Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-07-04

Spectacle Correspondent OF Gazette ana journal
NEW YoHK. June os,--Somebody, not
long ago. took the trouble to say what sort
of kisses the herones of the modern novel;
lists gave. The only ones thought out were
those Of Crawford and Hardy, but these
were rather funny. II was said that the
kiss Marion Crawford writes of required
for its ingredients married woman and
the other man. Then, after long and
careful and sympathetic love-niAking. the
elimination was reached In kiss, with
tho result like this-the man called him.
self u cad and the woman felt II as deli
cious thrill. The Hardy kiss Is said to be
given by young women robed in her
2 nightgown and hanging out the window. |
The ipan was on the path beneath with |
his head on a level with the sill, and she
dropped scarcely percepiible" kiss Oh
his head, Goodness only knows what |
pleasure there is in n scarcely percepti- |
be kissl However, IL the man was bald.
headed IL might be enjoyable. got TO !
thinking about the lovemaking in books.
LOVES :.INsIpiD SILLY AND DIPLOMATIC.
The various heroines OF Charles Dickens
seemed 20 love their husbands In sweetly
insimd way, and when the people they
loved were hot their husbands and they
were ladies who went wrong, they had
sort of a pg'headed manner that must
have made the going-wroug US tiresomo Us
possible, aud lacking in any attraction.
Thackeray makes intrigue more attractive
than love. The wicked affairs of Beatrx
Esmond arc thousand times more inter-
vlesting than the proper wifely affection of
NJ her mother, while everybody knows that
Becky sharp gets ones sympathy when
one fools like whipping Amelia for her
silly affection for that cad, George Osborne.
= The Thackeray ladies seem TO express
their love IN fearful way. and they show
great desire 10 sacrifice themselves after
fashion that woman who counts her
self upto-dute would never dream of
doing. To come down to novelist OF to.
day. l think 1t may be said that the
woman who is OF interest, that is, as far as
her love goes, in Kipling's books, is the
married one who devoies farself to a
young attache She calls him pet names,
pushes him in diplomatic way, only to
discover, after several years OF this sort of
love-makinR, that he is going to marry u
girl and leave her. Then she grows sar-
castic. reminds the young chap of their
DAYS In Already, says clever things with
her eyes full OF tears. and somehow your
heart goes out to her and you feel as II the
young man, trying to walk in the path of
virtue, is fraud. Occasionally, Kipling
makes the wife interesting-a wifei in love
with her husband-but his young girls are
invariably liresome, and the men they
marry seem to have lived lives scarcely
credltable to them from q mans point OF
honor.
II Weyman invariably elects that his six
tenth and seventeenth century ladies'
\ shall love the men for the dangers they
have gone through; they don't seem to
mind standing around when swords are
flashing in the. air and when there is
every likelihood Of their being killed,
neither do they seem to think anything of
travelling for month without ever having
aN change of linen. These may be brave
ladies' but one may doubt their being
dainty ones, They appear to like to die
with their lips pressed to their brave de-
Tenders, but otherwise | don't think they
are particularly giyen to any great eS-
preston Of love. They say lilo, no, my
lord, am thine because thou hast killed
Iuine enemy" but they never say. that
they are his because they love him, which
Is most womanly. Mr.. Jerome X. (please
add his first namel draws delightfully."-
loving women. Nice girls, Just such ones
US you, or your brother, or your son would
like to marry. Healthy minded, comfort
pbie girls with good appelites, who like
pretty gowns and fun, but who would
heyer dream OF such a thing us talking
koont. ''ecstatic kisses. or the. joy OF
kiu," because they are clean minded girls,
who will make good and loving wives.
PICTURESQUE BUT UNCOMFORTABLE.
The ladies who do thfs sort Of thing are
Ewinburne's. For some unknown reason
X fLsy always make me think OF dampness.
~ scents TO me as II their summer frocks
vame home from the laundry not quite
Orr. for he describes them as wearing
iclinging robes" and then he goes on to
use the word "dank," which means don't
know what but it suggests mustiness.
They may be picturesque women, but they
are certainly not comfortable Ones for
their hair Is always loose and they must
spend all their time achieving the curves
which he credits to them. Undoubtedly,
Swinburne Is great poet, but take his
girls out of the poems, make than plain
hV Mains nm nj ndiarftvng nd
Am sure no nice man would want to have
anything ut all to do with them. George
Moore's women are neither nice nor in-
y stefesting; in the house of life he never
seems 10 get up any higher than the
kitchen, and the loves of the cook and the
footman, or the housemaid ana the coach
man are gross and decidedly unpleasant.
The cook will suggest grease, and the PIC
tnre OF the redfaced lazy and her perspir-
ing ndorer are material and not senti-
mental.
zangwill, who draws those wonderful
pictures OF Jewish life, makes Il love story
so laden with religion that II becomes part
OF II, No tragedy ever written or lived was
greater than that of Hannah Jacobs, the
daughter OF Jewish rabbi, and her lover
BY ~ foolish jest, she hAd unconsciously
become the wife of another man, a vito
IN name only but it appears a divorce was
gotten for them, and she had never until
"A she met this man, loved anybody. They
were engaged and all arrangements made
for their wedding, when her father dis
covered that he was OF the race OF Cohen,
the high priest, and a Cohen may not wed
divorced woman. She promised to flee
with him. but the influence OF the church
was greater than her love, and she re-
manned at home, letting her lover 20 out
into the world alone. while she did her
best, as has many another woman, and
told no one Ut her sorrow. The love Of
Esther and Raphael was strongly spiritual;
and they hoped, not only to be happy IN
their married life. but TO make Others sec
the beauty OF their religion. 1t would seem
as H. always, in Mr.. Zungwill's love
n sketches, the church played prominent
,Apnrt.
Anthony Hope, especially in the Dolly
Dialogues"
HI CREATES FLrPPANT WOMEN.
who count love something to be cleverly
~ discussed but not OF as much Importance
as the more material things OF life The
people in the books of Sarah Grand doa'i
seem to know what real love is. They
either are consumed by gross passion
or else they love entirely with their brains
Heart seems TO he unknown. Body and
brain form her ideal OF lover, and d
sweet pure love, such as men are capable
oi picturing, is something never drawn
BY this clever woman. rennyson made
tile ladies' OF King Arthurs court love
"bassionately" when they loved sntully
and very frigidly when they did not
81 We're de We're coating over their feelings
N and express their love by cold Kisses de
n posted on foreheads or given OH the tips
T. OF dainty fingers. Tom Moore's maidens
crowned win roses, and brinl ming oYel
Xf with sentiment, were undoubtedly charm