Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-07-30

for anything, from moon to million
alre, and her chances of getting either
will be greatly increased by the proper
introduction of tears. Shakespeare
knew the value OF tears, 80 did Byron,
so did Shelley, so did Tom Moore, and
so did this later poet, Tennyaon, of
whom so many people speak we'll,
though for my part | prefer more
manly writer's As | said before, a
woman must manage her tears properly.
There are times and seasons when tears
are really OF no earthly use, being sim
ply a waste Of ammunition, but properly
directed. tears will, nine times out of
ten, transport to tho feminine feet
either the special moon or the special
millionaire that Is ionged for. People
talk, my dear, about the world being
the same old world and the same old
emotions governing it, and everything
of that kind, but there are cycles Of
emotion Just as certainly as there are
tides and changes of the moon, of
fashions and of politics. Where are
Romeo and Juliet of Verona nova
daysY Who're would you find an army
of people fighting another army of
people for a woman as men did years
ago for Helen? Where would you find
whole city at the feet of one woman,
as very often happened years ago in
Athens, or In Rome? | do most posi-
lively believe that il Romeo and Juliet
and all the rest of them were living
nowadays, that Juliet would marry
Paris and carry on Irritation after
marriage, with Romeo.
She would lunch with him at the
fashionable restaurant. she would
drive out with him in his hanson,
and make him send her bouquets of
flowers every day; she would name her
first baby after him, and the chances
are her husband would grow fond of
him, and talk about the timo when
there used to be some ridiculous feel
ing, but that was all nonsense, and my
wife and Romey and are the most
devoted friends possible. He would
call him honey, l am certain! 1t is
the fashion Of the day, to take all
dignity out of names. Think of my
beautiful name of Elizabeth" being
boiled down to Betty" Though,
really, 1 should feel very badly if any
body called me by my name in all its
stateliness. am bit interested as
to the emotional period that we are in
Just now, and, my dear, except that
we have vulgarized it, little do
believe that we have gotten to the
Egyptian stage. People are trying TO
prove that Cleopatra was a small.
blonde woman, very excitable, and
liable at any moment to an attack of
the nerves. This, of course, makes
hor seem very like the average woman
in society to-day. Then, il Cleopatra
were like this, it is fair to conclude
that Antony and Julius Caesar could
not have been such tiresome men as
history makes them, but really very
nice sort of follows who wore their
hair short and went in for athletics.
Perhaps they took them little differ
emily from the way men do nowadays.
When ever they wanted to got into
good, healthy glow, they did not punch
away with the gloves, or practice on
the horizontal bar, but called their
servants and went out and killed few
people. / wish this were the mode
nowadays. OF course. it would not be
very agreeable having to kill people,
but so many people could be spared.
We are told there were street cars
and telegraph wires, telephone and
messenger boys in the days of Cleo
patra. Fancy Cleopatra receiving
telegram from Antony saying he would
come for her to dine with him at 2. 80.
In those days the telegraph companies
probably managed just as they do now.
So she would receive her message at
IL 10. although it was started at g.
and she would have Just 20 minutes in
which to rush around and dress herself
before her noble lord arrived. Then
Antony would hunt up the girl that
took the message, and the boy that
delivered it, and kill them both.
Nowadays, he would not have that
very proper privilege. He could only
write letter of complaint to the COM
pany, and the company, with it's usual
appreciation Of the rights of the in
dividual, would take no notice Of it.
And still, we are in the Egyptian cycle.
Bah SEES A BALLET.
am all the more certain of ii be-
cause when | was in the city l was
takon by one of my nephews to sec a
ballet The women in that ballet GER
tainly belonged to the Egyptian period
probably to the ballet OF Cleopatra.
Some were SO scrawny that it scanned
pitiful to take them out of their
graves and make them dance; others
were SO fat that one regretted that
their bandages had been undono, and
their munmies let loose. They were
not fat in pretty way; they were fat
in a lumpy way, and in ballet, at
least that is what 1 have always
thought, the fat should be evenly dis
tributed. OF course. my dear, 1 am
only one girl giving my opinion of how
things seemed to me in the city, and
may be wrong, but l doubt it.
was just going to ask Miss Anne
what she thought of the ballet when
her sister put her hand on my arm
and told me not to mention it to her.
She considers Miss Anne too young to
look at such things. Miss Betty, her
self, is thoroughly up to date,
although she does not approve of this
particular date but the eyes of her
sister never rest upon anything that is
not quite proper, l wonder what is
quite proper in this world. just as soon
as you want to enjoy yourself, some.
body decides that this special mode of
enjoyment is not right. just as soon
as an interesting book comes out,
critic decides that it would cause
blush to come upon the face of the
young person. Certainly the young
person in America needs to be kept
guarded. Taken as type she is not
given to blushing She is sef-satisfied.
She believes she knows enough to sut
the world on fire if she used her know
ledge, and she is perfectly ready at any
time to give the pepole. who know
more of life and more Of books and
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