Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-04


silver tops, one filed With a farorite
toilet water, the other holding am
, mouia. Then thers is a yinaigrette,
card case, a note book, tiny, fashion.
| able directory, a pin cushion, a little
silver box filled with hair pins, tiny
brush, email comb aud, just under
this, the regulation carriage clock.
The cases are Of leather with the
monogram in silver upon them. Then
| there is the box 10 hold hot water il
my lady's feet are cold, the smalI
basket in which packages are to be
put, and the collection of ivory bells
that, by being pushed once. or twice,
| or three times, or Whatever the calls
| might be, warn the coachman that he
is TO go TO the right, or TO tine left, TO
stop, or TO go ahead, to obey, indeed,
whatever may be tins caprice Of his
mistress. The regulation brougham,
that ia the original ono having seat
in front, has long ago gone out OF
fashion, and tho tiny little csrrisgc
with room for two occupants. and
everything that could be needed by
them 10 its proper place, lie the acme
I OF luxury on wheels.
AS | said, | never wonder at
woman economizing 10 gowns that she
may keep her carriage. Ny only regret
is that carriages, or rather the keeping
OF them, require so much money. But
what contrast the carriage of to-day
is as compared with the heavy, Tn
wIeldy coach of century ago. Take
Up your Ihackersy. or your Dickens,
those illustrated by the men who lived
when they did, for | am one of the
people who wouldn't give a straw for
the new illustrations of my fayorite
authors, and look at the carriage in
| which Becky Sharp threw the die
tionary at her abhorred school mistress:
hunt up the coach 10 which Mr.. Pick
Wick rode. and compare them with the
carriages OF to-day; yet they were used
not century ago, but within our own
| time.
l will tell you why / like the old
eitlons OF Tbackeray and Dickens. The
men who illustrated them worked with
the authors, knew their ideas, under
stood the people described, indeed, 10
many instances, met just such people.
| Consequently, they we're specially fitted
for the work they did. but we OF to-
dny.-we can enjoy it all: but We
| didn't know just what life was at that
time; We don't meet just such people
| and somehow the modern illustrator is
| Inclined to caricature the people that
| Thackeray and Dickens made alive,
instead OF merely touching upon their
| quaiDtness and making them human.
l atu interested in this new edition Of
Rudyard Kipling, because his people
are the people of to-day. and it is
| right and proper that they should be
| drawn by an artist of to day. / want
| TO see what a clever artist will make
Mrs. Hawksbee look like: / want to
see how be will draw Lisbeth; and
| am wondering Just what the pictures
Of the Phantom Rickahaw" will be.
| Its good that one can get these books
by paying little money at time,
otherwise you and | and all those
other people who have not ducats
| galore, would have 10 look at the
beautiful books, sigh, and pass them
by. Or else, do that which is great
deal worse, go in debt for them.
It's pretty hard to want really de-
sirable things and not to be able to
get them. You and | don't get heart.
sick for frock, or any bit OF foolish
finery, but we long for beautiful books
and good pictures and fine music and
pleasant surroundings, and the time TO
enjoy them ALL And too often We have
TO sigh and go without all these good
things. That's hard enough, but
there's something that's much harder,
and that is to see the intellectual good
things possessed by people who don t
appreciate them. There's Mr. Golden
Guinea, whose library is filled with
first editions, whose gallery overhows
with tiEe pictures, and who takes DO
interest in anything but the stock
market. Because 1t was the proper
thing, he let somebody collect his
books and pictures for him; he bought
the brains of ponFer man.
Then there is Mrs. Gay.and. Glitter.
She tells you that, having box at the
opera, she must 60. and yet she's sick
and tired of it And she chatters and
gigglcs when tho finest singers in the
world are giving voice TO the best
music that was ever written; and you,
who adore music, count yourself for.
tunate if you can sit up in the cheap
seats and have the great Joy of listening
once or twice during the eeason.
DON'T know where the wrong is.
don't want Mr.. Golden Guinea't
money, but ! should like TO look al
his books and his pictures whenever
long to be happy. l wouldn't give O
ricayune for Mrs. Gay.and- Glitter't
social life, but | should like to be abe
to otter her opera box once in a while
to a girl who truly enjoys music. It'r
the strangest thing 10 me how LITTLE
rich people appreciate the pleasure Of
giving. Ii you take the trouble 10 In
guire, you will find that it is not the
immensely rich who think out how
other people shall be made to enjoy
themselves; it is the people wht
simply have enough TO live upon. IT..
arrange that the rich do not realize
what they miss. There is nothing hal
80 line in life as TO mako sOnlcbod,
else happy. Ana it's a good thinL
that, even il tho rest of us haven't &
very much, most Of us do give
pleasure here and pleasure there anc
, realize all tho delight of generosity
Did you ever try this delight? Now
If you are a little blase il you ar,
tired Of all your Injuries; all you
, enioyments, share them with some
, body. You will then find that the,
VIII have new tasta. Bah.
The Hose Of Death.
Before the Hectic flush which has bee,
, POLITICALLY called The Rose OF Death, an