Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-05-20

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New York, May l7.--This kind. OF
wepther is appalling. or course the sun
shines, but il shines at interyals--and
one day II ia so abominaply hot that
avery woman longs to be tressed, as was
the maiden fair requested to by her
lover, with a. rose 10 her hair, " and
the uext day one ia regreiting tbatythe
furs have been packed. American
weather and tho American tariff are
alike In being movable feasts. The
only thing to do, unless there is
strong ysarning for the grip and the
better land that g pretty sure toefollow
n, ia to stay in the house in a comfy
frock, read an interesting book while
one wonders vaguely what kind OF
clothes one will get for the summer
time. Then one thinks OF ting women
who have gotten summers clothes.
Usually the. woman who has belongs to
the type that is aggressively forehanded.
She prides herself on being up to date
10 everything. She observes holidays
religiously, and nine times out Of ten
she wears O stitf straw hat with black
band around 1t. which Hhe has selected,
not because it's becoming, but because
it will wear we'll. ;s
She's certain. too, 10 drag her hair
back from her forehead. not allowing it
to bs fluffy or loose. but pulling it 30
tight that her eyebrows 20 up 10 a
queer sort of way, and she looks as IL
che Couldn't wink her eyes. She says
that waving the hair will eventually
hurn it of. But 1t certainly ia better
to submit to the feminine weakness OF
burning eventually, aud give to ones
face won,Hnly and soft expression.
She's the sort Of woman who wouldn't
rut any powder CD her nose IL 1t shone
like looking glass; She's one among
the many who are blots upon this other.
wise civilized nation. Her kind are the
women who are sadly, mournfully. ag-
gressively, overwhelmingly. assertively
and disgustingly clean. They have a
scrubbed air that ia neither feminine
nor fascinating. Her cleanliness is not
ndunces itself by her shiny nose, which
not like unto' other women; I've
scrubbed my face with soap and water.
aud the powder OF the toilet table. the
sweet. smelling waters, and the dainty
unguents are considered by me as the
vanities OF yanitiss |" She ought to be
boycotted. Wbyf Because she is Bit
terly opposed to everything that's nice
ana an ardent advocate OF everything
that Ia nasty. She would prefer soda
water TO something good that's extra
dry. She thinks the blue Sundays That
we are having are most desirable in
stitutions. She induces, by continual
naggipg, the unfortunate husband whom
abe controls, into voting the Prohibition
ticket, while she wonders that anybody
should prefer terrapin to some wheat
composition which looks like glue and
tastes like paste. Ten TO one she's a
crank at Intervals on the subject of
dress reform, and makes herseIf an
objact4apelled with a big "O"-by
carrying out her theories.
The feminine crank positively objects
to the corset. She wears a boned bodice,
which points moral and adorns tale.
fhe is utterly shapeless. and her appear.
"a is enough to drive the feminine
woman to tight laciTg, which would I've
wrong. In summer time she looks hot.
III she Ia stout her appearance, Is i'm
proper. because it's unbeautiful, And II
she's thin she looks like planked
shad. She's Usually uncomfortable,
though she wouldn't confess 1T to save
her soul. have said about million
times. more or less, that a we'll fitting
corset hurts no one. Al this talk about
having skirts suspended from the
shoulders of women is really nonsense
OF the worst kind. The Lord didn''
build women that way. lie made theil
hips broad that they might sustain an,
weight that was necessary This 10 thu
truth, and il truth ia mighty and roall,
does prevail, then, in some happ!
future the desirability Of the we'll fittins
corset will be recognized. All thosI
nasty, il-fitting health bodices remint
me of tine mel, who WON'T have glas
of wine in their own houses, but arr
very happy to drink 1T when visiting
They haven't Independence enough Il
do the right thing, and they compromis
on the uarnby PANTY. It's rather fuun.
that there are no women in this worll
as healthy as the English women, AM
no women who lace go much. Th
French women and the american wome
have. naturally, broader hips AM
smaller waists, SO that to attain To
fashionable, which Is not the hour
glass shape, no lscing is required. Blu
the English woman, with her narroy
hips and broad shoulders, needs 4
make her waist smaller to achieve th
shape that ahe desires; and yet, wher
are there women who bring into th
world finer Sons, physically, than tn
English womenY That is one OF th
very best answers when objections ar
made to the coraet. This best specl
meme. Ne far as size and beauty go, G
English men, are not what clere
girl called tailor made, but to col
an expression, mother, made"
Where are theys It's very easy
say, put on o comfy gown and read a
interesting bonk, but first you nul
catch your book. Why doesn't som,
body write really interesting book
What has become of the people wilt
imaginationS is there nobody to SUI
coed Dumas and Charles Reade, Wiki
Collins and Dickens, Gaborlau. an
Balzac--this minglipg may seam oot
yet 1t covers class of books that il
terested evsrybodyY Doesn't anybod
know how tn write book that will q
one up to such "a pitch Of excitemei
that one's heart beats quicker waitir
for the denouemsnt, and the bloc
courses through ones veins. viii
sympathy, hate and love are toucht
upon ike the strings of harp in RAP
successionf These old stories, prob
BILE or not, took one out of ones sc
and Kept alive the natural feeling
Why doesn't somebody write somethir
where there is continual change al
where 40 pages are not given to analy
ing what the heroine thought OF Il