The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-05-19

/ orderly hoHSH or Il nrLiiIc gown or to
ea, at an lily v-srrvrd table. THE best.
aS this column heard Il Young fellow in
Il corduroy ia,.krt and Il bright red tie
say to a Girl in the contcctionrr shop
when she asked him what sort OF candy
he wanted for his sweetheart. The
hrSt is none too good. and it is none
too good for vou and me. And 50
when we are vouag and timil. and the
soup is thin and scorched. we must
give ourselves backbone 10y repeating
this motto. and though it be with talter-
inr voice and trembling knees, brayely
enter our own kitchens and tell Bridget
that she is not UP to the mark. Though
we quail before the majesty of the new
butler. who has been in families we
have never aspirrd to know with equal
intimacy. we must insist that he never
20 to the door without being attired in
his dress coat. Even the trown OF our
dress maker must be endured, and if
the uown wrinkle or the skirt fail t.
set in the back rs the skirt Of quality
ought to set. we must brave her dis
pleasure and insist that if we pay We
must be fitted.
TIE Full. DRESS UNIFORM.
And in keeping them up to the mark
we will keep ourselves at the proper
tension. The mother of the most cour-
teous children this column ever knew
never passed before her little girl, Il
child in pinafores, without begging her
pardon. and | have seen her wait at
the breakfast table for half an hour on
Il busy morning while the child ate an
orange in the provokingly deliberate
way in which children consume a deli
cacy. asking to be excused at last with
real solicitude.
Perhaps ought to add the person
Should also be treated with Il certain
severity. 1t may be more agreeable
to us not to get into luxurious attire,
to be ut home with ourselves, and, as
long rs nobody else suffers, dress, eat,
be served according u cur mental
mood. But it is useless to be stern
with ourselves The admiral in Loves
of the Lady Arahclla" used to put on
his best uniform and all his medals
when he went into 4 sea fight, and her
dress and her surroundings are so
much n part of woman that there are
few occasions when she can lay aside
her armor, and but seldom she can
afford 4 dishahillc. Once year, per-
hapS, she may mctaphorically take
down her hair and put on the garment
known as the Mother Hubbard, but
not oftencr, especially if she is married
and lives alone.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
We are told to speed the parting
guest. but how, when she rises to say
goodbye and then spends half an hour
in getting away? She is like the man
who invited himself to the party and
then declined his own invitation. No
! ,l,. t,,ll !, civ
gested it the idea lessons painfully,
and to expectancy hope is added, till,
after we have stood on one foot and
then another for twenty minutes, we
are ready to assist her into the street.
But the habit Of not going has become
| inveterate. She must rciterate her
last word, repeat her civil speeches,
and when the dor is almost closed run
! back to say the very thing she came
over to see about. The visitor whC
says good-by and goes is sometimes
regretted; the visitor who says good
by and does not go kindles a desire
she has planned to disappoint.
What power of conveying thought
has the English tongue. What ticNi-
| hility, what meaning. Take the inno-
cent, colorless demonstrative prohoun
THAT" Why that" in the mouths
ofsome people, conveys all the reproach
Of polysy liable pregnant with oppro-
blum, and the genius who uses it comes
! off scott free of evil speaking or of i'm
prudence if her "cmark be repeated.
! W hat, this column would like to know,
/ is more insulting than that woman?'
And what more thoroughly eases ones
mind! Gracious and pious beings who
would scruplc to use what they would
call "stronI language" luXuriate in de-
nouncing tie object of their antipathy
/ il the sinlcSs ''lhat.' 1t covers a null
ttule OF half.sugycstcd injuries. In
o &c way it is lcliciou>Iv indefinite, in
the other it is IN arrai%nmcnt Of the
/ dcSpiSvd object. Therefore. when this
! column writes the re iSrd edition of
! the English Grammar, for which pell-
gogucs wait, it will put that i'll an
other class, anl define it As Il "pcrsonal
pronoun Of the feminine gender"
The day OF sending waiter of good
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