, 1875-03-21

and disappears between the sheets. BEsaEE
confident that she is secure, resigns herself
to sleep, and elizabeth goes back where she
, started from, and there is quiet in the house.
Thus, night after night, these phantoms II
white disturb the slumbers of BESSIE, and keep
her hopping up and down, and gliding about
from chamber to chamber and bed to bed, tc
escape that "white soul " in the long night
robe who is so particular about his dormi-
tory. But, inasmuch as the other ''white
soul always followed with the pillows, nc
harm came from it. II BEssE's story be
true, THEODORE had other nocturnal freaks
which he performed in his single garment.
He not only headed the regular procession,
but he was accustomed to arise in that neither
garment, which will now probably be intro
duced in evidence, and change pictures about !;
and somehow Bessie was always on hand
to see the performance when she ought to
have been sound asleep. Bessie appears to
have been extraordinarily wakeful when
THEoDonE and ELIZABETH marched round the
house in the under garment parade, aud no
sleep could come to her eyes when he arose
at the witching hour Of midnight to change
the pictures On the walls. But one night
this nocturnal prow1er, if We are to believe
BESSIE, arose and she didn't know it. He
came into her room md she didn't know it.
He ten1erly gathered MP her $50 pounds
avoirdupois and she didn't know it. He
carried her out Of the room, through
the halls, and into his own room, aud she
didn't know it. He placed her in his own
bed and she didn't know it. Then be con-
sideratcly waited until she walked up, when
she was so surprised that instead Of rushing
from the room, she engaged in a long CONVEX
sation with him before she marched back to
her chamber and nil this time that good
man HoRAck GREELEY was in tho house ard
might have defended her. No wonder that
TmoDonH closed the dialogue with the re-
mark: "BEssH, you have some very sin
gular ideas"
It will be impossible to pass any final judgg-
ment uppn this most astonishing testimony
until BESSIE has had her little interview with
Judge FULLERTON and he has obtained from
her some explanations which are needed to
round out her testimony and make it credi-
bic to people who don't travel about in their
under-sarments trying different beds to find
which is softest, and who don't hang pictures
at midnight for nocturnal amusement All
this needs explanation also Mr. THROWS al
legged remark tn BESSIE that This is the
common practice among people in high life. "
If it IL so, let us know it. II this is the occu-
patton Of Calumet, Prairie, South Park,
Michigan, and Wabash avenues at midnight,
the sooner We know it the better. It opens
up dreadful vista Of possibilities. CAM it be
that our milionaires have professions at mid
night, md that their comfortable and queen
ly spouses, who sport their hveries in the day
time, meek1y carry pillows all night behind
their fastidious lords, and keep young ladies'
in the house hunting new quarters st such
unreasonable hours? What are We to be-
Level Who shall say? # thess stories
bs untrue, then was Mother-ln-law
Morse right when she kissed THEODORE (even
this mother-in-1aw had caught this kissing
fever), and said: "TH1oDoRr, what mag
nanimous man you have beenI' II they be
true, then was Mother-in-1aw MoEs1 right
when she said; *s1 will grandma you, you
Internal hypocrite and scoundrsl viii pub
lish you from Dan to Beersheba!"