The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-21

glrule around the eafth III forty seconds.
Yet this quickncss 50 exactly suits the
size, is so intensely individual, that you
cannot but wonder how it would be if A
sudden silence were to come. She has
a low, sweet voice, and the merriest
laugh with which n woman was ever
gifted. | joy in watching her. 1t is
| like reading a delightful book, and yet it
! is Il book with which | have no
| acquaintance.
JUNO VERSUS MRS. PUCK.
The other beauty d the day is Juno
| liz IN Der height. with wonderful dark
mai" eyes that might rclsOt the mi might
slE, ana a complexion that rivals the
/ datlask rose. Juno does vne thing we'll,
| a something that few women d"--she
| knows how to wall; well. The average
American woman trots, skips or runs,
! but she never manages to keep thc sim
| gularly even, measured step that never
| suggests "A hurry and yet is always in
! time with that nice fellow with whom she
| may have an engagement to golf, TO
walk or merely to sauntcr. She belittles
! little women makes the women who walk
| badly seem common, ordinary mOrtals,
and she causes Snappy black eyes to sink
| abashed before those great dark orbs CO
! is stiff and awkward-indeed, no, for
| back of the still look in those dark eyes
| is a merry glance kept for the benefit
of her friends. These two are the most
, beautiful women at Long Branch.
WOMEN AT LONG BRANCH.
Long Branch more than any of the
! other places in woman-ridden. A great
many of the men are away all day, and
the little village and the various drives
bclong to the women and children. 1t
makes me wonder if people notice that
woman is swinging in Il circle. Years
ago she deplorcd the fact that she was
only asked to be lovable, to be good
hammered. and allow herself to be taken
care of. She is now having taste of the
other side of it. She is trying to be
| business-like, and she loses her temper.
She is trying to be impersonal, and she
breaks down and cries. She is trying to
be hybrid, and between you and me,
my friend, she is making a bit of n fool
of herself. However, the circle will
swing around. and she will come back
a rcpentant and Il better woman. To
me there is nothing so fine as n gentle
woman, but she is the result Of the same
good breeding that is necessary to make
thoroughbred horses, ana II you take
the trouble to look at it you will find
that the women who are clamOring to
he called Women with capital w are
the first Of their kind. They are strong
in muscle and in brain. and in another
generation they will have the edges rub
bed off by the pumice stone of society,
for not one of these women wants her
daughter to be what she is.
The most finished actress | know
IL Al,
: stage The best public speaker I have
ever heard preferred that her daughter
should marry young and have n happy
home. The Women, with a capital w,
are the cause. The right Kind OF women
are the effect. because She of the CAPT
tai w is quite clever enough to see her
own mistakes and to bang and FURNISH
them out of her daughter. The woman
with n daughter shows her greatest am
bition by bringing ont in that daughter
the desire of her heart. She wishes her
to dress quietly, speak quietly, look
we'll gain the love of good man, ana
have the JOY of being the mother of
dear little child. As the years go by
the woman with a capital w finds the
daughters home Il resting place. She
doesn't know just why. because the
children are making n noise with their
toys. while the little mistress of the
mansc sings as she sweeps and dUsts and
does not give a thought to the last new
book on some erotic ana disagreeable
topic. but there is rest in that home
not to be found in the stiffness Of the
house in which the Woman with a
capital W lives Hers is a house. Her
daughter has a home. The letters are
almost the same, but the spirit is quite
different. | have often heard of n ia
nous woman writer who was discovered
playing horse with two small grandsOnS
and who said she didn't know when her
brain had been so thoroughly cleared
out and her ideas so frcshened.
LONG BRANCH GAMBLING.
But / started to tell You about Long
Branch and its gayety, which is little
forced. it's fashions and the pecularities
of life as it goes on here. TO me the
most interesting spot is that lovely house
! surrounded with a well-kept lawn gar
niShcd by the brightest of flowers, and
whore woman is forbidden 20 enter. Dc
> they think that women and cards are in
compatible? Do they think that women
and roulette do not combine! Or do they
think that women and men are best
apart at the gaming table? A pretty face
might cause n man to make false move,
or an extremely beautiful face might
/; induce a man to drop his cards and sit
/ in n corner with her, where they could
talk cntetc-a-tcte.
Well. perhaps it is best that women
) are not allowed in the gambling house,
for they are gamblers from their birth.
; Each will throw her heart upon some
| thing as trihing as a card and grieve
when it is lost. She will back a color
for Il superstition, and is able to laugh
while there is a funny lump in her
: throat at the loss of the money that may
; ave meant so much to her. No, it is II good
thing that lovely woman and the rOu-
lctte table are not introduced to each
. other, for the contest as to which should
rule would be great. Many might be
killed while the war went on-killed or
wounded.
: When the man who invented cards to
! Continued on Eleventh Page