The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-08-23
JIrEO VERSUS MRS. TUCN.

JTNO VERSUS MRS. IJCh.
The ctner beauty 81 the day IS Juno
liz IN Ter height, with wondcrflh tnch
nai-. eyes that might "elset the mi might
sla. ana a complexion THAT rivals the
! dIrlaSk rose. Juno does enc thing well,
j., something that few women d'-She
knows how TO wall. well. The avarlgc
! American woman tr0ts. skips or runs,
Lrt She never manages to keep the Gln-
i gularly even. measured step that never
suggests a hurry and yet Is always IN
! time with that nice fellow with "E"lh snc
may have an engagement to 2olf, 10
walk or merely to saun1er. She belltteS
little women. makes the women who walk
badly seem common, ordinary mortals,
and she causes snappy black eyes 70 sink
abaShed before those great dark oroS 9.
her own. Don't imagine by THIS that she
is stiff and awkward-indead, no, Tor
back of the still look in those dark eyes
is Il merry glance kept for the beaellt
of her friends. These two are the most
beautiful women ut 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
belong to the women and children. IT
makes me wonder if people notice that
woman is swinging in Il circle. Years
ago she deplored 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 a taste of the
other side of it. She is trying to be
businessIike, 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 Il fool
of herself. However. the circle will
swing around. and she will come back
a repentant and Il better woman. TO
me there is nothing so fine as Il gentle
woman. but she is the result OF the same
good breeding that is necessary to make
thoroughbred horses, ana If you take
the trouble to look at it you Will lind
that the WOmen who are clamorlng to
be called Women with a capital w are
the first of their kind. They are strong
in muscle md 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
doesn't want her daughter to go on the
stage. The best public speaker | have
ever heard preferred that her daughter
should marry young and have 4 happy
home. The Women. with Il 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 hel
own mistakes and to bang and burnisl
them out Of her daughter. The woman
with a daughter shows her greatest am
hition by bringing out in that daughter
The desire of her heart. She wishes hel
to dress quietly, speak quietly. loof
well. gain the love Of Il good man. anC
have the JOY of being the mother Of !:
dear little child. AS the years go by
the woman with 4 capital w finds tht
daughters home Il resting place. Sht
doesn't know Just why. because tn
children are making a noise with THEN
toys. while the little mistress of TIL,
+, manse sings rs she sweeps and dUsts anC
does not give Il thought to the last new
book on some erotic ana disagreeabl'
topic. but there is Il rest in that HON,
not to be found in the stiffness of til.
house in which the Woman with {
capital w lives. Hers is Il house. He,
daughter has Il home. The letters arr
r almost the same, but the spirit is quite
/, different. | have often heard Of q ia
nous woman writer who was discoveret
playing horse with two small grandson
; and who said she didn't know when he
brain had been so thoroughly clearc'
out and her ideas so f~reshened.
LONG BRANCH GAMBLING.
n But | started to tell YOU about Lon:
{ Branch and its gayety. which is a it'll
P? forced. its fashions and the peculiarite
/ of life as it goes on here. 70 me tn,
t most interesting spot is that lovely hous
t surrounded with a well-kept lawn gar
. niShed by the brightest of flowers. an,
/ where woman is forbidden 70 enter. ID,
c they think that women and cards are in
Z compatible? Do they think that wome1
and roulette do not combine? Or do the,
II think that women and men are hes
apart at the gaming table? A pretty fac,
might cause Il man to make n false move
. CT an extremely beautiful face nigh
induce 4 man to drop his cards and 81
n III q corner With her. where they coul,
talk entete-a-tete.
Well. perhaps it is best that womcl
@ are not allowed in the gambling house
i for they are gamblers from their birth
Each will throw her heart upon some
| thing as trifling as Il card and griev,
when it is lost. She will back a colo
V for 4 superstition. and is able to laugl
IL - - q III ilil III lit.
: throat at the loss of the money that ma
n ave meant so much to her. No. it is Il goo,
V thing that lovely woman and the rou
y lette table are not introduced to eacl
s other. for the contest as to which SHOULD
4 rule would be great. Many might b,
Killed while the war went on-killed o
n wounded.
" When the man who invented cards t,
i while away the hours of an Egyptian
Prince sees the dangerous uses to whicl
+ they are put. does he laugh or grieve
Those old Egyptians must have bee,
It good gamblers. Their faces are so lack
\ ing in expression that when one of the1
held four aces and the other n pair O
i deuces the chances would be that IN,
e man with the deuces would win. since
as he looked so absolutely JOYOUS. hi
opponent must have concluded that h
:. held the one hand only counted as worth.
among them-a royal flush.
q wonder where the Egyptians went !
summer time. According fl Shakes