Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-11-05

But there! Have you any doubt of
the reality OF the sea-serpenty II may
be that be is not known, in the flesh,
10 whatever ologists would NATURALLY
hunt him up, but 1t is very certain
that, commercially, he has an active
existence. A piece Of him, his skin,
made into bag mounted in silver gilt,
was offered to me by laxative sales
man for the modeEate sum of s25. |
asked the glib young man who exhib-
tied this bag If he was sure that it was
made OF sea serpent's skin, and he said
he was just as sure as il he had
skinned the serpent himself by the sad
SEA waves. The leather looked like or
binary snake akin, but as truth-telers
alone are bshind counters, gazed
with admiration at the piece of the
sea-serpent, so degraded, although
did not purchase him. My reason was
that thought il | waited long enough
the same young man would show me
bag made OF the skin of mermaid.
and that would be something rather
unique.
The unique rules in all tho small be
longings. Jewellers are showing, as
the latest in cuff links-thst is, the
London jewellers, for | don't believe
these links have reached New York yet
what are known al the Road to
Ruin" cuff links.
They ara oval, and on them is en-
ameled the easy ways by which to fol-
low the rake's progress. On one link
is a champagne bottle, opposite it is
ballet girl. The other pair shows on
one side court card, and on the other
the head of horse So you have
offered TO you, in a picturesque way,
wine, women. horses and cards. Any
one of them is calculated, if enough of
it is taken, to ruin the average man,
but all four of them, INDUCED in to
excess, means quick ruin. wonder
if the cuff links will teach anybody
lessons am afraid not. The Prodigal
| Son is usually so well satisfied with
| himself that he thinks he could learn
nothing.
By-the-by, the advanced woman who
| wants to ride a horse or her bicycle in
man fashion. doesn't realize that her
| divided skirt. about which she likes to
talk, is almost as old as the hills.
AS far back as 1899, the devantiere,
which is in reality the divided skirt,
was worn by the women of the Court
OF France, to whom the side. saddle,
until it was introduced by Catherine
de Medici, was unknown Many ladies
did not care to wear trousers and so
the divided skirt was arranged for
| them. Several fur trim med .devantieres
are found in the wardrobe list of Isabel
of Bavaria. the wife of Charles vi.
tell you there is absolutely nothing
new. In those days OF long ago men
might not have cultivated their brains
quite as much from the book stand
point as they do now but how they
did know humanity! What diplomats
they were! How they grew to read the
meaning of laugh, Of smile. OF O
fiown, and how they could talk and
never finch, while they handled q
poisoned sweetmeat, or realized that at
assassin was waiting in the corridor tt
kill them. Those we're the dsys whet
men had to keep their wits about then
and sharpened by use.
The man OF to-day, who understand
many languages, who counts himsel
very wise, laughs at the courtier witt
played with cup and ball but b.
little knows how that mans mind wa
working as he tossed the ebony ball VI
ard strived to catch it as it fell. TIL
4 game may have seemed child's play
, but life in those days needed not onl
! the trained mind, the wits ever on th
alert, but they needed perfect knowl
] edge of the art Of diplomacy, and to
day diplomacy is almost an unknow
art. Some one said it died out wit
Benjamin DisraeI. There is no
! half as much in knowing hook
as knowing people and their minds
I Tor tho book is always the same, bu
r the people change from day 10 day
q and he whom you thought you undo,
: stood yesterday, may be wondorfr
Q puzzle to you to-day. And tho grca
T book of tho world never fails TO interes
q that reader who takes the time I
!. study it, The why's and the where
! fores, the everlasting changes, the ia
of the curtain when sleep comes. an
the certainty that you never can cout
c on the climax being reached until deaf
s appears, makes it book that demant
IS wondrous knowledge in reading
u There must bs an appreciation of il
l tluences, and understanding OF III
Is emotions, comprehension of ii
Of physical mental and spiritual side, b
~ fore you can understand even the lea
Is of humanity.
= You think you have no trouble in Il
"A derHtanding "Maymye Opal Jones'
- That depends. If she continues, as b
- mama has marked her out. Bne will
= as easily read as the alphabet. b
IL across her path there may come som
thing that will influence her strongl
r She may DO taken away from the pc
~ pie who have made her life what it
y and she may surprise the bearer oil
n greater name by heretofore hidd
~ keenness of wit, and, growing mo
Al ambitious every day, learning frc
ott the world every day, she may su
ett denly become "Mary Johnes,' and i
~ tiuence the Gear of all the Russias,
'h be the power behind the throne
III India, in England, in Germany or
az France. Nothing is impossible VIII
lh ons is woman. Women have ma
~ history. The Frenchman's adyit
~ "Cherchez la femme" is Just as tr
~ when you are seeking the answer to
vs. Yiddle to-day as it was in the Gard
no of Eden. Tho woman is behind t
'r thornG, behind the book, behind t
OF music, behind the painting, behind I
20 song. Always she is the inlluent
ny Sometimes, too often, she is an unt
u, Birable one. Sometimes, worry ofte
~ ~ she is an extremely good one. But G
an is always there, and even behind II
~, pen, big, coarse, quill one, as certa
u as you are you, ID woman--is
q Bah
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~ Clayton Valves Hearing.