Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-06-24

Eat Proper Food, Take Plenty ot Exer-
ciss and Are Not Supposed at an Immature
Age to be Informed of Greek and Latin.
Special Correspondence OF Gazette and journal
New York June 1s,-Among the good
examples set by the fashionable English
woman is that OF being mother. 1t is
possible that YOU may visit at her house
formally.and you will never know that there
is anything In the shape of small child
there, But if you happen to know your
hostess well the small people are brought
in with the dessert dressed in the simplest
and .pfettiest Of clothes and prepared by the
teaching that has been given them to show
not only their finery, but their good man
ners. The English woman, copying the
example set by the royalties, is proudest
when her family is lafge. She likes to go
to drive i'll the afternoon up and down the
row showing the sons and daughters that
are so much of a credit to her She GER
tainly looks her best at these times, for the
tall, slender girls, with their beautiful hair,
the big, fine looking babies and the manly
looking boys remind one of that small girl
who 90 many years ago announced to her
mother, II am glad you married into our
family, mamma, because you are SO pretty
The extremely smart woman in New York
is copying the English grande dame aud
goes out driving with her inidgets about her
utT HuTu6SL 10 IMPRESS Lnt woman
who rides with a dog as her companion how
much she is 10 be pitied.
By-the-bye, did you ever notice the way
some women hold babies, especially the way
they lift those unfortunate limp looking
ones who seem to have no more backbone
than eelsp II really does seem as If one
type of woman slung this kind of baby
over her arm as If it were scarf she were
wearing. And nine times ont of ten the
same woman will hold u plump Uaby as if
it were a pitcher filed TO tine brim with
cream and which she must not allow to
move for fear some might spill. never saw
man who didn't hold baby well. and /
never saw a baby, especially girl baby,
that was not extremely anxious to De held
by man. 1t tseems rs If they realize bless
their tiny hearts, that the arms about them
are good and strong and that at last some
bodvls holding them who does not fear
dropping them. The children of this genera
toni mean the fashionable children-are
extremely handsome, and the reason is not
hard to discover. They are dressed with
the utmost simplicity. They eat simple
food, which is proper food. They take
plenty of exercise, and they are not sup.
posed at an immature age to be informed of
Greek and Latin. Their mothers are deter
mined that that they shall be beautiful
women and handsome men, rising up to do
them credit.
~
Speaking of children, how many people
know the story Of Dinah Maria Nulock
Craiks adopted daughter? Strengthening
some books the other night, | came across
u copy, an old, old copy, of John Halifax,
Gentleman" ana almost before | knew
what | was about | was re-reading that
most delightful of books. Then there came
back to rne the story of the little girl whom
she lad loved SO we'll. AT the funeral of
her mother some one said that her marriage
banns had been announced only .he Sunday
before. One day Mrs. Craik and her nus
band were out driving, aud meeting some
friends were told By them that a beautiful
Child, baby evidently of aristocratic birth,
had been found on a stone by the wayside
that morning, and, not knowing what to do
with 1t, the man who discovered IL had
taken ito the town ball where it was wait
ing to be identified. With womans Curl
osity Mrs. Craik drove on SO see the child
that bad been 50 cruelty treated. AS she
leaned over to look at Il it raised its little
| arms to her, and the ohildless wife an
| nounced that, having claimed her, it should
be her child. II went home with her, and
| for weeks afterward description of il was
advertised in all the English papers. for
Mrs. Craik did not propose to lose it Just as
| she had learned to loyci it. But no word as
| to who 1t was or where its parents were or
who had abandoned it ever reached its
mother by adoption. AS soon as the child
| could understand she was told that while
was not their daughter in the usual sense
she had been given this father and mother
| by God, who had laid her OH rock where
| they might find her.
The stone had been dug up and was in the
hall of the Craik house, and from the time
| she was old enough il became the duty of
the little girl TO put fresh flowers upon it
| every day. Whenever beautiful vase was
given to Miss Mulock, lovely jug or bit
| of china that would hold flowers, il would
be suggested that il should be put on what
| was known to be household as the baby
| stone." The fact of the child's unknown
| parentage was never made u cruel story to
her, and she was surrounded so entirely by
| love, by sweetness and the beauty of life
that each night she thanked God in her
prayers that her dear mamma had found
| her instead OF some one else, who might
| have been less gentle and less thoughtful of
her. A friend of mine was present at her
birthday fete, the day celebrated being that
on which she was discovered. Atthis her 10th
| festivity she said to another little mite. who
was telling that she was IL years old and
her grandmother duchess. "Oh, yes; but
! that's nothing. I'm not an ordinary child
like you. You were only born. while |
was found" The story OF this girl, now a
wife and mother, seems particularly sweet
to me, and think that she can have no better
lesson than that given to her in the book
written by that dear dead woman who was
| q loving mother to her, and be sure that if
she always remembers the quotation that is
on its title page the best words that RuskIn
ever wrote, her life will be like her mothers 5:
Queens you should always be; queens To
your lovers, husbands and sons queens of
Il higher majesty to the world beyond but,
alas, you are too often Idle and careless
queens. grasping at majesty in the least
Things, while you abdicate in the greatest"
Certainly one might wish that it could be
said of every woman writer what can be
said of Dinah Maria Mulock Crail;-she
never wrote anything that did not tend tc
elevate woman, and she never put in the
mouth of any one OF her characters words
that were not full of sweetness truth and
light. This triumvirate is much derided
but it is nevertheless the one that forms i
crown of glory about the head of woman
wv
It's blessed thing that a good many oi
the women who have passed 40 do not live
in France aud stand in danger of the gull
lotine. Why? Because so many of them
have necks that are shriveed up like those
of old chickens, or they are so thick anC
short that they seem so have no necks al
all. This is the result of overcovering the
neck Our great-grandmothers, who ever
in winter time thought nothing of wearin,
bodice cut low and who had never heart
of pneumonia, all had lovely necks, but tn,
next generation took the low neck gowr
away from small children. not even allow
ing baby's dlmpled throat to show, anC
the consequence is--well, you see tine con
sequence. Nowadays the small girl o
fashionable position has her neck bu
thinly covered, while it gets its rubbiD;
every day with the same regularity that til,
hair is brushed. l don't mean that tn
small maiden is permitted to go on TIL
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