Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-22

the blonde type is supposed to be the
| hrainy one. The dark haired woman is
loving and passionate and may be quick
tempered, but the blonde woman is cooler
and more calculating. Then too, she is
inclined 10 be occult. She claims to have
various spirits influence her, and she
throws the whole responsibility of what
| ever She does ON 10 whoever may he con-
trolling her ut that time. Those things are
very convenient 10 believe. All these
| queer ideas take away the responsibility
from the individual. | know one woman
| who persists in saying that at times she is
governed by somebody else S SOUL and that
she cannot be held responsible for what
happens when she is really not herself.
| Queerly enough, If YOU start in to count
the women who accept these ideas, YOU
Will lind that nine uut of ten have blue
eyes. | don't know, but would be will
| ing to bet that the woman who wrote that
! horrid book. The Heavenly Twins has
| light eyes. or is at least blonde in effect.
| HOrrid? Yes, | do think it is horrible for
| its stupid, and it's what ! used to call
when | was Il little girl, uhnice. Books
| with purposes are like people with them
they bore one to death.
Probably in the days of the Queen of
! Sheba they were discussing that same old
question us TO the possibility of man or
woman in regard to sin, and ten Thousand
| years from now they will still be discuss
| ing it, The people who make this cry of
sex against sex are always forgetting that
God did not make men like women, and
| that when lie comes to Judge them He
will judge them differently. Personally,
think he will be mure lenient with the
women, but haven't the slightest desire
to see them treated alike, either in this
world or the next | get very tired of the
| overwhelming
coNCEIT OF THE WRITER'S OF TO-DAY.
1.-THE idea of the man who wrote Ben
| Hur saying that Dickens Will be forgotten
because his people are common When
his books are being used to wrap up slate
| pencils, people will be loving Little Nell,
admlring David Copperlield, applauding
the heroism of Sidney Carton. and ador-
| ing the sweet womanlinuss of Bella Wilfer.
| ! don't believe Charles Dickens or Thack-
cray said that sort of thing about people
who wrote books when they lived; but
man who happens to make hit with
| book that has history as its foundation
throws mud at men who possessed the
great gift of touching the heart and of
| drawing the pictures of living breathing
souls. Bother Conceit may push q book
but it doesn't make it live forever; it may
| advertise ii, but it can't make us love it.
We may all read 1t once, but when the
heart is sad we don't go do il for cheer as
we do to those living. breathing people
created by the two great masters Of novel
| writing in English
After this she took a good mouthful of
tea, because she had been so enthusiastic,
and then somebody said: Whats the use
Of writing novels that are to improve
people? \ nuvel-a good One-is like q
beautiful piece of sunshine; it is going to
bring joy To you. If you are well IN mind
and body, you appreciate il keenly; If you
are ill, il comes to you just like the golden
ray that peeps through our shutters, and
Frightening your abiding place. makes
everything around you gladder. He who
can write a good novel has done more than
any other man to bring happiness To men
and women and good novel isn't one
that has three hundred pages devoted to
what the writer thinks about some much
vexed question and one hundred to the
story; but il is one that tells its story
easily, carefully. and in such q way that it
| IS like series OF pictures. Like the pano-
rama of life, and for the time you are the
loolter-on. The immoral novel is the
product of to-day.
WE sHRUG OUR SHOULDERS
and object to the books wherein plain
language is used and yet we accept, be-
cause they are the fad Of the moment, the
novels hatanalyze faith into nothing, that
condemn man until one wonders how it
was possible that God made htn after His
own image, and only makes of worth a
fool of woman who considers 1t her bust
ness to remodel the world. ! am tired OF
it. 1t is very good world If one will only
take the trouble tolook for the good things
in it.
II don't blame anybody for refusing to
honor and respect such women as are
pictured in the analytical novel of to-day.
Would you want your mother to be like
one OF them? They regarded motherhood
as burden, faith as u folly. humanity as
fraud. They talk. talk, talk, talk, until
you think that it is the only mission they
have. They complain of unfaithful hus.
bands, of wicked children. What have
they done to deserve better ones2 They
are so busy talking that they have no time
to think, consequently they don't know
now to 1.-THE love and respect that man
will give his wife, or the devotion and
honor that child will give its mother"
THE INFLUENCE OF GOOD MOTHERS.
For my own part in answer to this,
said: when ! read about these women,
remember one of the commandments, al
! least part of one of them, and that i.
Honor thy mother The most LOVING
child will fail in its attempt TO honor ii.
mother when she is not worth il, anC
] these women, talking So much about re
i form, forget the great beauty of being
i mother. Some of them, bad wicket
t women, decline to accept the responsibility
Y the sweet responsibility of bearing child
t ! often wonder if they realize what thel
0 have missed. Never 20 have known tina
| pain, worse than death, which is vet 81
O sweet that it brings q women close t,
heaven. But, thank goodness, there ar
E other women who are far and away abov,
1 those described in the analytical novel
Y women whose children can honor them
and love them, and who return both il
full. Honoryou mother, say, you who ar
Il woman, You know how she suffered fu
: you when she bore you, how patient an,
= loving she has been with you, and yol
4 cannot give her too much love, or to-
+ much consideration.
:, SHE Is YOUR CLOSEST FRIEND.
l. 81 wonder If you will pray as / do, that
= when death walks into the house, he ma
r put his cooling, restful hand first on you
o Tor without your mother. surely yo
b would be friendless. What we give, W
d get back, surely. If You give to every mar
e woman, child and dog that comes int
your life the courtesy they deserve. he sur
n you will receive FROM them what you hay
u gwen, only i'll greater measure. If yO
1t Kick dog, he is going to bite. If you aT
it rude to woman, she is going to be rude
? to you. While the child to whom YOU d
&c not give politenGss will render you impel
lie Thence. All the way through one get
IS value for value. Just while you are reaC
ar ing this, respect the preucher-L don
ID think women should speak in churche
At but this, which didn't mean should be
le sermon, has become one, and have to as
e. you to forgive it because my intentions {
ne least were honorable. And have to spea
Us the spirit moves me to. | have not gon
S. through u theological seminary to lear
le my lesson, but through that hard on
Sc called the world, where the flesh stands o
ly one side and the devil on the other, and
ID keep the evil spirits away | have had
nv hit straight from the shoulder. 1t is som
ID thing to know how to do that, but | b
n lieyn we rau eiicpend IL, 20 batat.ar an mic