Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-01-30

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certain lady. OF her he is credited
with saying: "She knows how to talk
when you want TO talk, and she knows
how to keep quiet when you want to
think. There have been books writ
ten on "How to Be Happy, Though
Married" on "How to Keep Hus-
band, +" ON How to Get a Home, and
How to Keep it, on "The Art of
Living" Indeed there have been books
written with all sorts of titles, to tell
women how to keep their husbands at
home and in love with them, but there
has never been book that summed up
the whole situation as well as that SEN
tence does
Mr.. James Banker comes home from
Wall street, tosses off his business
clothes, dresses for dinner and then
chats and enjoys
THE CHAT OF A CHARMING WOMAN.
Possibly, after dinner, he remembers
something his sentences grow shorter,
and wise Mrs. Banker gradually ceases
to speak and permits him to think. IL
he raises his eyes, he sees a pretty
woman who has tact enough to seem
employed about something, book or a
bit of needlework, but something that
can be dropped when he is ready to
talk again. His younger brother is
not SO fortunate. He has married a
wife who permits no thinking time un.
less it is away from the home, so
called, and he has to undergo histories
of the neighborhood, of the household
worries, of the children, of the servants,
and of all the other wonderful things
that woman can talk about when she
possesses what might be called an un
interrupted flow of language Another
brother is quite as badly off-his wife
meets bright speech with an in.
different stare, or short answer, and
proposes that he shal! think all his
time. The woman who can talk when
you want to talk and keep quiet when
you want to think is the woman to be
looking out for, inasmuch as she is the
proper one for you to marry.
Ii a talkative woman is married TO
an Englishman, he coolly and calmly,
either by indifference or brutality,
gives her to understand that he don't
want to listen to her. A Frenchman
will endure as long as he can and then
depart to his club. and, if he desires
to think for any length of time, he ia
perfectly capable Of finding some lady
sufficiently congenial to permit him TO
indulge in thoughts while in her
presence. An American-well, an
American is always polite, and if a
woman will talk, will persist in talk
ing, and never allows even the thought
of the thinking cap, it dawns on him
how easily divorce may be gotten in
some States. Speaking of French
Fnn haf
usually credited them is rather az
aggerated. A Frenchman's politeness
is like the icing on plum cake--there ia
no depth to it, and it is by no means
the best portion. An Englishman is
more or less polite, as he chooses to be,
to the woman in whom he is interested
but to the world at large he is an un-
mitigated boor. 1t is true that il one
fell into the river an Englishman would
rescue one without an introduction,
and without making any row about it.,
but one can't 60 tumbling into rivers
every day, and it does seem to me that
little less extraordinary bravery and
little more consideration about tritles
would make all life smoother.
AN AMERICAN Is POLITE TO A WOMAN
because she is a woman, and not, as a
Frenchman supposes, because he OK
poets favors from her in return. She
is woman, and he, stronger in every
way. can afford TO cater to her whims.
respect her likes, and make himself
her obedient servant. | often think he
is too obedient, but still he is very
nice. 1t doesn't hurt women, indeed,
1t is very good for them, quite as fat
tenlng as sweets, and much more elica.
clous in keeping wrinkles off their face.
than any we'll advertised cosmetic, Ia
feel that they have their own way,
Enthuslastic2 Yes. | am once in a
while when ] compare our men with
foreigners. Hou know the old saving,
When he dies, good New Yorker
goes TO Paris. -" Well. if that is so.
when she dies good English woman
in Paradise gets an American husband.
These awfully cold days people have
been saying how sorry they are for the
poor, but ! don't feel So very sorry for
the awful poor, who can 90 to missions.
and all the other wonderful places, and
have things given to them. | do feel
sorry for such poverty as [ heard Of the
other day. Two gentlewomen. mother
and daughter, who used to give French
lessons, but because of the hard times
have lost their scholars, were discovered
sitting on the floor, because they were
burning the last chair they possessed.
And they had had nothing to eat for A
hours! The mother was over 20 and
the daughter over 20. They were re-
fined, well-bred women. not ashamed
10 work, but ashamed to beg. How
many more are there like theing Ciqd
help the genteel poor! Help that house
hold where there are three or four ittlr
tots, a father out of work, and n
mother helpless, because OF the Young
est Of the babies is only four weeks
old. God help the poor gentlcwoman.
who has 10 support somebody else, and
yet must look genteel, and so tiurinp
that freezing weather, annoyed nne ot
her wealthy scholars because shr
shivered so That girl would bay,
shivercd, too, if her underwear hat
been the kind that she usually dedi
Gates only to summer DAYS. And nit,
is wanted for those households wher,
there has to be an effort made Ia keet
up a good appearance.
The Bible says il is hard for a rich
man to get to Heaven. II thar Is trne
u must he because the sins committee
by the poor are forgiven them, for il /,
poverty that is detnorali2inr, m,
people to be pltied are those Of the
IMMESsEARMY orTHE sH,RBY GENTEFt
And the woman to be pitied is tha
young one with every capability fo
enjoyment with feminine love u
pretty clothes, with Using for nj
dainty things that belong hy right /,
pretty women, and who is truly womar
enough 70 sigh out her wants All il,
herself and look cheerful, II il hart;
to Know that you are better lookin,
than your rich cousin, but that vol
can t have a fresh frock, or a ffesl