Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1913-02-23
CHAPTER xI.
The Bakers Daughter.

A large part OF our ambitious
American population is prone boast
fully to ascribe its origin TO one or
other of those highly respectable. If
really little known monarchs TO whom
is commonly accorded the foundation
Of old world nobilities. We have built
up a pretty fiction regarding socalled
blue blood. on the fiattering, but who'll
- unsupported superstition that royal
qualities ere transmissible to the thir-
tieth and fortleSh generation; so that
tits a poor AmerlSan family indeed
cannot boast its coat o. arms, barking
back to royal days of Charlema.Re or
William the Conqueror. 1t may be.
Their maiesties were active. morgan
atically at least no doubt, much-flan
ried menl ..,, t.,......
q But continually there arise disturb
Ing Instances 10 upset us in ON beliefs
regarding aristocracy There. are so
very many worthless aristocrats, In
whom the theory Of descent did not
work out according to accepted SEIZED
ule: and there are so very many wor.
thy but wholly disconcerting men who
are not aristocrats-so continually do
Lincolns arise who. claiming nothing
OF birth or breeding. show themselves
to be possessed of manhood, show
themselves. moreover, masters of
those instincts and practices which
go with the muchabused title OF
gentleman; a matter In which
not all descendants Of Charles or vii,
liam join them.
It is well known among theatrical
managers that no real lady can imi-
late real lady. The highest salaries
in ladies' theatrical roles are paid to
ladies' who are not ladies', but who
play the parts of ladies' as they think
ladies really would act in actual life.
If you seek a woman TO carry of
gown, one 10 assume such really regal
air as shall bring the name of William
Or Charlemagne impulsive to your
lips. find one still owning not more
than one of the requisite three gen
srations which are set as the lowest,
limit for the production OF a gentle
man or a lady.
Continually in our American aris-
tocracy-and in that, par consequence,
Of Europe-we find ladies' whose IA
theirs were laborers. shop-keepers,
soap-makers, butchers, this or that,
anything you like. So only they had
money, they did as we'll as any to
wear European coronets, to assist at
royal corOnations. And having proved
their powers in swift forgetfuiness,
they offer as good proof as any, OF
the scientific fact that gentleness Of
heart and soul and conduct are not
things transmissible even to the third
and fourth generation, either in
America or Europe. Your real aristo-
crat perhaps after all. is made, not
born.
As to Virginia Delaware, daughter
Of the baker. John DahIen. in St
Louis. she started out in life with the
deliberate intent Of being a lady,
knowing very well that this is Amer /
lea, where all things come to her or
her who does not wait. In some way,
as has been said, she had achieved
graduation at q famous school where
the art of being a lady is dispensed, .
She had. indeed, even now and then
seen a lady in real life; not to men T.
ton many supposed ladies in theat- I
rical life. playing the part as to than 1
seemed At, and far better than any /
lady could.
The soul finds its outward express .
sion in the body. The ambition shapes ;
the soul It was wholly logical and I.
natural that having her particular am
of many American girls