Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-09-08


now she would look in shirt and coat,
put you do approve OF the way she
looks 10 a white null frock, broad |
IL v shaped at the throat, both back |
and front, tantalising you With "a
glimpse of the white neek bead |
crowned with SUIT brown hair and a
half French, half American face glow
ing ut you. She has happy time OF
it, this belle of rhe White Sulphur
Springs, for life here ia a series OF
dances, mint juleps and admiration.
Sho does not drink so many iuleps, but
each morning she talks one hecauss she
has been in the habit of doing so ever
since abe was baby, ind she manages
to imbibe it as bird might, her pretty
face showing above the bunch of green
like the flower that sho is. She is
adored by young and did, and the secret
OF her popularity lies 10 this-she will
give a dance with the man whom
she loves dearly to hobble through one
with old Tom Ashton. who will persist
in dancing, although he has wooden
leg, but then he fought alongside OF
papa and once saved him from being
killed during the war.
or course there are women here who
dress superbly, much more magniii-
Gently than at many of the northern
watering places, but they are the wives
either OF tobacco kings or railroad CAPT
talists The soft Southern speech and
the pretty Southern gRllRntry are in
fictitious and hard. hear ted, cross grained
brokers find themselves saying polite
nothings and making awkward but
we'll msant bows to whomever may
have attracted their attention. a
Northern man ia as wax in the hands
Of Southern woman. And IL she had
fought the war she'd have won it. for
sine would never have given up while
there was man to compliment. She
does not fight her foe with the fierce
weapons of sarcasm and wit, but with
pitiful little request to he told about
something, "because you know SO
mu CHI, and the coquettish inquiry,
Nov, stop thinking about all the
great problems that are on your mind
and tell me how you think | look. -
Undoubtedly in the South the fsmi-
niue element is the stronger, and in
the hands OF its women lieth saliva.
tion. But to return to what's going
on here.
To those interested il may be stated
that. il anything the iulepH are slightly
sweeter and the whisky used in them
has more oily taste. mean this in
a complimentary sense, for the whisky
that rasps the throat Is not conducive
to- the JOY OF iulup. A JULIEN must
go down une's throat in slow sort of
toboggau fashion, and all the while you
are smelling the spicy flavor of the
mint and wondering who first discov-
cred it or, having found it, combined
whisky, mint and sugar. gave 1t this
title and made it one of the greHt &c.
ductions of the South. You may &c
about declaring you do not like it, you
may say you have an English preference
for brandy and soda for the champagne
cup that seems to touch you in fas.
cinating way, but once your foot is on
the native heath of the Southern
girl you meekly bow down to the
iulap, accepting the one sent you after
tho morning dance and wondering how
you ever thought anything else wortt
drinking.
Next to the julep comes tho con.
sumption of chicken, and, though VI
to date you may have thought
chicken good in its way, aud undouht
eddy healthful IL is simply surprising t
zee these Southern women eat Ii mea
after meal and prefer it to the iucies
steak. the most underdune bit of NUT
ton or the finest fish that ever wa
caught, Do they hope to become nngel
in this wayY Are the feathers grow
ing out of their shoulders, or do the
think that in chicken lies some virtu
, that will make them young forsverH
The belle Of the year ia talkin
/ softly Of beautiful woman who wa
the belle before her mother was maj
! ried--a wonderful hearty,a great wit
! the daughter of Judge Guild of Rict
/ mond. known to all the country roun
aH Matte Oulh. She did everything
: and she did syery thing we'll. Men fa
before her as tin soldiers befora a
II active broom, and yet she never lol
r her sweetness OF temper, though mar
I times she revenged some other wuma
= by her wit.
Il At that time Miss Triplett, al,
a FROM Virginia. was a sort OF rivnl
d this beautiful girl, and my pretty bel
was telling of supper that is countt
l. among the archives of the Srringa.
la it was large rarty, and the rivuls we
!. opposite each other. Miss Triplett W
is asked TO give toast. She decline
le Then somebody smiled at Matte On
Ne where abe was standing, looking like
a picture, holding her glass triumr liant
at IN the air. and, making gracef
nd bow to the other girl. she eai
nj Here's TO youth, bsauty md healt
m United this makes triplot" Al
in many stories are told Of this one a
lie that one, and tbs voice of tho lit
an beauty sinks as she whispers Of I
he beautiful place whsre Mattis Or
or sleeps, of tho grave cuvored wi
-ls daisies and how on the day OF /
vs. funeral, whsn all Richmond II
pd couldn't drive walked to see th
he pride, thsir beauty, laid nway forev
'er instead of hymn four gentlemen ga
y her fGv0rite song, Under [
ID. Daisies" and sleeping near was
lie little haby whose life, lasting onl
oh few minutes, had been her death.
nd Then there was silencs, and in
for quietness that comes over me M 1t d
/ over them understand why thu won
on of the South are popular with men.
h. 1t is hecauso they are always all
,rd tiunate. They never lose I'm oppor
a nifty to give kiss, to pay a sonplim
nv. or to do something that will pie
mn the man that rules their hoarts.
et- Ii 10 because they never talk Hcnul
hy. pleasant gossip being enough
oce them, since their humes, children {
inc husbands usually make world t
ma satisfies them.
his 1t is because willis they are int
INV gent, we'll read women, usually VOL
IN. up in tha classics, they will not to
Ia the foul sex novel of TO-DAY.
her 1t is love, love, love, that mslses
nor Southern girl 60 around. Every
ha expects to get husband and to