Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-08-29


desire Of my unknown friend. Speak
ing about stories, it is funny how, now
a-days, all the queer stories are put on
Mrs. Parin Stevens. One credited to
her and which is going the rounds,
really belongs to handsome Balti-
more matron, and happened here.
| This is it: Anouveau richie said to
| her, ooh, Mrs. Howard who is that
young woman they are making such a
fuss about; | never heard Of her be-
fore, who is she? And the answer came
"My dear woman, [ don't know who
she is any more than knew who you
were when people asked me that last
summer. -
And this, which is bit OF a chest
nut, is tackled TO Mrs. Stevens too, but
isn't hers. A New York woman
was at dinner in Boston. A clumsy
servant dropped beautiful platter on
which rested boiled tongue, and shat
tered it in a thousand pieces. The
hostess never lost her equinimity, but
said, THAT'S nothing but lapsus OF
linguea," and everybody shrieked
with laughter. The New York woman
came home, rehearsed the incident
with servant, and at her next din
ner party he was instructed to drop
the turkey. Then she said, "Oh,
that's nothing but lapsus linguea,
and nobody laughed. And she said,
ooh, my, New York people are SC
stupid; Boston people catch any
thing SO quickly. "
SPELLING LOVE UP TO DATE.
Another nouveau richie got letter in
which was said: Amour in England
is just now spelled Cove. 7" She thought
she would improve on it, SO she wrote
TO another friend: Amour in New
York is just now spelled Sove.
Silly? Perhaps, but then it is silly
season of the year, and little bit Of
fun goes great ways / have gotten
to wondering as ] look at some of the
women here, what really constitutes
style in appearance. The woman who
is counted the most stylish looking in
the place lacks youth, lacks beauty,
has only few gowns and yet are con-
scious of an intangible something that
makes her stand out from among all
the other women and attract your at
tention. / believe style is born with
people, Worth used to say he could
make woman look like picture, but
he couldn't give her style. Some
people say that it is in the carriage,
but doubt il. 1t cannot be analysed.
But the woman who possesses it has q
I gift Of great value, for she can idealize
even shabby gown. There are beau.
tiful women who lack it altogether.
j There are ugly women who possess il
to the finest degree. The famous Prin-
cess Metternich used to say that she
knew she was as ugly as monkey, but
that she also knew that she possessed
something that was of greater worth
| than beauty, and that if she and
Madame Recamier were in the same
room she would be noticed first.
know a woman who is long and thin,
has small eyes and a wretched com.
plexion, and yet she is without any
doubt, the most stylish woman in the
place. She holds her parasol Just as il
should be held, and she gives to hei
clothes, even when they are of the sim
plest material. an air Of good form thai
would be impossible for any Other
woman.
BIBLE JEWELS.
By-the-by, girl had an old tesla.
ment on the veranda the other day,
and she said she had discovered why
Jewesses as a general thing, had
liking for earrings, She found that
long before the days of Moses, they
were favorite love gifts, and when Jot
had that bad attack of boils, the
friends who came to condole with him
each brought him an earring of gold.
cannot understand just why an earring
was expected to express consolation,
unless they were to be put in the melt
Ing pot and changed into ducats. Jot
\ is always referred to as the most
| patient of men, but really and truly
/ fail to discover how he was patient.
/ thought to be patient one had to en-.
dure in quietness, but he talked his
woes, apd walled his woes, and wept
his woes, and had all his relations al
of his friends, and all the dogs of the
neighborhoed visit him to cheer him
up. And with such lot to entertain
him it seems to me that 1t was his
duty to forget his troubles and make
himself agreeable. Suppose We
women started that kind OF patience,
bowling, moaning and talkingS
think mankind would, very properly,
take US by our necks and drop us into
the sea, for the women who dilates or
her wees is most Objectionable Pa
tience to me means, as far as possible,
concealing your troubles, looking oui
for the bright side, and being as chirpy
as canary bird. Speaking of birds,
do you think there is anything quite
so nasty as parrot? There is {
woman here who has got one, and wher
he isn't screaming in the hoarsest o.
tones, he is swearing in German, o.
saying the alphabet. He always seemi
like such a vulgar bird to me. Natur
ally, one connects him with a monkey
and if there is anything on par will
him it is that vile beast who claims X
be our ancestor. Mr.. Darwin may hav,
bad a monkey for his great-grand
father, but ! declare / didn't, and
am sure you didn't. And still, haven't
you seen men who looked exactly likl
monkeys, and who had all their meal
little ways?
| THE BOOK OF HUMANITY.
i And haven't you seen women will
faces like parrots and voices that wer,
i high and coarse, as they seem t.
linger with delight over a luscious bi
of scandle?
/ And haven't you seen fair-haired
blue-eyed girls who look like canar,
birds, and who smooth their frocki
and fix their locks and preen away jus
as the little bird does?
And haven't you seen men with bull
dog faces whose jaws meant deter
mination, and who even when the,
we're kind, were gruff?
And haven't you seen women who wer
like the deer, graceful in figure, will
tiny feet and moving so that ever,
graceful outline showed perfectly?
And haven't you seen men with flow
ing whiskers, who look just like Sky