Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-02-13

italy feminine talk. Men can 70 to
the background-they seldom do much
else but form. in their rigid black and
white, background for the beautiful
flowers in gay, bright colors that,
stupidly enough, are called women. II
seems as il they deserved a better
name. Something that told of their
ability to suffer and keep quiet; some
thing that told of their ability to
laugh with the lips when the eyes
were burning with unshed tears |;
something that told Of their ability in
whatever position they may be placed
and of their superiority to men. Oh,
yes, l like men. And generally stand
up for them, but | do that because
feel that they are the weaker vessel.
There are times when woman likes
to talk to woman-yearns for a
woman's gossip. Likes to hear about
the last baby, especially if it is new
one, which, bless its heart could
squeeze to death for love of it, or the
new frock, or just how Jack is being
sweet, or the behavior of the perfect
ladies who dominate the kitchen, and
dominating the kitchen, rule the diges-
tions, and, consequently, the entire
house. A man with crooked digestion
doesn't love his wife or his children,
and the woman who has to preside over
a badly cooked dinner loses faith in
everything.
Oh. those kitchen ladies That clever
writer, Herbert Ward, spoke of them
rs "ciphers in society. =" And then he
went 10 prove that just such cipher,
because she listened at the doorway
and contrued things to suit herself,
could send young, beautiful. and
well bred woman to the penitentiary
for life on circumstantial evidence.
She thought she saw the young lady
stick the paper knife into her cousins
neck she knew they hated each other,
and she was certain, in her own mind.
that this young lady had quarrelled
and quarrelled bitterly with her
cousin. And after this lady had lost
her youth, her hope and her belief. a
diving burglar told how he had killed
a man and used for this purpose the
sharp paper knife, which the lady who
had quarreled with her cousin, had
played with and then dropped on the
floor.
WE WE'RE LOT OF WOMEN TOGETHER.
drinking chocolate and eating the
usual stuff offered at ladies'
luncheon. do believe ladies' lunch
cons are arranged in the interest of
ladies' physicians. But we have
enough of the doctors. drank cocoa
and ate bread and butter. and,listened.
Difficulty Oh, no, not always Madame
st. German told of the old servants she
had; those inherited from her mother,
who We're devoted to her and who sym
pathized with her in every pain and
ache. Pretty Madame Fin de Steele
looked at her with envy. Her servants
came from an intelligence Office, and
no matter how good their references
were, the results we're as nothing.
There / am wrong; they amounted to
great deal. The little woman, with
sigh and an unhappy look on her
face, said; my housemaid, to whom
pay enormous wages, came to me to-
day and told me that very expensive
cup had parted in her hands; she in.
sisted that she hadn't broken it, but
it Just 'lepp'd apart She said it
could be taken out of her wages; her
wages for six months would not pay
for it. My cook came to me with
wonderful references She bad suited
Mrs. Blank and Mrs Dash and Mrs
Head Society SO well that | Won
dered they parted with her, but / soon
discovered the reason. She had weak
ness, not for cooking badly, but for
drinking extensively. requested her
TO leave in polite way, but,
ASIAN A CHILD OF THE CENTURY,
/ declined to give her reference.
1t is queer to me how women will put
their names to references given to
servants discharged for stealing, drink
ing or absolute inability. And the
consequence was-well, what do you
thinkY A letter Of six pages came to
me, presumably an anonymous letter,
but one in which | was told that ii
didn't give Maria Ann, that being the
melodious name of the cook, refer
ence, that she would tell every one of
my friends what she had heard said
about them at the dinner table, and
that she would inform my husband
that when he was away | had male
visitor. The man was the doctor, and
my mother was present during the time
the very short time, in which he
managed to rid me of frightful rheu-
matte pains. What did l do? / took
that letter to the police station, and a
gentleman, who measured over six feet,
informed the perfect lady who had for
merly presided over my kitchen that
unless she stopped this ut once, she
would land in Sing Sing. You sec she
made threat that unless / gave Maria
Ann reference such and such thing
would he done. That made it black.
mail. ~
My eyes were growing larger and
larger when little Mrs. Couleur de
Rose said, "Do any of you remember
when it was rumored that Jack and
were going to part? My dear, that was
fha raault NJ IKin6npaa The newanannra
had my picture and Jacks picture in
time there would be frightful scandal
in the divorce courts. Horrible? II
was more than horrible. / cried until
my nose was red, and when | do that
am in grief. But Jack braced me up
with a loving kiss and a very sincere
hug, and forced mo out with him every
afternoon for a month, either TO drive
or TO walk. The truth was | had
brought a maid over with me the last
time | was in Paris. When | engaged
her she asked me, "Will Madame pay
me S25 month, and give me her cast
oil clothes to sell, or will she pay me
$50 month, and keep her clothes for
her poor relations?" | laughed as an
American woman might, and told her
that | would give her $50 and that she
would get the clothes, too. That is
where | was fool. Then | never
dreamed of locking my desk up, and
after events proved that she read evory
letter | got One day she was very
impairment; she had been rather i'm
polite for some time. but this special
day she said, "If Madame wishes to
meet Monsieur Charlie, | will arrange
for it." Well, l ordered her out of the