Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-03-12

NOlIauy anu tLSu dnObltT WOIldD, 30
always there was somebody to pay him
to keep from making those letters pub.
lie. And no is
PROMINENT GUEST AT SMART DINNERS,
and he Is favorte on yachting par
ties, and he is spoken of as being $50
liked by all tho women. " Nobody
thinks TO say, so feared. And yet, it
was because he folt he must pay what
he owed to society by appearing well
dressed, and living like lily of the
field that, from being gentleman by
birth and education, he became
blackguard.
And there is another, woman,
bright, piquante, perhaps bit sar-
castle; but then men laugh, and say
that probably she would have softened
il she had married; and the man who
takes her out to dinner, doesn't dream
that her beautiful fan is paid for by
scurrilous story written against hcr
hostess; that her gown was presented
to her by woman to whom she wrote
this note, My Dear Dolly: l have just
heard the story Of your visit to Nice.
1t is most interesting. ! am sure you
would hate to have it get in to print
Would you kindly let me have, by
bNhlplg Il W nuuuEttl uOlluEb4
| will pay you when my rents come in
next month. Lovingly yours, Margie. "
A threat? Oh, no. But the woman
who got that note could read between
the lines, and she knew, unless she
sent that two hundred dollars, that
the story of her escapade, which was
not really bad, only compromising,
would be published in so-called
society paper, so slightly disguised
that everybody would recognize the
heroine. How do women reach this
| depthY From an over weaving desire
to pay proper attention to their social
duties. 10 such women it is hard to
decline an invitation, because proper
gown is not possessed, because now gloves
cannot be gotten, or because the money
for cab is not at hand, and they
stain their characters and blacken
their souls, and think they are no
worse than anybody else, because they
never err from a social standpoint.
AT YOUR HUSBANDS SIDE.
There is another woman, beautiful
woman, "A woman fond of society, but
one who has vowed to love and honor Il
man who has become an invalid. She
thinks her duty is done when she
knows that he has good doctors and
good nurses; she goes in TO show him
how she looks before she starts to the
dance, or the dinner, or whatever it
may be, and she drops kiss lightly on
his forehead and says, Goodnight;
you will be in bed before am back. -
And away she goes. Society gives her
the right to do this; society counts her
as among its decorations, and demands
her. But what about the man i'll and
lonely at home? What are trained
nurses to him? 1t is true they may
know how TO attend to his physical
wants better than the wife be loves,
but BIS sure that he longs for her
presence; he longs for her womanly
words, and he longs for what he has
right to demand-the presence of his
wife. Women need not speak or act to
tell of a loving devotion, when there
are nurses and doctors; il is the heing
there only that is wanted it is the
knowledge that to somebody this sick
man is more than all the world, and
that he comes before the duties of
society.
LOVE LIKE STERLING GOLD.
And the little valentine says, "'Tis
love that makes the world go round. "
And il means not just to-day, but yes
terday, to-day and forever. 1t means
that finest of all loves--the love which
forgets self, and which is worth, WE'LL
it is worth all that there is in the
world, and it means all that there is in
| the world to come. | do not mean by
| this the love which finds its best OK
preston in continual caresses, in con
tinual words of love, but l mean the
love that works always in one way or
| the other, the love that denies itself
something for dear love's sake, the
| love that can endure and keep quiet
1 have never been much of believer
in the love that told of itself CON
| tinually in words. But there are those
who think this love the finest. Think
of woman who knew that death was
only Il matter of few months, yet
who, curing that time, made herself
lovely in appearance, charming in
manner, and never once let the man
she loved know that that most dreadful
| of all things, cancer, was eating
away her life. She died looking pretty.
Those, months when she suffered had
been nfanths, not of life but of death,
but at the last she could say again, Il
| love you,n and she knew that during
| that time she had created a strong love
| that would make all the world better
for her purpose. 1t does, my friend, il
does. There can be no great love with
out this world gaining from it. Tho
man who loves woman we'll will re-
spect and be gentle with all other
| women for her sake. Tho man who
loves woman who has shown to him
| how beautiful is an unseltish love, how
beautiful it is to think of others first,
| to care for others most, and to remem-
Der those who suffer, has preached
sermon, in her life greater than any
that ever came from the pulpit. Men,
as general thing, are not prone to
speak of their loves-when they are
great--but they are influenced by
them, and he who is hard Of heart will
suddenly one day find himself growing
tender for woman's sake. lie who is
stern in Judgment will discover mercy
because he has loved we'll, and he who
saw nothing but that which was dark
and gloomy will grow hopeful because
woman bids him to, and believe in
future since she earnestly asks him
to, because there their love will be
contaminated in the finest way.
SENTIMENTAL? ALWAYS.
And always when | say that there
comes back to me the one line in
a play, III there we're more women
whose hearts were full of sentiment,
there would be fewer unhappy men. !"
All the great and noble actions in this
world have been prompted by senti-
ment. Men who have loved women,
men who have been patriots have all
been men OF sentiment You cannot