The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-08
NOTES ON THE WING.

JANE WELSH CARLYLE is well avenged when
the Chicago Express refers to her illustrious,
grumbllng husband as Carlisle"
WHEN Longfelow wrote "In this world man
must be either nail or hammer" he overlooked
that valuable tool called the auger.
GEORGE ". CABLES manner in reading his
own productions is said, by Roston critics, to
strongly resemble that of Charles Dickens.
DIR. Deems announces that kissing is purely
American habit. 1t is delightful that we are to
be allowed sole proprietorship in one good in
ventlon.
MATTHEW ARNOLD is complained of as reading
indstinctly, and it is alleged that those IA
miar with his poems comprehend them with
difficulty when read by him.
IN the North American Review for December
Gail Hamilton takes her turn at the universal
post-mortem pummelng Of Thomas Carlyle, in
a sharp article called 'The day ofjudgment."
YOUNG lady looking over the Christmasgift
books i'll city book store lately was heard to
say of "The Ancient Mariner" illustrated by
Dore, "The poetry doesn't amount to much,
but the pictures are splendid" Shades OF s.
T. c.!
BOSTON gentleman is ready to make oath
that he saw Henry Ward Beecher eating with
his knife at hotel table that city recently. 1t
is hard to understand what Boston people want.
Mr.. Beecher is hardly old enough to begin eating
with a spoon again.
THE man who rarely laughs is requested to
open the last issue of Harper's Weekly and drop
a sympathetic tear with the "Johnsng family"
at the mysterious disappearance of their thanks
giving dinner. Somebody done stole de shoat"
is a triumph of the risible-moving art.
CLARA BELLE Is responsible for the statement
that New York society bellies swear Although
morality and good taste alike condemn this evil
practice, there are times in the affairs of all
women when swearing deputy would be paid
excellent wages and no references required.
THE Memphis Avalanche gloats over the fact
that a recent census of Southern editors shows
two captains, seventeen majors seven generals
and 1926 colonies. Things different in diff
ierent localities When a Northern man be-
comes an editor he has all the glory he can man.
age.
"THE Bread-winners" exhibits painfully ap-
parent decline and falling off" both in Incl
dent and literary finish 1t is to be hoped that
this story will not prove to be literary rocket
brilliant as to its first appearance. but COM
monplace as to its exit The author is wise to
continue anonymous until the issue is decided.
AN Indianapolis minister has decided that the
coming man will attend church, and New York
.
the coming woman. The Franklin Democrat
rises in agitation to ask who, for heavens sake,
VIII stay at home aud take care of the children.
This excited editor must have lost his pro-
gramme. advanced" people don't have chill
dren.
STATISTICS have been produced to prove that
in the families of leading equal-suffrage women
preponderance of daughters exists. This fact
does not harmonic with the theory that the su-
perior parent decides the sex of the children
q superior mother having a family of sons,
and the superior father family OF daughters.
There is a great discrepancy somewhere, and if
the suffrage women are to retain their prestige
this theory must be speedily reconstructed.
"a NEWPORT Aquarelle" may be appropri-
ately catalogued by those mentioned by Ella as
"books which are no books" There is not one
idea in it by which the reader is rendered any
richer mentally, and the deduciDe conclusion is
that Newport society people are rare specimens
of the idotic possibilities of human nature. The
author exhibits a deporable deficiency in ma
tional pride when she assists In thus circulating
our Notifying condition; and the novel is valua-
BILE only to that misguided class who ''read to
kill time