The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-08-12

minds that after all 1t Is best to let things
| b'""""''y ''"f'"'', sen~ ..t-,, tho invariahlc
law OF development, rather than TO he in not
haste TO mend them. Still but for the fire
OF youth, its unsclnsh zeal, its impatence
OF wrong, stupidity, and injustice, and It's
audacious self-coniidcnce, we should all
stagnate, and become lot of fossils hardly
worth the keeping. Without some eccentric
| people society would be too spick and span,
and writer's would lose n great variety OF
entertaining subjects to treat Of, while the
eiiortat restraint, the attempt to make them
selves straight, would drive tho odd and
crooked sticks into actual lunacy
Therefore it is that we rejoice TO have
among us that devoted pair, Mr.. and Mrs
1oM-RI-JoN, doubtless good and earnest
people. who think, with reason, that society
Is out OF joint, and with less reason that
they have n divine commission to set it
right-hc through tho Volcano, she through
selling 1t while arrayed in trousers bearing
stripe on the outside of each leg. But
though reformcrs, Mr.. and Mrs ToM-Rr-JoS.
rejoicing in their own welded happiness, do
not go SO far us to work for the ovcrturn of
the benign institution Of marriage. There
fore when an old maid, named MINNIE
MERTON, thrusts herself into their domestic
circle, on the prctcnce OF getting made n
pair OF trousers, after the pattern OF Mrs.
IoM-RI-JoNs. and chartered frce-love doe
trincs, the cstimable pair told her to clear
out that they didn't wish to be corrupted
themselves, or to have their innocent of
spring, AvENGER ToM-RI-JON listen to talk
so odious to a wel-rcgulatcd mind. But
MINNIE MERTON PERSISTED in imposing her
self on their hospitality, and in fondlng the
little AvENGER, though they regarded her
touch as pollution And when at last sh"
did go, she carried off the trousers without
paying for them, and forced Mr.. and Mrs.
IOM-BI-JoN into court TO obtain what was
due them. Miss MERTON then had the inn
pudence To claim as n sct-off to their lill
that she had performed for the ToM-RI-
JOINS household services, such as washing
dishes and tending AyENGER, and she
claimed that these services were full
equivalent for her board and for the
trousers. Why didn't this frcc-lovc re-
former charge also for her corruptng con-
vcrsation Fortunately the controversy i'm
the Tombs Police Court on Friday was set
tied by MINNIE MERroN's returning the
trousers. SO that all the ToM-Rr-JoNs lost
was 'h' ''0N VI utl u'tIh, anu inc tNItnll-
turc Of patience which her presence and
talk In their household imposed on them.
We have only To add that though she
wears trousers FOR business purposes, Mrs.
ToM-Rl-JON is n faithful and Of course an
ohcdicnt wife, deeply mpre. sod with the
massive intellect Of the editor Of the Iol-
cdno and rightcously indignant at the sub
vcrsivc and loathsomc teachings Of tho free
lovers Thus We see that even "a " man
who wears striped trousers may bc sound
at heart, and not corruptihlc 10y an old maid
preaching free love. Mrs. TOM-II-JoN has
right 10 wear her trousers if she thinks
best but Minnie MERTON had no right to
quarter herself on the roM-RG-JONs, and to
outrage them with her odious doctrines.