Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-04-05

oN afDltretlon. W omen love TO talk
about their alteration Of the brain, but
when the brain is represented by some
body who is understood, and who can't
swim, or wrestle, OF shoot, or ride, or
knock the original sin out of anything
that lives, then they stop talking about
the brain and discuss ffocks. Brains
are very good things 20 have. None Of
Us Hike to believe We lack them, but
when there arises call for soldiers,
woman glories in thinking that the man
who represents her 10 siX7feet one.
UNHEALTHY LITERATURE.
And speaking OF strong men, don't
you think it is rather nasty that so
many of the new bouks--thc books that
are called noYe!s-insist on bringing in
chapters about all sorts of diseases? 1t
isn't your business, it isn't mine to read
about these things. ii makes us nerv-
Gus, and the chances are, nine out of
ten, that We may know somebody who
is eonsumptiye, who breads insanity, or
who has some terriGle Illness like
Damocles' sword hanging over their
heads. These books don't help any;
they only hurt; they only make US throw
ourselves fuce downward aud give the
old cry, as We think Of somebody for
whom we care, of My God, my God,
why hast Thou forsaken me:' We
don't need to have our hearts torn to
pieces. All that we ought to do is TO
try and help those who are not strong
to live as they should mentally and
physically, and to cause life to be as
full of sunshine as we can for those who
suffer. hate 10 think that it is women
who have written these books. 1t seems
to me that when they will write books,
recognizing as they do so many Of the
horrors Of life, they ought to feel that it
is their duty TO give good cheer to the
living and forget the sins of the dead.
But there, don't want to be blue, too.
want to represent certain amount OF
cheeriness in the world.
THIS SUMMERS OUTINGS.
What are you going to do this sum.
merr Have You found the ideal place
where you will have comfortable room,
simple, good food, agreeable people, and
where the drives are pleasant? That is
the place we look for every spring. And
the one we never find. We go on a chase
for happiness, and we may have good
time in the search, but if. the rooms are
comfortable, the chances are the people
think you are dieting and give you pre-
ciaus little to eat. | cnce stayed six
weeks in u country house where tie wo-
man who kept it said she thought it was
vulgar to have an appetite. We all re-
NAMED and starved because the grounds
were so lovely. She objected to calling
US boarders though she had no feeling
| in regard to taking our money, and she
| ha al hpt 10, 1ntf
come into her house, she was giving
them an opportunity TO enter the society
| which it was more than probable they
had never been in before. They hadn't.
| She was a very clever woman. The
| nearest livery stable was run by the
undertaken, and | used to hire what lie
called buggy and mild horse, but l
called the horse sheep. However,
it answered our purpose. 1t didn't
run away with us, ami it had pleas
ing way of stopping and thinking,
| which gave us an opportunity to
go to sleep. The lady to whom
we paid our board possessed
horse that was sheepier even than the
one who rejoice in the name of jena.
than, and whom drove, or rather who
permitted me to hold the reins while he
went. The lady, who said she knew
nothing about finance, made this propo.
sition to me; she proposed that should
buy buggy for 5000, and then could
have the use of her morse with it every
other day, and when | went away /
could leave her tine buggy. | didn't ac-
cept this offer; am not much of tinan-
cier, bu. somehow this seemed little
one-sided, and afterwards the masculine
element said that that woman ought
TO 60 on TO Wall street, for if she did
she would own railroad in two DAYS.
Still, though we were starved that sum
mer, we had pretty good time. II was
interesting to hear the landlady tell of
the blueness OF her blood, while we
looked at the pinkness of the tea, and
then, too, when she marshaled her
children to give them maternal advice,
it pleased US all to know that she didn't
use her slipper, and that probably she
hurt her hand as much as she did the
children. 1t was very cheerful if we
happened to want larger carriage than
the famous buggy to have the under.
taker tell of the funerals "that there
barouche has been to, audit was cheer.
full, more than cheerful when we paid
the bill each week to have him tell us
how much he asked for the hearse, and
TO hear him say that if we had 10 car.
riages there was reduction on it.
UPS AND DOWNS OF COUNTRY LIFE.
!, Still, we are looking for the idea
place. Personally, don't think it exists
outside Of heaven. Just fancy anybody
being fortunate enough to 60 to bel
with sheets that weren't too short
pitchers continually filled with fresl
water, strong coffee and weak eggs
= golden butter, silvery fish, beautiful ret
beef and agreeable people. Oh, no: that
will only come with the millennium
One year the man who kept the houst
where stayed thought II was his duty
TO see that | didn't get all my letters a
once. lie delivered them at interval
Z during the day. He said, in explanation
I "Wimmen is gettin'. top KNOWN; thi
+, yere hayin' letters and readin' 'em /
l what makes wimmen sassy. Now, m,
wife never got but TWO letters in he
Z lie. one when her mother died AM
r another when her sister got married Il
z q worthless drunkard that nobod,
i wanted in the family. 1t makes win
men kind @ independent like to &c
4 letters. They thinks US how thew
{ equal to their betters, and l amt goin
! to have no sassy woman round ycre."
| didn't stay there very long, becaus
!, il have weakness it is liking to &c
n my letters with my coffee. | shouldn
e like to be thought to BIZ sassy, but still
:, don't particularly care for anythin
= masculine to decide when and where
L shall hear the latest news, and undo
n what conditions. Why, even the fe'
y people who know me and like me, insi
y upon receiving at its regular time tn,
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