Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 September 1887 — Page 1

Vol. 18.—No. 14.

THE_MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

If Senator Voorhees should accept the Democratic nomination for Governor next year and Gen. Ben Harrison should be pitted against him, wouldn't it be a daisy of a campaign?

Mrs. William Wright, of Newcastle, Ind., has given birth to five pairs of twins and one set of quadruplets. At this rate what may be expected of Mrs. Wright in the future? j^ast Monday was the day fixed upon by Wiggins for his great storm. Of course it was an exceptionally fair and beautiful day. Wiggins' storm days can be confidently relied on for picnic purposes.

The Evansville Journal painted that town red last Saturday in a unique way. "it issued a paper in flaming rod covers, with a map of Evansville on the front page and a picture of the marching soldier boys on the last. The effect was very pretty. ______

Hovoral millionaires, among them Gen. Ben. Butler, have been giving advice to young men as to how to get rich. Now let some sensible man who has been happy without getting rich tell the secret of their lives and the information will be much more valuable. "Gid" Thompson, the veteran Indianapolis reporter, familiarly known as "Snacks," has appeared before the public with a lecture on "Wedlock the World Over." The lecturor made a favorable impression by his maidon effort and has probably struck a lead that will yield him handsomely before ho gets through with it. _____

Even the Indianapolis G. A. R. post bus usurped the prerogative of our Mor ton post for tho right of line of march in the State delegation at St. Louis. Morton post, as tho oldest in the Stat®, was undoubtedly entitled to this distinction, but tho Indianapolis fellows prevai'ed upon tho grand officers to give them the position.

Maurice Thompson's recent article on "Quail Shooting" 1» admirable. It is not only a pretty piece of writing, but it is crammed full of sonsible ideas. Mr. Thompson has no patience with tho sentimentality that is willing to eat birds but is forever howling about tho brutality of killing thoni. He thinks the quailshooter is very often much more humane than the quail-eater.

Bad news comes of the apple crop which is reported to be substantially a failure throughout tho country. The outlook has boon bad from the first and has been stoadily getting worse. In most of tho Westorn States the condition is the lowest ever reported. This moans that apples will be scarco and high next winter, which will be all tho worse because the fruit crop generally has been short and little has been put up.

Cleveland, O., physicians report a number of deaths in that city from excessive grapo-eatlng. The soeds are found to form in hard, indigestible lumpsin the bowels, causing dangerous injlammation. As grapes have always been regarded as one of tho most healthful of fruits, this report is in tho nature of a surprise. It must bo that tho persons who have suffered used the fruit in intemperate quanties, which is always dangerous, even with the most harmless things.

A religious paper has calculated that if there area hundred worlds like ours and all of them should last 100,000 years, during whtch period

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persons should go to heaven, there would remain more than a hundred golden rooms, 10 feet square, for each spirit. That is a very foolish calculation, because it is not likely that a spirit will want any rooms at all in tho next world, but those who take such a materialistic vi0W of heaven will bo comforted to learn that there is plenty of room for all that are likely to got there,

The New York Tribune makes the point, and it is well taken, that there is toopmuch talk about millions and millionaires in the home circle as well as in the newspapers these days. The American boy, it says, "is likely to hear much more about rich men than h© is about grwt men, more about all street than the church or college, and It is no cause for wonder if he grows up with a feeling that the men who make huge fortunes quickly are the world's true heroes." It Is not a good atmosphere for a boy to live in, nor for anyone else to live In, for that matter. Let's drop the subject and talk of simple, good and homely things.

Senator Voorhees fc written a letter discussing the Gr* /feature of the Indiana Democracy. Js*nator In the flirt place denies ire

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fight in the p*rjTgrowing out of the prominence of the Governor as a candidate either for Vice President or tor Senator. However he proceeds to state his position in the matter by saying that

if at any time the party wants him to retire he is willing to do so, and that Governor Gray has a right to aspire to any position. The Gray element in the party is undoubtedly growing but it is questionable whether it can out-vote the Voorhees following acquired by long years of personal popularity. Gray is unquestionably the shrewder politician in the sense of being a wire puller and schemer, and if he does succeed Terre Haute's Senator it will be wholly by reason of excellent use of the contrivances of modern machine politics. It is noteworthy in connection with this Gray movement that tho Vice Presidential boom was started by Judge Mack while on his trip to the east and that the Gazette here has not had a good word to say for the Governor's candidacy.

Some people will never be satisfied, no matter what you do for them. The western tour of the President illustrates this. The same Republican newspapers that not long ago were urging him to come west and arguing that it was his duty to see apart of the country that he had never visited, are now denouncing him and charging that his trip Is to be a mere political swing round the circle. Thus if Mr. Cleveland had failed to come west he would have been censured as not caring to see that part of the country, and now that he is come, he is charged With demagogical intentions. This is unkind and unfair.

Judge Mack has boen severely criticised this week for his leniency toward prisoners at present as compared with his course toward thom immediately after taking possession of his office. While there is no just cause for comment for leniency in some cases (and oven the judge of a circuit court is not too great a man to be subjected to comment as a public official) perhaps he should be commended for sparing boys for whom good can be said, who are beforo him for their first offence. With some he has been too lenient, more mercy than justice dispensed, but with some justice tempered with mercy may be the means of reformation. A State's prison or a reform schoo! is a poor place for a boy not naturally bad who has been led by evil associates into misdemeanors, and perhaps the judge who gives him another chance to make a nut ft of himself, ougbt to be commended rather than condemned. On the other hand, it may be said that too much mercy makes a farce of justice, and it is a question whether it has not been carried too far. Tho paroled criminals in this community would make a good sized company, and it may be that the community, for the community's good, hai. aright to protest against the number being increased. "V

The remark of the Indianapolis Journal sumo time ago that Indianapolis was "in a great many ways like a country village" could not have abetter illustration than the treatment of Terre Haute by tho capital city in tho reception to the President and his wife. Indianapolis through her committees and hor newspapers, has acted much as a country village might be expected to do upon having for tho first time in its history a celebrity in its midst. There is only one word in the dictionary to oxpress the disposition of Indianapolis in this as in everything else, and that word has beon used by so many papers throughout the State the past week that it may be looked upon as something of a chestnut. Tho word is "hog," with a big, big H. Her action in this matter has lost to Indianapolis many a dollar in a business way, for the deliberate misrepresentation of Terre Haute has caused many a citizen of this city to resolve never again to spend a cent with Indianapolis busiinen—and it is a resolution that will be carried out in many cases. Of course Indianapolis can manage to exist without the Terre Haute trade she may thus be deprived of, but it will mean something. The best feature of the whole thing is, that the attempt to mislead people in the surrounding country is well understood, and instead of keeping them away will draw them here, and away from Indianapolis. The President will leave Indianapolis at 3 p. m., arrive here at 4:30 p. m., and will then behold the fairest city in all tne land. It is his own expressed wish to see Terre Haute, and even Indianapolis with all her hoggishness cannot deprive him of this pleasure.

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Mrs. Reformer Jenness-Miller's latest objective point is the bustle. In the September number of her magmxine, ••Dress," she comments on the amusing alacrity with which women fly to the defense of the bustle whenever that highly ornamental and pestiferously obtrusive article of dress is assailed. She quite overlooks the most grotesque phase of the bustle question that Is the constant solicitude of the Average wearer when on the street. Single out any well dressed woman yon happen to meet on street, and ton to one, if you follow her, yon will observe that aboat once in every block of her walk she will give bar bustle a flip, furtive or bold according to IMW disposition. No woman is ever certain tea minutes at a stretch that her

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bustle is in the regulation state of discipline, hence her mind is,forever on the rack.

We are told by a sartirical French genius that there is no suffering from which a woman will shrink if by suffering she can enhance her beauty. That may be true or it may not but the observant person can never doubt that no unfashionably appareled woman is happy if there are other women in sight. "Any one," says the despairing Mrs. Miller, with a weary sigh, "who will walk on any populous thoroughfare on a bright day and note the costumes worn by women—the ungraceful swing of the long wire contrivance, the hitch and bob of the camel-like hump just below the waist line—will certainly agree that however fashionable for the moment these things may be there is nothing of beauty or grace to reccommend them.¥

A LOADED BUST%E. 4

The capacity of a woman's bustle is sometimes enormous. This had an illustration the other day when Mrs. Martien, a plump passenger on the steamship Nevada, landed in New York. Twenty women at the oustom-house now inspect women's baggage brought from abroad. These searchers are ladies of charactersuch, for iustance, as a widowed sister of ex-Senator Roscoe Conkling, she being one of tho twenty. Mrs. Martien, who -is a Cincinnati dress maker, was put through the needle's eye by these inspectresses. She held bjit a $20 bill to Mrs. Morgan, but the bribe was refused.. What first seemed amiss was a packet of "soiled clothing." Enwrapped by this Clothing aforesaid wAs a piece of silk that measured 176

As a* result of a Kentucky William Thompson, of Louisa, Tuesday moruing shot four of his cousins, one fatally. Mr. Thompson fired at the members of his uncles' families from ambush, and, when ho thought they were all disposed of, left the neighborhood.

Prof. Morris will open the Equine and Canino Paradox in its entirety on Monday evening, at Naylor's Opera House, continuing three nights with matinee on Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. This exhibition consists of 67 dogs and 14 ponies. Among the dogs may bo mentioned St. Bernards, Newfoundlands, Esquimaux, Italian and Russian Greyhounds, Spits, Scotch and Irish Terriers, Water Spaniels, Black and Tan, Cross Breeds and English Pugs. The most noticeable are Folyetta, an English Greyhound, the champion leaping dog of the world, Schneider, the veteran tight-rope walker, and Major, the 4nimitatable clown dog. The ponies are of the most diminutive olass charming little creatures, thoroughbred and very intelligent. Two East India horses, the Black Australian, Eureka and Baby Morris are the stars of his troupe.

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upon Mrs. M.'s stronghold—her bustle. In that hive they found a great gob of honey, to-wit: Twenty-four pieces of worsted binding, five pieces of black lace, five point lace collars, fifty-four pieces of silk binding, twelve pieces of watered silk ribbon, six jet bead ornaments, a box of perfumery, a silver at'.-h, two pairs of bracelets, a pair of toilet ornaments, a dozen packages of French hooks and eyes, one dress pattern embroidered in tins€&» on silk, thirty yards of tinsel-ombroidered silk orape and a black silk dress skirt.

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car which is so constructed as to combine a drawing room, sleeping room, kitchen, stable and kennel all under one roof. Tho properties, of which there are about 4000 lbs. are carried in a receptacle below the floor in the same manner as the tools of working crews of railroads.

You should not fail to see this phenomenal performance, and in visiting this Paradox you will witness the marvelous effect of patience, firmness and kindness in the management of dogs and ponies

The iial^ement desire to state to the children that the Wednesday matinee does not begin until 4 p. m. thus enabling them to attend after school. A Grand Reception for ladies and children has been arranged. Hie dogs and ponies will assist in receiving company.

FASTASMA.

The New Fkntasma, the Hanlon's great spectacular piece, will be presented at Naylor's next Friday and Saturday evening and Saturday afternoon, with new scenery, new tableaux, new mechanical effects, including realistic representations of the bottom of the sea, the mysteries of the deep, the mermaids' revels, the greet cyclone, the new Devil's dormitory, Fan tas ma's realm in the bower of roses, and four gorgeous transformation scenes, the meet magnificent ever presented In this aty. Fifty people are required in its production, including Miss Laura Burt, Louise PtsareUo, the Phoitee, Little Tootsy in her matchless specialties. To accommodate those who wish to sesist in receiving the President and Mis. Cleveland, the matinee on President's Day will commenos prompt

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TERRE HAUTE, DSHD., SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24,1887. Eighteenth Year$

PERSONAL MENTION.

Ben McKeen, of the Vandalia, is now in San Francisco. T. J. Patton and P. C. Henry are off on a trip to Victoria, Canada.

Miss Mayme Hendrich has returned from a visit to Stinesville. Miss Cora Turner has returned from a visit to friends in St. Louis.

Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Pegg spent most of this week at the State Fair. E. A. Hess spent the first of the week with relatives in Indianapolis.

Charley Cain has gone to Freehold, N. J., where he will attend school. Sant C. Davis spent this week at his cottage on Maxinkuckee's shore.

Mr. 'and Mrs. W. L. Kidder have returned from a month's visit in the East. Frjink Mills, who has been on the sick list, for a couple of weeks, is able to be out.

Jehti Lewis, after along confinement with his broken leg, is again able to be OUt. ''-J

Frank Cox starts tomorrow niight for the ^Tohn Hopkins Univeisity, Baltimore.

Mrs. Charles K. Poor, of Sioux City, is visiting relatives here in .her,,old home.

J. R. Kendall is in NeW York, in the interest of the new Thermogen coraPany ,{*}V i..

Mrs. S. C. Barker and Mrs. O. C. Bell spent the latter part of the week in Indianapolis. .Miss Maud Mytan has returned frojjn an extended visit in the southern part of the Shite. -,u

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4 Harvey Iluaton started on Monday /#r his new home at Victoria, British Columbia. AS

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a "few days. Mrs. W. Gf. Davis, Mrs. W. W. Ray and Miss Hettie Davis spent this week in St. Louis.

Mrs. Edward W. Abbey and sons are hero from Hamilton, Ohio, on a visit to M|s. Ham ill.

John Mack started o* Thursday for Ithaca, N. J., where he will enter Cornell

Miss Gussie Burger, of Maifito^voc, Wis,, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Chas. Bauermeister.

Mr. Lou Jay, of Newcastle, Pa., formerly of this city, is making a short visit to relatives here.

Mrs. A. R. Colburn and son, Ford, of Michigan City, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Perdue.

S. E. Armstrong has been appointed administrator .of the estate of the late Thomas P. Murray

Mrs. I. M. Brown and Mrs. J. A. Sibley of Columbus, Ind., are visiting Mrs. Geo. M. Sibley, on Ohio street.

C. E. Hosford who came in from London, England, last week, started on Tuesday for Mexico—in all a trip of 7.500 miles. ..

J. W. Cruft, with his wife, has gone to Montreal, Canada, where he hopes to shake the hay fever and return in ,a couple of weeks.

Mrs. Ed. Lawrence and her son Roy came home on Thursday from a three months' stay at Waukesha, which was of great benefit.

Rev. J. H. Barth, of the German Methodist church, has been transferred to Louisville, and his pulpit here will be filled by Rev. H. G. Lich.

Charley Wheeler, for a number of years with the Adams express company, takes the place vacated by Charley Mixer in the Union depot ticket effice.

Ed L. Feidlar, for several years with P. J. Kaufman, has purchased Joe Diekemper's grocery store, corner 13th| and Main, and set up business for himself.

Firmln Nippert started Tuesday night for Brussels, Belgium, where he is called to nnravel some complication in a contract for furnishing the nail works with steel blooms.

Morton Hudson, son of Col. R. N. Hudson, started on Tuesday morning for Texas, where he will spend a year upon a ranch with his cousin, Edward H. East, one of the largest cattle raisers in that State.

Charley Owens, traveling passenger agent of the Vandalia, has been appointed agent of the new office of that road at Wichita, Kansas, and Charley Mixer, of the ticket offioe, has been promoted to the traveling agency.

Mrs. W. C. Lawes, of north Twelfth street, was able to sit up Sunday morning after a serious illness of malarial fever. The fever has left her unable to speak, the result of inflammation of the vocal oords, but it is thought she will recover her voice.

Ex-Sheriff John Cleary returned yesterday morning from a trip of over three months to Ireland, looking in excellent health and reporting a trip of much enjoyment. Father McBvoy came over in the steamer Alaska, bat will not be here until next Friday, having stopped in Hoboken sad Jersey City to visit relatives.

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Mrs. Dr. Wilson-Moore has returned from French Lick. Jesse Brown, of J. Ludowici's, will go over to St. Louis this evening.

Mrs. Paige, of Oberlin, O., mother of W. H. Paige, is visiting in the •city.

Mrs. J. S. Beach and Miss Sue Beach started on Thursday afternoon for New York.

W. E. Hendrich, the attorney, is convalescing from a three week^' illness with typho-malari».

Rev. Geo. R. Pierce and wife have returned from their summer vacation. Mrs. Pierce is still in poor health.

Mrs. J. A. Morgan left the city last Tuesday for Winfield, Kansas, for a month's visit with her daughter, .Mrs. Crippen.

Miss Sue Ross gave a delightful reception to her young friends on Wednesday evening at hor new home, corner Eighth and Mulberry streets.

Some seventy guests assembled at tho home of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Fuller, on north Center street, on Monday evening, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their marriage.

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John Tiernan, one of tho pioneer business men of this city, now a prosperous resident of Salt Lake City, is here on a visit. He is looking remarkably well, and has hearty greeting from his many old friends, though it saddens him to find that death is steadily narrowing this circle.

Prof. Carl Leo Mees, professor of Physical scienco at the Ohio University at Athens, has been selected to fill the position in the Rose Polytechnic, faculty made V&cant by tho resignation of Prof. L. I. Blake. Prof. Mees haa spent some yoars at the Universities in England and Germany and has beon prominently connected with the American association for the advancement of science. He is a younger brother of Arthur Mees, the well known musician and musical director.

Calvin Gobin, who was prostrated by the heat during the excessively hot weather last summer, died at his home, .1626 Franklin'avenue, just before midnight last night. At tho time he lost his voice which he never recovered. He was one of the oldest residents or this «ity, «ixty-nine-y»4«s rtf%eiand his life has been one-oMhe strictest integrity. Ho was tho father of Rev. Hillary A. Gobin, of the Methodist church, and has for half a century been a consistent member and supporter of that church.

"Hobergs certainly know how to manage a Dry Goods Jstore" says one of our old retired retail merchants. Says ho, "I have noticed the running of several in this city, but the one managed in the most systematic way is Hoborg, Root A Co's." If I remember right this is the only dry goods store remaining, that was here ten years ago, under the same name." ______________

Last Sunday evening, at Pimento, Charles E. Kester, son of ox-representa-tive J. W. Kestor, was married to Miss Josie Weeks, sister of Sheriff Weeks. A four horse team took a jolly party of seventeen down from this city to witness the ceremony and enjoy the festive occasion, which was prolonged untilja'tate hour, _____________

On Monday evening at Hulmart Park occurs the much talked of concert in aid of St. Anthony's Hospital, when the fine Norman horse dsnated by Mr. H. Hulman will be drawn for. Persons holding ticket* in this drawing will be admitted free others will pay twentyfive cents. The Maennerchor and the Ringgold orchestra will unite in an interesting proggramme 'V.i-Ai. HsiaaMaaiaMiMaB

WOMEN'S WA Y8.

Miss Mary G. Burdette, sister of the humorist "Bob" Burdette, is winning marked success as a religous lecturer.

An Iowa girl who was voted the handsomest lady in the county fainted away three times in succession when the joyful news was brought to her.

Between seventy-five and one hnndred young ladies of Atlanta, Ga., and vicinity have agreed to form amounted escort to President Cleveland and lady on the occasion of their visit to the Piedmont fair.

Minnie Foster was until last week

one of the belles of Warren, Pa. She thought her complexion a trifle too dark took arsenic to improve it, and the result was her demise after a day's terrible suffering.

Nearly two weeks ago Miss Ella Sugg, of Betterton, 111,, told her parents she was going off on a visit, and, laboring under a delusion that the Lord called her there, she went into the woods and tested eleven days. She had not a particle of food during that time and is sadly wasted, but will recover.

Mis. Godlove S. Orth, of Lafiayette, Ind., who died at a Virginia watering place two weeks ago, was a greathearted woman. Daring the anti-slavery sgitation just before the war she was prominent among the women Identified with the movement. She expended over|2&.000 in aiding oolored persons to escape from bondage.

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WHAT THE PAPERS ARES A YINO. fm New Orleans Picayune: The base ball club is the popular weapon for breaking the Sabbath with.

Norwich Bulletin: Sine die was a veay appropriate conclusion for the doctor's convention in Washington.

New York Star The next time it is announced that Mr. Powderly intonds to resign we propose to ring the chestnut bell.

Norwich Bulletin: In Singapore, if a lover can catch his adored in a canoe race he can marry her hence tho oxpression, canoebial bliss. "Boston Herald: When yoO sM a man look at his watch and put it back in his pocket, ask him the time, and nine cases out of ten he cannot toll you until ^13 has looked at it again. 'S

Boston Transcript: There is a great musical revival in progress in the conntry. All classes and conditions are taking lessons. Ev.en^ choir jsingers aro learuing to sing.. *.

Shoe and Leather Reporter Bad luck Is simply a man with his hands in his pockets and pipo in his mouth, looking on to see how it is coming out. Good luck is a man of pluck, with his sleeves rolled up and working to make it comei. out risrht.

LITTLE SERMONS.

r- 'qtyMs'f -v. A mother's first work is to mftkeliome* happy.

Try to havo an opiniou of your own and stick to it. Kind words cost nothing don't be saving of them. '£*,^4

Don't worry ever troubles which have not yet arrived. M. Take proper caro of the child and tho man will take caffe of himself. k'

The value of life depends on its usefulness rather than on its length. I Sorrows are called clouds, but how beautiful some oloudH are when seen in certain lights. &,

We all go through life making plans, but how many live to see their plans accomplished?

When you find a true friend keep him. You will not come across very many as you go through life.

Make tho most of opportunities that come to you they are like pearls on a string—-easy lost and hard to find.

Don't grumble about the gloominess Irf of life but do what you can to make it

bright and cheerful in the little corner you occupy.

The weather prophets are now on record for "a cold wet winter." They base their predictions on previous reoords of unusually hot and ^y sum-

^iNICKNAMES FOR WlVES.'^ THE ENf)EARINO TITLES GIVEN BY FOND HUSBANDS. 11 'i'y [Saratoga Letter.]

There is no end to the Dollies and the "my loves," while one hears a miscelianeous lot of passers-by addressing their comrades as "Pet," and there are three Popsies. One plump little wife Is gradually becoming known to everybody in one of the hotels as "Sugar." She is not the only feminine confection, for there is a dimpled brunette who answers to her husband as "Sweety and yesterday a very plain-looking wife, somewtiat the shape of a board, was addressed ss "Sweetness" before all the crowd at the spring in Congress Park. It may be an oversight, but there does not seem to a "darling" in town. A ruddy-faced, corpulent man not forty, who looks as if he was born and brought up In the Stock Exchange, always addresses his wife as "Precious," and in the same hotel a husband, who appears to bail from the west, replies to his wife with "Yes, Pigeon," "All right. Pigeon," and so on. As it happens, there is something about the wife's appearance or manner, or perbapa it is her shape, that renders this oddest of nicknames peculiarly appropriate.

When the system is debilitated by disease, it should be strengthened and renewed with AVer's Sarsaparilla. Thia medicine invariably proves itself worthy of all that can be its favor. Sold by druggists and dealers in medicines. Irioe lfT Six bottles, «6.

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When a lounger on tho veranda of one' of the big hotels at this place hears a man say, "Hurry up, little one," or "Come along, birdie." he may be sure that it is a husband addressing his wife, and that she is enormously fat. Apparently, all husbands of fat women address thoir wives with diminutives, if not with nicknames fit only for small women or little girls. "Daisy," "Birdie" and "Baby" appear to be' tho pet names most favored by husbands of mammoth women.

The very swell and exquisite young married men call their wives with monosyllables, such as Puss, Chris, Hen, Fan, Loo, Tot. Oddly enough tho fathers of these same fellows, men so well kept. that you can't say whether they are 45 or 65, are fond of drawling out tho full names of their helpmeets, as, for instance, "Come heah, Frances," or "Now, my deah Eleanor, you must have a wsap." Equally fixed is the rule that. thin and sickly" womon, dyspeptic, neuralgics and the like, are addressed by their liege lords as wife, madarn, or' Misses Thompson, Misses Brown, or whatever. The invalid husbands, anil all the prim and precise ones as well, address their better halvesas"my dear.' This, by the way. is the established custom with the Henrews, though they are usually heard to pronounce the words "mine teer." The clergymen seem to have united upon the word "mother" as a title for their wives, and tho men who are so common here, and who seem to be wrapped up in an only girl or boy call their wives "ma."