Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-09-06

The neat wave mas not lett me mucn
strength, but with what little ! have l
implored Beth to stor her wandering
talks about politics, about which she
knows nothing, and to get &c our
weekly chat about books Now do
not dislike the heat. On the contrary,
I like it; but have the misfortune TO
live 10 city that has no notion what
to do when heat comes to it, Now, in
hot weather in Southern Europe, or
any tropical climate, people behave
with reason. They rise early in the
morning and have done what duties
they have to do by noon; then they
sleep until the cool Of the afternoon,
and then walk or drive, and then din
ner; and late at night 20 to bed again.
They have established this routine and
l should think it mighty good plan
Beth; but here we have only weather,
weather. hot weather. We never have
time to establish any routine and then
there is another reason: we do not
want to loaf and he passive, We want
to make money. In other words the
Southerners understand living in the
present and we understand nothing sut
preparing to live tomorrow-a day
which you know, Beth is only whit
down in the FOOLS calendar. Today is
the only day we really have.
Now about books and things literary.
Mr.. Dooley has been talking as usual,
and by the way, read in an Eng lish
paper the other day where they called
him a pro- Boxer. / think some very
clever things he said are worth repeat
ing, for instance: "The Lold f'give
e f'r sayin' IT, Hinnissy, but if was
Chinyman which l will fight amy man
FIR sayiu' and was liyin' at home I'd
tuck me shirt ia me pants, put me
braid ur in q net, an go out an take
a fall out iv tn invader II il cost me
ME life. Here am |, Hop Lung Dooley,
r.runnin' me little liquor store an
perhaps raisin' a family in tho town
iv Koochoo. l don't like foreigners
there amy more thin do here Along
comes a baldheaded man with chin
whiskers from Baraboo, Winconsin,
an says he: 'Benighted an hay then
Dooley, says he, .ye have. no God,'
says he. i have, says i, ] have a
lot iv thin says !. 'Ye ar re an
oncultiyattd an foul creathure, he
says. Thin a. la.ad comes
down with a chain an small glass
on three STICKS an gang iv section
men that answers to tn name iv Casey
an pro. ceeds FIR to put down railroad.
What's this FIR, says j. We ARE
tn advance guard iv Westhern Civil.
sation,' he says an wore goin' to
give ye railroad so We can go swiftly
to places that We don't want to see,
he says. A country that has no rail
roads is beneath contimpt' he says.
Casey he says, stretch the chain
acrost yon graveyard he says. l aim
FIR to put tn tfifack just befur that
large tombstone marked Riquiescat in
Pace James III, Chung. a-iung,' he
says. But, says l, 'ye will disturb
Eah's bones, says /. IL We 90 to layin'
ties. says. yell be mixin' up me
oil man with tn Cassidy's in th next
lot that he nivir spoke to save in anger
In his lifo,' says. 'Ye're an ancestor
worshipper, heathen,' says the la-ad.
- see by TIL pa-apers that
they'se four hundheid millyions "
thin boys, an be hivins 'twudden'i
surprise me if whin they get through
batin' us at home they might say te
thimsilves: Well, here goes FL g
AUNT around the wuiruld.' TIL time
may come, Hinnissy, whin yen be 1
squirtin' wather over Hop Lees shirt
while man names Chow Flung kicks
down ye'er sine an' heaves rocks
through ye're windy. Tn time ma,
come, Hinnissy. Who knows? Any,
how. tbs good thing FIR US they aim
CHRISTIANS an haven't larned properly
to sight gum"
Among the new novels is "Rober
Orange" the sequel to SCHOOLS fol-
Saints" in which book the here
msrries Mrs. Parfete only TO discover
what any one could have told him who
read between the lines. that her hus
band was still living, so he abandon
his political ambition and seeks solac,
in the Church Of Rome. 1t Away.
seems, does 1t not, Beth, that thos,
whom the world has disappointed go tt
the church. 1t IS anything but com
pliment to the church. Like the whis
rule, when in doubt play Rome
Another Few noyel is "The Crimson
Weed" By q new writer, st. John. L
tells Of an English painters love for al
Italian girl OF noble birth. The stor,
is clever, and although very realistic
and hardly .one which school girls o.
an particular spinster should read
is true to life and Une which broad
minded persons will appreciate.
| By the by. i just happened to hea
of new word, entirely American
believe, which describes riding in
motor cat. 1t is the fad to call /
"bubbling, SO some day, Beth, wbeI
/ get my motor I'll ask you, and yol
my kind reader, to bubble" with
HoW no Talk INTERESTINGLY
Sincerity. simplicity and sympathy Are tn
Three Graces of Conversation.
Entertaining conversation is no
alone dependent upon a well.store,
mind, a ready wit or broad culture,
writes Mrs. Burton Kingsland, in tn
Ladies' Home Journal 1T lay unde
contribution qualities of heart as vel
as head, and should reveal sincerity
sympathy aud simplicity We must fee
an interest In our subject before W
can inspire it, and enthusiasm is con
tagious when 1t is sincere. 1t give
animation to the face, vivacity to th
manner, and has d thought-compellip
! power that aids fluenoy of expression
Sympathy and adsptaEility are create
ir measure by the desire 10 please
but one must be sensitive to the mco
of ones audience and quick to peroeiv
, when some one elee wishes TO speak
There are takers who metaphoricall
, take the bit between their teeth an
run away with subject. When the
finally cease no one has anything /
say. desEairing Of opportunity. With
out simplicity no Conversation ha
, charm. The moment we perceive tina
! it is laborod, or that the speaker seem
to calculate the effect of his words,
Unnecessary mention is made OF dc
sirable acquaintance or there is dis
: play of attachments or mock -innocen