Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-22

are few handsome women pictured
There are some who look like ladies;
there are some who look motherly and
sweet, but there are some who look cross
and tired, and taken as a whole 1t is
scarcely an exhibition of fair women.
The prettiest woman, TO my way Of
thinking; on exhibition is Mrs. Elisha
Dyer, and she may be credited to the
sunny South, inasmuch as she is a
native of Baltimore. 1t was rather cad
dish, WAS il not, fer them to charge S.
admission the first day? The conse
quencc was that the rich came because
they wanted the world to know they
had the money, and the poor came
because they did not want the world to
know how poor they were. Nowadays
ii costs so cents TO look at the pictures,
ans decidedly Il better class of people
was there on the second than on the
first day. Of course, the self-elected
rulers of society were prominent the
first night, but as we have all gotten
rather tired OF them, because OF their
advertising agents, they were not par.
ticularly interesting.
THE WORLD WAY.
Ii is funny how the world grades you
according TO the money you spend. A
man who is by no means wealthy, and
who is very much in debt, was asked
by u friend to go to the sale of boxes for
the horse show, and buy him box. He
was not limited as to price, so, of course,
he got one of the best Although he
gave the name Of the gentleman, u mis-
take was made, and his name was given
to the reporters as the man who had
bought it. 1t was very funny to hear
him tell about it. He said the next
morning every creditor he had was wait.
ing for him before he was up, because
they thought he had either struck
bonanza, or had fortune left him.
1t is very much what you appear to
be, and not what you are, in the big
cities. If you look prosperous, you are
received as such; and society does not
forgive you for looking poor, unless it
knows that in reality you arc very
wealthy, and are assuming this as fad
Of the hour. Reality is counted as of
little worth, and you are judged by the
outside shell. Anybody who has bought
eggs, knows that this is not the best
way. Instead, they must be held up
before the strong light OF candle, and
then you eau tell whether they are fresh
and good, or, the other thing. Unfor.
tunately, We do not look at people in the
light of the truthful candle, and so we
have to take them as they seem, and not
as they are.
QUEER, ISN'T IT?
But then there are so many queer
things in the world. Queer people are
the most interesting, however. One of
the queer things that seems to have
afflicted elderly women who arc in
clined to be frivolous, is the wearing,
just now, of stiff felt sailor hats, with a
white bird on each side. They look too
funny for anything, and yet nobody will
tell the poor old souls how absolutely
idiotic they appear.
Then there are the queer men who
are pretty elderly, who wear stays and
plaster their few remaining hairs down
with oil, who are victims of rheuma-
tism, and yet they mince along as if
they had just come from their dancing
masters.
Then there is the queer government,
which puts in its pockets what is in
tended to he used for street cleaning
and the general improvement of cities;
and the dwellcrs therein weep anu wall,
but all to no purpose, unless, indeed,
MIR. Golf is clever enough to send up to
Sing Sing the people who really ought
to be there-that is, the big thieves and
not the little ones.
MORE QUEER THINGS.
And then there is the queer way of
living, OF starving ones self for 80 days
in the month, and then, on the Both,
giving some sort OF society function,
when big spread is served, and your
enemies eat OF your substance and keep
you poor.
Then there are the queer books that |
must keep talking against-those books
that hinge on the horrible. Now, |
adore Sherlock Holmes, and l despised
Dir. Doyle for killing him, yet the other
day bought a new book of his, sup.
posing it would be interesting, and it is
niled with the nasty experiences of a
doctor. In the preface he says they are
not suited to nervous women, aud he
might have added truthfully that there
was no reason in the world why they
should have been published, unless, in
deed, It had been in medical journal.
Then there are queer actresses, like
that newly imported English one, wha
asks to have a cup of tea in the same
tone that she would demand dagger to
stab her enemy, and who wears mys.
terious robe that an Englishwoman
would not don, unless it were for mel
bathroom.
Then there are the queer newspapers
| who take one small item OF truth, and
frame it in several large Jumps Of nm.
truth, and make it difficult for anybody
to deny, because a whole lie can be
fought outright, but when it has some
truth in it, it becomes very difficult tc
| handle.
Then there are the queer preachers
Those who trouble themselves more
about the things of this world than
about those Of the next.
| Oh; there could be long list of uuecl
things made out. Try it for yourself
only don't head it or end it with the
name oil BAB.
Mother GOoSe Clubs.
| The ladies of fashion who have beer
wasting breath descanting upon ant