Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-08-01

iWeAtherl III we ever had any douDtS
about stupid people, like the poor being
always with us, II would be proven by
this weather. II is the kind of weather
thatwilts one.l Mentally and physically
II breaks one up and makes one feel i'm
moral. Now is the time for the people
who are professionally pleasant to be
doing their duty and not permitting the
rest of the world to be entirely wltless.
Undoubtedly you will be tempted to
perpetrate that wretched joke about
their being no necessity to make them
90, as Providence has saved all trouble
In that direction. But don't do it, it is
too depressing. ! think everybody, at
some time in life, has the opportunity,
consciouslyor not, to be witty. Though
In most instances the skilful drawer-out
Us necessity; he is to the witticism
what the hot water is TO the tea, or the
lemon to the sherbert. Either might be
created without the governing principle,
but 1t would be utterly tasteless.
MAN AS A BOON AND BLESSING.
Always, however, no matter what the
weather may be, women have something
. to talk about, /. O., men. When the
fairies who endowed me with eyesight
at my birth were giving presents, | wish
that they had given me the ability to
/ sketch mankind In types. IF the printer
insists upon putting that sin tights" it
will not be my fault, and | won't be
held responsible for it.) Man, unlike
diamond, for he is desirable even in the
rough, hut like diamond, preferred of
good size, is a boon, a blessing, a
beauty and everything nice beginning
with a capital b. His sympathy is due
in proportion to his size, and his ability
for Quietng nervous headache equal
to twice his size Il speak from personal
experience). He may handle fan as If
be scorned himself for not breaking it,
but he can lift the ordinary woman
from one bed to another, from one chair
TO another, not only as if she were
feather, but as If the weight was
= nothing to him, and as If she were in
sured against even her nerves being
Jared. Even ia hot weather feel like
saying "God bless the Lord for making
men,"
am tolerably near just now to the
sad sea waves, though | don't sec why
anybody should call them the sad ones,
for they dance up in a specially
way of their own, and then they ripple
out in wave as If joke had struck
them, and give great roar that would
even disturb churchyard. There are
plenty of people here, Consequently
there is plenty of amusement to the
woman endowed with eyes, while to
that one endowed with monocle all is
known. 1t is funny to see how the
young man, holding the hand of the
dearest girl In the world, grows as red
as lobster if he thinks the monocle is
attN al .,s. 4, al L.. LII
his intentions as well as his actions are
discovered. The elderly beauty, who
put an enamel on her face with a
mucilage brush, can endure the eye of
man, but not that single one of glass
framed in gold, and when 1t is put upon
her, every wrinkle in her face doubles
up with fear, and she feels that the
poisonous white stuff shows in ridges.
The beautiful creature whose name this
summer is Mrs Gray, and who last sum
mer was Mrs. Dash, and who the sum-
mer before was Mrs. White, can endure,
unblushingly, the bold stares Of id
miration or suspicion, can walk through
crowd and hear people wonder who
she is with, and who is paying her hotel
bill, but she grows very uncomfortable,
and what the children call "wriggly,"
if the smallest of women, who under
stands the management OF monocle,
brings it to bear upon her.
II is funny, but it will subdue the
most impairment man. However, with
him course of meanderipg must be
pursued. That is to say, he must be
LOOKED AT FROM MS BOOTS UP.
The first look convinces him that his
shoes are not we'll polished; the second
that his feet are too big; the third that
his trousers are not well creased; the
fourth that his coat is i'll cut, and after
that he is convinced that he is altogether
wrong, and had better go out of exist
ence. | don't think | said that this
monocle, this one that does the best
work, must be large of thick glass,
framed in heavy gold, and with short
gold handle. Any other will do as good
work in subduing humanity.
When it was concluded that the many
brooches are bad form in daytime,
womankind took to the bracelet. Not
the bangle, but the many different kinds
of bracelets. She makes an effort,
during the day, to draw her sleeves
over them, but she is more than dc.
lighted If they tumble below, SO that
she can say she wears them for safety
First OF all, she must have band Of
diamonds, because they bring general
good luck; then she must have band
of her birthstones, alternating with dia-
monds, to bring her special luck; then
she elects band of dull gold, with
come queer motto upon it, anil she pre-
fers that it shall have been worn by a
mummy. The girl of to-day is not
superstitous, and she likes to think that
one of her jewels was in the grave, or
tomb, whatever the mummies called it,
for few hundred years before she met
1t. How many people know that the
bracelet Is almost the oldest of orna-
ments? 1t is frequently spoken of In
tile Bible, but then, it seemed to be a
masculine adjournment. Clear up to the
fourteenth century the bracelet was
worn by men, but at that time women
began to wear cuffs, thickly set with
precious stones, and then they, properly
enough, grew to be the bracelet, as we
know it.
THE KNIGHT WHO LOVED A LADY
fair assumed, on the first day of May, O
gold bracelet set thickly with her birth.
stones, and SO welded it upon his
arm that he could not remove it through
the year. Then on the next May day, Il
he had wearied of his lady love, OF
found her false, or tickle, the black
smith removed it, hut if she remained
faithful then he assumed another one il
her honor, and he kept this business up
getting a new bracelet every year, unit
be married her, when the whole 10
were knocked off and put on her arm
instead of his. This seemed to me abou
she most sensible thing ne could do.
During the Directoire, the French
ladies wore bracelets after the fashion
pf the Roman danes of high degree