The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-18


and the result IL pandemonium.
Mr. Irving writes curious old-fash-
toned hand, not absolutely distinct
and requiring ~ clew TO start with;
but after you know what he is writing
about then the mystery is solved with
out any further trouble. Young Soth-
ern writes a small, neat, distinct hand,
that in some way or other suggests
the way his clothes fit him. Mrs. Ken
dial writes clear, rather small hand,
but her letters have q way Of run
nuing off that suggest the decided in
dividualitY on the part Of the writer.
FANNY DAVENPORT'6 HAND.
Fanny Davenport writes a clear, big
hand, easy to read, and hints at the
generous charitable nature of the wo-
man. Wilson Barrett writes a small
but very distinct hand. Yvette Gull
bert writes on tiny cards that have
her own attractive face in the corner,
and her writing is French; and, when
| say French, | mean neat and dainty.
Cardinal Gibbons writes a magnificent
clear heand that seems to convey with
it the blessing Of the man from whom
even the little children are glad to re-
ceive smile, because they know in
tuitively how Blessed are pure in
heart" What will be the result all
over the country of the increase in
vertical writing2-I do not know.
People who do not like me say that /
write abnominably; those who do,
and yet who wish to be truthful, those
who love me and don't care to twit
me because of mine age and mine of
ten infirmities, call it characteristic.
Hearing this, those of my own house
hold hint with tenderness and kind
Illness, and with all love and reverence,
that it must have been very bad
character that my handwriting typi-
fied--a sort of combination of Lucretia
Borgia, Eve Catherine de Medici, the
Countess de scissors and the young
woman who devoted her life to swal
lowing pins, and in whose cold corpse
were found several millions of them.
But this is always the way-you can't
get real criticisms from among your
own people
l see, according tn another newspa-
per, thai d fresh ism has sprung up.
Like all the rest, It's tendency is toward
the breaking up of the home, and, of
course, it suggests what is yalgarly
known as free love OF this particular
has become so purified, and is herself
in such a state of scientific Christian
fty that She cam will, without the
knowledge of her subject that a maid
en- may beconc.e a mother. This is a
| Combination of profanity and indecen-
| cy. Love has no right to be free. As
| soon as Cupid made everybody under
/ stand that he loved anybody else,
| chains We're put upon the two. Civiliza-
zion has ordained that the
wedding ring take the place
of the chains. Every now and
them my heart aches for some
unhappy woman who talks about love
being its own law, and the desira.pility
of doing away with the marriage tie
and the beautiful soul unions that
| would result. My heart aches, because
| that woman no more knows what she
| is talking about than a native of the
| Sandwich Islands does about the flavor
| of terrapin. Hearts may go out to
meet hearts just as long as the woman
| heart is young and charming, as long
| as she cam entertain and amuse the
man heart, as long as her woes and
| aches are only temporary ones-but as
| She grows older, as she los
es some of her charms, as
| pains and aches grow to be
more severe and patience less, the mas
culne heart, telling itself quite free,
viii seek a younger and prettier wo-
| mans heart, who will not bore him.
The wife has THE love of a young man.
| She may, once or twice, believe that
| for an hour or two some other woman
| has seemed a thing of beauty to her
| husband but if she is wise she knows
that if she waits quietly he will return
to her, and finding her the real joy
| forever, be satisfied with her, because
she understands him. and, best of all,
knows his ways. Then married people
| grow used to each other.
When old age comes they have
reached point where neither is d
novelty to the other, but There is a
deal of affection between them and
| that consideration exists which is the
| result of many years of companion
| ship. Then, too, there is that strong
| est bond of all the world--the parent
all one Tt may be that they have
| around them their children's children.
| 1t may be THAT all the love for child
| is buried in one little grave, but it is
| there. These are a few of the reasons
why, putting aside every other, the
| moral and the social obligations, the
wife has always been and always will
fbe, please God. the strongest of all
women. 1t is pitiful when women
take up these foolishisms that simply
bring unhappiness in their train.
AS TO WINTER GOWNS.
But we viii chat about something of
| less Importance. What sort of a win