Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-23

wagons would stop running at night,
because some other woman had the
heartacheY Or do you think a man
would stop a game Of billiards because
some woman had II wretched cough and
was nervous? There is nothing quite
as exasperating to anybody who is kept
awake by illness as the sound of
game of billiards. Next to it, in order,
comes the noise made by man who is
practiciug a horn that is to be attached
to a four-in- hand in tho early June
days--both horn and man | mean.
don't think anything, generaizing,
would stop BECAUSE d woman was ILL
And yet 1t ought to. Most of us women
try pretty hard to keep we'll, and we
start handicapped, being women.
THE BABY AND TIE DOG.
We do not get very much sympathy
from anybody except a baby, or an
alfectionate dog. You see, baby has
way of cuddling up to you when it
knows you are in trouble, that is con-
solling in it's way, and dog-well. he
will lie on the foot of the bed and look
up at you, and at intervals he will
come up and lick your hands to tell
you how sorry he is for you; and he
will never be frisky at all until he be-
gins to notice a bit of meat on your
tray, and then he realizes that you are
getting better. and suggests in his own
way that you might share some of the
good things of life with him. He is
very knowing, is dog. He always
feels sorry for woman. | sometimes
| think ne can read her better than
man can. Occasionally when man
don't see tears in woman's eyes
y. L. -.
and brush against her skirt, and do his
very best to make her soc him, so that
| she will comprehend she has friend,
and very sympathetic friend just at
her side.
And friend, too, who will not tell
her secrets. A dog can be confided in.
| You can sit him in front of you and
tell him exactly how happy or unhappy
you are; exactly what worries you, and
you can shake paws with him and pat
him on the head, and somehow feel
| better for it: then, when you meet him
| in the company Of some two-legged
| puppies, you and he can look at each
other and think how much you know,
both of you. And he will shake paws
| again, as much an to say: .Oh, /
know, but am not going to tell. 1
have never told anything for hundreds
and hundreds of years. '' The truth is
that it has been many thousands of
years since dog talked, and this is
how he was made to keep quiet.
THE LEGEND OF CANINE MuTENEss.
Away off in the East, in one of the
wonderful countries that Moore wrote
about, there was beautiful maiden
who loved an equally handsome
youth, who was below her rank, mas
much as she was princess. And
every day her fayorite fox terrier
went to him with message Of love,
and every day he came back with
| another message of love- Now, one of
the queer Eastern gods was her father,
and he had determined TO wed her to
great king; but she refused and said
she would only marry the man she
loved. And she sent word by the little
| fox terrier to her lover that she would
die for his sake, but that she would
never become the wife of another man.
And the lover whispered something
to the little fox terrier and hid a
quaint little bottle in the collar of
Jewels that was about his neck. That
same day the princess heard that a
beautiful youth, who was OF no stand
! ing, had been found dead on the street.
Then she permitted her maids to dress
hcr for her wedding. And the little
dog asked her if she We're going to be
unfaithful. And she looked at him as
dogs look at women, nowadays. When
they fetched her into the temple in all
her bridal tinery and left hei alone to
pray. she took from ons of the gorgeous
jewelled pockets that swung at her side
tho little bottle that her lover had sent
| AN1 .hn 4,,n ~
| They came to look for the bride, but
they found dead maiden, while beside
her was little dog crying as if his
heart would break. And her wicked
father called curse on him, and
said that, from that day on until the
end of the world no dog should speak
except through his eyes. And if you
have bit of doubt about this story,
you need only, some day when you are
in trouble, and little dog who is fond
of you and whom you love is near you,
look at him and he will say all that a
friend could say, but 1t will be with
his eyes. True? OF course, il is true.
Ii you have any doubt at all about it.
that ia any further doubt, you need
only go to small village 400 miles from
Calcutta and the truth will be sworn to
by several priests in the temple there
And when tho clergy swear to anything
it must be true. Even truer than when
women announce certain facts as
truths But this is enough about dogs.
Let us return to women.
WEDDINGS AND HoNEyMooNs.
Talking about weddings always sug-
gest honeymoons. and talking about
honeymoona reminds me of something l
heard the other day. 1t was told by a
Frenchman who said he had thought il
out and boiled it down, and to me il
did seem worry clever. 1t was the sum
of his experience in regard to women
of different nations OF them, he had
concluded that the Frenchwoman loves
until the end of the honeymoon, the
English woman. her whole life, and
the German woman, forever. The
Fronch woman takes her daughter to a
ball. the English woman takes her
daughter to church, while the German
woman teaches her to cook, how tc
control her kitchen and now to make q
home Tho French woman, it seemed
to him, had imagination and vivacity,
the English woman very little taste and
great stupidity, while the German
woman possessed modesty! He said the
French woman chats, the English
woman speaks, the German woman
renders decisions. When the Spanish
woman is Jealous, she kills her lover
the French woman, kills her rival; thu
German woman, with dignity, de
nouncea both and gives up the man.
But all women, at some time or othel
marry. His acquaintance with tbs
American woman was slight. Taking
| up his line of thought, | should sa,
Il