Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-26


cheese. ] found it in Genesis. 'Ab,
said Matthew Arnold senior. you have
the advantage Of me- didn't know
the subject was mentioned in Genesis.
oh, yes, papa said the boy. There
ia an account Of the creation, and the
moun was made before there wore any
cows. So Matthew the younger
triumphed over Matthew the older
This started the question, Are
Chidrap being Overcultured?" l be-
lieve they are, and. like Matthew
Arnold junior. can give my reasons
Not long ago started out to get for a
small boy the real, original and dearly
loved "Mother GooaO. - a diligent
search through all the bookshops failed
to find it. There we're descriptions of
boys and girls in every country in the
world and out OF it, there were full
accounts of how little women kept
house and how little men stored boats
and base. ball clubs. and there were
suggestions as TO artistic interiors that
were supposed TO he interesting to the
youthful mind, but as to real, down
right nonsense verses such as you and
learned more years ago than We care
to tell there-was lamentaIle lack. |
could not but wonder If all children
were like the young woman Of ii who
asked me not so very lung ago il l
realized how often tho word bumani-
tartan is incorrectly used or il all boys
of are on par with a small prig VINO
was very ountemptuous Of me because
was not informed as to the real mean
ing of predestination. This gentleman
of tonder years had got up before an
entire congregation and read paper
on what he thought OF the hereafter
and the advantages OF veritable hell.
The pretty girl had line from her
dressmaker. She said: 1.-The newest
thing in trimmings is leather. 1t is
| cut very thin and used in the form of
straps on cloth skirts. You really must
have skirt decorated with it. ! would
| suggest q brown broadcloth costume
| trimmed with natural leather and
tortoise shell buttons for the autumn. :"
Leather and women! Honestly, dom I
you think that leather is better suited
as q dressing for horse than woman
But some women would gain by a
dressing Of leather. English law allowu
husband to use leather strap as
thick as his little finger when it be-
comes necessary TO persuade his wife
that she is not following the example set
ner by his mother. Haven't you known
a number of women whom you would
like to beat with one of those delicious
leather whips that are so effective
when used upon fox terrier? II
makes the fox terrier smart and dance
around, but he understands perfectly
we'll what he is getting 1t for, and he
also knows that it is not going IL
break his legs or affect bis brain or dc
anything except take him through
what the darkies call "a cnurse OF
sprouts. Would the women be as
amenahle afterward as is the foA
terrier? Would they realize that they
had been whipped only because the,
had done what was wrong? don
know. But there are few womer
who certainly do need a quiet strap
ping. Who are they? The womer
who always tell you the disagresablt
rather than the agreeable words Spoken
about you.
The women who have so little con
sideration that they never hesitate tc
speak of the defects that exist in TIM
people you like.
The women who think little children
abominable pests, well behaved dol
nuisancea and men horrid bothers.
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tunes that are disgrace to all othe
women because they belong to tn
same sex.
The women who chew gum, smok,
cigarettes and gamble.
The women who read nasty books BIZ
cause they are nasty, who enjoy talk
ing on SO called erotic subjects ant
then wonder why men have no respec
for them.
, The women VINO never keep an en-
gagement, who never count time as q
any value and who borrow money an
never return it.
The women who are walking inter
rogation marks. asking you the mos
| lmpertinsnt questions and wonderin
, that you dislike to answer them.
> The women who are not womanly
, not heing gentlewomen either by in
/ stinot or breeding.
These are the women who deserve I
have touch OF the leather strap,
! touch that would sting, but whic
! would improve, and should be willin
, to assert that every other honest hoarte
! woman agrees as to this with Bah
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