Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-02-27

an optimist. Everything that We con-
meet with the word fin de steele ia out
of form, and ANYBODY who is anybody
says that one is vingtieme steele. You
wouldn't think the change in words
would make SO much difference, but ii
does. The fin de steele girl was given
over to many bad habits cigarette
erloking, lolling about in tea gowns
and darkened rooms, incoming over
erotie poets or analytical novels, and.
in fact, belonging to the school of
Aubrey Beardsley, who is clevery
enough making money at fooling the
world. Ana up TO its bent. Blythe
by, Mr.. Beardsley has just added to
his fameis it fame or notoriety?- by
painting picture of tho Virgin and
Child" and his conception of the
Holy Mother shows her IN a hooped
gown of red velvet, looped with pink
roses. And London laughs, but still it
buys his books. He has Just announced
that the woman who is most exquisitely
shaped, or as he puts it,
"DivINELY TALL"
should measure from the hip to the
bend of the knee % inches and from
the knee to the heel % inches
Curiosity led me to measure friend
who is of medium height, with tho
result that she measured from the hin
to the bend of the knee % inches, and
from the bend of the knee to the heel,
Is inches Mr.. Beartlaley's measure
ments probably cause him to be SO inn
mensely off in his drawings About
his color, | can say nothing, but
should think he needed to be treated
as the Howling Swell said his uncle
WAS, that is, YOU see, dear boy, he
did not know red from black, but he
went to Johnny doctor, paid his fee,
and now he can see as well as any
body" That is what is needed for
the Beardsley school to go to Johnny
doctor and get its seeing apparatus
Strengthened SO that their women will
not look like round bath tubs put on
clothes poles and topped with tea
cup and saucer.
But to return to the girls. The fin
de steele girl liked 10 talk about
death, about its Joys, about the pain
full pleasures of life, and she changed
her religion quite as often as she did
her washerwoman, in her efforts to get
one fitted TO her poor little soul. Such
a miserable little soul! 1t has been
haggled over, put out on exhibition,
its possibilities discussed by long
bnired mon ond shout .h,ira, ,,,,,,,e,
mil ahsnlntaiv damht - " hnisn
worth daJioat,na - an,tb; III
the woman who lnew nntb;na taI,,aJ
about
ihn phhi"ttFs OF THE uNhNoMN'
ANA ali the wise women stood oil and
wondered u, when Congress was over,
the fool-killer would come around.
Ibut we hava phunun6 all that Tho
girl that IS vlngtleme steele, must
nrst OF all, be natural She eats we'll,
she enjoys herself heartily, and she
lnds an Immense pleasure IN telling
the truth. sometimes she embarrasses
you WIN ner st.ae eruthl Illness one
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THE TRUTH, DRESSED or IN ITS NUDITY,
is as dangerous to handle as nitro
glycerine. What is the consequence?
You pick up your morning paper, and
you say Gracious goodness! Paul
Smith, that boy of Kitty's, has mar
ried one of those Furnace girls. Why,
she is at least 10 years Older than he
is. :"
The answer, little languidly spoken
is: "Oh, my dear, it is getting to be
such an old story for men to marry
women older than they are. TIE son
of the richest man in the world is tes-
perately in love with young lady who.
il we used the horrid old terms we
used to, would be called an old maid,
ana uon thlhk ne ID IL Iheh the
famous ulVoreee uarrle &c man younger
IMAM heisa'i ~ soi ll' iike elghl
years; anu peIsonally, l thlus tnat ny
1qea mas Ips.en IN. in'o me nea1s OF tne
oohnnies .nae my t; edn saw thelhsel We
money anu anu III eauie ~ y 4 MARRYING lhe