Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-31


vim ordinaire and who is bit hard
up tonight, as to that other man who,
Croesus Tonight is ordering cham
payne. hadn't been there for long
time, but ! went the other night, only
to find the dining room had been en-
| larged, and that where | saw Rose
| year ago, Blan che was the queen to-
| day, although the proprietor was still
in the kitchen cooki the dinner.
A year ago there used to come there
a beautiful woman, and when | call
woman beautiful she is more than
| merely pretty. This one looked like a
dalnask rose; her hair was black as
ebony, her eyes were soft and brown,
| her skin was clear olive with that
pink coming through it which makes
an olive skin perfection. She was
always with party of men, and they
would drink her health, and she would
laugh in that merry way that seems
peculiar to child Always we'll
dressed, always looking happy, l was
| only one among many women who con
| eluded that her life must be joyous
one. When the dinner party would
break up, she used to go out with u
handsome man who was an entire
stranger to me. | heard who he was
one day, and also heard that he was
of on his yacht with some gay men and
pretty women. 1t was evidently just
after this cruise when they all came
in one night very late. The beauty,
who was called Felicite--and she was
knowing felicity at that time-looked
younger than ever in yachting get
up" As passed the table on my way
out, she was being laughed at, because
| the men were
TEACHING HER TO DRINK ADsINTHE.
and she did not like the taste. She
said she would rather have milk. That
was year ago. AS we went in to-
night saw woman standing near the
| door, but | never gave a thought to
her. ] simply supposed she was somes
body waiting TO join somebody else, or
possibly a beggar. During the evening
a woman friend came up to speak to
me, and asked me il | knew who that
was outside the door. | said no, and
she told me that she had been asked
as she came in il she knew whether a
certain gentleman was there. The
name was strange to Der, and she
didn't tell it to me.
As we went out, this slender figure
came toward me. She asked me if |
would tell her il Mr.. Millionaire was
there, and then recognized her.
Worn, thin and old looking, Felicite
had become Dolorosa. II was the old
story. To Toilette had come the hope
of being mother, and that which she
greeted as q Joy, Mr.. Millionaire re-
garded as blunder, and he did not
wish to be bothered. So he took his
yacht and sailed off to seek green fields
and pastures new, and Felicite was
taken care of by the good sisters.
Now, she was all alone, because her
baby had died. One or two of the men
who knew her in the lays of felicity
had given her little money to keep
her from starving, but she had heard
the man eheloved was in town and she
thought possibly he might be at the old
resort. ! begged her TO go home. i
slipped little money into her hands,
which she refused, pushing it back
into my own. She said she would sit
in the park and look up at his apart
ments which were brilliantly lighted.
| asked her to come home with ME, hut
she was determined to try and find her
lover.
TWO PICTURES.
All night long | dreamed about her,
paper my blood curdled as | read this
MIR. Millionaire gave a dinner to his
intimate men friends at mis- apartment
last night, and during this dinner,
which was like feast of Lucullus, he
announced his engagement to Miss Blue
Blood. Miss Blue Blood is Just eigh-
teen, and has not as yet made her
debut. Mr. Millionaire is well known
about town, not only as wealthy but
Il very generous and good fellow"
On the next page it said: Police
man MeGinty found on one of the
benches in the park this morning
young woman whom ut first he thought
was asleep, but after Attempting to
awake her he discovered that she was
dead. In her pocket was bottle that
had evidently contained audanum and
a note that read: My Dear Felicite
How can you ever doubt me? NV love
for you is one that will last until the
stars grow old. The nonsense of mere
ordinary people who insiat upon
formal marriage is recognized as folly
by people like you and me, who know
that love ia all that is necessary. My
darling, be mine, as | will be yours,
Forever, NJ
'The body Of this women has been
taken to tho morgue to await identiti-
cation, bat it is not probable that any
ono will claim it, and she will be
buried by the city,
Poor Felicite! Happy Doorosa! l
wonder what will happen to this man,
not, when the stars grow old, but to
continue his quotation, when the leaves
of the Judgment book unfold? What
will be marked against his name? 1t
-. 4I,nk 4 1 A 1.