The age-herald., 1898-10-30
Copyright, 1898, by I. A. Mallon. l


 h their ragged but great glory, mo- pdy dreams of putting them in a jar r a glass or fancy vase. Oh, dear no! .hey must shine from a punch bowl. heir stems must be cut so that they t in a careless. artistic way, for while he leaves are often taken from the overs yet quite as often their foliage | framed all about them. The bowls lost favored are those wonderful, deep, tund ones of indiaware-the quaint ,ue ones with the lovely ladies from 0pan walking up ladders on their eads or coming down in. a sideways lshion-fine cut glass bowls or, best of j., great big silver punch bowls. These litter and seem to reflect almost like
 mirror the white or yellow beauties kat are the flowers of the season.
 There is something dignified about hrysanthemums, not to wear, but to ut about room or to use to decorate table. They have an odd way of landing up, as if they wished each tsitor to realize that each one of them lad special dignity of her own, and Ne WdHteu you fOl OiilS lO iCdiiHC ieb ut to feast upon it. The chrysantfe- Sum, to my way of thinking is a ealthy looking flower. Even when it bit droopy, it simply droops its etals, permitting them to blow away
 lough they never curl up or manage get an unpleasant odor, not they. they simply disappear into that ia tous innocuous desuetude, which is the he phrase that will carry one man own through posterity.
 girl I know has just come back tom Sweden, and as she is a victim of lay fever she thinks of going to live here. The reason why? Because there he doctor never sends home a bill. tut whena you are cured you write out D That you think the bill ought to be and onward the ducats to him. If you have bade a wonderful hit in wheat, if you lave been made viceroy of India, if the president of all these United States has pncluded that you are the proper per- pn to be ambassador to England, if thy good luck has come to you, then lou write on a visiting card $1,500 or 5000. cannot imagine higher than 10000. But if you have had hard ime of 1t that year, if there have been ! ire tired of oatmeal, or if your oldest Joy is beginning to see the charm of dress suit and white kid gloves when be visits the young woman who is mak- Ing a fool of him, why, then, after long illness you send a modest card with your name written. on it, and un- Eerneath 1t you put 50 cents or 75 cents pr whatever seems suited to you, not 10 the doctors good reputation, not to ihe doctors ability, but perfectly adapted to that thin little pocketbook, which looks as if it had been to the cir GUS and had been trod upon in a mo- ment of airy persifiage by the largest elephant.
 A thin pocketbook leads to despera- ton. If Iswanted to make a woman saint, if wanted her to care for the poor, make the sick happy and well, give to those who are hungry and make the little children all as happy as happy could be, I'd make that woman rich, and then I'd teach her how to spend her money. Do you ever think that the rich people are, after all, extremely kind? The average wealthy girl gets hundreds of letters day, most of them from frauds and the one true request among them must be treated like the fakes or else we will have an anarchist ic government which means lack of repose entirely.
 When I say repose, mean it in variable sense. Some people consider sleep repose, there are others who drown themselves in good book and consider that repose, while there are still others who trot around from here to there and really haven't the remot- est idea of what repose is. Repose, as it used to be known, was dignity; and good dignity There are only few specimens of it to be found now. It is as rare as real old Sevres china and requires the same amount of care.
 An elderly lady--she speaks of her self as elderly, although she is 80 years old-complains of the folly with which the girls of today talk. Why" she said, "wlren was young, it was con- sidered vulgar to be purse proud, and the people who belonged to the real Knickerbocker circles. especially those who were very wealthy, were taught as soon as they could understand any thing that it was extremely vulgar to make any display of their belongings or to talk about their possessions. Then, too, the old 'noblesse oblige' were taught very early that because they were what they were they, must be gra- cious, tender hearted and loving to ev- cry one they met, but today the girls talk about the value of being rich, the advantage of having rich friends, what can be got out of Jack So-and-so and how much can be obtained from, Mrs. Black Diamond. To me it is horrifying. I could not tell you just what think it is, but the women who sell their inn mortal souls poor wretches 4 are not any worse than those who see life in it's hard and mercenary way and make no effort to find anything that is sweet, Desirable, gentle or kindly in their be- Rxior or in their thoughts"