narrow, grid,
1t that are tied up almost to ones thro,
d and make one look shortwalssed, yirdl,
d that are drawn way down TO u point
n make one look longwai4ted, girdles
n gold braid, girtlles of gold passelnen
re eric, girdles of gold cord-any sort Of
girdle in which gold tinseI and pas
e Jewels can be arranged, obtains MOI
1t and more every day.
IS There are gifdles that fastcn queer
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