Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-06-04


cooking up the finger, that bore the
best ring, while she wondered if she
might hang around and spoon with
masculine,
Another style affected by the fool
poet this summer is after this pattern.
{ / assure you, am not "A bit more
given to using naughty words than
these poets):
Oh behold the depths of degradation in the
New York streets.
| got me in trolley car, and hung rs always
on the strap.
] felt the smell, | said "Oh. hell,
And then knew that every odor under the
blue skies came to me
As hung ON the strap ~ he trolley car.
This is a good way off from Walt
Whitman, / believe. 1t is not a dill
cult style, inasmuch as nothing need
rhyme except the naughty words, and
you can got no end Of things TO rhyme
lowell, you know whore Satan lives
Nothing particular rhymes 10 heaven
except eleven, and you can't always
work that in, but fool poetry can be
run out by the yard. and that is the
way publishers buy it. The fool poet
is not altogether the fool that no or
she looks for once the poetry il fully
arranged it is dedicated to some other
fool who buys no end OF copies and
sends them to his friends.
Then, there is another fool
THE DARKROOM FOOL.
He hangs around first ono and then
another public house bar until ii would
seem az if his abiding place was within
the sound of the ice. pick and tho iubi
lation of tho syphon. He will drink,
and drink, and drink-at somebody
else's expense. And he IL called a
popular man and good fellow. BY
the bye, heard something rather hard
on the Americans the other day. An
Englishman said to me, g asked fol
low to take a drink with me, and he
said he would prefer a cigar. Now, |
asked him to take drink for socia-
bility; | didn't invite him to take a
smoke or the price of drink, and il
seems to me that il fellow don't want
to drink with you to be chummy, he
ought to refuse. Ii he asks for some
thing else than that which you offered
him, 1t would DO just as sensible for
him to say that he would take porous
plaster, or a dose of castor oil, or d new
handkerchief, or "a new scarf, or even
the quarter itself. " That is where
women are ahead of men. When you
ask woman to have cup of tea, she
either takes it ur let's ii alone. but she
doesn't say, mo, don't care for any
tea, but | will take its value in needles,
or sewing silk, or u new braid for the
bottom of my skirt The tea and the
drink hnfh tuI. Il
tho guest has no right to suggest a sub
stitute for what is offered as hospital.
ity. | can imagine that anybody read
ing this would count mo more or less a
wicked woman, since | seem to know
about treats and barrooms; my knowl-
edge has come from men,
Ban IS FOR TEMPERANCE.
Personally, | am hclie"nr in tenn
peranco, but ! think people ought to
be Just as temperate with their words
as with their wine, and Just az tenn
peratB in their Judgments as with their
tea. Green tea, taken strong, has done
as much harm, il not more, than
whiskey. And yet, how good cup Of
tea is of good tea; Of that kind of tea
that, when the hot water is put ON it,
sends w fragrance like thanksgiv-
ing; liquid without the crudeuess Of
the green tea, ami without the bitter
ness Of tine black tea is tea pure and
simple, ambor in color, exquisite OF
taste and braring in effect. this kind
Of tea has no bad aftertime. And so
many of our pleasures have If you
dance all night until broad daylight
and 60 home with the girls in the
morning, your hoad, not your heels,
aches dreadfully, and tho figures in the
day book waltz in the queerust sort Of
fashion If you commence 10 play
cards az 10 O'Clock and don't stop until
the chimes Of tho mikman are heard,
you are TO- apt 70 be left with one pink
Ghlp and no money for the matinee.
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