Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-08-27

Aunt Maria's cousin, Miss Virginia Lin
gard, to visit us. She is a graduate from |
one of the colleges for women, and she is |
the most superior person | ever met. Her
life Is one continual condescension. She |
arises above every situation, and is al |
ways perfectly composed. She admits
ignorance of nothing. In fact, is would
seem as If she had imbibed so much at
collegs, either of dissatisfaction or books,
that she had lost all humanity. After ali.
one must be ignorant of something to be
In touch with the rest of the world. Ii
you offer her n new novel she coolly and
calmly freezes you by saying:
THANK you, hut, after all, from an in
tellectual standpoint, what will gain
by it?" OF course. one doesn't like to sug-
gest that certain amount of amusement
would be the result, for this superior
young woman is above frivolous things.
If she goes out for a walk, it is because
she thinks exercise is good. and not to
look at the flowers, see the village, or be
interested in anything. ask If she would
like to go into the drug shop and have
glass of soda water. She gave me
look of pity. and said, in her most condo
scending manner. ''Ilank you, no; but il
il will give you any pleasure, | will wait
for You while you got it." The very idea
of flesh and blood woman waiting while
you drink soda water!
Then If you speak about mans good
looks, and really, some of the nice, big
ones are good TO look at, she has no hesi-
tation in talking about the average lack
of brains in mankind,and citing this spe-
cial one MS an evidence of how much bet
ter II would be if all the utterly unintel-
lectual people were gotten rid of by a
painless death. Any human being must
certainly pray, after week of her So
ciety, that this may be her own fate. She
scorns all things at the theatre except
what she cabs really improving works
A burlesgue, pantomime. n ballet, or
anything at all jolly, is entirely ignored
by this so-called woman, and she lives
her life out with an exaggerated idea of
her own Importance TO the world, and Il
presumptuous belief that she is of real mo-
ment. She incites everybody to hate her,
and consequently makes them commit
sins.
If she is so unbearahle as a young girl
what will she be as wife? | am convinced
that, unless she gets n husband who will
beat her, she will make him IA pitiable
creature. The world will regard her
with complacency at only one time, and
that is when she is the chief pcrsOnagt
in quiet way at a funeral. However
country politeness is like charity, and
Aunt Maria, Nanny, and even |, who have
found their virtues catching, have kOo
tooed to her while she has looked mt III
with disdain that has in it q little pity
Mis- TomlinsOn is the only person VIII,
has talked to her as she should he Spoken
to. She told her she must be mighty sOrr,
that she was not married, and although
her ladyship announced that she EounI
sufficient companionship in her books AM
needed no one to share her intellectual
life. Mis- Tomlinson simply laughed an,
said, "Oh, pshaw, girls always say tina
sort o thing until they get husbands
And then she continued, 'You can look II
me in that way, that kind of condpscend
in way, because | am widow, but M
goodness! a woman can't help being
widow. When you get a man there ain
amy insurance company that guarantee
his Twin forever. If woman knew
when she was at the hymeneal altar, tina
she was goin' to be widow, she woul
probably say no, hut once n woman is
widow it's funny how many chances sll
gets to get married again. OF course, sh
uIhtIStul'lS Iltils anu EVERY Ilin come
round her, that is if she is at all Ease
mating"
Here Mis- Tomlinson, by perky NOV,
ment and a bland smile gave us to unde
stand that her faScinations had bee
many. and those who pursued her WEI
countless. Then she continued, "A hui
band, my dear girl, is a mighty goo
thing TO have. You cant pick him OF
1n a lih aud I,,,t h.,
handy, aud when you lose him and are le
widow. as Providence often arrangcs
you kind feel lonely when you look
the other pillow at night. always sa
If one husband was good. two was bette
and that is the reason got married ii
second time, and the second time | W.
left widow got married the third tim
and goodness only knows. now / am
widow again, what | may do. Aunt NJ
ria thinks il is dreadful for mo 10 talk III
way, but / have alrcdy had several pr
posals. A husband is mighty comfort
bic something. He is like crochCt-Slj
pers, or n waddCd gown on wintry ngE
He is like all the comfortable things
life, tea, fOot-warmers and cider dov
quilts. Young women don't think unUu
of this. That is the trouble. There's
good bit, You know, in having your lpttr
directed so that even the pOStman kuu,
you have got a husband. or have had nI
Why, ] had not been widow the last til
but two weeks when a man with rlrv
children said he felt | could he IA moth
TO them. | know | could have. Th
needed "A mother, and continued CON
OF whippings about ms badly as any lot
young ones | know, and if there's Il
thing | can do it is to manage Il slim