Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-23
Foday [ have done nothing but dream

XHlB tubSb NuuSb WANING hpuiS mo
en- to honest work; dreams are not
a Without meaning, for they are combined
iday III memory and prophecy so subty that
/ t8 NHc chemistry or philosophy has yet been
.IHbe to separate them into their com
no ".1 nphnent parts In her dreams thought
a m ffi woman sees both her EAST and her
i "a fiji ture ASS bsfore her In the order OF
their real sequence: there are the
+iu Memories, not So much OF Der acts as of
u We purposes that we behlnd them,
~ ID ztd there are the aspirations and hopes
With which she unconse ously fills the
~ =, NJ =, MARS to come. An unhappy woman
!. iblcanlot face an open fire with mort,
md she must be woman of rare
Afelity of purpose ard achievement to
20 81 @hom its searching light does not bring
pne revelations Of herself which she
i y o, Mould father have hidden under tho
t5 II II hes Of the past.
l.a5 III While was medtating On the moral
4 al !tlses OF fire on the hearth, Jane put
cH fresh stick, and stirred the half
Ely olburnad wood with an energy that raised
. A0 little snowsr Of sparks. The tongues
of flame hogan TO ci Gle about the
any5 HICKORY, eager, apparently, to find the
,stop RESPONSE glow sleeping in its sound
and reticent heart.
afe what have you been reading todBy2o
asked Jane. 81 have been rummaging"
ALTl Che answered; 'rummaging over old
soh Blend, = and noticed she held in one
!, c3o Band copy OF Dante, which We both
liz ipve. II had book nausea when
!, Soy Booked Mt that tremendous pile of new
! m ruff glancIng at my study table
=. 81 so we'll understood her feelings
ii M The conviction deepens In me year by
Near that the best pussble education
lz'YSWhloh any woman can acquire is
o saHabnuIne and intimate acquaintance with
linn fhese few great minds who have escaped
!. HE wrecks of time and have become with
, SSol she lapse of years, Kind of impersonal
SOD NJ sdom, summing up the common ex-
L IN Nerience of the race and distilling it
hop by drop into the perfect forms of
tiona Nc, The woman who knows her Homer
1918 thoroughly Knows more about the
. 400 Weeks than she who has famillarized
Los afself with all the work OF the
Al, Wpheologist and philologist and his.
pfians of the Homeric age; the woman
n ,a5SS Mo has mastered Dante has penetrated
q, s2s ~ secret OF nedieyalism; the woman
SIS, mo counts Shakespeare as her friend
!, "a. an afford to leave most other books
bout England unread. To really know
INNER, Dante. Shakespeare and Goethe
OBS kito know the best the world has
ooI hEught and lid and done ia to enter
aoo iatp that inheritance Of experience and
Knowledge which IL the truest, and ut
a. m" hdktom the only education. Most of US
eot EApw too many writers, mud waste our
stfbnpth in vain endeavor to establish
t s1s Nations of intimacy with multitude
Z. g.i6 men great and small, who profess to
i55s NV some &C., cam ~; upon ug H., II IS no.n
m. ER"S""u "N "iSe w nn,o i"Ho
E6guaintance to Know lifs broadly and
1ois' # its best; but our intimate friends
"" ehn never, in the nature Of things, be
r. m Many We may knew a host of interest
,,,no. Mg people, hut We can really live with
i,iS Hut few. 4 nd it is these lew and
ll.8 Hihithful ones whose names | see in the
loas FIRST CLEAN o. the new year, but when
ene Is Save to the publisher and not
Pile to indulge in whims to dream with
daily, *he ''old masters" it falls to her lot to
aaa aiiy FRde through deal Of tho new. I've
Nash. Ihis5 finished Sir Richard Ca'mady .
lne Hhe wicked bRrnnet has for long been
s alssS N orioal; Lucas Maet has trotted b i'm
Is It, uht once more in her book The public
g car Tfads til S book for three rsRsoNs First,
ia,Iy bbcause it has in it a siren; second,
'mpa cause it Is by Lucas Malet and third,
JACK s. ufnausn it Is uncanny. Sir Richard
slcsp. EURlmady appears to have heen physi-
% ST. cnlly kind of Barnum freak. . A
,.n,, wax point IN Lucas Maet's book is in
'''''' hbr making Sir Richard Calmady resent
asa his physical misfortune. Not only are
Ss 4 "a tAe crippled and deiormed the most
anita. assigned and unHomplaining among
mankind, hut they are also among the
i5s p iHanst courageous and intelligent Ma.
Aeaulay has mentioned that the two
sday. MOST fesble men, from the physical
DpSint of view, who were engaged in the
io o;9 cam paign in Holland in 1851, were the
hpnchh hacked cripple who commanded
m. tbs armies of Louie, and the asthmatic
,tort enRre2row who was opposed to him.
II, ii iickens, in his tDoll's Dressmaker, -
hbs given us type Of high intelligence
ft, uskt "a.
~: daformed and crippled body.
na'' ENG theSharonet figures this month in
cage. Milton, 80, also, does the duke. The
TWO WGuke, however, is less familiar TO this
fsading public than Is the haronet
cage or even the duchess. There ast
anu descents" and "indisorstiona" o.
willie. dpchesse1, more or less inaccura ell,
'roln pprtlayed, but dukes have 80 iHr e!ude.
dian fntgryiews. duke is believed to bt
kimbecile, but tnis is not SO. Th,
iof Ihstme OF dukes is to feign s,umber
and When found, say, in first ella raj J.
Way carriage, duke should. IL possible
aus e kept awake. The young author, o
oourse, will endeavor to engage him il
sonversation by ing the loan O
?. m. BIZ copy of the George AIDES Fables
!, :, Minis is the time of year when vi
rehsonaby expect many good books o
MEMOIRS. Some are already publish OF
'e fsus and Others are to come. Mr. Al lei
Fea has brought out a very pretty bnol
Cars. upon king Monmouth buv he ha
: ~ Jailed to tell the world whether q
call not Charles the Second married Luc,
resi- Walter. This is one OF the secrets O
erred th3story which has nsrer been disclosed
Ah Evelyn said, Lucy was tbrowne
=, bsautifull, and bold" and Charles tn
~ E@pcond had the good taste to like then
Ing hrowne, beautiful, and hold,
\, MHcaulay never satisfied himself or b /;
sta WH4ders as TO WHISTLER there was AN
inter-. 4#t fcate OF marriage between til
f SSd Kjng and Lucy, but some have sine
date saia that the Duke of Buccleuch keen
and il at his banker'H
l. mr 1--we new volumes Of 1.-The Diotionaf
d in. OF English Biography contain an i'm
t oss.S' mense amount of valuable matter MIR
W" Herbert Paul writes of Gladstone, Mr.
rme- Low of Lord Randolph Churchill an
m #r. L. v. Lucas upon Lewis Carroll
AME. Faul points out that the defect @
ls, A3F Gladstone's conversation was tina
nj h4 could not help being earnest upo
sll3subiects. and he failed to see tina
hlsviews on the making of violins wer
sless interesting than his experience d
Gcvernment by Cabinet But no on
9knows better than Mr.. Paul that, whe
!" 0nS clever man knows a subject we'll. h
Wuever talks about it, ONLY stup;d ~, a