Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-23
Mra Gladstone.

From SmaIlsy's Letter in New York Tribunel
 Mrs. Gladstone. says Scotch paper, shines with no mere reflected light; she is not only the sympathizing helpmeet of the great statesman and popular leader, but, by her example and influence, has herself contrib uted to forward many works of true phllan- thropy. That is all true, and it is much for a leading daily paper in Scotland to say, and means none the less because it is an Edin- burg paper that says it, while 1t is Glasgow which gets the most direct and conspicuous benefit from Mrs. Gladstone's presence. But it is by no means all the truth. When the time comes to sum up the whole matter, 1t will be known how much MT. Gladstone owes to the lifelong devotion of his wife, and to her readiness to merge her own life In his. AS think over those memorable days of the first Midlothian campaign of 1879, cannot recollect that I ever saw MT. Gladstone on 8 Scottish platform unaccompanied by his wife, She was always by his side, and always taking that sort of care of her husband which, as has been seen lately, he cannot be got to take for himself. When he sat down after speak ing, Mrs. Gladstone was there to see that his overcoat was put on at once, and his neck mufled up, and to help in extricating the orator from the crowd of friends and admir- CTS who were only too ready to kill him with indiscreet kindness. It ig certainly for him that she now performs what was originally intended to have been her share in the Mid lothian tour of next week. She is her hus- bands right hand in launching the Hawarden castle as much as she is in the other Hawar- den castle which is their home Mrs. Glad stone goes to day to Edinburg, where sundry deputations lie in wait for her at the railway station. The liberal committee which was to have received Mir. Gladstone receives his wife, and other attentions await her. In the afternoon she drives out to Dalmeny Park to pay brief visit to Lady Roseberry, whom to fop IaEo hn lT1th of her second boy, now four weeks old. AProvidenJ EngIishman. From the Toronto Newsl
 An affable though somewhat dessicated American was on his way the other day to the city of Boston. He had, with that thrif- ty forethougbt of his nation, secured 8 lower berth and was meditating upon the wisdom of gathering his body behind the curtains when he was accosted by an Euglishman in a tweed suit. The Englishman was of an am- pie presence and had the air of one who had been pastured on mutton chops all his life. "You will excuse me, |" said he of the tweed suit, ''but am I right in supposing that you have the lower berth p "You bet your life, '.replied the other. ''My sister," said the owner of the tweed suit, ''has the upper berth, which is deuced | awkward, you know. The fact is,' added l the Englishman, with frank urbanity, tits uupl6tSdAG 1OE IdO45S bO up p6St a A41esA4 in a lower berth. Now, might I ask you, | sir, to do me the extreme favor of occupying
 the upper berth and permitting my sister to take yours?
 The request was scarcely preferred when the American, with the gallantry of genuine Tank, hastened to assure his English acquain-
 tance that nothing could give him more pleas
 ure than to be of service to lady.
 On the following morning the American was astonished to see pair of tweed legs
 emerge from lower berth opposite that which he had politely given up, and the next moment the adipose upper extremities of the Englishman.
 s'Say," said the American, as air of grave disgust began to creep over his aston ished physiognomy, "didn't you ask me to give up my lower berth to your sister ?''
 Certainly, my dear fellow j" replied the
 gentleman addressed, ''hope you slept well ?''
 'tAnd you had lower berth ?'' ''Of course.n
 And then you got me to give up mine to your sister, sir?''
 ''Why, my dear fellow, " said the English
 man, in his turn, "you didn't expect I'd give up lower berth to my own sister, did you ?''