The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24

one must have wealth; at all costs one
must have wealth.
Nothing ages one 50 rapidly as being too
modern.
1T is tragic how much our husbands
1T Is always nice to be expected and not
to arrive.
NO question is ever indiscreat. All an
swers are.
A sins. except a sin against itself, love
shes a genius IN the daytime and a
beauty at night.
81 like looking at geniuses and listening
to beautiful people,.
sTt is not the perfect, but the imperfect,
who have need to love.
Nowadays people marry as often as they
can. 1t is most fashionable.
IT hate being educated; it puts one quite
on a level with the lower classes.
ID sympathy. There is a great deal
too much of that going nowadays.
London society is nothing but q. lot of
d nobodies, talking about nothing
In the case of a woman who dyes her
hair sex is a challenge, not a defense.
London society is entirely composed now
OF beautiful idiots and brilliant l~unatics.
Life is never fair, Robert. Perhaps it is
a good thing for most of US that it is not.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
toward people whom we personally dislike.
Men always look so silly when they are
caught, and they are always being caught.
DO you really understand what you say.
sir?'
Yes, father, If I listen attentively.'
Women think they're making ideas of
men. What they are making of us are
false idols merely.
More women grow old nowadays through
the faithfulness of their admirers thar
through anything else.
you have your price, I suppose. Every
body has nowadays. The drawback is that
know i am.
II think anything better than high INTEL
lectual PRESSURE; it makes the noses of
young girls so very large.
London society is entirely made up of
dowdies and dandies. The men are all dow
dies and the women are all dandies.
Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish
thing; nobody is incapable of doing a wrong
thing.
81 have never read a blue book; I prefer
curate.
Society is terribly overpopulated. Some
one should arrange a proper scheme. of en-
Bachelors are not fashionable any more.
They're a damaged lot; too much is known
about them.
Dining, at home by yourselves. Is that
quite prudent? But I forgot your husband
is an exception.
"tDo you know her well?'
$50 well that | got engaged to be mar
u ACI OnCC-
Why will parents always appear at the
wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake
in nature, / suppose.
Romance should never begin with senti-
ment. 1t should begin with a seance and
end with a settlement"
"A man who cannot talk morality twice
a week to a large, immoral audience is quite
over as a serious politician.
1T is an excellent charity. The object is
to try and bring a little happiness into the
homes of the upper classes.
II think men are the only authorities on
dress. One would not think so from the
sort OF hats they wear, would one?
"She wore too much rouge the other night
and not quite enough clothes. mat is al
ways a sign of despair in a woman.
The world can't stand a man who al
ways says he is right, but they are very
fond of a man who admits that he has been
wrong.
In my time we were taught not to un-
tenn. But modern women understand every
thing, I'm told.
Fashion is what one wears ones self.
What is not fashionable is what other peo-
pie wear; just as vulgarity is the behavior
of other people.
do you really think that it is weak to
yield to temptation? / tell you there are
terrible temptations that 1t requires strength
and courage TO yield to.
Extraordinary thing about the lower mid
die classes in England. They are always
fortunate in that respect.
II am always saying what 1 should not
say. In fact, I usually say what l think
a great mistake nowadays. 1t makes one
so liable to be misunderstood.
II cannot understand this modern mania
for curates. In my time we girls saw them
running about the place like rabbits, but
we never took any notice of them.
II should fancy Mrs. Cheveley is one of
these very modern women of our day who
find a new scandal as becoming as a new
bonnet, and air them both in the park every
afternoon.
Secrets from other peoples wives are a
necessary luxury in modern life, but no man
should have a secret from his own wife.
She invariably finds it out. They can dis
cover everything except the obvious.
THE fact is, this is not my day for talk
ing seriously. During the season / only talk
seriously on the tirst Tuesday of each
month, from 4 TO Z. My doctor says I must
not have any serious conversation after Z.
II think that in practical life there is
something about success that is a little I'M
scrupulous; something about ambition that
is INSCRIPTIONS always. If a man has TO
climb the crag he climbs the crag; if he has
to walk in the mire ne walks in the mire.