Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-08-11

|ciai Correspondence of Gazette and journal
bp Board the Yacht Pink. Below
Ia Island, Aug. 8. Everybody knew
lat was the matter with me aftsr
Sne back. Some said it was that
Id feeling for which newspapers
+ertise 80 many patent medicines.
bording TO one doctor it was nervous
Istration, according to another it
eomethipg to do with the brain,
lie another gently limited at
3uum where tho brain should be. |
a caused pain, for l knew that
BIT | wanted was thoroughly good
|if of ssa air and short though |
Try life on the ocean wave. So the |
tain OF the Pipk-he called 1t that |
ause 1t was always fresh as paint |
ma sweet as carDation himself |
ted Molly, her ensign, who was
he on leave; ths colonel and me to
hway from this weary world for a
lis while, live aboard the Pink and
lie how much we loved each other.
oIuetin,es when there are two women
board a yacht they are apt to grow
Ity, but | am old enough to have
bed the envious stage. l appreciate
3ly's good looks. while try to
Ike myself appear as well as pos
D]e. Hike to see the ensign make
VI to Molly, though l shouldn't care
be neglected by the captain or. the
bnel. read sbout rich men having
m yachts built. and | Wonder and
hder again where their senses are,
there is nothing in this world SO
utiful as boat that is we'll built
goes sailing over the wator like
kn-an idealized swan, controlled by
mimi Of a man.
lie are immensely comfortable, the
of us. Our host is a charming
helor with a heart big enough to
all womankiud and whose mar
20 would DO great grief to all
ept those women who had never met
b. Then there is the ensign. who
been to Egypt, seen the beauties
India, Paris and London and
mutually laid his heart at the feet of
a merican woman, while AZ for the
||onel-- we'll, the colonel is delicious
INFANT OF this past, not wornout, big
ugh to he useful, witty enough to
Entertaining and having the courtesy
a Bayard. Molly is young, pretty
In love, while I-well, it has been
hy long day sinca I was 10 love,
find that there Is much enjoy
BIT in life, and a friend is a good
BIZ to have. We loaf around AMI
and sleep and dream away the
my hours, while we wonder how the
bile at Newport are standing the
L and whether those at Bar Harbor
really enjoying themselves or only
King pretend to.
|onight the moon ia out, and Molly
I arc stretched on low chairs with
men at our feet on soft cushions.
) moonlight has male a pretty
ture of it. aud the sailors arc sing
some everyday dirty that loses it's
hmonplace sound and blends ia with
general air of romance and makes
livery quiet and very happy. At last
ensign, who is given to thinking
but things, said: "Who OF you does
love to see good melodramaP 1t Ia
like; that ia the charm of 1t. The
Iiety play is life in the drawing
N, but the melodrama takes in all
Is and conditions of men. The melo.
ma is an impreHsionist picture
uolors are laid, ON crudely, but dis.
htlyAwhite the society play is a
ssonier, where every detail il
ught out go finely that it hardly
cts one unless magnifying glass il
d. Some OF the playwrights are
ting too fine point on theiI
ellis. On q white sheet OF paper they
only make light gray lineH, ant
lie gray and white are co0l looking
" are neither impressive truth
or life ia aketched out in mordan
Mikes, and il the gray comes in at al
IL between the black and the whits
ile's picture is never gray and white.
tThat is all very WE'LL" said tn,
Iplonel quietly, "but why. when we q
see melodraua, do the tears rul
Mu the face of Molly. Why does Bal
go quietly in the back of the box
hy does my old heart ache 80 hard
forced to think it Will break M
rt front? I'll tell you why--becRus
meIodrama ia nearly always the old
story OF love and forgiveness and O
hesty triumphant over vice; becaus
teminds US in this old world of our
1t the time cumes when we mus
member that love, goodness, gratitud
Il honor are not confined to th
bwipg room, but may be discovers
ere least expscted."
Now, as for me, remarked the car
In, II thought it was the emotions
b 10 that affected you women"
4 Yes.' replied Molly, THAT doe
bount to good deal; but, say wha
n u will, it is the heart beat that cor
hdicts US all, no matter how hard "
by try to prove we have no heart.
9 looked so bitterly at the captain I
q said this that he laughed, tire
d cigarette into the water and asked
Il I'll agree that we have hearts, hut
8 knt Haasbody to tell me what 81
% pans by a hear. beHt2'
d The ensign spoke first, at is-wel
q U know, il is the something thl
d kes you ieel that humanity hl
en touched and that each time yoI
art throbs there is another one
Ever it. 4"
'It's-welI," said Molly, / can fe
\ but ! don't know how to explain
a fept to say that it is like the diffe
\ y be between staring at your face
d looking glass and seeing 1t 10
lar brook. In the glass. no matt
" exact it may be. you arc repr
bted as 1t pleases you. The brot
i, yes you back natures picture al
cr ows you your face as God Almigh
NJ hde il aud as you have marked
10 ben it is understanding sufferi'
N cause you have suffered. 1t 10 a
|, eciating love because you have love
is exquisite sympathy betwe
Q lamn beings that comes from q
M rfect understanding that exist b
1a cen them.'
nj Molly gut round of applause, al
,tb % ensign looked as proud of her as
Q expected her TO head regiment
cb reign parts, singing, I'm off on :
al OTninp train In ornga the runfI