Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-03-03

at expensive hotels. But Mrs. Young
husband has no idea Of sinking, as she
calls it. into being a domestic woman.
She proposes to wear that white satin
frock and all Of the expensive gowns
that formed a part of her trusseau. She
meets other women who are like her
self. With much pretense, they an
nounce their reception days, and offer
weak tea, weaker punch and EAle
cakes TO the curious crowd who come to
crafty their presence and laugh once
thew are well away. Every one OF
them knew that that much-mirrored
bookcase was a folding bed though no
body pretended to have this knowledge
and everybody knew, though this was
ignored. that the oft referred to maid
was simply a from the boarding house
kitchen, induced by the glitter OF a
dollar to act in the capacity desired for
the one afternoon.
Sometimes Mr.. Younghusband
GRINDS. AND GRINDS AND GRlNDS
until he makes something of fortune;
and. sometimes, if he happens not to
be over-strong, he drops at his post;
and. sometimes he needs the dollars so
badly. at least he thinks he needs them,
that he steals them, and the days fol-
low one another until there comes one
awful day when he is branded as
thief, and then all the world that knew
Mrs. Younghusband sympathizes with
her. Now, my friend, wouldn't II nave
been better if. at the very beginning,
everything had been arranged dlf1er-
ent? Suppose Mrs. Younghusband had
had a trosseau suited to her position in
life. and that her wedding trip had
been to the little nest her husband had
made for her; that her hospitality had
been represented by good, honest food,
and an honest welcome? But alas the
average woman is eaten up with de-
sire to appear more than she is, and
her prayer, if she ever prays, is give
me more and more of this worlds
goods, and if I may not have them
give me the knowledge to appear as If
l do have them"
THE SO-CALLED SWELL.
There is young Charley Starvation
dress clothes are immaculate, who
dresses well, more than well, fashion
ably: whose dress clothes are immac-
ulate. who sends boQuets and bOnbons
to various young women, and who IS
invited out everywhere. Now, Charley
Starvation is ashamed to tell the truth,
or to live it. He is a clerk in a ship
ping Office but the people he goes
among believe that he is one of the
firm. If he lived a comfortable life and
wasn't defendant in that everlasting
lawsuit of Back VS.. Stomach" he |
would have a comfortable place in !
which to live, rather than a poor room !
on the top floor Of a cheap boarding
house. And yet now, if it weren't for |
the dinners to which he goes, he would |
be hungry many times. He is another |
who falls down before the god OF pre- !
tense, and is only anxious to serve him !
well and appear what he is not.
Sitting next to you happens to be
Miss Blueblood. She is long past forty,
and has an extremely bittertongue.
Everybody is afraid Of her. She knows |
whose mother first was a washerwOman |
and then married an inn-keeper. She !
knows whose grandfather was ped |
der and whose father worked on a |
railroad She fails to see any honesty !
in properly earning money, and does mt |
hesitate to curl her lip and make biting |
speeches about that world which is |
rich in healthy red blood, and has not |
become diseased by continual intermar- |
riage.
WHY SHE HIDES HERSELF.
Miss Blueblood sits in her room with |
her door locked for good many hours !
every day. and the servants whisper
that certainly all that fine linen work
she does cannot be for herself. She
would insist that it was if she We're
asked about it. Now the truth is, that
her rich friends pay her for this work,
and vet she is ashamed to tell that she
earns money. She thinks 1T would al
feet her position socially. The woman
whose standing in society Is governed
by her pretending to be what she Is
not. is as if she were on the ice bridge
of pretense, which very soon the bright
sunshine of honesty viii melt, and
those who rely upon 1t Will 1aIl, TO DE
covered by the waters Of torgetIulnesS
anf never be heard of again.
/ tell you it is the sin, this wicked
pretense. that is making our women
dishonorable and our men thieves
Men who love women want to gratiIy
their wishes, and too many have done
if at the expense Of loss OF character.
If is Dleasant to know that ones grand
father was honest, but if he were an
honest peddIer he is better worth
claiming than if he were a gentleman
by pretense.
Little Miss Cheerful, who keeps
house in a bit Of fiat, talks about
"Niv apartment" She keeps one ser
want. and speaks of her as the maid:
When is able to have two, the COOK,
whose knowledge of cooking eXtenus
TO what is known as plain fare,
SHE CALLS THE CHEF"
And so it goes on and on, and every
bodv seems to be trying to appear what
tbev are not. and and everybody
thinks that everybody else is fooled
and nobody is. AS an evidence of the
nossibility of pretence and the way II
NAV be nut down, I happen to know OF
fat myself with history. IL was
Inhabited at one time by an exclusive
w charming literary woman, who mad
the GOOD fortune to mary man OF
wealth. After her marriage, she went
IN live in a country place on Long ISL
and quite near to one Of the tashloh-
able clubs. One afternoon she was
among the many women there, VINO
we're about that woman who Is at
once the most fascinating OF women
and cleverest Of writer's; woman VINO
does not need to write for she is I'M
mensely rich, but whose books have
been wonderful delineations OF men
and women. The former slave Of the
Quill was finding fault with the house
in which she lived, and which, by the
| h,.n ,,.nc much hnttnr than any She had