Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-07-05


answer, ',At quiet place in the
country" Then voice said "As she
Is going to rest, why not let her hunt
butterflies, and get up quite collection
OF them?"
confess this did make me angry, and
opened my eyes and said to the sug-
gestor, II think see myself chasing
around in the hot sun with net after
butterflies. Why can't people let me
alone? Why should my friends sud-
denly become my enemies9 haven't
the slightest intention Of improving my
mind during the summer, nor do / in
tend to make hot shawls. don't care
whether the earth is close to the stars or
not, and | am not going to sit UP at
night to watch to see if il is. l intend
to live along my life in my own way; |
intend to take lot Of frivolous novels
with me, and some cool clothes, and if
anybody sends me a medicine chest, I'll
throw it out Of the window. As for
taking up my painting, when / had
finished picture | didn't know what it
was myself, and how could | expect
anybody else to know? What is the
reason that everybody is SO ready, es-
pecially III hot weather, to give advice ?
WANT TO BE LAZY.
! want to be worthless, and | want to
be ignorant. In summer time all three
OF these states are desirable, and as for
my friends if they don't like me they
can-oh, well, they will like me just
the same. This one disappeared with a
significant tap Of the finger on the fore
head, at which l laughed, and which
made the family angry.
The summer days, my friends, are
better adapted to the loating spirit than
any other. In me this is we'll developed
and bliss is represented by an easy
chair, a cool get-up, and, If money will
buy it, somebody TO fan me. Tanning
ones self is a great mistake. The exer-
else involved tends to make one warmer
than ever before. | once had prize in
the way of tanner. She was a
small darkey girl known as
"Minta," but whose full name was
"Araminta Arabella." She woye her
wool into twenty.oue little pig-tails
that all stood out as ii they had received
an electric shock. For ten cents she
would fan YOU until you were us cool
as cucumber, and the lovely part of it
was that she could fan asleep as well as
awake, and that, seeing her standing up
asleep aud tanning, with untiring even
ness, had soothing effect on me that
was beautiful, and always made me 90
TO sleep. Minta wanted me to buy her,
and | would have done it with great
pleasure, but, as her mammy said
Deere aint no freedom aroun' nowadays;
Use got to take care o. all desc lazy
niggers, when if times wuZ free might
get few dollars for some of 'em,
specially dat dere Minta.n Minta was
far and away ahead of an electric fan.
There was quietness in the waves of air
that she controlled, and her palm leaf
fan moved us if it were directed by a
soul and not by Mr.. Edison. | am
Minta, but, alas! my hopes are never
realized.
ABOUT SUMMER FOODS.
You ought to have had some of the
advice that had been given to me on
the subject Of eating. If | did as people
tell me to do | would upset any we'll
regulated house. One woman said |
ought to have five meals day and
force myself TO eat. Another that |
ought never to touch water, and contine
myself to vegetables and oatmeal. As
Regarded oatmeal as an invention of the
evil one, | wouldn't touch it with
pitchfork, and | don't even give it to
the dogs. A woman who is dieting for
her complexion has advised hot water
i'll sips, and fried beefsteak; and another
one who believes that you grow spiritual
through your stomach said that il be.
gan by having cup of tea on SUNDAYS
and nothing during the rest of the week
by August | would be able 10 go without
eating at all, and that the material
would be entirely under the control of
the spiritual. l am sure it would, but
| am also certain that the dogs would
be wearing black ribbons, and that the
family would be discoursing about my
virtues.
QUEER FOOD IDEAS.
Whether it is that am simply human
or not, or whether | am possessed by
something, who can say? But /
certainly do like indigestible food. |
have weakness for hot corn bread. |
am devoted to coffee, and | like deyilled
crabs. 1t is true, | don't eat cake, and
only the insides of pies, but my daily
bill of fare would not satisfy my
"NtfASNiS' LIN 1ou tNGl oGG u WOlldH
who was on one of these queer diets
She is generally a wretched, miserable
looking soul, apparently not longed for
either by heaven or man, as neither seems
bidding for her The hot waterand fried
beefsteak one is usually the color OF a
lemon, with eyes that look as if the
water had settled around them and
made them shrivel up. believe, if the
good God meant that people should live
on hot water, it would have been served
to them in that way from the brooks
and the wells. | think the best thing to
do on the eating question is to select
dish which pleases your palate; if it
makes you i'll, which doubt, then don't
have it any more, but don't get cranky
on the food question. Good eating is
especially desirable for women. It
makes them loving and amiable and all
around agreeable.
What did you say?
10 a quiet place in the country ?"
Thank you very much for your kind
inquiry, and for the fact that without
giving any advice, you have merely
wished that q good time will come to
Bah.
A Walkers Good Record.
ST. Louis, Mo-, June 30.-Harry
Killing, the worlds champion short dis.