Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-05-30

Beth likes a book thar prIrgs lump
in her throat and q blur over her eyes,
Now | think life has enough OF
Jumps aud blurs of itself and when
| read | want a book that brings a
laugh, oil. at least pleasant sensation.
The most cheerful book have recently
met with is by that mirth provoking
French man, Max O'Rell. Ever French
man says, II am man, and every
thing that concerns wnmaE interests
| me. And does cot every Englishman
say the same? at any rate, Max y 'Reil,
out of the fulnsas of his large heart
has written book ann called it - Her
Royal Highness, Woman What Max
/ O'Rell knows not about woman YOU
may depend she does not know herself.
1t is pleasure to find hook TO which
one can give such unatinted praise
| Max O1Rell is so cosmopolitan. lilo
| has made woman his hobby all over
the world. The man who does this In
a nice. caressing way is bound to be q
success. II could choose my sex and
my birthplace l would shout to the
Almighty at the top Of my voice. "Oh !
please make me an American woman.
This occurs twice over in the volume.
for Max O'Rell loves American women
best. There is large book -buyirg
public here and authors know this, and
no one buys books so literally as docs
| the American woman. II the license
OF Brigham Young were allowed Max
O'Rell he would for preference make
love to an Englishwoman or fair
daughter OF Virginia" He would
have his house kept by a Gernan
wife; my artistic inclinations would
trust to a Frenohwoman my intel
lectual ones to an American one, and,
when life got bit dull andI wanted
MY blood stirred up, Il would call on
my Spanish wife. 1t is a great pity
that ths Bay of Biscay lies between
this country and Spain, and that the
overland route is SO slow. The maxinis
and concentrated wisdom in "Her
Royal Highness, Woman might we'll
be published by themselves. "a man
may Re good, but he must not overdo
it," n advise woman to .shun o
dragon of virtue" Dragons are a
better choice. Never go down on
your knees to declare your love, for you
will spoil your trousers. ''Never put
your hand uear your lady's waistband
or round her neck. Place it about the
middle of her hack: there are no pins
there 1.-THE most religious woman
! will postpone an interview with her
Maker Tor an appointment with her
dressmaker." "A loving woman will
keep her heart warm rs long as she
: she dyes. Woman should have two
great aims In life trying 20 be beauti.
: full, and succeeding in being pleasant. y
"When you are dead," said the cynic,
"it's for long time; but when you
are married, it's forever" 'If you
are bald never make love to woman
+, taller than you. Looked at from below,
= you are all right" "Avoid a woman
who mas won the applause Of the
:. public; If you marry we'll known
2 singer you will soon discover yourself
: in the act of carrying her roll a
.uusic. Women dress for breakfast
I, and undress for dinner. +" 1.-THE sigh
offered at theiopera is like the view il
. Turkish bath" ''Society ought Il
. be exposed % There is nothing societ,
!. more enjoys than being exposed
= Look at those lovely shoulders. 70,
y remember the lady who wrote her in
" vitation thus: "Do come to lunch oil
!, Sunday; but if you can't do that
= come on Monday afternoon, l shal
!. have nothing on" Who says the worlS
Z is sad, and that we are not gayH
Max O'Rell hates mothers law.
. ADAM it Is said, Unjust hav
= been happy man he had no mother
in law" And ViotoEien Sardou, tn
French dramatist, says in ''Seraphine,
"If ever YOU have to choose betweel
k living with your mother in law o
:, shooting yourself, do not hesitate
}, single moment-shoot her. +"
d Women of 90 enjoy the grace @
le perfect elfpossession. 1.-THE Wattea
s. Of IS becomes Rubens at 40" 9TH
y woman of 40 is joy-an intoxicatin
IS and Incompatible n.y." here raca
., William Watson's fine lines:
q So have seen In some fair woman's face
~ While viewless yet was Times more gro
~ Imprint,
i. Some faint invasion of the vandal years,
err Some deeper beauty than youths cloudlet
:" Wake subtler dreams and touches me MIG
to tears.
Some of my readers ask me, "AI
= there any new memoirs, any GOO
oy blographies?" I an bound to adm
as that, more often than not, the on
- memoirs available are the lives
=, foolish and Intellectual people write
by'their even more foolish widows. "
" bury our dead under the monstroi
J, catafalque OF two volumes octav,
vs. 1.-THE life of the deceased begins wit
the day of his DEATH There is
kind Of biography which, as it wer
,r- comes in with the under taker. III
liz newspapers announce, I'VE regret
NJ state that the eminent taxidermis
W. Mr.. Beeswax, passed away after lor
+er illness at 10 O'Clock last night. III
a funeral will take place on FRIDAY mex
,ry and the biography will he undertake,
- by the Bishop of Bodkin, life loI
friend OF the remains. -
= The widow is quite the worst of q
Of biographers. "She paints her subje
ed quite smooth and plump. with his
Dr.. light upon his forehead, and a sanot
ID iponious droop of his eyelid." 81
th dwells on instances in which he W
ge "a help to Others" and "wonderf
example to the young" She careful
abstains from scratching the fiawle
pinkness of his wax If bograpl
ne may be divided-as a clever wont
~ once divided it-into autobiograh
VS. oe and ought-not to biography, the wor
'" of widows might we'll be olassed atnol
the iasr-named, and If, In futur
biographies of model men are exclud
too from this letter, | hope | shall ha
in been found TO have sufficiently excus
M. myself for the omission, but there a
1ia biographies going NOT written
widows. There is a "Life of Bolin
broke" and Justin MCCARTHY has
last completed his entertaining voluul
ION upon the four Georges.
ar Mr.. II. u, Irving, who is rene
M bered for his clever (if unconvincin
Oh "Liie OF Jeffreys," is never SO hap