The record-union., 1897-06-20
MATCH MAKING.
Extracts From the Diary of the Hon.
Georgina Darlington.


AS l intend this diary to be really
| true record of facts and not mere
memorandum of compliments, like some
| girls journals. I shall put down what
Aunt Albinia said to-day when L tod
her of my match-girl plan. AS /
| foresaw, she was furious. If it had
been the other kind of match making
| that I was turning my attention TO,
she would have been all gracious ap-
prevail, no doubt, but this-just because
it is really sensible and useful, and
gives some scope for ones personality
to develop and influence others for good
is pronounced to be absurd ana III
diculous.
On thinking it over now, L am glao
to remember how well l kept my tenn
per, especially when she would warn
me solemnly that Stunning was
played out now-was really quite ceas-
ing to be the thing" AS If l should
take up a career because 1t chanced
to be " the thing! However, L did
not lose patience, but set it all before
her quite coolly and collectedly, ana
then just as 1 thought that l had begun
to make some impression even upon
her. she came out with the remark
which | mean to record specially here,
partly by way of being perfectly can
did, and partly because it will be IN
Structive to refer to by and BY Wheh
events have shown which OF us IS right
You force it from me, Georglna- L
would have spared your feelings IL
could but since you will not listen TO
reason in any other form, l must tell
you plainly that your personal appear
ance is not" (she stammered a little
here)-"in short, it puts your under
taking anything of this kind quite out
of the question
1 said, quite calmly, that I begged
her pardon, but I failed to see what
NV appearance had to do with the mat
! ter.
'Everything!" Aunt Albinia pro-
nounced in that irritating loud, en-
phatic voice that she uses When she
means to talk you down; appearance
has everything to do with such things
Some people can go and play at nv
| ing as the poor live and 1t does no
more harm than any other game,
though I object to it's being played I'M
der the name of religion"
There l interrupted her and stated
| that these remarks could not apply TO
me. since my scheme had nothing what
ever to do with religion.
oh" said Aunt Albinia, and that
was adjust as if anything reasonable
or arguable could be expressed In
mere interjection. However, L thought
! it due to myself to explain that my plan
| of living as a match-g girl among match
girls was to be regarded solely from
! a moral and social point of view Anu
| Aunt Albinia said oh" again. L be-
lieve she thinks she does it rather well,
| and 7 have no doubt that with the
feeble. sycophantic old spinsters on her
| charitable committees it is very ef-
| fective. But l have too much OF the
enthusiasm of humanity to be inf1u-
enced by such trivial superf1cialities.
| Then she went on.
IF you want amusement, why not
take to bicycle riding at once?" Such
fatuity as that was really unworthy vi
reply. SO 1 held my peace, and after
waiting d minute she said
Il repeat, Georgina, that nature mas
not fitted you for the part. If 1t We're
| Cecilia LIE Marchant, for instance, or
your cousin Evelyn, it would be total
ly different thing" q should think so!
Pretty, empty-headed noodles. with
their minds full of nothing but dress
and fiirtations) Fl am sorry to pam
Won but must realize the fact that for
such an undertaking a distinguished
anpearance is pre-eminently necessary,
and that. unfortunately, you have not.
OF course. you do very we'll as long as
Won keen in our own set, because every
one knows who you are, but II you go
poking yourself into other ranks where
you have no business, you will certainly
come to grief" (No business, indeed!
AS if the interchange of thought and
sympathy between myself and my hu-
man sisters, and the gradual raising OF
them to my level were not life-work
worthy of the noblest faculties! How
ever. / said nothing, and my aunt
prosed on) ''Cleverness and culture
are very good in their way, but you
| know there is almost as much of that
sort of thing among the people as with
ourselves in these days. Education is
nothing nowhere prettiness is worse
than nothing. A really aristocratic,
high-bred air and manner and appear
| dnCe oil t llC OiAiy iiiSSaAi0 ~
| ing our superiority.
| I could stand it no longer and broke
| in:
My dear aunt, if the only object OF
| these mysterious attributes that you
think so much of is to establish our SUI
periority over an oppressed and down
trodden people, 1 cannot regret that
do not possess them. | have no wish TIC
be superior. One of my chief aims III
becoming a matchgirl is to assert the
noble principle of equality the glorious
Aunt Albinia drummed with her fin
gers on the table and said:
Yes, yes, we know all that. AL
though. by the by, I thought you an
nounced just now that your personality
| was to influence the masses for good
and l don't quite see how that is to be
combined with perfect equality; how
ever, let that pass. / am as we'll aware
as you are, Georgina, that. now that
| YOU are of age neither 1 nor any one
else has power to force you to give uI
this folly, or l should certainly have
done So Your poor dear parents, ha6
they lived. would have been Mortified
however, 1 see you intend to take youl
own way, and 1 shall only make one
more suggestion. Instead of setting
up as an independent philanthropist
why should you not join Margaret Aims
worth as ST. Faiths, where you would
be under proper supervision"
Supervision / should think so. One
might as we'll be in convent at once
And Margaret Ainsworth, too. OF al
hghtened-bound hand and foot by the