Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-02-18
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lie generally ris IS from seven 20 half.
past, aul breakfasts ea f'at!!e at about
eight. The General takes crelt delight
il his family, ana ma.cS ais table his
family altar. They usually discuss
cook at the meals. which al have read
or arc familiar with. and make it, con.
tents = source OF entertainment as we'll
as Of instruction. Some lime ago they
60. hold Of = little work called " Three
Thousand English Words Usually Mis-.
pronounced" 1t hAI been thGir coz
SAINT companion at meal time since.
Some On" takes i aat 5pclis word.
Then each one takes 4 turn IL pro.
rounciug il until all have failed, Or its
proper sound has been glvon. Then
comments are male BY any ono who
feels in the huMor, AMI so entertaining
{ does this exercise become, that many
times tie neal hour dies by So quickly
that tnev 10 rot spon to have been sit
ting five miputoa.
After breakfast the morning RAILS are
opened. the newspapers IRE hastily
scanned for Geographic newf, and i'm
uortAut matters receive attention, the
General retiring with hrs secretary and
SHORTHAND amaIUc neis e. his private
Office, or " snUggery, f0r the purpose.
AAiter t4@:, if the morning trains from
'tAc last or CloayclanI brinB visitors,
: .Ac General receives aad cn.nrtains
, them. Dinner is the same as brook.
/ fast vita regard 20 instruction and
amusement. it making n difference
whether the visitors WHO Yartakc Of it
are .iSh or low, senators or soldiers,
grand or simple. they can participate in
HE exercises II they see it; il not, they
ca. all listen. lie very fond Of ruling
by moral sua'ion. aaI be gGVerns his
/ family accordingly. his children are
worry fond of him, and look upon him rs
their bosom friend rs well a. parent.
! His boys Will come to him when at
home, aud tull, aal counsel with him
about their books and stul,ies. or their
plays or ether occupations, Just as free
j. as thoy DO with each other. The re-
gult ii that they are Mi manly and frank
in their deme1nor, partAEing nlUch of
4 his character III this rcsnc3t.-- Cincin.
nati Enquirer,
F.c!eric Gregory Forsyth, if there
be such a person, is Al amusing ass
who, having erudge against the City
of Portland, in Maine, revepges himself
by halling from that place. He claims
to have obtained the cooperation of
Edwards pierrepont, who with the spont
of ten. kettle tried to matorializo the
spiri. OF Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
to ascertain if lie were one Of her de-
scendauts; Long John Wentworth,
of Chicago, who claims to have de.
seconded from Reginald de Wentworth,
friend Of William the Conquerer;
Charles Francis Adams; Charles Eliot
Norton; brother of the poet Longfol-
low, and others, i'll establishing the
pure Aryan Society Of America. No
one having faint of negro, Chiuese or
Indian blood is eligible. There must
be no consumption, scrofula or insanity;
and descent be shown from "an estab-
lished noble or gentle house in Europe,
whose origin is Enthusiastically aristo-
cratic aud not mixed with trade" He
is collecting pedigrees for book Of
American peeragc, and will start a
magazine at Boston for the encourage
ment Of the. aristocratic spirit. And
thus ia labor to be suitably discour.
aged, and fine strain of blood, "deep-
ly, darkly, beautifully blue" kept free
from the muddy currents of the vulgar.
- Detroit Free Press.