Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-06-07


this respect every day. Women are
willing to live lives that are lies, and
men are willing to cease to be men
simply for the sake of appearances,
and, after all, the very world that they
think believes IN them laughs at them.
so-cALLED SOCIETY RECEPTIONS.
You and your sister go to Madam
Frauds reception where you meet
everybody, so.called, and where there
is BOWL OF weak punch, that as the
afternoon wears on is watered, and
where there is dish of small cakes
that nobody touches because they know
they are kept from one Tuesday TO
another. Madam Frauds receptions are
written up in the paper next day, and
there are announcements of the people
thinks that the world believes
she is great parsonage, and she
does not realize that she is laughed at
and that all sorts of different names are
given to her, that her age calls for no
respect because she behaves like fool,
and that people only go because it is
a convenient place to meet other people.
She is idiot enough to suppose that her
visitors imagine, because she has the
parlor floor in the boarding house, that
1t is her home, and she is the subject of
nevcr-ending laughter to the people in
the house to whom she believes she rep.
resents society with capital S. And
tho world swings along, and the Frauds
are innumerablc, but nobody is fooled.
And once in while somebody Is
brave enough to say; IL will go among
the people like and do as like | will
give to them what | can afford, | will
dress as l can afford, my bills will be
paid and | can face the world at large
and know that am not stealing n repu-
tation that does not belong to me, nor
am l spending all my time fishing for
gudgeons to furnish me with food and
wearing apparel" Why don't mothers
raise their daughters better? That is
where the trouble is. ..=..-
SHAM TRAINING OF YOUNG GIRLS.
The daughter of man who makes q
good living is married to young clerk,
and is given trOusseau suited to u
millionaire's daughter. That is the be-
ginning Of the nonsense. Instead of
furnishing her with clothes suited to
her position in life, and then giving her
some bed linen, and some silver, that
she may help to have home, she is
presented with what is the first induce
ment to pose as fraud. Then she
goes TO boarding house. From that
time on her life is one continual effort
TO appear what she is not. If by some
chance she becomes mother, her little
child is put off to school, that she may
not be troubled with it; that il may not
apparently add to her age, and, most
important of all, because it is cheaper
Her husband is an old man before he is
young one, in his efforts to cater TO
her desires. He is off early in the morn
ing before she is up, and when she APP
pears, probably not until luncheon time,
her whole conversation consists in dis
cussing foolish book, or talking about
her favorite actors and actresses with
women who are on a par with her, in.
tellectually, and every other way. The
afternoon is spent in chasing after bar
gains, or seeing how other women who
have more money than she has, arc
dressed; while the evenings are occupied
in going to the theatre, or to the one
or two houses where she has been
invited to the so.called receptions. The
poor husband is dragged along, unless,
indeed, she has already commenced to
grow ashamed of him, and in that case
she takes with her some young man who
occupies room on the top floor of the
house, who dresses well, who talks
glibly, and who earns his living, nobody
knows how. .-...
HOW IS ALL THIS GOING To END?
What is this woman going to be when
age comes to befG Can you blame her
child if it does not care for her? Can
you blame her husband If he is indiffer-
ent to her? 1t seems TO me that some
body ought to preach every day in the
week and twice on Sundays on the
necessity for educating woman as wives
and mothers, and let the question of
so'called higher education go to the
dominion bow-wows. You notice they
always call this "the higher education"
which, after all, is only comparative.
What women want nowadays is the
superlative. They want the highest
education. That which will make them
good, honest, loving wives and mothers;
that which will make them realize their
duties as daughters, and that which will
make them ahhor every kind of sham.
Give your daughters that chance. Give
them chance to shun all frauds and
littlenesses. .5....5..
WOMEN WHO FIND HONE LIFE IRKsoME.
tell you the voice crying in the will
derness to-day is the voice of the chill
dren who are put off to boarding schools,
who know no homes, whose mothers nre-
fer to live in boarding houses because
housekeeping is too much trouble. You
know the day will come when these
women will find their consciences are
too much trouble. 1t will come when
they arc alone and old, and the child
they bore docs not care for them, for
that child will give its love to the people
who took care of it when il was little.
II is not more rights, my friend, that
women want. 1t is the knowledge of
how to take care of the rights that they
have. This explains why | signed the
| paper against tile higher education of
woman. Because don't believe in com.
parative degrees in anything. l want
| women to have that higher education
which means combination in knowl-
edge of heart and brain. Take the best
or nothing. Don't stop at the better. II
is never worth while, and you are only
standing between two bridges, which
means you will certainly fall. There
fore wrote against it in full, and with
my best pen, the name that really and
truly and honestly belongs to BAB.
IN GENERAL.
The Rev. DIR. Talmage of Brooklyn sailed