Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-07

one's mind at ease. Wherever the |
British lion curls his tail can he find
q phruse that means so much as
fixing upY" There are people who
fix up books, but this is all wrong.
Books should stand as their owner ar.
ranges them; and
III THAT BLOOM OF TIME--DusT
collects upon them, it only proves that
they are not used often enough. Per
sonally, / very much dislike to have
my books disturbed; and when the
Liking up' time comes, | want to do
il myself | would rather endure tho
dust, 30 that 1 may, In the dark, know
exactly where to find the whimperings
OF Mrs. Carlyle, or the poetry of
Eugene Field, or the alcohol to light
tho spirit lamp, or the hot water bag,
or the blackberry brandy, or any of tho
things that one always does want in a
hurry. However, while | was away
this summer, my books were busted
for this my family have sent up thanks
and l, in Turkish position, posed
before them and grinned, with anguish
at my heart. / am smiling, and
smiling, and still being villain of the
deepest dye Fancy Robert talconer"
in close contiguity to Mademoiselle
de Maupin' Browning literally bound
up in Health Beauty and the Toilet,
\ while poor Tom Moore is neighbor to
| a French dictionary, and book by
Emily Faithful. Dante is next door
to ''A Woman's Worth and Worthless
ness, and "Iiny Tim is the small
neighbor of four enormous medical
books Isaac Disraeli has IA satisfied
air, for he is near enough to talk to
Casanova what stories they must ex
change 1.-THE Romance of
Poor Young Man" Is jammed close to
| the Heavenly Twins, who were
| squeezed into and almost marked by
1.-THE Scarlet Letter." Syinburne is
next to How to be Happy, Though
Married." and Mrs. Potter's "Ostler
Joe" is Getting to Paris" by ''Tho
House of Rothschild,' which is
brought to notice on the other side by
"The Green Carnation,' which has
been almost showed off by "A Bachelor
Girl New you have a sort OF an idea
OF the " fixing up of my books, which
will, thank goodness, soon be unfiXed
and arranged 20 that the authors will
not use bad language in the silence of
the night, when their spooks are wan
dering around.
SPEAKING OF BOOKS,
there is the dearest of books on hand
4 just now. In the first place it il bound
in scarlet, which makes its cover joy
to look at. Then it is illustrated by
Gibson and Irving Wiles, which makes
its pictures a neyer-ending source of
pleasure, and then on its printed pages
are stories just long enough for the
dearest girl to read out bud after din
ner. Personally, | am always on the
lookout for good book Of short stories
and when l come across one | want
4 everybody else to know, because the
short story after dinner can be made
such pleasure. The first story in this
book is an incentive to matrimony,
although it gives the name to the book
which is "a Bachelors Christmas. - |
don't know the man who wrote it'll
don't know anything about it except
that it is altogether delightful, and
that is the why | am telling you, you
who | count as my friend, about it.
WHAT GOOD THINGS FRIENDS AREl
There is the sympathetic friend, who
tells you in the kindest words, how
sorry he is for your tiouble and who
comes when happy days are to the fore,
and il gleeful BECAUSE you are glad.
Then there is that other friend, who,
when you are overwhelmed with grief
cannot say word, but takes your
hand and looks into your eyes, and the
eyes do the speaking. And you know
that your friend is sorry for you, and
your heart almost grows glad as you
realize that there is in the world some
body who, if he were able, would tase
all your worry away. Then there is
the other friend, that one, who, when
your head is racked with pain, touches
il with cool, kind fingers, and makes
you understand that just SO long as
you suffer, Just so long will your friend
stay with you. | think there are more
kind people in this world than cruel
ones. j don't believe anybody really
starts out with the intention of being
cruel, but first there is little worry,
and then there is little envy, and then
there is IA cross word, and then there is
a malicious word, and then there is the
wicked deed which would not have been
done if the sinner had only taken time
to think it all out.
YOU HAVE YOUR woREY AND HAVE
NINE,
and it seems hard Just when we are
troubled that somebody else should BIO
very happy, and we look at the happy
people, and suddenly grow mean and
nasty anil say something that, in a
! little while, we are ashamed of. We
are all OF us such children, SO easily
} made happy and SO easily turned into
disagreeable beasts, rather than lovable
! men and women. And we never know
J until we are quite alone how much we
depend on each other. Try to think
what life would be if, to-day, when
you are full of joy and gladness because
something good has come to you, think
what would happen if you had nobody
TO joy with you! If there wasn't a
, human being who was glad because
you were glad. Why, it would be
, worth while to hire Il messenger boy
by the hour simply for sympathetic
purposes. Then think what it would
, be when the dark days come to have to
sit alone with your trouble, whether il
be OF dishonor or death, and have no
human being, not one of your own
kind, to even find fault with you! 1t
would be horrible.
AM A BELIEVER IN NEIGHBoRs.
! don't think it is wise to have them
/ too near, but it is good to have them,
, because when we are being neighhorly
/ We learn a good many lessons 1 learn
| that | am not the only woman in the
| world who has TO deny herself some
, special pieces of iinery, aud you learn
} that you are not the only man in the
+ world whose business affairs do moi
a always run smoothly. And learn OF
: my neighbours worry, of my neighbor'
sorrow and sometimes of my neighbor's
4 shame and / realize that yesterday
t | envied my neighbor, while to-day