Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-23
woMAS,s EocENrR1oiTI IS.
Natural Peouiiarities That Upset I'll
Heroines OF Fiction.


The many volumes written by men
and women, some known and admired
in the literary world and others who
have just sprung into prominence by
reason of their novel which has burst
like a comet into the literary sky, have
brought before the public so many diff
ferent kinds of women, each one pur-
porting to be the real, typical female,
that II is difficult for one to know eX-
actly how the women they know are to
be classified. The public has been given
all sorts of women-introspectiv retro
spective, sanity, wicked, loving, ambi-
tious, advanced and conservative, and
yet OF all the moody" woman she who
proudly asserts that she doesn't like
everybody, and she is very certain that
they do not nor would she have them
like her. is the most obnoxious.
Sometimes this moody type of woman
Is run across in real lite, and then there
is hasty, undigniied scramble to get
ont OF the way, and people breathe a
sigh of relief as they see the hem of the
woman's garments disappear around
| the corner, perhaps on her way to u
cemetery, where she can ponder undis-
turbed upon the follies and frailties of
human life and indulge in her unsatls-
fed longing for the unreal, the un-
attainable.
1t takes an uneXceptional woman to
be moody, for the ordinary woman is
not a success in that role. She may be
pretty and even have that indeiiable
suggestion of pathetic romance hanging
about her, but she will not be interest
ing to the cold hearted, casual observer.
No woman, no matter how hard hearted
or steeled to the "milk of human kind
ness" she may be, but who has some
longing for friends ard popularity. But
she would take q lesson from George
Sands sketch of the old chapel master
Porpora, and understand that she must
be unseltish in order to claim the best
that the world has to give her. There
are, of course, many varieties OF the
popular woman, but the keynote Of hei
success lies in the fact that she mus
keep her moods for the privacy of hei
houdoir and have only smiles and digni
ged cheerfulncss with which to enter
tain her friends.
They are very trcsome, these new
books that try to dissect woman:
heart, to any woman who has moder
ately clear understanding OF that organi
cation.
A clever and popular girl said philo
sophically the other day: "Ali men can
not be managed but we can ~ leas
understand them in time, for they ar,
not as u rule given up to moods anC
cranky melancholy hts that overthrow
all ones previous conjectures in regart
to them and cause one to begin all owe
again from the foundation Of thei
character study. But woman's tangled
. mind, her chaotic brain, her knott,
prejudices and opinions, her clear AM
hasty instincts which men so kindly sa,
; take the place of judgment in our sex
her logical ideas on some subjects an(
! quite contrary ones on others, are to-
inexplicabe and Kaleidoscope to occup,
the attention of any serious students o
rational subjects Balzac, B0urget, Sara
! Grand, Beatrice Harden and other
] have viyisected us and held the result
5 up for public criticism and commenda
5 ton, but even they are not right. HOY
can they be when a woman can't eS
plain all her eccentricities even to he
own satisfaction