The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-07-09

I'll she is. as the darkies say. 'aitten to
busten." She would like to dance. but
she doesn't think really nice people" do
II on an excursion boat, and so after
having made the unfortunate man
spend all his money TO give her good
time the ungrateful little mink sulks all
the way home and is as nasty as only
that Kind OF a girl can be because she
had not met the exclusive One Hundred
and Fifty.
Now, you know how different that fell
low had thought IL would be---oh, SO ciif-
ierent. He had hoped that coming home
ne could sit UP close to her and do the
Claude and Pauline act, wondering
which star would be their future home.
while he would tell her about his am
bitions and what he trusted the future
would bring to him in the shape of a
nice little wife. But she, having had
entirely too good time, treats him as
IL IT were his fault that the vanderbjlts
were not there to add dignity to the oc-
casion and to show the rest OF the peo-
pie on board what society really was,
and yet so debased Is that young man.
so intensely devoted to her. that he will
absolutely take her on another excur-
sion. On my word OF honor. do believe
that the American man is at once tho
most i'll treated and sweetest tempered
In the world. or course we are all fret
ful once in awhile. and usually summer
time brings out all the fretfulness Of q
woman's disposition. just as II appears
by its sunshine TO make the kindness of
man come to the surface as the flow
ers star the grass all over the country.
n a.. A
ful about. IL Is usually because we need
a change. Sometimes we are fretful be-
cause our iivers are wrong: then we
want a change OF doctors. Sometimes
We are fretful because thereare wrinkles
in the backs OF our frocks; then we need
a change of dressmakers. Sometimes
we are fretful simply because we are
lazy: then for change we want to car
ry hod about half a day. Sometimes
we are fretful because we are women;
then we want a change of companion
we need a man to condole with us.
weather doesn't come up to our expec-
tations: then we want to read about
how hot IL is down In Florida among
the soldier boys and how cold ii is In
the Klondike among the gold seekers.
body else is: then we want a change in
our own opinion of ourselves--we want
to stand in front OF the looking glass,
make a bow to the opposite woman anc
call the reflection fool. Sometimes we
are fretful-oh, 1 don't know exactly
why we are fretfu! We wish we had
never been born. or that having been
born, we had been the happy possessor
OF strawberry marks that would pro-
claim us as princesses, or that when we
were born we had been changed at
birth. or that. being particularly fretfuL
we wonder whether either God or man
cares for US.
It's nasty sort of a mood. IT comes
to you, and II comes to me. Sometimes
it's atmospheric, sometimes it's mi
crobes. but 1 rather think 1t is original
sin. We want to pray for somebody to
care enough for us to shame us out OF
1t. Personally i am willing to hope that
the next time l get fretful some kind
hearted editor who has at once the
courage and railroad pass will como
to New York and Gf he can find mel
give a mental and physical thrashisg to
Bah.