Newspaper Page Text
r 1-ie?vr-rtH . nnnftJ mJtfliJVrrmTrmKT wTnnr .rw--jv-,v"-fvBP----uft-' .-.vwv-v..,,w.---' r -"- I.'. 11. : . .'T r"Jl "1"I'5 UUMiAY JU.HUHI.fO. To find oat Just horr far an old majd'i theories on men and babies might diverse from the pctual ext"lcncs of a -wife and mother, and to discover. Incidentally. Jt possible, any analogies between the hy pothesis of yesterday and the fact of to day there were my excuses for matins a pop call on Miss UlUnn Bell that -was. Miss Bell Is an authority on these mat tersan authority from both points of view. She was an old maid; she Is now Mrs. Arthur Bocue. She was a. lono creature, with neither chicle nor child to call her own. Now she has a. baby. And It Is htr baby. It Is "Just ten yexr ago that Tfhe love Affairs of en Old Maid" mado Its appear ance. In this book, which was the first of Ltl-. Han Beil's many xolumes, she. not only ox .pressed her views on matrimony and bringing up children In general, but sho Said bare the psychology of splnsterhood. "With scalpel and knife she dissected her subject sometimes not tenderly, often perhaps, & little lrrevently. but always with, the 'unerrlny precision and Infinitesi mal accuracy of the skilled vlvlsectlonlat. With a irtitterlnff array of eplgrammatlo lances end divers other surslco-llterary Instruments, the very soul of the old maid was bared to whomsoever, and especially to hlmsoever, who might read. The book was popular, and deservedly so. Not, however, so muir' account of Its cleverness, as because of Its sincerity. For "The ljve Affairs of an Old Maid" bore the unmistakable signs of a human document. Even the least sophisticated of Miss . "Bell's readers, had to smlls at the author's .Ingecuoas confession that she was 23 and loved cats and teal Of course she iras! To be sure she did I Nobody ever dreamed of disputing the only too evident fact that the woman who wrote would never see 29 again. Were not the earmarks of a spinster hand on every page? Stupid! Who could net read between the lines? CONCLUSIONS TO BE DRAWN FROM THE BOOK. Tbero needed, alast no Delphic orade for Interpreting: the subtleties of that dsU cate tracery. VinrTT am" - - (THE OLD MAID'S -6- --- 7??Srr. . --.rtf r I 'TvMrfZ. . '.AHitVKSPCT.nt'; .Or!lld I VLB&Hn03aHi fs, JMliiP PiBi&B 1 hllllliip bImM i ft i Ml in 0 ''i hi W hP lmy W. - m 'geffiassi . . Hi. )v s- sr.ri- "'; ,.imsTUrwSeT'r sJeSgoPSSS? fe-r , .aaaaaaaaaaaafiJiirsBaaaBaaaT s? .r-.IJ? .T-, E'lZ? i?!arL l . K'CBBxk.v' ' Satai iHnBWaffleStfaSvirMutci HP, ' Sg 'bbH Wflm r TSpM-v Ji IBUNaSlBHfe SKiiF 'JLtSjjwl "tw aDtwDouai n bisk sdwaiuw BHHHtdl "-"'Iff vl if-1" Wslt KJfJs ' m 'JTOArSTLr IAK MOKEflJN THAN TOKff BbO i AffJR llHHHPl 1 YP vMfcjS ROBERT E. LEE'S "OLD WAR HORSE" AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY-TWO. GENERAL JAMES LONGSTREET, FAMOUS CONFEDERATE FIGHTER. TALKS AT MT. ATRV. GA.. OF THE OLD AND THE NEW T1MES. WRCTTIsr TOR Tun HUNDAT REFUBUC. General James Longstreet, the "grand . old man of the Confederacy, la spending j ill Ufa's peaceful winter at Mount Airy, Ga. He was the man whose genius Gene-al, Grant mostly feared, a regard for whose prowess was Inspired In Grant when both were cadets -nt West Point, strengthened by Longstreefs services In tha Mexican War and the West and more seriously to be reckoned with on the battlefields of tha South, The broad rotunda cf the .mountain vil lage hotel Is the peaceful background and Longstreet approaches. aiowiy ne comes. remarxaDiy erect, I looking every Inch a soldier. I There Is a hush to the laughter: even the orchestra seems to have respectfully timed the Intermission. Southerners are loyal to their champions, Longstreet, the last of tha greater ones. Is very dear to them. Eighty-two years old what a stretch of time. Born in lSH. when he was a boy tha Louisiana Purchase had been but recently consummated. The great expansionist. Thomas Jeffer son, had sown tho first seed that was to make this country the power it Is. The great territory west of the Mlssls uippi was yet a wilderness. It ii a far cry from tallow dips to the blazing arc from lumbering coaches to the fast-flying vestibule trains. At the close of the Civil War physicians warned General Longstreet he should be very thankful to live eight years. All of these men have crossed "th Great Divide" more than twenty-five years ago, and General Longstreet stands In the white light of a wonder-working new century. There are few meals ha misses at ths public table, and though suffering greatly from an epithelioma involving hli right eye, ho enjoys In a measure the benefits of the splendid climate. Always a lover of horseback riding, the deprivation of that sport la perhaps his greatest loss. The General Is very deaf and uses an ear tube. This Mrs. Longstreet carries. The arrangement Is very clever, serving as a break to undesirable company. Realizing the fatigue attendant upon long conversations I spent several days securing the opinions herein expressed, and ha seemed to appreciate tha consid eration. General Longstreet was asked whether it did not prove very tiresome to answer tho many Questions propounded to him. Wearily, ha replied: "It does." "I can only refer to history, which. rightfully recording the deeds of each. gives the same basis of comparison I en Joy." General Longstreet always held the abil ity of General Grant In highest esteem. In fact, he accorded Ma a place In mill t- ,-W---w.wv,w,wywwwwwwv,u m w w m tat m m w mnrmnnnnnnnnr' .. . w w w-tr ..... Celebrated After reading that book netting could possibly convlnc us that wa had not wit nessed a psychological suicide; that poor Lillian Bell had not plunged the cTssect lng knife Into the soul of her own spinster hood. Accordingly, w felt sorry, and our sorrow was deepened by the conscious ness that It all mlcht have turned out so differently had only the right man ap peareo. And. In due course of time, perhaps, maybe, possibly tho Baby. These speculations. Inevitable at the book's reading and perhaps forgotten In the lapsed years, are brought vividly 'o the memory to-day as one approaches the Bogue residence from the Tarrytown highway. We knew by the papers of three years ago that the author had married a nice young man, and the tinkle of a cow bell and the flash of a lacs canopleo peram bulator among the trees spoke eloquently of the realization of even an Old Maid's wildest dreams. Out of a brown cottsge that Is almost hidden among tha Riant apple trees a tall, determined-looking lady In a pale-blue tea gown, comes to the rescue and drives) away the cow with a stick. Whlla she soundly reprimands the nurse girl for having deserted the perambula tor even for a. moment, I see that the lady's dark nalr wears Just a touch of gray, and that, although the words of her reproof are severe, there is a good-humored flash In her rtry black eyes a flash that turns to something gentler than the gentlest good humor as she tenderly lifts a. little whtto bundle from out the billows of lace and ribbon. In a very soft rolce she dismisses the nurse, aad then wa tft dovn to talk here under th trees to talk o; old maids and wives, of men and of babies, with the tary merit not less than that of George Washington. This weighing of the olaler-Presldent'a worth was the result that began, as did Grant's estimate of him, at West Point. As General Longstreet expresses It, Grant was "a soldier." DID NOT UNDERRATE OPPONENTS. Ona point Is very pertinent. Longstreet never zsada tha mlttiVa to common, to svJC &J lCaaVajlislC asaaaaaaaaaaaaaFaaWLF B -aA4 "-TT Lj as a WbbbbbbW. "i DHy 1 MJ Pal e-e! .- THE EEPTJBLIO: SUNDAY. OCTOBEB 4. 1903. ...-.-..... ..... .MjuuuuLa . . - ..- --- -- wJJw-wjwjsrtfw-irw-WTr ..... - INFANT Authoress Believes tlnkle-ttnUa of the cow bell tn tha other end of tha orchard for an accompani ment. "I believe every old msld ought to marry and have a baby. ana with this declara tion Mrs. Bogue set the conversational Nail rolling. WOMEN WHO ARE DESTINED TO LIVE UNMARRIED. "Hut possibly every old maid may not be so fortunate an yourself." I veniureil "Besides, some women are destined to live and die unmarried." "Never!" declared she of the book, de cisively, bending her head to chirrup to tha Baby. Whereupon I produced a much-underlined copy of the book Itself and read that which wjk penned on the eve of the lady's thirtieth year: "It Is not my fault that I am an old maid. I was cut out for one. AH toy tendencies point that way. I always liked cats and tea!" "I know I said It," she admltled. "but an old maid will say lots of things which marriage, and sometimes even the pos sibility of marriage, makes her willing to recant." Sho chirruped again to the Baby. "Then your views have materially changed l. ten years?" "Ysrs and no," she replied, laughing. "It is all a matter of misunderstanding things: perhaps I might say of misun derstanding one's own real self. Now. ten years ago I had a creed that I pinned all mr faith to." "What was that creed?" I asked. "Self-sufflclency." cama the prompt an swer. "Self-sufBdency. the basic principle al ways of splnsterhood. Why. ten years ago I didn't think I needed any other personality than my own to make me I I many cf his brother officers of under Ing the commanding strength of the leaders. General Lonrstret knew what t: pect of the enemy, and prepared todself for It. f Of General Robert E. Lea ha sp'&xs In highest commendation, concedes hik great ness aa a military engineer and admlros him for his dishing, decisive mtttods of fighting. r jjhf' laSUtl VfiUyll ix- AND HOW in Fresh Air, Cuddling happy. It was an Idea which. I bl!eve. comes to every woman who finds herself unmarried at '- "She has an idea, because she has per haps outgrown the Infatuations of the preceding ten years, that love Is a sort of recurrent epidemic, like the grip, for Instance, which makes or.e very miserable but scarcely ever sick enough to Jutlty calllnc tha doctor." "But!" I exclaimed, aghast it the cold ly philosophic wa with wh'ch my hostess compared thee two great l. of humanity. "Hut people often die of grip!" "But never of lov," came the quick re tort, an she turned tho Baby en Its stom ach across her knee and proceeded to smooth out the wrinkles of the tiny cloak. "Perhaps not. But you can't deny that love often leaes Its victims confirmed In valids for the lest of their lives, like like the grip." "OTHER WOMAN" WHO SO OKTEN CAUSES TROUBLE. "Tru-i But only when complicatlony set In." S'ae of the book lifted her -yet from the Baby and with a significant smile continued: "It Isn't the disease Itself but the com plications that are likely to ensue that make '.ove. like the grip, such a danger ous ailment. "It Is the Other Woman that does the mischief. "If the Other Woman would oly let men alone constancy would lx less of a hollow mockery, -nd there would b fewer old maids In tb world." "What about the Otter Man?" I asked. "He d-es.i't rtrio.fly exist; he has no pbcc whsO-ttvcr ;a the economy of love. "Full7 un-h;f of the eld maids of this wnrld o their late to "other women." And certain.- one-half the married women of the earth owe their husbands either to old maids or to the wives of otbrr men." I laughed aloud at this topsy-turvy state of human society, and Lilian Bell laughed too liutthed so heartily that the Baby, who had bad Its blue eyes fastened Intently upon a shifting and golden disk of sunshine on the grass, now turned Its t?o'm5inAnd.fn0f i Mbbbbbbbw. . ' "ft Vriaai Wotituif bscomeincLipi While near the subject of General Lea might be interesting to repeat a little section of history, to reiterate a itats msnt made by Lee after the battle of Get tysburg. The algoileanea of that three days car nage Is too well known to dwell further upon Its .Importance- to either side. On that occasion General Lee said: It i tad taksa Lcsgitxirt'g adrU oa j- TO RAISE IT. wmKm and Plenty of "Baby tiny head and pered up In Innocent won derrrent as to what It was .all about. "Now. Isn't that Just too cunning for anything, and in a baby orly t weeks qldn exclaimed the mother, now lapsing into that unintelligible dialect which only mothers and batxs can understanj. 'nl do vou re illy think the mlx-up 1 as bad as all that?' MIXED MOTIVES THAT OFTEN LEAD TO MARRIAGBL "What mix-up?" She had actually for gotten what we wre j!i.ing utout. The matrimonial ccmrllcatlon? Oh. yes: I remember now. Certainly It U as bad a that. Maybe worse. "The sooner you ret it out of your head that the world and his wife are married becausa they couldn't possibly have ex Utrd without each other, the better. "Aa a mat'er of fact, people marry from very mixed motives. We alt have the ioea nhen we are painfully young that of course people marry becaue they are so fortunate as to fall in love with each otter." "And don't they?" "No. Indeed' Very few hearts are rap tured right oil the bat. as It were, and If statistics on the subject were possible we would stard aghast at the very great number that are caught on the rebound or on the foul "That Is why I say that half the old maids one their condition to other wom en, and half the married women owe their wifely dignities to old maids and other men's wives. Very few people marry th persons they ought to marry, or reslly wish to marry. "For Instance, take the lovers quanel The simplest, most trilling and Innocent little lovers quarrel that ever was brewed In the course of an otherwise supremely happy, courtship Is eatable of changing the destinies of anywhere from half a dozen to twenty perrons. "I have observed .Just such a wholeshle upsetting' of the "ordained lives among my own acquaintance, and to have you. and so has everybody else. "Ahd the blame can nearly always be J kP the eve of the second day the Confederate forces would have won that battle." A higher tribute could scarcely be paid to tha generalship of this military genius than the acknowledgment of superior strategic powers by his senior officer. In the cool of a summer evening, finding the General comfortably ensconced in a rocking chair on the veranda, I asked him wfcAt he 'ttocaJM of tha future at the re &GB6Sg&R& Talk." laid to tha fiooT of G Otttr Woman. Tn every lovers quarrtl there U al ways the Other Woman, a whola battalion of her. in fact, lying In ambush, ready to capture the heart on Its rebound. CATCHING A HEART ON THE REBOUND. "And the heart Is ususlly captured, and that pretty quickly. For there Is nothing In the world so easy for a woman to do as to make a man propose marriage who has quarrelej with tha woman ha loves. It is one of the psycho'egical mysteries which can never be quite explained. It Is not due to wounded vanity, as most peo ple imagine; It Is not due to a deftra for revenge. It seems to be a more funda mental ra'nn than any of thee. "A man may quar-el with any other per scn on earth save the woman he loves and not lose his Judgment, but when he quar rtls with her the very foundations of his Judgment become shattered. He up and marries the first woman who comes along and says boV In a sympathetic tone. And then tho woman whom he really loves and really wanted to marry, she either makes a brave bet desperate effort to hlda her mortification by falling back upon tha nearest available suitor and marrying him In all tx?j-Ibltj haste or else becomes an old maid." "And how about lovers quarrels after one Is married?" "They're infinitely worse." she answered tucking the baby Into the hollow of her ami. "Quarrels, however pimple their caue, are dangerous pastimes for any body, but most of all for people who lova each other. A wise girl will absolutely neier quarrel w.th her lover under any circumstances unless she wants to take u pretty good risk of lcalng him forever. And a married woman should never do so either, for. whether married or merely en gaged, there Is for a man always BOmi other woman to whom he can and will turn and to whom he will not turn in vain." A yUERT SUGGESTED BT THE COW. The tinkle of the cow tell had been drawing nearer and nearer, telling cs that the gentle beast. In her grazing peregrtna Ikmy. was again approaching tha forbid den precinct. With her dainty Aldemey nosa hidden In the rich green pasture, she had browsed her way slowly back again to the peram bulator and to the human kind, which all ell-bred cons seem to lova with an al raist human affection. It seemed an opportune moment to ask a most delicate and crucial question. "Do you." I ventured, summoning all the euphemlim I could command: "do ou depend upon her?" looking significant ly toward the cow. which now stood watching us with her big. mild, beauti ful eyes, contentedly chewing her cud. "Oh. my. yesl She Is a Jewell Why, I don't think she'd so much as speak to a policeman." "You misunderstand me," I began a aln: "I didn't mean tha nurse maid. b it the cow." The cow!" In surprise. Tha cowl What do you. Oh. yest Now I see what you're driving at," sha laughed. "Tou want to know whether I am performing united nation, assuring that a prophecy from a man who, like himself, had watched so closely the progress of the Union: would be of Inestimable worth. H said: "I am very hopeful of an Increasing sympathy and understanding between the North and the South. "What little sectionalism there was van ished la the late war. VWWAWW4 ET-- thj pacaUar fcncuottl of" tSxt animal r "Taa," "Well, I am." she declared with a merry nod of her head. "Do you suppose that Just because I happened to have written a few books be fore I got my baby and because I hava a few strong-minded tendencies I would handicap her In the beginning by giving her a bottler "But." I objected, "bringing up babies artificially Isn't nece-witUy restricted to strong-minded and literary motherhood. Is ltr "No, certainly not; but It Is neverthe less tha strong-minded tendencies of tha motherhood of to-day which hae to bear tha blama and brunt of all this Idlotlo talk about race suicide, and It Is tho strong-minded woman who is sup posed to bo tbi least motherly of mothers and the least wifely of wives. j I "Why la It that people still harp so senseiessiy uwui wi ......- -tlona of the clever woman?" "Why can't clever women marry and make.' Just as good wives as more com monplace ones?" "Can a woman not bend her cleverness to see that her house U In order, and her dinners well cooxea. ana mo sewed on? buttons "Da von suBOOsa that because ah knows Greek she cannot bo In lave? "Do you suppose because the went through higher mathematics ha never pressed a flower he gave her? Do they think that an acquaintance with biology kills blushing In a woman? I wonder If they think that philosophy keeps a girl from crying herself to sleep because she thinks he doesn't -are for her. and If a knowledge of logic keeps her from growing Idiotically glad when ha tells her he does?" SATS MODERN "DONTS" ARE NOT TO BE REGARDED. Lillian Bell Bogus the 8eeond had fallea. j fast asleep on her clever mother's hotoj"k j The nursegtr! came and dropped a sotti j coverlet over tho little dreamer, whlla the cow. with dainty diffidence, poked her head Jnto the billowy depths of ths.per ambulator. "Do you "believe tn the scientific bring ing up of a child?" I asked. "Sclentlflc nondensel Indeed. I do not, I believe In baby talk, and I talk It to my baby. I believe In rocking, too, soma tlmes. and I hava a cradle for my baby. I believe In cuddling, and cuddle my baby to my heart's content. "What'a tho use of having a baby If you can't do all these foolish things which the club women try to teach us are un scientific and unhygienic? No, Indeed! I'm going to be foolish. "I'm going to enjoy my baby. Uk ev ery mother should. "And. moreover, when my baby gets old enough to need It and naughty enough to deserve It I shall spank her." "Tou are an old-fashioned mother." I commented. "Yes. Indeed!" the Lady of the Book re plied. "Whatever I have been as an Old Maid, you may depend upon it I am go ing to be an oid-Fashioned Motaer. And she lifted a warning Anger as nurseirlrl came a-tlntoelne to the dellca cat task of transferring sleeping babyhood. "We are more and more one people, and the Investments in commercial enterprise by each section In the other will strength en the bond so that It will become Indis soluble. With this accomplished tha United States must become one of the greate-". of world Powers." Just at this time a train drew up, and from his chair the General caught sight g. a company of "regulars' en route to Fort McPherson. The platform wa crowded with pretty maidens, at whonvlfct young soldiers stole many an admlrb glance. General Longstreet looked at thsS smilingly, and then, as though his mind reverted to srenes of twoseore years ago, grimly remarked: SoldIerIng Isn't what It used to be." TRIAL YET TO COME. Hard as General Longstreet had fought, much as he had suffered the wounds at conflict, the greatest trial wa yet to coma. After the guns had silenced and the dova of peace was supposed to have alighted In every American home, it was his mls fortunn to be misunderstood, his hardship that alleged friends and a misguided peo ple could not fathom the depth of princi ple In the man. If he wai great In war he was greater In peace, and It remnlned for Lee's mighty "War Horse." the thunder of whose guns had echo"! around tho world, to display In th days of a war troubled peace a courage that outshines the deed, of Ma-nas-n. Ch'cknmauca. Fredericksburg, the WIMeenese ! Gt-ttyahnrg In 1s President Grant nnpi'nted Mm Surveyor of Cuitoms at New Orleans' yd had even sent hln name to CongressJe fore consulting the General about it. After resigning that rotltfon. f 'ir years later. General Longstreet resided In tha South, excepting tho period spent a" M'n Ister to Turkey under President Hires, ard still later, and norr h'. duties as Commissioner of Railroads, to whlrh po sition he was called bv PresIJent MeKln ley, necessitate his resldenc: in WasPing ton. I requested General Longstreet to give me some recollections of people he had met. and In reply he referred me to some thing he bad written some ten years be fore. He referred to meeting his oM nurse. "Daniel." at what was once the family home. In Macon. Miss. To quote the Gen eral: He calls promptly when I visit Macon and looks for something to remember you by.' "During my last visit he seemed more concerned for me than usual, and on one of his' calls asked: "Marse Jim. do you belong to ia church?" "V fear "Oh. yes-, I said. I try to be a-iood Christian. "Something must have scared you mighty bad to change you so from what you was when X bad to care for you, . ? 1 I JgT'tiTfiii ir5"-- HiirffalraTlir -h miffUM-mi'Mirm , ijrthvmr -ft --S"eu