Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-17

Special Correspondence OF Gazette and Journal
New York, Oct 11.-There is no
doubt about it that it is considered
very smart nowadays to be literary.
Every other woman you meet, after she
has talked about her dressmaker. her
milliner and the men, asks you quite
confldentially if you have any "pull''
VITA an editor. And then she goes on
to- lay that her stories are Just as good
atY well, she don't always say Balzac,
but she thinks it, or anybody else, but
she is sure that the editors don't read
them. She delights in showing you her
work room. There is superbly cut
glass ink stand with the blacklist OF
ilks up to the very brim; there are
quilts and stubs, fine and soft pens
mounted in most effective holders
there are different sized papers and all
the paraphenalia of desk, mounted in
silver. Then there are books of refer
ence galore, and books of quotations
until it would seem as if a novel might
be made up by merely selecting from
them. II you call early in the day,
you are told that your friend is busy
with her literary work 1t reminds me
always Of the old story Of the mountain
and the mouse, with the pain of the
mountain intensified, and the small
nessof the mouse requiring the use of
microscope to him who would see it.
THE nsPiRITUALn AurHoR. 4-n
The consequence is that a good many
women have become awful bores A
pretty girl said to me in condescend-
ing tone, Don't you even translator
And when | said "No,n she looked at
me, raised her eyebrows, and remarked
that it was pity, which was kind of
har NIL / falt Hlxn uIIinU
pity, pity in this city, there's not
committee, say on A. A. g." Which,
being put into English, means on CANA
teur Authors. One woman brought
me hymn which she described as
being spiritual, with a sufficient
amount of the material in it to be ap-
prcciated by a sinner. Z" AS a repre-
sentative sinner, 1t seemed to me pretty
poor. The metre was a bad imitation
of Swinburne's "Faustine," and the
religious ecstacy was altogether too
much for an ordinary mortal. This
was the first verso:
''When the essence divine looks out from
your ewes.
Obi believe;
And the downcnst soul is impelled to arise,
OH believe;
That the worldly joys so dear this day,
Fade like the SUMS last warm, sweet ray,
Oh believe" ~
Altogether there we're seven verses of
the most unmitigated bosh that was
ever written. But the misguided
woman to whom it owes its birth has
had it printed at her own expense, and
bound in white and gold, for private
circulation only l wonder IL everybody
will do as did? The binding was
, lovely, SO ] tore out the poetry and
used the covers to keep loose photo
graphs in.
THIS HYMN-wRITING CREATURE
is married and speaks of her husband
as "a kind but SHINING SOUL" and of
her marriage as lone where there is no
sympathy, but mutual agreement to
let each seek that which seemeth best
unto his soul. - Goodness gracious!
l respect everybody's belief A frog
praying to a mushroom would only ex-
otto sympathy in my mind, but Ihave
no use for this sort of thing. More
women have made men find pleasure
away from them by making home a
wretched, barren place, where the fine
. furniture seems only dedicated to souls,
while the mistress of it all fills up
her time with religious ecstacy, prayer
meetings and pet preachers. Conse-
quently, she has no time to look after
her husband. / wonder how it will all
straighten out when the great Day of
Reckoning comes? Do you remember
the devotee in the Wandering Jew?"
Her type is all over the world. Women
with no Christ love in them, with no
capability for approaching the good
deeds done when temptation surrounds
some poor mortal, and with no concep.
ton OF church except as a means to the
end-gratiiication of their own vanity.
hate such women. l wonder some
times whether they are women, and l
feel like crying, "To the guillotine
with them
THESE ARCH HYPooRITEsp
These creatures who injure the cause
of loving kindenss, and the hearts of
women more than even the worst sin
nei has done" There is a woman here
in New York of this type, and I'll tell
you what the result Of her behavior
has been. Her sons are known as ultra
fast men. Her only daughter eloped
with man of more than questionable
standing and her husband has a special
interest in handsome, bold looking
woman who drives in the park every
afternoon, as certainly as he has in the
carriage in which she sits. Occasion
ally, somebody Expresses sympathy for
the wife. 1t is sympathy wasted.
Years ago, when these people were
younger and their children were little,
the wife went one day to some sort of
religious seance which pleased her,
and this taste gave her such an an
petite for general meddling in other
peoples business that she gave herself
up to saving the souls of the whole
world, and counted the people of her
own home no importance. She grew SO
spiritual (?D that her husband was
driven from her room in order that she
might be better able to pray at all
hours of the night, or rise up and sing
hymn or two. A man may stand this
for a little while, but he won't for long.
This one rebelled for time, and then
gave in. But, of course, he sought
somebody who was less interested in
Bouls generally and more in him per-
Bonally. This woman found no time to
attend to her own children, she was so
troubled about the heathens in India's
eoral strand, so you can scarcely blame
them for what they are. Whenever she
gets chance, she refers to them in
her prayers as awful examples, and
makes donkey of herself in every pos
bible way.
Blessed be st. Paul for advising the
women TO keep quiet in the churches
And blessed be st Paul the second time
for that other good talking to that he
gave us, and which, boiled down,
meant, take care of your own husbands
md babies and there will be no heather
Tor anybody to trouble about