The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-18

When her trees in a blaze Of splendor. enrobe
her.
And she saketh upon her his name.
star-white is the lace Of her bridal veil,
Woven OF frost b the moonbeams pale.
Sweet is the day when the bride in her splendor.
Misty with clouds OF lace,
In her love and her youth triumphant and tender,
Comes to the bridegTooms embrace;
All the 10y Of earth and the blessing Of heaven,
To this browning hour Of her life be givenl
Two prosperous, middle-aged gentlemen
sat together on the street car, going home
TO luncheon. One Of them put his hand into
his pocket and drew it
The Forgot out again with startled
ten Letter. look of dismay. "There!"
he said my wife
charged me to mail that letter the very first
=, thing this morning" An instant look of
Comprehension and sympathy flashed into
the other mans face. With the freemasonry
OF community in crime he began TO plan
for his friends relief. Put 1t into your in
7 side pocket and say nothing about it," he
counseled.
NO said the other. 'Ill mail it in box
before 1 go home. Then I can say it is
mailed"
The Observers mind flew to a speculation
on the consequences OF the mistake. 1t was
obviously important that the letter should
reach the postOffice in the morning. Prob
ably II was note that should have reached
friend in the city by the afternoon deliv-
cry at latest. and which she would now re-
ceive next morning. too late to be of any
use. What disappointment, embarrassment,
or even estrangement might result from its
del If delaV
in posting had been known, the possible
catastrophe might yet have been averted by
telephone or messenger Far be it from me.
\ however to intimate that husbands sim
ners above all others in this respect. Few,
indeed. are there. young or old. male or fe
male. that have not the sin of a delayed
letter on their consciences.
wonder how many of the readers of
1.-The Spenders" finished the story unaware
that the Bines fortune was safely UP Uncle
Peters sleeve all the
Uncle Peters time? I have had great
sleeve. faith in the capacity of
novel readers to misun-
ders.and an authors intention ever since L
heard really bright woman insist that it
| was Larry Arbuthnot that made all the
! trouble in Mrs. Burnett's Through One
Administration" 1t was he whom
! Bertha cared for.
BY the way. why should the author have
4 given us those needless and offensive
ouches Of hardness at the close? Uncle Pc
ters calm indifference to the failures. heart
breaks and suicides his coup caused. is the
usual state of mind of the speculator, sup
|pose. and yet IL didn't seem TO sit well on
Uncle Peter. Psyche's sudden declaration
that she didn't want to marry Mauburn
since he'd lost the chance to be an earl. is
entirely uncalled for, out of character and
kirrelevant and quite spoils the pleasure the
eader might otherwise feel in the triumph
true love over Uncle Peters plotting.
lille fLochinvar IL could have carried his
| point just as well-and better-without his
dispensing resort TO physical force. Only
\ Mrs. Blnes remains consistently and per-
'istently dear
What series OF amazing statements.
Behold them in all their astonishing lack of
relations to facts!
/. Women do not
CONCERNING Hand care for good looks
some Men. in men"
III. This is lucky.
for men are very seldom good looking
III. There are only fifty thousand hand
some men in the United States"
To take them seriatim: Women care for
beauty in everything. 1t is one of their prn-
cipal passions. The beauty of flowers and of
sunsets the beauty of houses and of rooms.
of glass; of china and of dinner tables-who
does not regard these as especially matters
OF feminine interest? AS for the beautiful in
dress, 1t is every woman's desire and anx-
har rInf 11ac hear ffrsI
as her circumstances will admit, while the
mans utmost wish in this direction is that
his dress may be correct. When it comes to
beauty in human beings. women care for it
passionately. 1t is the mother who keeps her
little boy as long as possible In the pictur-
esqueness of his golden curls and his wide
embroidered collars; 1t is the father who is
always in hurry to see him with cropped
head and mannish clothes. Women surround
doringly the beautiful woman whom men
ever look at, because she lacks the element
If coquetry. or whatever the mysterious
quality is that attracts them And when it
is a question of beauty in her lover. wom-
an longs for ii intensely. Women marry
homely men. it is true; they forgive the
LONELINESS as they do other faults; or they
concentrate their attention on some pleasing
feature-fne eyes. a sweet mouth, firm
chin-and shut their eyes resolutely to the
ugliness of other features Besides, it must
be remembered that a woman often cannot
marry the man she admires most, or even
the one VINO loves her best; she can only
choose between those who have the spunk
to propose to her. One thing is certain. that
personal beauty makes very strong appeal
to her; that ii is among the strongest rea-
SONS for falling I'm love.
That women are more beautiful than men
Is one OF those traditional views established
when literature was written entirely by
men-views that still pass current at their
face value, because nobody takes the trouble
10 consider whether they are true. 1t is a
striking evidence Of masculine modesty and
alteration of woman, that men seem sin
/ cerely to believe that women hold the mo-
nopoly of beauty. II is a pretty and chival-
rous superstition of theirs. and perhaps ]
ought not to betray the truth for. alas. IL is
true that beautiful eyes and regular features
are more common among men than among
women. Few women are handsome enough
TO bear at all the severity of clothing and
hair-cressing that use. Without the
glamour and softening effects OF draperies
of waving hair. lace and chiffon. most wom-
en- would be plain.