Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-01

pictures and such like rubbish;' but pontlcs
 are the love of his heart, and he knows as
 much about the interior workings ot MT
 Gladstone's mind as his forefathers used to
 know about the machinations of the Pope
 Given a railway carriage full of people, all
 reading the papers, it does not need the eye
 of magician to tell ct once what part of the
 paper they will turn to first. That smart
 looking, neatly-dressed young man in the
 corner, with the square jaw and the obser-
 want eye, will look straight at the news ot the
 Stock Exchange, which is to him the Alpha
 and Omega of life. Let the greatest nation
 al calamity have happened, the most fearful
 catastrophe have occurred, and my gentle
 man will pass it over until he has noted the
 eyrations of the bulls and bears of that mys-
 terious region Next to him sits careless
 looking, prosperous man with sheat of pa
 pers ill his hand-any and every kind, he does not seem to have any strong predllec- tions whatever He is turning straight to the amusing parts of the paper and skim
 ming the social articles through. When he
 has got to the bottom of the page, Ii the so-
 cial article turns over, it is nine chances to one whether he will take the trouble to cut or turn the leaf for the sake of continuing the article. Opposite to him sits grim fe- male in a coal-scuttle bonnet, also reading paper-not in the desultory way of her neighbor, but with an immense intentness She is reading the Murders Innocent. AS she looks she revels in the details of the es- capes and apprehensions of the various de linquents, and her mind is perfect New gate calendar or chronicle of past crimes.
 Next her sits pretty girl in neat sensi- ble dress, with a little bag of papers with her and rather business-like appearance
 The people in the train know her well by sight, for she comes up like the city men, py a particular train every morning. She IS a ladv-cIerk at one of the town offices, ana so
 1,.a1.1 1rroHv that the city clerk, up late last night and flying rapid ly up the Strand, knows by the exact place where he meets this girl in the morning whether he is in time or not. IL ne esples her as he goes by Holborn viaduct he knows it is all right; but if he does not overtake her till she is turning into Cheapslde, ne knows there will be an awful row at the of- fee This dainty little lady, with her dark
 brows slightly knit is opening her daily pa per in very business-hke manner, and turns straight to lengthy article on woman sui fraee. She is evidently somewhat advanced in her ideas, yet not deeply, darkly, 6eautlc fully blue. She prepares to immerse herselt in the lengthy column, when suddenly fashion article catches her eye. Her expres- sion at this moment is good to see; she looks i1resolutely from one to the other-and the woman who hesitates is lost. She IS only human after all; she will read the suffrage article afterward, but ten to one she Will read the fashion article first.
 We began by chasing man as an animal who reads the paper. We mght now sup divide him into two c1asses-the man who reads his paper in the train and the man who reads his paper at home. The man who ''reads as he runs'' is generally bachelor to whom it would never occur to order pa per in a regular manner; he prefers to buy a heap as he goes and fling them aside TOT the benefit of the railway porters. Readlng the paper at home means getting up to break fast and having everything orderly and regu- lar. Some men are perfect autocrats Ill the matter of the paper. They like to hnd It heartily folded beside their plate at breakfast, and woe to the irreverent member or the family who should venture to look at It be- fore papa comes down. They like it fresh and increased, and they like 1t all Nothing will induce them to share 1t with anyone by the simple expedient of cutting 1t in two. If the master of the house is a little man, he will particularly enjoy the important aspect given to him at that moment when his arms have to be stretched to their fullest extent to turn the paper inside cut. His wife mean while sits behind the tea-urn with nothing to read, and is dependent for news on the scraps that he throws her across now and then, not without @ certain flavor of condescenslon and patronage By polite fiction 1t IS generally understood that breakfast time is papa's only chance of reading the paper, while mamma has nothing else to do all day long As a matter of fact, the mistress of the house gets little enough leisure before evening comes, and it is very likely that she will never have time to think of the matter again till the discovery of her entire ignorance of the de- tails of some celebrated case brings down upon her for her entire want of in terest in public affairs.