Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-30

announcing to your friends that May
will-find you in Russia witnessing the
coronation of the Gar. | have been
told OF the pleasure expected by women
who will get no nearer to Russia than
the quarter dedicated to the Russian
Jews, on the East Side, in New York
CITY; and the 1ueer part Of it is that
these ladies' who do not tell the entire
truth are 80 placid about it. II takes
woman to lie with ease, She can got
into her face look as innocent as
possible, and then 60 ahead in her
efforts to outdo ADanias. can imagine
that this great spectacle OF the corona
tion will be well worth seeing, but |
don't think it will ever compare, as q
curiosity, with the stoiidity with
which the spring-gowned young
woman tells of her invitation to he
present. and Of the impression that
she made on various Russian mobiles
whom she mot abroad last season.
cannot understood why Russia is SO
fascinating to women. Possibly, it is
because, in the history OF tho world,
the most wicked women have been
Russians. Possibly it is because the
average Russian man, while good to
look upon. iR, in reality, stupid. And,
possibly, il is because the line OF caste
is sdrawn very decidedly in all the Rus
sias.
WOMEN ARE BORN ARIsToCRATs.
A republic does not appeal to any
thing feminine. The eternal feminine
wants to sit upon throne and com
mand other people, or else she wants
TO be sufficiently near the throne to
influence it. With woman, an aris-
toeracy is a necessity, and although we
may talk until We are blue in our faces
about an aristocracy of brains, there
never has been and never will be one.
Brains bow to good manners and blood.
Sometimes, when l got to thinking
very hard, find myself predicting
that five hundred years from now the
United States will be monarchy.
The day when men Of brains and
wealth, men like Thomas Jefferson
and James Madison, longed to make
all mon as near as possible equal, have
gone by; in these days each city aud
each little town as its aristocracy,
usually an arisiocracy of wealth. But
after two or three generations of
wealth, there begins to be q longing
for an aristocracy Of race; and, once
the aristocracy of race and wealth,
with certain leaven Of brain is in
control, it will demand leader, and a
king will be the natural result. Who
will be the king 500 years from now
A descendant from the butcher AstorY
One of the tribe of Vanderbilt, bout
maDY Will the king come from out of
the West, and be descended from one
of the railroad magnates, or from one
of the workers vino dug in the earth
uN1 rnt,p1 ,rnIl fhnraif,o fnhn kinn
will not be politician, of that | feel
sure; unless. indeed, he should de-
acend from one Of those dignified New
England gentlemen who made politics
not question of money but who used
their money to purify politics. | am
not speaking of any politicians of to-
day. Even in New England, | know
of none who will answer that descrip-
tion. But think it out for yourself,
and decide under whose banner will
the aristocrats OF 2, 50) rally.
AS TO cATHARlNE or RUSSIA.
But TO return to Russia. The woman
of to-day is great adm'rer of
Catharine of Russia Sho always
speaks OF her as possessing great brain
and will power. She has never seemed
to mo, however, tho sort Of person that
1 hllOAlt lluNb hu lulliudlt nc
quaintance with. She began her career
by killing her husband, and after that
she took fancies, so tn say. to various
gentlemen TO whom she gave her very
intense love, and on whom she spent
the wealth OF all the Russias. One Of
these gentlemen, Potemkin, was 80
weary of money that he had his books
bound in bank notes. | may mention
that | have never seen or borrowed one
of these books, but | read this in tho
history Of Russia written in French.
Speaking of borrowing books, aren't
they cheap enough, and isn't our
civilization old enough for that sort of
thing to ceaseY You, or l love book.
We spend many happy or unhappy
hours over it. Here a passage is
marked 10y pencil; there specially
beautifully description is emphasized
by some rose leaves between the pages,
and there, we'll, there where there was
something that appealed epecially to
your heart or TO mine tear drop fell,
and tear drop never fades. This
book is part of ones sof. Some day
Miss Rosalind Flighty appears and she,
after the manner of her kind goes
over your books, picks up this special
one, and asks you to lend il to her.
You are kindhearted and don't know
how to refuse. And this fool has In
her possession what is really part oil
your life. And the chances are ten tC
one that she pencils certain passages
as lovely, 'too sweet for anything,
and when the book that your fond o
comes home, il it over does, it has be
come so inoculated with tho insipidity
of the borrower that you catch it Ut
with tongs and put it in the fire.
Sometimes the borrower selects you
favorite passages, learns them by heart
quotes thom to other people, tells hov
they were marked in your book, an,
then starts in to adapt them TO you
daily life.
DO NOT LEND YOUR BOOKS.
Personally, | do not lend my books
II used to, but the disappearance Of
valuable French book, the myster
attending book illustrated by Johi
Leech, the walking away in SOM
mysterious manner of an expensive
dictionary of quotations, and the dis
appearance of DO end of novels ba
made mo brutal. Now, have tn
courage of my convictions, and an
Dounce that never lend book Fo
myself, | should just rs soon think q
asking people to lend me their under
wear as to lend me of their library
OF course, there are people in thi
world az know TO my sorrow, VIII
do not draw the limo at borrowing lin
gerie. Apropos of books, if you wan
one for your daughter, put int
her hand tho life of Dolly Madison
which has just come out, and whic
will explain to her in the most charm
ing manner how woman can be fasc