Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-07-29

doubtedly-the son of country where
the very soil is supposed to be odorous
Of virtue-therefore the woman beside
him must be perfect pearl of purity;
| an Englishman never makes a mistake
| in these things! Never? Are you
| sure? All, believe me, there is not
| much difference rows irys between
women of opposite nations. Once
| there was-I am willing to admit that
| possibility. Once, from all accounts
| received, the English rose was the fit
| ting emblem of the English woman,
but now, since the world has grown so
wise and made such progress in the
art of running rapidly downhill, is
even the aristocratic b itish peer quite
easy N his n nd regarding his fair
leeress? Can he leave her to her own
devices with safety? Are there not
men, boastful too of their blue blood, :"
who are perhaps ready to stoop to the
thief's trick of entering his house dur
ing his absence by means of private
keys, and stealing awGy his wife's af-
fections?-ard is not she, though a
mother of three or four children, ready
to receive with favor the mean robber
of her husbands rights and honor?
Read the Lor don newspapers any day
and YOU will find that orce moral"
England is running a ncck-and- meek
lace with other less hypercritical ma
tions in pursuit of social vice. The
barriers that once existed are broken
down; professional teautes" are re-
ceived in circles where their presence
formerly would have been the signal
for all respectable women instantly 10
retire ladies of title are satisfied to
caper on the boards of the theatrical
stage in costumes that display their
shape as undisguiseGly as possible to
the eyes of the grinning public, or they
sing in concert halls for the pleasure
of showing themselves off, and actu-
ally accept the vulgar app,clse of I'M
washed crowds with a smile and bow
of gratitude! We gods! what has be
come Of the superb pride of the otd
regime the pride which disdaired all
ostentaton and chung to honor more
closely thar life! What striking sign
Of the times, too is this let woman
faint her virtue before marriage, she
is never forgiven-her sin is never for
gotten; but let her do what she viii
when she has a husbands name 70
screen her, and society wiHks its eyes
at her crimes. Couple this fact with
the general spirit of mockery that pre-
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of religion, mockery of sentiment,
mOckery of all that is best and noblest
in the human heart-add to it the gem
eral spread of "free-thouSht," and
therefore of conflicting and unstable
opinions-let all these thiros together
90 on for a few years lor ger, and Eng
land will stare at her sister nations
like a bold woman in domino-her
features partly concealed from a pre-
tense at shame, but her eyes gittering
J coldly through the mask, betraying to
all who look at her how she secretly
revels in her new code of lawlessness
coupled with greed For she Will al
ways be avaricious-ard the worst of
it is, that her nature being prosaic,
there will be no redeeming grace to
cast a glamour about her. France is
unvirtuous enough, God knows, yet
there is a sunshiny smile on her lips
that cheers the heart. Italy is also
unvirtuous, vet her voice is full of
! bird-like melody and her face is a
dream of perfect poetry But England
unvirtuous will be like a cautiously
! calculating, somewhat shrewdish ma
iron, possessed of unnatural and uG-
becoming freshness, without either
laugh, or song, or smile-her one god.
Gold, and her one commandment, the
suggested eleventh, Thou shalt not be
found QUIT"
slept that night On deck. The cap
tain offered me the use of his little
cabin, and was, in his kind-hearted
manner, truly distressed at my per-
sistent refusal to occupy IT.
1T is bad to sleep in the moonlight,
signor," he said, anxiously. 1T makes
men mad. they say
smiled. Had madn,es been my des-
tiny, | should have gone mad last
right | thought
Have no fear!' | answered him
gently. 1.-THE moonlight is a JOY to me
it has no impression on my mind
save that Of peace | shall rest well
here, my friend-do not trouble your
self about me"
lie hesitated and then abruptly left
me. to return in the space Of two or
three minutes with thick rug OF
= sheepskin. He insisted so earnestly on
my accepting this covering as a pro-
lection from the night air, that TO
please him, yielded to his entreaties
and lay down, wrapped in its warm
folds. The good-natured fellow then
wished me a "Bucn rip0so, signorl"
, and descended to his own resting
place. humming gay tune as he went.
. From my recumbent posture on the
deck stared upward at the myriad
stars thar twinkled softly in the warm
violet skies-stared long and fixedIg