Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-02-15
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special Aforementioned Gazette and Journal
New York, Feb. 9.-We are all in
Iackcloth and ashes. Being feminine,
most of us drape our sackcloth in
mart way and wear our ashes as if
they were the latest style Of head-dress.
We repent-oh, yes, we repent, but in
he way that suits us best. We thank
heaven that remorse doesn't keep us
awake at nights. Indeed, if by chance it
made an attempt to speak one night, we
would properly enough, hush it with
dose of choral or morphia. And then
we would laugh to think that in the
days gone by people believed that the
voice Of conscience, or remorse, or indl-
gestion, or whatever il was called,
could not be quieted. We repent in the
manner of the nineteenth century.
Mademolselle, who has been dancing
and prancing through all the fashion
able functions, getting little sleep, and
having many demands made on her
body and brain (for it is the vogue for a
woman to have bit of brain nova
days. is delighted to welcome the forty
days cf mourning, because it gives her
IN opportunity to rest a little. Of
course, as she tells you, she will go out
to "quiet things" but it won't be a
hurry and scurry from house to house,
from dance 10 dance, fearing to be
absent from any one because then the
world might think that she hadn't been
Invited. And she of to-day is dread
fully afraid that that might be believed.
Well, she is going to enjoy her days of
mourning. You know there is certain
sort of pleasure in mourning. 1t is
mil flxF VII nj % rTn 10 .1tlNr
morning service, and convince ones self
that one is the greatest sinner in the
world; it is charming form of vanity,
not requiring q new ball gown, new
arrangement of the hair, or anything
else that tends to make one attractive.
NOW SHE is GOING TO REPENT
Dear little Madame X. graveiy an
nounces TO her husband that she is
going to repent by giving her cook a
rhance to enjoy herself X. is q little
stupid, and at first he doesn't under
stand, but she soon makes him. He is
70 lake her out three nights in the week
10 dinner, and she adds, with bewitch-
Ing smile: make me enjoy myself ex-
actly as If we wern't married."
For the first outing X. arranged fine
dinner at Delmonico's, flowers and
Eavors, and all sorts of good things to
eat. But the little Madame pouted all
through dinner, wasn't any too agree.
able when they got home, and then
bursts into tears and told X, who had
done his best, poor wretch, that he
doesn't love her, or else he wouldn't
have given her just such a dinner as
she has been having all the time, and
which was no novelty.
She gave him three days to find a
place that would be new to her Now,
x happened to know u newspaper fell
low, SO lie asked him, and the news.
paper man said: II can tell you
A PLACE THAT Is UNIQUE,
where you Gun get good dinner, where
you will meet the most marvellous set
of people you ever saw in Your life,
but I'll only tell you with the proviso
that you don't let the so-called fashiona.
BILE set know anything about it; and my
reason for asking this is that once they
get TO going there they will ruin it. And
TO show you how this can happen, ]
need only to illustrate the career of q
restaurant that is to-day perfectly wei
known to everybody. When it wa.
started, the proprietor, a meat little
Frenchman, was his own manager and
head waiter; his wife was the cashier
and very good dinner witt
pint of light claret was gotter
for rs cents. This place was down in
the neighborhood of the University, and
in little while the artists from Tenth
street got to going there, the literary SCI
found it out, and it was the most dc
lightful. Everybody knew everybody
else, and if you wanted to find a goo(
musician, well-known artist or q new
paper man, you had only 10 drop int
Joseph's to look for him. In a it'll
while, the said Joseph began to max
money; then he put out flag at tn
top of his house that bore the sigl
Hotel Joseph The price Of tile Dime
went up steadily, and its quality wen
down. The men who had written of il
and among these men was one of Tia,
cleverest story writers of to-day; tn
men who had sketched it, in fact, til
men who had made il, found that the,
..Fwere being pushed out for people wit
more money and less sense; that whe
they were there Joseph pointed ther
out as If they were animals ON exhibi
ton, and gradually they stopped goinl
THEY STARTED OUT FOR A FEAST.
"Now Joseph has got big place,
very insolent to the people who wer
polite to him in his early struggles, an
only eager to cater to those who inca
much money. Pleasant little Madam
Joseph is dead, which may account fo
Joseph's impuGence. But to sum up
long story, we made up our minds tina
ever we go to another place tht
suited us, the law should be that n
man would write of it, no man woul
talk about it, hut that every man woul
enjoy it in his own way. Howeye
III tell you where it is, and you tall
Madame there with the understandir
that you are both TO keep quiet"
When X. told her about this ST
threw both arms around his neck an
kissed him with more fervor than 81
had since the waning Of the hone
moon. That night they started. III
house was in Il downtown street, al
yet within stones throw from whe
the old-fashioned millionaires liy
Three steps down a little turning, {
opening of the door and they were thei
For minute MADAME scarcely kne
what to think. There was no carp
on the floor; there were two long tabl,
one large and one small, round on
There were people at most OF them; b
they paid no attention to the KS.
they sat down, and in a few minutes
French woman came in, put Gle;
napkin, steel knife and fork in fro
Df each of them, and asked what wi
they would have. X. knew enou!
10 choose an Italian one, and it W
brought to them in about 10 minute
during which time Madame X. saw
YOnng man get I'D anunnnce thnt