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


New York, Oct 4.-Too much BIZ
cycle, too many boomers and little
too much of the almost masculine is
going TO result, and we ought to be
thankful for it, in return to the
purely feminine. The stiff shirt has
grown limper and limper, until only
its collars and cuffs have any back.
bono; the cloth gown has had frill
put here and trimming there, and
the result will be that lace frilis, soft,
pretty frocks and dainty looking gowns
will take the place of the hideous frock
that lately has been known as tailor
made. Women are beginning to think
that il isn't so desirable to be up in all
tho slang of the day, to perfectly un-
defstand the last divorce case and to be
able to talk about the latest scandal, and
they are commencing to understand
that in coasing to be purely feminine
they chance ceasing to be at all. Who
( wants TO have anything TO do with a
woman who can stop a street car with
whistle? Fancy weeping out the
greatest sorrow of your life on tailor
made girl2 Fancy asking for some adj
vice, advice about an important ques-
ton, OF girl whose tie is just like
n yours, whose shirt collar is as mascu-
W line as is possible, and who assumes a
pair Of bloomers when she rides her
metal horse! Awful? | think they are
+ worse than awful. | think they are
there IS only one word to express it,
damnable.
THE WOMAN ON A WHEEL.
A woman looks like anything but a
woman on bicycle and / don't be
lieve that going out on a bicycle is
going to make them bit more healthy
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make them bit more womanly, nor a
bit more lovable. Up jumps Miss Pert
and asks me if | want women to be
fools. No, don't; but [ think great
many of the fools are on the bicycles.
"Ah," says Miss Pert, "you regard
women as inferior 60 men?n Well, yes,
in some respects But there are women
who are so far superior to men that
masculine eyes can never reach up to
them. Then there are women who are
decidedly inferior. And then there are
other women who are delightful, and
desirable and companionable.
WOMEN WHO ARE ON THE LEVEL.
| believe in women cultivating their
brains; why shouldn't they? But |
think that, no matter how much the
brain cultivation may go on, it must
always be confessed by the people who
are willing to tell the truth that the
average man Is brain is one third larger,
and, believe, one-third stronger,
than the average woman's But women
are nice some women. And, oh, can't
: they endure pain and privation and
!. encourage some man for whom they
cure!
BRAVE GIRL IN THE FAR WEST.
Think of a girl, very fashionable
frlFI n thuf who had finn tradl1 ines
with satin and orange blossoms, and
diamonds and pearls, and all the won
derful things that usually appear at
weddings when people have plenty of
money, think of this girl going with
her husband way out to the far, far
West and living, not in comfortable
little cottage, but in hut. She and
an Irish laundress were the only
women there, and when the men were
ordered out, she stood in front of that
hut and waved the flag until the last
soldier was out of sight, and then she
cried. And after an awful battle her hus-
band was brought home to her frozen.
l don't mean frost bitten, but mean
with his fingers frozen so stiff that one
had to be cut off, and for days and
days she nursed him until one day she
could nurse no longer, and he was Just
able to sit up in bed with blanket
pinned around him, and smile down at
the brave girl at his side as she lay
there with her baby in her arms. 4
superb layette was flying around the
country, but it didn't get there until
six months afterwards, and that little
baby's clothes were made of its
mothers. THERE'S brave woman for
you And to-day? We'll, to-day the
hard times have gone by, and she is as
hFinht and haFrN nt,1 invfnrt S,,I,r
gentlewoman can be, and the beauti-
tul diamond bands On her hands. those
tiny little hands that did such good
service, each tell of the time when she
smiled the regiment off and bravey
waited for them TO come back. And
the one that glitters the brightest
CLOVIS because of her bravery during
that terrible time at Piney Ridge.
You see it isn't the women who are
anxious to be- different from all the
pther women who can endure, as only
women and angels can, and it is not
tho new woman, but it is that woman
who has lived through the centuries
always initiating those who were last
pit the cross and earliest at the grave
WHAT A MISERABLE, MEAN GOVERNMENT
we have got. The army is, to de-
. gree, our aristocracy. We want the
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credit to U.S. and to be spoken of wher-
ever they may be, as American gentle
men. And what do we do? (When |
Jay "We" | mean the government
Expect them TO live well, entertain
well, dress we'll, and for this they are
Eiven-well, not the amount of money
That good mechanic would earn. 1t
8 disgrace. And | will tell you some
hing else that is disgrace, too. And
that is the average army story. In it,
sine times out of 10, the women are
represented as malicious gossips. Now,
don't pretend to say that the women
II the army are saints, but think
hey are little bit more careful about
pssiping than other women, because,
4 for no other reason, they are all
brown so closely together that it would
Ie very bad policy to be on unpleasant
erms with each other. Then, too,
when they are stationed way off hun
Ieds of miles from civilization they
re more than generous with each
lther, gladly sharing the go 4 things
hat come, and always ready 70 give
lelping hand to the woman who needs
/. But the government does pay them
poorly! Our politicians get up and
ak about this being the greatest
ountry in the NArld, give their
pinion of the army and navy, comfort
bly, fill their own pockets and expect
hegentlemen who represent the United
ltates to represent it well on petty in
omes. We are rich enough, and big