Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-09-23
special Correspondents Of Gazette and Journal

best frock and goes down 10 the station to
meet the expected. Some of us go in the
milk wagon, some Of us go III greater style
in the buggy. and some OF Tue rest OF US
who put OH great airs go in the two-seated
carriage. In the country it doesn't make
any difference about your trap. style Is
not looked for Getting there IS your op-
3ect.
Then when the masculine element is
made much of and has been scolded Tor
not bringing the right fruit or the right
sweets or for forgetting the tin bath or the
bottle OF blackber brandy we assemble in
the parlor to enjoy ourselves. The mode OF
ENJOYMENT most in vogue is card playing.
Now, II YOU want to see lovely woman at
her best or her worst. watch her at the card
table You will then see with what ease
she becomes thief and how greedy she is.
You will then see what an immense amount
of cheek pardon the slang, but nothing
else expresses it) she has and now she VIII
rush into game about which she knows
nothing and OF which she declines to be
taught anything.
Possibly you are a good whist player. !
In that case you may have met the young |
woman who is staying here and who IS so
fond of the game" but who, after insisting
upon playing it, tells you that she doesn't
know much about it. And YOU belong to
whist club famous in both countries She
begins operations by strengthening out her
hand upon the table, making nile OF
SPACES anu u PIC Vi ClluSt ~ pllG Va iNhltS
and pile Of diamonds, until, from know
ing your own hand and making general
guess about the others, you are pretty GER
tain as to what she holds
After she's lost three tricks by throwing
low trump cards where she should have out
high ones she very vaguely asks for at least
the fifth time What are trumps? You
know never can remember" Her mind
satisfied about this she proceeds, when she
is the last player and the deuce oil trnmps
would have taken the trick, to put on u
king and then to remark placidly, arranging
herself as If asking for appreciation, II
never believe i'll sending boy to do q mans
Grand" You are suffering at this time for
the sins of your life.
Next Friday, however. remembering your
experience YOU decline to play whist. You
elect to play hearts with q sweet blond in
gown OF heavenly blue. She says she's
played thegame number of times, and shes
pretty sure she knows all about it, though
She asks you coniidentially, "Oughtnt
10 lead nv highest cards iirst? You are
charmed at having such an Intelligent
partner, but your eyes open wide and you
are little surprised when she leads the ace
OF hearts, follows it up with king, then
dances out the knave and eventually has all
IL hearts in her pile. There's no use IN Try
ing to teach this woman TO play cards. GU
could never make her understand that the
u0licy of the game is to get rid Of them.
No indeed. Originally she got the idea
that she was achieving the most when she
gathered in the ruby red cards and paid out
her chips.
The next Friday little game of poker IS
got up. Knowing what gamblers women
are, You think that here at least you viii
meet some sensible ones. But you hao
never calculated on the tender hearted care
PLAYER. She was at her best that night
Everything was gong pretty well when {
Jack pot was to the fore to be opened Tor z
cents Everybody was in it. and everybody
was prepared to bet rather heavily when thu
tender hearted lady said; Vow, children
am not going to let YOU becheated. There
no possibility OF anybody beating m,
hand, and so there's no use in my taking
more Of your monev.n The natural con
clusion was that she had royal flush, tn
hand that couldn't be beaten Had she
When that marvellous hand was laid down
it was straight jack high The womal
opposite held four aces. You had a full
hand, queen high, and another man hel
four treys.
This was the maddest party eyer saw
and the woman who held four aces gay
her friend piece Of her mind. said she
When you don't know how to playa gam
don't fool away the time and upset til
people who do, and when you are playii
cards don't get too tender hearted. kee
that sort OF thing for the seclusion of Vol
family and your sewing society. | don
care ii you do cry. Unless vou understar
d game you've no business to make thin
uncomfortable for other people, and il We
want to learn to play you ought to be wi
ing to endure dlsappOlntmcntS until W
find out the right way. You've broken I
the game You've made everybody utter
miserable ] feel as if had been brute
you, and yet think son are consumma
idiot"
Then they both cried, and the men sd
they'd goSout and have walk, and later
the evening, when they came back, TIL
found the two women rs friendly rs pos
BILE. and the one who had broken IN t
game said to her husband kate, $ such
dear thing You know she's got qui
way of speaking, but She wouldn't do
mean thing to save her soul"
And the other man answered q
George, that's beautiful for one woman
say about another i"
And the unIucky card player addc
"Weil, it's true. She speaks her mi
sometimes, but Tonight ! really think |
served every word She said
And every man III the party said ~
lively, "Hou certainly did
Even IN the country and generally
Sunday, when the men are here II vii
once in awhile. But what would like
know rs When do pcOpie cxucot it 10
hot ii not IN the summer Likewise "
would any Of us have tn eat during
winter If il We're not for these golden ra,
Are you the sort Ct person who sun
intensely from the heat, who sWinpsar
Tor glass Of ice water and 4 palm
fam If you are, your friends approve
YOU and say yoti're human and sympatAt
but if by any chance you learn how to K
decently cool ami to look as ii you wer,
sitting over furnace all the time the W,
at large. especially that part Of it wire
related to you either BY ties Of friendshil
of blood, look upon yoll rs their nat
enemy They think you've no busil
Whatever to be cool when every body el!
warm.
There is an art in keeping cool. II
where the summer is Il great deal war
than it is il England people keep on
stuffv underclOjhes instead Of having
of different weight and changing then
cording TO the Thermometer. Then
average woman drinks and drinks
drinks ice water until YOU wonder il Il
a llesh and blood tank. Ii ypu can't d
anything thar is cool and refreshing y
out making u beast Of yourself then tai
lemonade, cool, but not filled with iumi
ice; tea that has been iced and which h
lemon IN it Or any pleasant tasting d
that is not SO cold that it gives Il shoe
your teeth But don't drink anything
often, and don't 20 Gareerlng around
ming yourself As if yuu were some snr
ali electric machine and putting like Il \
engine and d0n't haze your shirt W
stlrGhed uthey arc like pustehoard.
clothes that look rs vel as feel cool y
Ina drgntied, easy way and convince y
self THAT YOU are cool,
sell convection IS vcrr impressng
woman never looks well when she SUI
heat She invariably secnIs utldg,
there Is one hOrrid word and one 1Hly
applies 70 her and that i lruUzg,
suggests gutidy drt sing, hair standin
every direction, things pinned rather
i ii 1.