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men, save when their husbands interest i to
that effe t. They are not painfully clever
musicians, but they know some sweet. simple
airs, and sing those at evening by the open
ndow. They are liable 10 be defrauded by
the servants, and are imposed upon by trades
people. They regard their hus ands as su-
preme arbters in all matters. They would
stay as they are OF fJ to New Zealand with
him, as he desired.
Between the ideal and the real there is
class which may be called polysloiicslly the
the mezzn-ideal. We see thea much citener
than the ideal, but unfortunately not so often
as The real. They are tall and slender, aud
somewhat yellow. They have mild, giay
eyes, aud Loses ''tip-tited, like flower"
they have sensitive, sympathetic ronJhs aud
simple hearts. They are no, utterly amiable,
but are easily wooed to peace. Their knOwl-
edge of hou. ehUld affairs is accurate. but not
obtrusive. 1t is never visible except in exi-
gences and under excitement. They do not
abuse the servants in the parlOr. or despse
all other women. They have a placid affec-
ton iOr tinery, but are not passionately ex-
travaeant. They accept presents from their
husbands as when they were lovers. They
answer in all things that they are subject TO
their lords, but they rebel sometimes-just
enough to make the subjugation matter of
interest. and the reconciliation a Delicious
repetition of old love scenes.
Real wives ale the most easily found of all.
They are ninety-nine out OF every bundled
married women. They are such as YOUR wife,
dear sir, though you would not care to tell
her so, for you have previously quoted her to
herself as one In thousand. They are short
ot temper. and have morning quarrels With
servants about eggs, or table linen, or the cas-
ter OF the arm chair. They are dictionaries
OF chit-chat, and press it in your ears while
YOUR eyes are trying to obtain consolation
from newspaper. They are continually pre-
dicimg your ruin If you don't abandon your
dearest friend. They wonder aloud at their
enduring your being ten minutes late for din
ner. Ii you 60 out, only for halt an hour in
the evenmg,-to the club or to some bachelor
triend-they ask you what kept you out the
whole evening, and whether you knew they
wished to talk to you about the Kitchen
range. They wonder where you Older your
coal, and it you know you get only half the
proper weight. If you fall asleep at the fire,
you wake to find them in tears over your
neglect; and ii you try to read, they reyile
you for your rudeness and want of consiJera-
ton. They do not know how money sOes,
aud they wonder you are conten' to I've in so
mean a house. If it is summer they hate
Bray, and won't go theIe for a few months,
because all their friends are at Harrogate or
Brighton, or Bundoran or TIamOre. Ii il is
three parties in the season, or if not you
should go to the South of Europe, where you
may have good society without much ex-
pense. They get millinery in three different
houses, that no one bill may seem excessive;
aud they never can discover how y.iu are not
spe-chlessly grateful Tor their economy.
BORN A CRIMINAL.-The boy Pomeroy, Of
Boston, has confessed that le murdered the
oir RI xyh hrAv In. IL
mothers cellar few days ago. The deed
| Sc ms TO have been pc lformed iu obed enee
| ID those cruel and uncomfortable instincts
| VIII ch led him IN other cases to catch small
| children and cut and otherwise MAIN them
| with knives, and in one instance tU torture
| boy to death.
| He has always said in explanation Of his
| horrible conduct, that he could not help it.
| He is about fourteen years of age, and has
evidently pursued his course alone. We ale
inclined, therefore, to believe that his expla-
nation is true. His story IS supported by
| some alleged facts which have been Published
| n connection with this latest instance of
| his muTderous cruelty. IL is said hat his
father is a butcher, aud that just before he
was born his mother daily went to the
slaughter-house with her husband, where
she not only watched with pleasure the pro-
| cess OF killing the cattle but sometimes took
| part in il herself. When the little boy vas
| born he manifested the sane unnatural taste
| For blood, and one OF his boyish amusments
is sti1 to have been to plunge a knife into
pieces OF meat. The family is saic to be an
honest aud industrious one, and the only
other child, aged seventeen years is spoken
OF as kind-hearttc and promising boy.
II these assertions are authentic, they show
that jesse Pomeroy was born with The de-
sire implanted in his nature to hurt sume-
hing. IL may not be judicious to assert that
he is not responsible for his conduct al
/ though il might be argued that his nature re-
ceived a lasting impression before he vas
oorn from the unwise and dangerous way in
which his mother yielded 10 her dsortlered
fancy for sights of blood aud cruelty. She
should have restrained herself. or at an events
she should have been restrained OF diverted
from her visits to ,he sla1ehter-house. In
the powerful and entertaining story nf Elsie
Venner," DR.. Holmes has treated this sub
ect very fully, the case he has selected being
that of a child endowed with the instincts OF
rattlesnake through the fright given to the
mother by one OF these reptiles
Although the case ofthe boy Pomeroy does
not resemble very closely those of Kate Stod-
dard, charged with the murder of Charles
Goodrich in Brooklyn, and Mrs. DIVER OF
the same city, who attempted to kill her hus-
band and succeeded in killing her three chill
dren, 1t is certain that the safety II society
requires that he should be treat, d as, under
aIece1t statute OF this state, they are to be
treated. In their cases the court ordered an
investigation as 20 their sanity, and finally
directed that they should be sent to an asy-
| lum Tor the insane during life or until their
recovery, when. we suppose, the indictments
found or to be found against them, may come
to trial. We imagine that there is little
chance Of the recovery of the Pomeroy boy,
and therefore the most that can be- done with
him is to put him where ne canhot harm
others. In case he should be educated out
OF his murderous instincts and be pronounced
sane, there are pIecedents in the Mlssachu-
sets practice for his trial, although our as
sumption that he was born with the char
acteristics which have thus far marked his
conduct, il il be c. rect, will serve as bar
against bis conviction. The lesson of his ca
reer should not be lost on parents.-N. Y.
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