Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-03-08
PORTALS new YORK LETTER

chocolate minis. aie soh Eo"H |
keep Lent? am in perfect state OF
doubt about it. ! used to think ~ 80
fashionable to &c nbout IN plhcHut
always keep u black gown 1or my
Lentep season-and Zig bunch OF
yiolets, and | had such lovely prayer
book with big cross on 1T, too; ana
last year that new minister was just 100
sweet for anything In his afternoon
talks. but can't decide what TO 90
this year. 1t seems Just terrible TO
give up the matinees, and candy, ana
all that. And then my black gown IS
all worn out and my new red jacket
looks too stylish for anything. VI,
dear, | don't know what to do. "ha'
would you do?'' -
did not hear her companion reply,
for lust then the curtain went up
But [ did wonder how many derotees
had black gowns ready and violets flesh
| fo, TIE season when the gray curtain
| falls and divides the gay world from
| these dcyoutIy inclined. 1t almost
seems hero in New York Lent were
season set apart for Southern and
European trips, and country house
parties where his majesty with cloven
| foot is ofttimes invited Then there Is
always deluge of afternoon sewing
societies, followed by dinner for the
| roor, hard. worked (?l society girls and
| then q little music and perchance, u
the curtains are drawn. Terpisco,e is
allowed to enter. Sacrifices OF Things
we like is very good for the Will power,
and il for no other reason l advocate
tie giving up OF those things in when
we indulge too much. What do YOU
give upg | am going to give up think-
| NJ. - 10 /
give up INDUCING in fit OF the blues
that unfit me for society.
Lent is n season during which | give
a great deal of time to cheerful log
fire. Can you imagine anything nicer
than well-served dinner, bird cooked
to turn, a salad crisp and toothsome;
coffee with messages OF Arabia, and
then comfy chair, n nice log ire
and room lined with your best friends,
your books?
stopped today to read the war
bulletins in front Of tho Herald Office
1t is SO interesting to watch the faces
Of the people as they readSthe different
! reports. There is little said. but II
seemed very plain to ME where the
sympathy was-witlI the sturdy Beers.
, Now and then l noticed some little
charpie whose worship for title was
the sum and substance of his life, who
would he chagrined AZ British defeat.
,, Apropos of the British Boer war the
Cynic and I-who is he? Oh, did
never tell you? He is one of the mos
charming men alive. Away down deeI
in his heat he is not Cynic at all
, but since he has LIVED in New York HI
! pretends that all the old beliefs and thu
! tenderness and sentiments of thost
other days are dried up. Bless his dea
old heart, his white hairs are too pur
to cover brain that would conlure Vi
any hut the kindest thoughts. We wer
talking of the war and he told m
: something concerning woman We boil
: know. 1t is story of our late wa
with Spain. 1t seems that this youn
woman, very beautiful, very blond
and very fair, had given her heart an
hand to one of the heroic volunteers
The report came that he was dead
10 nothing certain could be heard an
;. finally the young woman wept herse
u into a fever which lashed her with il
l. tortuling heat. For weeks she la
- between life and death, and it wa
q only when news came that her love
J, was safe and on his way home tha
N the spark of life, breathsd upon 3
hone, came to a. tiny flame and 81
~ lived All! but such wreck of lit
ot former self. Her once fair face was or
le Of deadly pallor, with blotches I
D, yellow scars which tho ravages Of IL
w disease had loft. The golden hair thi
ns he was won't to praise had turned snow
white, One day he came back
az claim her. He stood at the doorwa
re the Eortiere parted, and n woman
y had been dreaming of with her har
ID before her face faltered. But quick
ne flash he had her in his arms Aft
on biief spell she said: II cannot I
Ne Ne this; l will be strong, free you fro
wv an allegiance to me. Look at me;
c5 am no longer fair. You caanot 10
by help me-" He kissed her cheeks, h
er eyes and her brow. ''Do you think
gS loved you SO basely." he said. "Yt
are part of my life God has left {
gu picture Of my fair, golden haired bri
en- in my heart and clused my eyes to a
as other. / am blind"
Your story has made me sad, "
said, give mo an antidote.
HIM! will bohemian dinner do
m, he reioined. "Did you ever dino
nat Bohemia in New York? Nov, may
ter you are turning up your nose at Il
ner word Bohemia Poor wcrd, it h
ON been so misunderstood and besmearch
ave with things outside its realm.
up. not. suggest to you the illy-dress
avn Bohemia, where morals seem to
the around loose and bad manners are t
or order Of the day. Come and have
les, evening in Bohemia with us, is oft
ize an invitation that means stringy We,
In rarebit aud other indigestible chafii
dish delicacies, bisque stories, hei
ache the next morning and a gene
misconception of good times. do
put mean that dreary Bonemia that He
Murger describes in his Scenes De
per Vie DE Boheme, wbere he gives
scription Of a scrubby, poocly-ied q
of less washed community, world Il
md would hardly dare ask you to dine,
lear of some embarrassing scarcity
vlands. The word Bohemia is di
]: OF cult to define. 1t is a will o.
ing wisp' which one tries Intellectually
grasp, but here in New York one
'tcd find traces OF the.Old World Bohem
as where it is a delight to dine. -
Cynic took me to one of those nun
OF Gus Hungarian cafes, which seems I
llas stranger akin to Journey in u fore
land where one finds the stratus
tied weird music, the babble of fore
ONE tongues, and wines foreign to ot
palate. Here we dine in the wine va
in. The whole atmosphere, and the fore
tnrn tongues set ones head in pleas
whirl, and one forgets all about Bro
o+od way cable cars, and those fearful a,
,Sa mobiles. The dishes, all good
,o s Hungary, still have the charm