Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-20
A RAINY-DAY CHAT.
THE ALTON LADY GIVES SOME
GOOD ADVICE TO GIRLS.
SHOULD ALWAYS Be DISCREET
WHY DO Men Always Indulge in
"Smau Talk" With Women--be-
vare Of the FIatterer, He is Not 10
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HeIievcd-LOcal News.
ALTON, VA. August 19.-(special)-
The GROWERS pet grievance Is usually
the weather, and the meteorological
erowler is generally a man. a woman 5
grievance is usually was going to say,
a man. but / take that back-more
thing of sentiment: she does not bother
her mind so much over the differences
of heat or cold. of torrid drought or rain,
If her last new hat be safely housed.
The past week has been intolerably hot,
with nothing TO temper the sizzling horl-
zon but charity and the mountain caverns
that loomed away off as inaccessible as
q congressman. That was before the
rain. and when the rain rains here the
food-gates Of Heaven cape and the
mountain roads become torrent paths. In
their mad rush to the noble "Jeems' the
floods raise sad havoc in the lowlands.
and the walking parties that daily 10y
primrose paths are no more. There mas
not been even a Irritation in sight-nada,
rieute. rieu-uOthins of rustic love, eN-
oept a few fair young things on the holel
piazzas 10 keep 10 up-the illusion not the
piazza-and some vapory dudes 10 assist.
CUPID WANTS SUNSHINE.
Whoever says rainy weather is good
for budding love has never been sum
mer girl In her first season, nor the man
In attendance. What cupid wants Is
sunshine-when the moon doesn t-ahu
bluo skies. and the intoMcant aroma oI
smiling flowers.
writer. who was more spiteful than
true. lately said that hell Was paved
with women's tongues and the reporto-
lal pencil" The last / vehemently deny,
and fifteen million brOther-reporters Will
verify. The fOrmer-wen, / don know
Gwen a limited compass and hmltiess
prospect of rainy days, and there may
result a few converts. No better schoO'
for the elucidation Of this truth can be
found than q summer hotel Not even the
atmosphere. after two days steady rain
lis more vapid than the conversational
rothingness Of its feminine habitues, III
which they are ably aided by the men
believe that women, as general thing
receive a liberal share of the cOnsidera-
ton TO which they are entitled, anu are
The objects of "a vast deal of chivalrous
Devotion and generous self-denial on the
masculine side.
Rut this must not extend TO the social
t.te-a-tete. Then he "stoops to conquer.
lie either adapts himself TO the manner
of q womans "small talk" or ne thinks
il necessary to entertain her with a
stream of unadulterated twaddie such as
d. would not. for the world, offer to any
man of sense. And / wonder why this
isl or does she always give the initia-
1--WE?
WHY is IT THUS?
Brains being Of common quality, why
does a man talk sense 10 the short-haired
head and nonsense to the coil and POM
padour?
TN tell YOU. He has imbibed the no
tion--handed down by immemorial tradi-
tion-that the female mind is incapable
OF digesting the mental food which he en-
joys. Instead OF feeding woman, so 10
speak, on bread and meat, he just opens
his little conversational confectionery box
and regales her on sugar plums and Huy-
ler's best!
Whoever has CHANGED to overhear the
modern society chat between any ordi-
nary young gentleman ana lady in a
fashionable drawing room or at a sum
mer resort would surely think they had
each a softening of the brain.
Listen an hour-if you dare 20 be i'm
DnIle so lonb-diN Ibt twenty NNHAfH'Ns
Of hearty. healthy common-sense will
that pair of nimble tongues discuss.
and nattery? 1 do wonder why men
think IL so sweet 10 fiatter a woman? II
S. "a poor compliment at best 10 the sex,
that men feel obliged 10 offer unmeaning
compliments Who ever hears one man
Halter another?
My dear girl. in the city parlor or the
shaoy piazza. don't depend for happiness
upon the batteries Of men. / want 10
warn you, because six brothers and four
prothefs-ln-law and innumerable gentle
men friends along the checkered way Of
Hie give one vast knowledge of the
sex.
NOT ALL ARE ANGELS.
They say you are an angel You know
ana 1 KNOW you are not They say
Aings ABOUT your dress and Your APP
learance that you know, and ! know,
haven't word OF truth In them They
VIII tell you how beautiful YOU are Look
ing this evening" and You know vonr
orsssmaker failed TO send home your
new orxandy. and you are wearing the
same chrome green your own mother said
Was hdeous Three minutes ayo ne
said the same thing to the eirl Al
lhe piano, and five minutes hence he viii
conhde II to the young lady on the golf
NUhs. You need not. however, for this
reason. class him In the Bible denuncia-
uon that IAN men are liars" He will
ue truth itself tomorrow al the ofhce
the store or the bank.
II Is just little stock in trade he keeps
win your favor. and you-ahl
fre's the rub my dear-you yourself
AYE taught him IT'S value.
ne month OF August Is usually such a
nod or heat and discomfort. even in
~, "s mountains, and when II occasionally
,hs' that II creates a general tendency
l. axe HE easily. one insensibly re-
~ss the formality which governs the