Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-03-19

VIII continue to love him. For such
is the nature Of woman.
CULTIVATION OF FLOWERS,
Or, else, it may be that whenever
Mary sticks a flower in the ground, it
blossoms and is sweet; and the neigh
bors come to her TO beg an orange
blossom for the bride, nosegay for
somebody who. IL sick, or some white
roses for some one who has closed her
eyes to this world and its worries.
Why should Mary write poor stories
when she can grow good flowers? The
boys help her~make pit. and papered
IL, so to say, with bundles of straw,
and covered it with old glass, and
Mary had hundreds of vioets for
Easter Sunday as her Offering when her
neighbors had none 1t is a curious
thing, but flowers know when people
love them and grow and blossom under
the hands that express tenderness in
touching them. Mary may feel like sell
ing her soul when she takes money for
these lovely blossoms, but she ia not
she is saving her soul by trying to be
honest. You think these things are
not possible? | have not told you of
one case that is not true, and in which
really and rightly Mary did not
manage to earn the bread and butter,
even if she could not compass the
raspberry Jam upon it.
THE WOMAN VINO ASKED BAB's ADVICE.
| sometimes think it is the women
who have been most gently bred who
are most willing to do that honest
work which their hands find for them
to do. The world and all of us in it
| have fashion of jeering at boarding
houses, and yet, know no more
honest way and no more womanly way
for woman to earn her living than by
making home for those who have
none. Unfortunately, most women do
not look at this in the right way. They
start out with the determination to
make as much money and give as
little consideration as possible, for
getting that everything put in the
market is only worth the market price.
Consequently, she who offers to her
boarders an untidy table, badly
/ cnoked dinner, rooms not properly cared
for, and none of the politeness which
a hotel-keeper shows his guests, need
not expect to make enough money to
pay her landlord. Good cooking does
not cost any more than that which is
bad, and only little more care is re-
| quired to achieve dainty table than
an untidy one. Some time ago young
woman came to mo who was eager TO
make her living. She was alone in
the world, oxcept-and always when
a woman needs to earn her living, there
comes that except for one old lady
who depended on her. She had little
money and few diamonds, and she
thought she would succeed on news
paper. l threw my whole soul in my
talk to her. Generally, / do not in
| dulge in that worst of vices-advice-
but in this case | did, and the result
| is, success. This young woman rented
small house in the neighborhood Of
the big clubs; she got man friend in
each club to permit her to use his
name on her cards, which were bust
ness cards, and nothing else. They
stated that she would rent comfortable
rooms at reasonable price that she
would serve light breakfast, if de-
sired, and that a valet would come
every morning to attend those gentle
men who wished his services The
| first month she lost money, but her
diamonds went into pawn that her rent
for the next month might be paid in
advance, and at the end of that time
/ 6ilo nhOl tnOuBl u pay INC
ront, though the furniture and valet
we're still loss. However, l used to
see her and cheer her up, and we
would have a lovely cry together. In
four months time her house was full.
NOW SHE is MAKING MONEY.
the furniture is paid for long ago, and
she says she doesn't believe any lodger
will leave until he dies.
Because? Because she has given
what she promised value for value
received. Instead of one small towel,
strongly suggestive of a dinner napkin,
the towel racks in the bed rooms are
covered with great big ones, such as
men like, and there are damask ones,
and rough ones, and Turkish ones. The
rooms are kept immaculate. The bath
rooms, on each floor, do not have, in
one corner collection of brooms and
dust pans, in another three or four
trunks piled up, while the hot water
doesn't run until IL o'clock in tho
morning, and no water runs after IL
o'clock at night. The tub itself does
not require a thorough bath before
one enters it, but there is comfortable
chair, foot baths, plenty of towels and
a bath tub that shines SO you can see
|
made is posted in the bath rooms :
"After using the bath, gentlemen are
requested to ring the bell SO that the
room may Immediately be put in
ORDER" She pays the valet so much d
month; she charges the men who re-.
quire his services SO much week and
makes a good percentage on this.
| Breakfast is served at a cost of so cents
a morning. 1t consists of rot of the
best coffee, boiling hot, not tepid; two
French rolls, pat of fresh butter, a
pitcher OF boiling. not tepid, milk, and
all this is served on dainty napery and
in delicate china.
| There are no rules and regulations.
If Mr.. Burgundy fancies coming in at
2 in the morning and not getting up
until the next afternoon, that is on
tirely his business, and as my friend
refused to receive any but gentlemen
who had references in her house, she
does not fear the scandals that occa-
sionaly arise in houses where people
are not known.
CATERING TO MEMS WANTS.
Do l think keeping boarding house
is easy work? | do not. But / think
if women want to make money out of
| it, they had better find out what their
hoarders would like, and cater to the
people who pay them. The average
landlady seems to regard her boarders
as enemies, wretched people from whom
she must try to get the most and give
the least. My friend, this is not the
way to succeed in business, and il
women must go into business, let them
show what fine creatures they are by
making successes of whatever they
undertake. Miss Determination, who