Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — Sir Henry’s Nice Job. [ARTICLE]

Sir Henry’s Nice Job.

Admiral Sir Henry Koppol, while holding the post of port admiral, was coming out of the dockyard one evening, in plain clothes, when ho was roughly jostled by a sailor in liquor. Irate at no apology being offered, Sir Henry stopped tho man and asked him if he knew whom he was running against. “No; nor I don’t care,” replied Jaok. “I’m Sir Henry Koppol; I’m port admiral.” “Ah," said the drunken one, “ nice billot you’vo 'got,” and staggorod on.

Literary Men as Husbands. It may be suggested here that a literary man would be a proper mate for a literary woman; but though like often attracts like, we must also admit it just as often attracts unlike, and then we have a theory that explains nothing because it explains ovorything, writes Mrs. Amelia E. Barr in an attiole discussing the question, “Why Do Not Literary Women Marry?" in the Ladies’ Homo Journal. And, in spite of a few brilliant exceptions, experience does not prove that there is much sympathy between the female and the male scholar. The literary woman who knows anything knows that he is, of all men, the most irritable and exacting. Ordinary husbands, going about among ordinary people, are entertaining and reasonable, and bring the atmosphere of actual life home at evening with them. The literary husband spends the day with himself, and with books written by men who hold his (.pinions. lie has no fresh, piquant news, and no gossip of the people they both know. Ho may be writing a political or a theological paper, or making a joke for a comic periodical, but all the same he is apt to be as “snappy as a bull terrier on the chain.” I do not pretend to know how far literary women share this irritability; their knowledge of the male condition may be divination, or it may be deducible from personal feeling, but in any case they have an intuitive dislike to marry literary men. At the same time the disinclination is undoubtedly mutual, and, I may add, with good cause.