Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-02

Special Correspondence Of Gazette and Journal
MELRosE, INN, MARYLAND, July 27.
There is probably no better place to
study human nature than on the yeranda
of country hotel. Ours is just a little
peculiar-we call it ndividual-which
word usually means that we are inclined
10 think well of ourselves. The group
that meets after dinner generally CON
sists of the Colonel, who has followed
my mother down here, of Visiting
Gossip, of an Interrogation Point, in
the shape of a frivolous and muslin
gowned young woman, of a literary
woman who is just literary enough to
write articles for the pleasure of her
immediate friends, of woman who
does some thinking, and of your humble
servant. The hot weather always makes
me humble.
Conversation usually begins by the
Interrogation Point vaguely wondering
if the people in the city feel the heat.
AS nobody answers this she then gives
an insane giggle and asks something
after this fashion: "Now-don't you
know-Oh, we'll, of course you do know
but / often wonder, don't you sec
what those really people-you know
people like the labor strikers mean ~
This is followed by soft giggle that is
so girlish that one is almost inclined TO
forgive the idiocy of her manner.
SUMNER RESORT DISCUSSIONS.
Nobody says anything, but the woman
who thinks looks off in the dim dis
lance as if she saw visions of great
wars, of great unhappiness and of much
suffering And the literary woman asks
the girl if she has read anything about
the strikes, and then she answers mo
that is, did read somethng-it's i'm
mensely funny-about some women
who wanted to vote; now, what do you
think of that?" The woman who
thinks looks at the Colonel and says
"Who's going to be the monkey to get
hold Of these sweet little pussy cats and
have them pull the chcstnuts out of the
fire for ity viii it be the Republican
or Democrat? Fancy what these hun
dreds of thousands OF uneducated
voters will be TO one of the great pulit-
cal parties? Think how their poor little
paws will be burned as they snatch the
chestnuts of office and money out of
the fire of opposition, only to have them
goboled up by the party monkey be-
hind them.
"Some women have said that the
reason object TO suffrage is because |
dislike women. That is not true. do
not like woman less, but man more.
Which is only an evidence of the fact
that am woman. But, my reason
for objecting to extending the suffrage
is that our country IS overwhelmed
with ignorant voters already, and that
nothing that is good can come from in.
creasing the number of undesirahlcs."
Just here the interrogation point in
terrupted her with the usual inane
giggle, and said: "Well, you know,
there would be our fathers and brothers
to tell us just what to do, and it would
be so nice
1T WOULD BE swEETLY NICE,
to go down to the polls with your
sweetheart"
The other women looked at her with
amazement, and the thinking one who
was speaking said: "If could see any
good likely to come from it, then /
:, would vote for it heart and soul, but
am strongly tempted to agree with the
cleverest woman | know in regard to
this question, when she says she on the
fence. And when some one asked her
whether she was astride, or on a side.
saddle, she said she was conservative
enough to use the saddle, but she had
strength enough 70 be able to jump to
whichever side she pleased. Her posi-
ton about answers to mine"
just here there was heard in a whis.
pered tone the conversation of two
mothers, and all that could be dis.
tinguished were the two words "castor
oil" "There," said the Colonel, sis
something | understand. In regard tC
castor oil, it may be said that the wbrlt
has become civilized. The children OF
to-day know it only as in some pre-
pared state, or else if they are incllneJ
to be very positive in their desires it il
presented to them in the guisu Of sD5t
water, Ill which is thrown few drOa
of laudanum TO make any Announcement
it may give OF its presence later on les
unpleasant. Properly, boy shuul,
stand up like q soldier, take his caste
oil from a spoon, and then lick lii
spoon as If he enjoyed it. Thai, MADAME
is what helps to make men Of boys, III
teaching them how to take what the,
dislike, and to take it with smile.
think | can see the face oil my oil,
mother, peace be to her ashes, ii she say
goYs BEING PAMpEREp
as they are now. With the regularity 0
Friday night comes our dose al oil, I'M
the boy who cried about it would Ger
tainly have been given something warn
that would have brought httrrag tea
than ever did tile cold OIL We were IN
asked il we needed II. 1t was conclude
that we did, ana that was calculated {
make Us healthy and biz, aud Ia!nB
Madame, il you Will compare the me
bF of I..,tt