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The Wistful Days. .What is there wanting In the spring? Tho air 1b soft as yesteryear; Tho happy-nested green Is here, And half tho world Is on Hie wing. Tho morning beckons, and llko balm Are westward waters blue and calm. Yet somthing's wanting In tho spring. What Is It wanting In tho, spring? O April, lover to us all, What Is so pregnant In thy thrall Whon children's merry volpcs ring? What haunts us In the cooing dove ' More subtlo than the speech of Love, What nameless lack or loss of spring? Let youth go dally with the Spring, Call her tho dear, the fair, the young; And all her graces ever sung. Let him, once more rehearsing, sing, They know, who keep a broken tryst Till something from the spring bo missed Wo have not truly known the Spring. Robert Underwood Johnson. j. . ; 4 i THE AMERICAN GIRL. Impressions of Her Made on Paul Bourget, Member of the French Academy. 4 4 4 4 4 4 $ 4 4 4 J who has heard so much about the Am trican girl Is the utter impossibility of distinguishing her from che married woman. The fact that Is so often com mentcd on in Europe, that she goes about alone and unattended, Is not the only cause of this confusion. The similarity goes much further. They wear the same Jewels and the same tol lottes, they enjoy the same liberty of laughing and talking, they read the Bame books, they have the same ges tures, tho same full-blown Beauty, and, thanks to the Invention of tho chap orone, there Is not a theatre or a res taurant party nor tea to which they do not go alone and at tho invitation of any man of their acquaintance. Moreover, the degree of official surveillance to which the young girl is subject Is lessened by the fact that she usually chooses the chaperone her self. The younger this chaperone Is the hotter she is liked. The young widow or the "grass widow" that is, the young wife separated, divorced or simply living away from her husband fills the role to perfection. That is to say, three young girls sitting in company with three young men and the said chaperone at Delmonico's, or tak Ijog tea with another young man, are as free as if they had no one to an swer for' except themselves. This habit of governing themselves without control is responsible for their re inarkablo self-assurance. ' One of tho nicest men In New York, who is a poet, made a little collection if miniatures, an exhibition, with heir permission, of all the profession al beauties of the town. I remember, whsn I examined the glass showcases under which smiled this hundred or so pretty and dainty faces, I tried to guess which of them were married, and I could not. What more would it amsan to them when they were mar ried? Duties, a husband to submit to, children to care for and a ho ise to keep. The young girl has not the weight of these chains. She knows it and makes the most of her time. She does not gain, liberty with married life, as the young woman does in France, and Bhe would have fewer opportunities to amuse herself. Therefore, sho most ly marries lato In life. If it is not al together an end for her, as matrimony la for tho young man In Paris who decides to end his bachelor days, it is still the beginning of resignation. MoBt of them do not seek to hide this. "We must amuse ourselves be fore marriage' one of them gaily said to me, "tor who knowB what may come altar it?" The divorce suits which the papers publish in full prove that this young f arson had as much common sense as she had beauty. For my part, and af ter haying studied human conditions closely, I believe that for a young man of 20 or 25 the best chances of happi ness are to be born of a good, English family and to study at Oxrord, but for a young girl it is to be born American, with a father who has made his for tune in mines, railroads or land specu lation, and to enter New York or Washington society under the wing of excellent sponsors. At first, sight this nnsolute liberty gives all tho 'American girls a similar appearance. It is from them we au thors have made the classic Americau type of tho novel and the play. Wo have produced this tjpe In tho simp lest possible 'manner very bad man ners on a background of naivete and you have a walking doll. But it is oi ly a stage figure, and the two ele ments of which it is made both appear to me to bo equally false. The young American girl when sho is over hero may appear to us to bo badly brought up, because we compare her with our own conventional type of young French girls a typo which, It may bo said, is also not a true one. But seen at close quarters in her own home, one finds this liberty associated with food as well as with bad educa tion. After a short while you are uulc to clearly distinguish from among them thoso who aro "fast" and those who aro not, thoso who lay themselves out to excite lntorest and to awaken and fan tho desire of tho men, and those with whom moral familiarities and all the more physical familiari ties aro impossible. As regards their naivete, when w use this word in connection with young girls wo French people supposo that for tho young girl thero is only ono question, that of love. We admit that it is essential to their existence, as It is essential to every woman. Wo ask ourselves what they imagluo about it, what they know of it, and our gauge of their innocence and pur ity of soul is contained in the reply. This rule is not applicable to tho American girl, because with her this love question is pushed more Into tho background. To know whether she will marry for love or not, whether sho will have an Ideal married life or not, docs not often occupy her thoughts. As for those who seem most to en deavor to please tho men and who make tho most of their physical at tractions a type which is rarer than the French think and more common than the American will admit thl.i re lationship with a man nine tlm-ju out of ten represents the fact of social life. it is ono way of insuring triumphs o amour propro and of becoming what tho papers call "prominent people in society" through the number of their admirers. This coquetterie Is not as danger ous for them as it would be for others on account of the reserve of the Am erican man on the one side and of their profound understanding of the masculine character on tho othei. Thoy begin to be Intimate w.ib men when so young that to them these aro as familiar as the horses are to tho stableman's children. Ono of them, speaking to me about ono of our mutual acquaintances, i Spanish lady, married at Rome, who was very unhappy, said, "Sho does nob know how to manage ?ier husband," and began to tell mo what the lady's rival, on tho other hand, had done to attract and keep the unfaithful hus band. Tho sort of pervert innocence which leads to such reflections Is not very intelligible to us. A young diplomatist, who lived in America many years and to whom I repeated this chat, to see what ho thought of it, gave me his own impres sion of American women, it is severe: "They have the depravation of chas tity," he said. Was Washington Untruthful. in an interesting group of Wash ngton's letters in Harper's is one which indicates that, however true may be tho story of tho cherry-tree, in hia more mature life tho great general was not above prevarication. Writing to one of his generals he sayB: "In addition to the two regiments which aro gone from Peekskill, I ani forwarding as fast as possible, to Jolii tho northern array, Colonel Morgan' corps of riflemen, amounting to nboi't! five hundred. These are all cho3cri men, selected from the army at large well acquainted withtho use of rlfleaj and with that mode of fighting whloh Is necessary to make them a good counterpoise to tho Indians; and they have distinguished themselves on a va riety of occasions, since the formation of the corps, In skirmishes with the enemy. I expect the most eminent services from them; and I shall bo mistaken if their presence does not go far toward producing a general deser tion among the savages. I should think it would bo well, oven before their arrival, to begin to circulate these ideas, with proper embellish ments, throughout tho country and In .the army; and to take pains to com municate them to the enemy. It would not be amiss, among other things, tot magnify their numbers;" Major C. F. Close nnrl flnnrnin rs n WVHUt Frith, royal enelhecm of iim nriftav.' w - w JI bJMM Government, have come over to study our geodetic and coast which, they say, ls far superior to that of Europe. 9 j r Mams anal Initials. Thar is a doctor whose initials are I . D. and a minister whoso initials ! 'o D. D. ! U. Kctcham and I. Sklnnctn, the law- ! rs, are historic. ' Falrwoather & Rain, unfortunately i not sell umbrellas, but their paints e waterproof. Heller k Brightly deal in Incandes nt lights. I. T. Burns is really a coal man. Tho Initials of n certain teacher are B. C. Underwood sells coffins. All Smiths were onco really black- liths. Fellers Is a common namo for mor dants. Schloss & Castle are lockmakers. Drlnkhouso Is a Chicago saloonlst. Thc.o Is also a doctor named Sttll voll. Slocus is not an errand boy, but a 'oliceinan. Black & Whlto is a well-known firm )f lithographers. And Holdfast is a celebrated marry ing parson. , Only One "BROMO QUININE." That is LAXATIVE BROMO Qulnlno. Similarly named remedies sometimes deceive. Tho first and original Cold Tablet is a WHITE PACKAGE with black and rod lettering, and bears the signature of E. W. GROVE. 26c. Compensations of Splncterhoed. Harper's Bazar, that champion of women, haH taken up tho cudgels in behalf of tho spinster. In Harper's bazar, Miss Anne O'Hagan points out as follows some of the modern spin sters advantages: "There Is another way In which tho sidetrack of spinsterhood makes those who follow it a slight recompense for what they have missed on the high road. Ono of George Meredith's witty old maids stated it. Asked why sho had not married, she replied, not with a sontlmentallsm of lovers lost by death or doubting, but with an epi gram. She found more use, she said, for twenty shillings than for a sover eign. "Now whether or not an unmarried woman really prefers twenty shillings to a sovereign, It is generally possible for her, In this day and generation, to have them. Sho does not have ono man to love and cherish her; but aho may have tho friendship, the cordial esteem and interest of half a dozen. She docs not have one to pay her dress maker, her hatter, her shoeman, and ithe rest; but she may have half a Bcore for less serviceable uses half a score who send her books, flowers, tickets, who walk, play golf, drive, skate, talk, with her. One man does not come to her for the deep under standing of his needs; many may come with their quite serious Inter ests. 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