Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-09-29

many messenger boys would enlist, but
! never thought Of such thing. II is
much easier to sit on somebody's door
step, allowing bouquet of flowers to
fade away in the sunlight, while three
messengers discuss the war, speak
faimliarly of the president as "Bill,"
call Mr.. Mark Hanna ga fat dude"
and them there fool Spaniards-a
dinky lot they ever was to go where
they would have to work." Work and
the messenger boy are not compatible.
have often wondered what becomes
of them after they pass the age when
they cease to be boys. They don't
work, Nobody supports them. The
average messenger boy claims to be
poor, but honest. AS we have no men
in our establishment, l have never con-
tradicted him.
He refers to "his mudder," but his
father is lively and, with certain
friyolity, is referred to as '.de guver
nnrn or ''de gent" Sometimes he
doesn't care to be considered as a per-
son of poverty, but he will give a
casual look ut your belongings, turn
up the nose that is already turned up
and give you to understand that he
thinks a room half full Of books is
mighty poor and that II you should get
acquainted with his sister she would
do you real nice "God Bless Our
Home'' in u colored worsteds, and
'tshe is girl as you would be proud
off, You don't deny this, but you feel
that this brilliant youth needs little
touch in the direction Of high art
hence away with the messenger. He
will not be in a hurry to ''git''-his
verbiage is pecuiar-you can bet your
last ducat on that. Hurry and he are
not friendly.
This is the time of year when the
young lady who has been arranging an
affair for the Sunday school festival,
where she speaks piece, comes to
New York and, with a bravery sur
passed by no one, declares that she
means to live life of gilt, edged vice
and go upon the stage. She connects
champagne dinners, high heeled slip
pers, belts with the American flag on
them and hats overweighted with
white plumes with the stage. She
tells that any work near or about it is
her achievement. One aspirant for the
stage wrote to me one day -thermome-
ter 104 that she wanted me to lend
| her $4,000 so that she could achieve
| the desire of her heart. She might be
called a modest girl. She said that she
was handsome and convinced that she
was the coming actress. She added
that she didn't think it polite to
make Comparisons, but that Mary
| Anderson was never as virtupus, Julia
Marlowe nothing like as pretty, Mrs.
Brown Potter could not compare with
1 \.
and, in addition to the list of virtues,
she had newspaper pull" She said
she could control the press. l wish
she could teach me how.
| She evidently could make that "a, DOC
go an awful long way, for she is abso.
| lutely economical, inasmuch as she
never uses anything but small '.i's''
and doesn't,even dot them. She NIGH
| just as we'll ask me for 81, 900 as
$4,000. Where does she come FROM
She wears ring on her forefinger ano
carries her gloves, and after getting
i my address and forcing herself into
4 the. place / call "home" she said thai
I she didn't think much of my style o.
/ dressing and it wasn't "cheek. Il
there is any gentleman who would like
4 to forward 81, 200 to this young woman
4 he is at liberty to do it, and il a mar
were really wealthy it would be worth
1 his while, for he would get full,
4 a. 600 worth of fun out of it. He
4 people belong to an aristocratic family
4 at least she told me so. No doubt It'll
4 true.
i After having met some of the arts
4 tocrats that exist in the beautiful
countryside and who consider musk ;
more desirable perfume than violet
am prepared for most anything.
country aristocrat can make you NOR,
conscious of your own smallness thai
the queen empress herself. Her gram
mar may be faulty, her style of dres
lacking in taste, her hair arranged
with an eye to the least trouble anS
her general air one of semi dignity
but when she asks If you will take he
to board with you she makes you un
! derstand that you have got to tax
, what you can get, be happy in payin,
for it and realize that she and all he
family came over to this country wit
the very first white people and hav
always lived with the very first eve
J, since. What wonder at is how dread
fully old they all must be, and yet
we'll, perhaps they leaven the egg
, with some of their age and in tina
! way grow younger as the simple CIT
boarder becomes the victim.
s / have often been called the, creatur
T. of circumstances, but never unit
> lately was / told that was a. naughty
. stuck up person, who didn't even be
. long to ladies' club, and what ca
, you thing of lady who doesn't belon
I to clubY Why, the lady who doe
. my washing and who is as black a
$ the ace of spades is a Daughter of RI
< becca, while there can be only write
. a mysterious letter after the signatul
1 of Bah.
= up. ST. seldom write p. s., bl
r the lady who longed TO become a
o actress was the chambermaid WI
a "did's my room and "did'' it with
vengeance. She will make goc
Lady Macbeth. Il
= Heavily Fined for Assault.