Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-09

SPECIAL correspondence OF Gazette and journal
NEW York, May 2-The feminine
part Of the town is drunk with color.
This inebriation is best seen on clear
afternoon when all the womankind of
New York cavorts along the street ard
exhibits its newest frock and bonnet.
From the lady who rules the kitchen and
who, it being her Thursday afternoon
out, wears pale lavender hat, heavy
with pink feathers, and gay with blue
roses, clear to Mademoiselle We're de
We're, who lives in q palace on Fifth
avenue, and wears small bonnet OF
sunburnt straw with bunch of migno-
nette on one side and high cluster
of violets on the other, there is yearn-
ing after color that is more than mar
velous. The law seems to be simplicity
from the waist down, richness from the
waist up. And so Mademoiselle We're do
We're wears a black crepon skirt that
measures eight yards around the bottom
and flares so that it suggests a master
hand in the making, while her bodice is
the Stuart plaid in velvet decorated with
a lace collar and cuffs and hugh
emerald buttons set around with rhine
stones, and her bonnet glows and
glistens with color and spangles such as
few years ago were only dedicated to
the stage. think like ton the other
woman. 1t makes the streets look
bright pretty, it suggests good times
coming and much money spent at
present.
MEN ARE so GENEROUS.
What lot of money American women
do spend And how good American
men are TO give it to them consider
for my own part that the American
husband is Jewel. Nine times out of
ten he keeps his troubles to himself,
only telling his wife about them when
they are over. Nine times out of ten he
gives her the lions share of the money
he makes and never asks her what she
does with it. And nine times out OF ten
he thinks she is about the best in the
woman line that can be gotten If he
were an Englishman, he would tell hel
his troubles and expect her to help beaI
them. If he were a Frenchman, he
would count on her taking care of the
money, expect her to economic and
start bank account. And, if he were
an Italian, he would have that contempt
for her which the sons of Italy do have
for women in general as well as fol
woman in particular. So the American
husband is something much to be de-
sired.
1t would seem as if they were appre.
ciated, judging from the splurge that is
made when they are first gotten, and ye
how unimportant man is at a wedding
He hasn't even the value of a corpse q
funeral-he isn't tine centre Of atthc
ton. The bride, her gown and Veil
the way she walks, the arrangement o
her hair, and the beauty of Ter jewel
are all discussed; then th1 bridesmaid
Fare admired, the usheJs are commente,
upon, and last Of al somebody says
did you happen to notice the bride
groomT" And all the women who erie
at the wedding forgot him. 1t seem
queer, don't it? But womankind
overwhelming everything nowadays. l
some respects that is as it should be.
like the influence of women to be fal
reaching and compelling, although al
positive anti-suffraglst. conside
that men were made to represent tn
State for woman. She has sufficier
number of responsibilities without Ion!
ing for a vote, which would be anotht
one. There are the afternoon teas, Ii
babies God bless them y, Jacks Dime
all of ones friends, the superintendent
of the kitchen, which is beyond ii
power Of man, and so, with all thet
weights on her shoulders, why should
woman want to vote?
GIVE Bah CHANCE.
do believe in putting women on Il
School Commission B0ard-I won
like to be commissioner myself
women are needed to stem the owe
education of children. Women a
needed TO look after the bad air, Il
high flights of stairs, and the though
less treatment of the little people WI
are the men and women Of the ne
generation. A long time ago, when
child went to school, it arrived at
o'clock, stayed until 10, then had ty
hours for luncheon and play, went ba
at o'clock, stayed until four, and t
greater part of the afternoon was 1
voted to study. Then children knt
less about geometry and more about I
multiplication table; were short
chemistry and long on spelling; w
good, clear writers, but knew very lit
about the legal position of the ancit
Assyrians; could read well, but ner
heard of the Coptics as aesthetics; w
healthier and not so desperately kno
ing that they were impudcnt. Son
times, nowadays, see child get il
the street car carrying eight or
books. In color this child is pale
ghastliness; she is thin, invariably we
eyeglasses, and is the result of the ov
education in the public schools.
would like to be put on School DO
TO convince some Of the commission
ihat the free schools teach too mu
md don't teach it we'll.
would throw away the geometre
WOULD SET FIRE TO THE ALGEBn
be books about the Assyrians sho
ve pictures pasted on them, ant
build fetch in their places good spell
#o1s, good arithmetics and g
Biographies. Then l would have
tNhcher OF writing who would make
boys and girls write so their letters co
be read, and | would have anot
teacher who would instruct them in
lost art OF composing letter. a
then, too, would have all the study
done at the school, so that when iii
hours were over the small people Is
play and be happy, drink in the fl
air and grow strong, eat well and 10
bed early, instead OF staying up late
study their lessons. Then every Ii
! mother would not have to say, "
|. she was asked as to her wearin
%, swell, had to stay up pretty lat
81, teach Mary her lessons for to.morro
VIII Bleaching Mary her lessons for
izen morrow" should be the work at sch
eets. but ! suppose il is shirked because