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.
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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.'
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Government, have come over to study
our geodetic and coast
which, they say, ls far superior to that
of Europe. 9
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Thar is a doctor whose initials are
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! U. Kctcham and I. Sklnnctn, the law-
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' Falrwoather & Rain, unfortunately
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Heller k Brightly deal in Incandes
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I. T. Burns is really a coal man.
Tho Initials of n certain teacher are
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Underwood sells coffins.
All Smiths were onco really black-
liths.
Fellers Is a common namo for mor
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Drlnkhouso Is a Chicago saloonlst.
Thc.o Is also a doctor named Sttll
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Black & Whlto is a well-known firm
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And Holdfast is a celebrated marry
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Similarly named remedies sometimes
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Harper's Bazar, that champion of
women, haH taken up tho cudgels in
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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
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woman really prefers twenty shillings
to a sovereign, It is generally possible
for her, In this day and generation, to
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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. Her sincere, enjoyable, stimulat
ing, friendly relations with men, as
with women, are limited only by her
own owor of Intellectual symathy
at any rate, in those circles which ad
mit any basis of companionship be
tween men and women beyond the
emotional."
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