Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-10-11

nrotnrr rode, which would not be nice
for her To stride upon. How about the
bicycle riders now? 1t used to be tina:
II was considered great courtesy for u
man to ask woman 10 20 for trip ON
his sallbuat, which, of course, being
a man, he managed. How is it nowadays
with women sailing boats for them.
selves? They arc all losing something.
Tho frivolous woman, so-called, was II
thousand times less dangerous than Is
the woman Of to-day, for to her with
her laces and ribbons, her light novels
ana her fondness for the dance, there
always came o time when She settled
down into being good mother and u
home maker. But the woman Of to-day
Is not affected by age And she is quito
as likely to make herself heard in tho
fashionable amusements even when she
Is grandmother, rs If she were just out
OF the school room. 10 me it all seems
pitiful. II is true that men apparently
admire and pay court to the woman of
to-day, but get one to tell the truth and
in his heart of hearts, he does not like
to see II woman on n bicycle, willing To
bet.or smoke,or allowing herself to drink
more wine than is good for her in u
public place.
DRINKING NOWADAYS.
Curlously enough, in the days of the
Court of Charles the Second, and the
great Louis, during the days of the First
Gentleman of the Land, in those times
when the women were supposed TO have
led very gay lives, they We're not given
over TO drunkenness, anu yet to-day
there are more women drunkards than
you ever dream of. Sad? OF course, il is
sad, Tor nothing is quite as dreadful as
drunken woman. Another type OF
woman is the gluttonous one. The
woman who is Goarsening herself in
every way by overeating, and usually
she adds to it by oYerdrinking. You see
herin the fashionable restaurants select.
ing the richest dishes, and choosing the
proper wines to go with them. Person,
ally, believe in good eating and good
drinking, but believe in temperance in
all things; aud ! think it is quite us
necessary for woman to he temperate in
her eating rs in her drinking, for, while
she may not be made such frightful
example by overeating, yet she becomes
coarse in mind and in heart as well us in
appearance by selling her soul to her
stomach. How is il all going to end?
With the end of the century will there
come change in all things? With the
turning of the cycle will purity be APP
preciated as it should, and vice receive
the punishment it deserves? Surely we
hope 80.
AND OH, THE CHILDREN!
For gossip, whether by word of
nnni In mr. n tho ic nj n
of the vicious deeds that are being com
mItted every day. | saw three families
of children not long ago, each one of
which was with its father. The mother
OF the first set was a pronounced drunk
ard, and when she was not locked up,
during an attack of delirium tremens, il
was scarcely safe for children to be with
her, as she would use them to act as
messengers to buy the liquor, which her
servants and nurses were forbidden to
get. And this woman is the wife of a
man of high positions; she is wealthy,
young and has been beautiful. The
second family of children were with
their father because their mothers NOR.
ais We're so bad that she was not con-
sidered fit TO care for them. And She
was the daughter of man of wealth
and great social position, who had been
carefully educated, and who was one of
the last women in the world about whom
such u thing would have been believed
when she was first married. And the
third set of children were with their
father, because oyer-eating and over
drinking and over-gambling had made
their mother absolutely Indifferent. She
was rich, beautiful, young and well edu-
Gated, but she cared more for the excite
ment of the world than for the quleter
pleasures that would seem to be right
as far as husband and wife were con-
cerned.
These are types, but they are the ones
that set the examples for the rest of the
world. IL makes women who think,
sorry and sick when they realize what
it all means. When they come to CON
slider that these children will grow up
and never speak OF their mother; that
they will nave to be taught that their
mothers name cannot be mentioned,
and, poor souls, they will only too soon
learn the reason why. Think of girl
hearing such thing about her mother
as these children will hear some day.
THE BLAME.
Who is to blame for it? 1t cannot be
said TO be the bad education given to
girls, for in many instances the women
who have done the worst have been
those who have been carefully brought
pand welltrained. Surely there cannot
be such IL thing as natural depravity.
cannot believe it. 1t is something too
awful to think of. That you and |,
made after Gods own image, should
have the instincts of a DEVIL cannot
believe this. 1t would be too great an
excuse for crime if it were an accepted
theory, and it would be two awful for
those who were, as they say, naturally
depraved; too awful TO think of their
coming into the world handicapped by
wickedness. Are we going to solve it2
The only way | can see is for every
woman to be as good as she knows how;
TO remember that wherever she is
placed, she sets an example for some
body else, and the better her position
the greater her wealth. the wider her
acquaintance, the more eager she should
be to represent everything that is good
and wise and sweet-that is to be
womanly. 1t is what we all want to be
in the end, because it means the best Of
everything. You would rather see that
adjective applied to you than any other,
wouldn't you? So would BAB.
THE FIhST TELEGR.IM.
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