Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-01

repair. keep house for me. bring I'D nv
children properly and maintain a proper
social position for my name% And vet
that's what he will want curly locks to do
Marriage will always continue to be the
heart-breaking failure il is till 1t Is strip
ped of the foolish romance which now sur
rounds it and is considered simple BUSH
ness contract"
|. Word for the Black sheep.
Perhaps Mother Goose m can't 10 nor
tra% the sort of ccurtship Wen have in
those days when she wrote this verse"
said TIE literary member:
LAS Bessie Brooks and Tommy Srooks
Were walking out on Sunday,
Said Tommy Shocks to BESSIE Brooks,
Wilt marry me On Monday?
For my part. / sly let US have all the
romance we can. Let us have marriages
for love- and for love alone"
Yes" said the woman with the past
with just tinge of bitterness in her voice
let's sugar coat the Pill IL We can.
think, though, that the verse Mrs. Serb
bier quotes just goes to show what unpro-
pitious circumstances a man will propose
under. A man who proposes in broad day.
light In a city street Is hopeless. There Is
only one man more impossible, and that is
the lover who proposes by letter. Any wo-
man can refuse a postage stamp and four
pages of letter paper. The wise man
chooses a tender twilight, or harvest
moon. or a stretch of cleaning water, or
a
proposal, fol love making is a pretty play
that needs all the stage settings to make it
a success. The balcony outside ball room
is the best place in the world for a pro-
pcsal, for. to paraphrase Tolstoi, Music is
the instigator of q thousand tender yes
eS.
You women don't seem to have the
faintest idea that marriage is the most
sacred and solemn relation in life," said
the motherly looking woman. You end-of-
the-century people fairly give me the cold
shivers. If / thought you really believed
what you say, it would distress me, but I
have an abiding confidence that woman
nature hasn't charged since / was young;
and when l was young girls married Cor
love, and didn't ind marriage a failure.
either"
The bride moved over next the motherly
looking woman and squeezed her hand.
Well said the department woman.
when you talk Of marriage / have to keep
still, for it's something I've never tried.
So, by your leaves, I'll read u verse that
is quite within the limits of my expert
ence.
'Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?'
Yes, good master, three bags full
One for the master, one for the dame,
One for the little boy that lives I'm the lane. "
My sympathies are always with the black
sheep. Baa, baa, represents the contempt
the world has for him. People never ex-
pect anything of him. He is worthless,
HOptltSSly 50, YET, III the emu, he luTllS OUT
to have quite as much wool as the rest OF
the flock. The men who have made their
mark in the world were black sheep in
their youth, The model boy in the gram
mar school, the college man that is gradu-
ated with honors, the infant phenomenon
nobody ever hears of them In after life. 1t
is the boy whom nobody expected anything
of that turns out best in the end. The
verse might stand for a condensation Of
the story OF the ugly duckling."
"And by his Offering the wool to the lit
tie boy who has no real claim on him."
suggested Mrs. West End. lone sees how
charitable he is. though the world has had
little charity Cor him.
1T is always the black sheep who are
most charitable" said the woman with the
past. For hardness of heart commend
me to the Immediately good woman who
has never had even an improper thought
In all her life, and has always looked at
the world over some mans broad shoulder.
Were 1 In trouble. should go. not to the
white sheep for wool, but to the black
sheep on whom society frowns. 1t is the
black sheep that make the world endur-
able"
She ought to know. II anybody does"
whispered the bride, spitefully, to the ma
iron.
That's all very WELL" said the matron,
as she rose to put on her cape, land
Woulont dlsparage black sheep, but, Tor
my part, / prefer the elder brother who
has always lived a good life to the prodi-
gal who has been deaf to every plea And,
for my part, a repentance that comes only
when one has got down to husks is pretty
nearly no repentance at all. L am tired of
ell this praise of black sheep. OF course.
he has some good qualities, every human
being has But you women would send
flowers to train robber when you won't
even give a thought to an honest depart
ment clerk who is living an honest life.
How do you know that he hasn't had just
as many temptations as the robber?'
THAT hasn't anything to do with the
verse;" said the woman with the past, as
she put on her veil, but i know that he
hasn't been tempted by the fact that he
hasn't yielded. Respectable society is
made up of two classes of people, my dear,
Some haven't been tempted; the rest
haven't been found out"
And in the shocked silence which ensusd
the club adjourned.