Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-07-19

Special Correspondence OF Gazette and journal
HfLLsDALE, MD, July 13.-There is
demand for them. What? Good ideas.
Why doesn't somebody start bureau
selling ideas at reasonable prices? You,
who go out to dinner parties are counted
something of a wit, are invariably
spoken of as "that clever fellow" you
would gladly pay IS, or $40, or SIS for
an original idea about which to talk,
and so keep up your reputation for yer-
satility. You WHO have passed the
pink-and-white, sugar-and cream age of
girlhood have reached the time when
your brains rather than your beauty is
referred to, what wouldn't you give for
first-class idea warranted to impress a
statesman with your knowledge OF poll
tics, and so gaining for you the position
you desirep Think of politicians who
would rush for ideas Think of the
boys and girls who write these abstruse
commencement essays; how eagerly
they would save up their pennies that
they might have the brightest idea of
the day! | think the shop would do
very well; but who among US has got an
idea to spare?
THEY DO A DEAL OF TALKING.
am sure if you go down to Wash.
ington and listen to the cap-trap there,
and realize that nobody in the Cabinet
knew sufficient of diplomatic life to pay
proper courtesy to France when trouble
came upon it, you would think ideas
were needed there. If you looked at the
great fat man, scarcely able to sit in the
ordinary chairs, gross looking, with
watery eyes and swollen lids, who
occupy some of the chief positions in
the nation, you would conclude that fat
had superseded ideas. Then, if YOU sat
on the veranda at summer watering
place and heard the women talk of my
clothes" and my dressmaker," and
'my jewels" and "our set" and "our
entertainments" you certainly would
think that ideas were lacking there.
We are a little bit inclined to think
that the people who talk great deal,
know great deal. Don't believe that,
my friend. l can fully understand why
the eagle is the political bird of the
United States; he has hoarse scream;
he does nothing of any value, and he is
only attractive when he is stuffed
Even then he is not as decorative as
THAT BIRD OF WISDOM, THE OWL.
once knew colored lady who had
ing at silver piece, she said "Houey,
why does they-ums have an eagle on
it?'
And l told her, it was because the
eagle was the national bird.
And she answered, with an air Of sur.
prise, "Lawd, honey, you don't say so;
now, this yers mighty big country,
and they's some mighty fine birds in it:
they's them little thrushes which wob-
bles like the angles, they's the oriole
who's mighty like to Solomon in its
splendidness, they's the nightingale and
the mocking birds which they can be
teached to sing tunes in praise of de
land, and dere's the love birds, which
always suggest that in union there's
strength, and dey goes and chooses a
ugly OLD eagle, thief of bird what
steals de chickens, and whose only use
even when he's dead, is to take his
wings for fans of warm evening
Lawd, surely whoever Selected the eagle
didn't know much about the habits Of
birds. Still, you say he am polltica
bird, and my Jim he went in for politics
and got into State prison; so perhaps
Missy, it was good choice, for de eagle
: am thief; he am a shreker, an il,
\ amt got no more beauty den most d
the politics men who cum arOun' Her,
talkin' about de day when Jim's Ange
lima would wear a pink satin. ALLOW
he a big bird, but SO is the politics zen
tlemen. s'pose both Of EN- done 70
fat on what dey stole"
Here my friend
WENT OFF IN SERIES OF cHucKLr,
and | gazed at her with admiration
Aunt Lena is person who has Il
x. opinion, usually good one, on mo:
every subject. She invited me to com
to campmeeting this summer, and SO
asked her what she thought about re
y, iigion. She said, "Well, honey, RI
ligion is might heap of luxury to thet
as has hard time in this we're vale {
tears. l amt SO very much myself 10
that kind of religion dat takes itself OF
in wild hollerin' and great 'cusin' o.
you 'uns. Use not on particularly roo
terms with the Deacon Jest now, 'c4us
] amt goin' to get up an say dat | al
de worse sinner dat ever lived ain
S--To. de grace O. Gawd, Angelina has lie
very 'spectful life an She ain't guiI
to get up in no mectin' an say she Al
de lowest of de low. Oh, none o [
church members prove of me ies' nov
When my Jim was took to the penitei
tiary, / says Jim, it done served Va
right; you was always bad boy, a
maybe this II be lesson to you. Yu
never was satisfied till you done got
politics; then there was a fight an yo
fit till you serusly hurt fello
/, creature, and now you've got to pay f
it. But I'll come up to see you a
bring you some tobacco Well, Mis-
de entire church thought as how
ought to have said prayer to move h
soul.
And he wife, lazy, worthless thin
she do
A LOT o. PRAYIN' AND HoLLERIN',
and yet she amt never been to see hir
and from what har she is goln' to tai
another husband mighty soon. Bu
about religion; | amt never seed vii
cause felt de glory of Gawd, ne,
hug de deacon an pull over dc ste
and break de benches like some Of the
Z fool girls do. To my way of thlnkit
real religion suggests that you ket
your hands of the deacon, an 90 hon
and mind your own business. b
different folks has different ways
dookin' at things, an my idea of religic
am different from Sister Cooks. Sist
Cook fathers them young uns o he
until the pore little crctuls nearly blee
sends them to bald, without airy |
of supper, an then goes to church a
talks about the mercy Of Ciawd \
way Of thinkin' is that the mercy Of
mother would come In right good thel
Religion is mighty mysterious; som
times missy, they's need for ii to
like mustard plaster, buruin' vi
soul till its fully Weakened. somatiri