Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-07-07

though bic immediate ancestry mny |
have shown the most ordinary people, I
did not have, IL il we're traced back, some |
good blue blood somewhere. am a |
grent believer 10 good blood. II always !
brings back the wretched old phrase.
"Blood will tell, as the old maid said
when she looked at her nose. but,
issting asidc. all heroes come OF good
folk. Here in this country We can
trace our .Deweyu, our liohaons and, as
the darkies say, GLORY be to God ~
our Lees to the very best blood in the
land. and the best blood 10 this coun
try is that which was reukessly spilled
over 100 years ago to make us free
Now, however, we are hound politely
TO England, and England il tipping her
hat to Va. anti we are talking abDut an
Anglo American alliance. 1t is the
right thing We s""r', the Same tongue,
we live pretty - after the same
fashion and ii ~ Eugiishmen ara
bit better looking We can back our
American women anu give long odds
against the average English woman.
The English girl lie darling, though.
She looks like q sweet white lily and
she has certain bnshfulness that com
mends her wonderfully. The English
wife is dignitied for her frat thought ia
given To the master OF the house, but
the English mother 10 fine She makes
her children respect the old, be polite
to everybody, and, although she may
fondle and careHs them as We America
women do, she makes them perfectly
understand the value of Solomon'a cpl
gram. Yet she discriminateB. Sha
knows when tine rod Is to be used, and
while as mother she is very clever.
especially az young mother, she Is
wonderfully gentle OF spirit. Her
majesty the Quesn--God bless her =
| SET the good example long ago, so that
an English woman thinks that life ism t
worth the living. and indeed it isn't,
| IL che hasn't got lot Of small puople
who belong to her and who call ber
but never that dreadful "momma. ~
She is quite clever enough to know
that she looks younger and prettier
when child 10 near her, and the hand
soonest woman in London to-day will,
when seated in her victoria. dressed NJ
in frills and furbeluws, have seated be
sids her tiny morsel Ct humanity IN a
gingham frock and big straw hat.
The richest OF English women never
nut lace or embroidery or such idiotic
trumpery on their children. A clean
white frock and broad blue cash are
counted the festival get up, while at
for jewelry On child-Well, the
4 Duchess Of Westminster or the Prinoesl
Of Wales would raise her pretty eye
brows and wonder if the poor darling
mother were a barmaid in Austria Of
Africa.
1t is rather funny thing that almos
every American woman who has mar
ried Nm Enlgishman of any position ha
presented her husband and her adopted
country with twins. You ought to SO,
those belonging to Mrs. Burke Roche
two dear tots of boys who wear blu
4 sailor suits'and walk up the avenue II
front of their grandfather, Mr.. Franl
Work, who looks as il no hated t.
} acknowledge it, but is immensely prouI
J Of them. Occasionally their quain
looking little sister ia with them, an,
the ether day | heard her mother call
ing her by her old fashioned name O
} Cynthia aH she reminded her TO kee
an eye on her brothers while she wen
in to shop. love those old fashione
names-Cynthis and Madeline am
Milicent and Katherine always spele
{ with a II and Yvonne aud Clotild
and Dorothy and all the long list tina
3 suggests old fashioned fiowers-not th
great new ONES, all size and no perfume
but the sweet lovely ones that make
bouquet fit to lay before an altar or /
t the hands of the dead or the living.
9 Apropos of names, l have had % let
tiers asking ue how l got my name.
4 shall make point Of telling this ia
= tho last time to you all who profess g
0 much interest in it. A great man
y years ago there was beautiful Iris
u lady, gentle of manner. sweet of fac
and using the "thes' and the thou
l which among the Friends are so GET
. eral. Living her quiet girlhood in ht
Is fathers home, she met one day tine ne
Is tutor. who, like her, was pacing u
n and down the pleasance, reading as /
e walked. She gave him an old fash
q Toned courtesy and forgot him, but mel
d day when she was again stroiling alor
1T she met him again, and this time /
J, was brave enough to stop and tell b,
n of the new books he had brought fro
"a London and the hours he hau to apa
!, after her brothers. lessunH were finisht
10 and how his desire was to teach he
d So, getting permission from her fathe
=. my iEuy ohtuufh Degdu TO bIuuy u
literature Ut the day with the your
a tutor. But alas. little attention VI
!, paid to the books, and he taught M
is she learned that old. old lesson of low
70 One night she was summoned to di
IN ner, but no one could find her. III
T, next day, going many miles 10 an oil
10 fashioned coach to the nearest tow
vi Belfast, it was discovered that in II
q very meeting itself these two we're ma
e ried. Lady Barbara had Joined 81
1e order of the Friends for the sake OF Il
I'd man she loved, and that afternoon tn
ry sailed away for this new country, he
one man was as good as another,
ct matter what his religion was. Amol
nt the quiet colony OF gentle Friends
y Delaware they made home for theI
IS, selves, and there were horn to the
CO children whu loved and revered the,
or To-day there is nothing but the tom
stones to mark where thoy once lis
ITO and loved. Still, when very old 90
49, tleman puts his hand on my head Al
On compares my face to m old miniutu
We which he carefully guards he smil
on gently and says,r''You ars Barbara
re and ] laugh back and say, "No; l q
ye ,4eA94ss Bah. y