Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-04-04
MleNoN's MUSINGS
.nont the Moving Season and otner nA'
ters of Interest.

MfGNUN moSsNSS
A bout the Moving Season ana o'ns'
ters of Interest.
please nobody accuse me Of saying tnat
49,, ";,s for the past week has presented 2
O mov;no spectacle. / would not say
sucb a thing for the world; besides mrs.
saoI : took out a patent on that joke, the
noa. ~ u,oved her goods and chatteis into
l .hs Al When the Princess Alicia IN
Ch.-lsa Dickens fairy tale, asked her iairy
godmother to .let it always h DO au Meant
ssS" she could not possibly nave means
The FIRST of April A perennial nrs. =.
Anr;l would be as bad case OF moV,hs
a nS" a. fiat Of the March Hare and the
Gst.er with whom it was always tea'time.
Rut in fact the princess could not nave
:, Das -. the first OF April anyhow or even
.ho 6,st of January. The English quarter
S t are unless they have been recently
oitsred Christmas Day, Lady Day Feast
of the Anunciatiop, March 25th) m,dsnm'
49, s :John Baptist, June pa and Mich
aelmss 8. Michael and all Angels, sep
TENDER 29th) These divide the year pretty
evenly, and besides have story 10 tell,
az dear old Hans Anderson says our
American uusrter-dsys are as business
like and unromantlc as we are ourselves
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This Fourth Sunday in Lent, has Two
ether names of it's own, and was once DIS
tinpuished by q very pretty custom winch
7 believe has now gone out of fashion, even
in conservative England. 1t is called from
the Gospel for the day which tells OF the
feeding of the FIVE thousand, "Retreshment
sunday; and from the Epistle in which
We read how Jerusalem which is above is
Mother of us all,-'Mothering Sunday.
Il was every ones first duty on that day
to hear mass in his parish or mother church;
even the mobiles who had chaples and
cbenIsins in their own castles; but the
prettiest thing about the festival was It's
domestic aspect. For every. child OF
family, who was at all within reasonable
distance, came home, bringing his mother
the best gift be could procure, and also a
s;muel cake which was as essential part
of the feast as turkey is Of our Christmas
dinner. Exactly how this simnel cake
was made, we have DO record; but 1t was
yery hard, very spicy, and no doubt par
ticnlsrly indisestible There is great
deal of meaning and beauty in such feast
as that and it seems pity it should have
been given up.
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read the other day a notice Of book
which some one has been kind enough to
write about George Eliot. 1t Is called
Wahrheit und Dichung, truth and poe.
try, and seems TO consist chiefly of the lat,
ter. This title, to begin with, is borrowed
from Goethe, but il the author had stopped
at the ii lie page, be would not have made
a very unreliable book. | have not read
the volume, and cannot say that / pine to
do so; but it seems from the critique, the.
the author lays down two propositions.
First that it is impossible that George
Eliot grew to the age of twenty.one, with
out love affair, probably Q desperate one.
Second, that person of George Eiots
temperament could not have reached mid
die age without grand passion.
Heaven save the mark! and what
does Mr.. A. P. C. know about George
Eiot's temperament? Besides, it she had
Eve hundred grand passions what bust
ness il it Of hisP HE decides at once that
George Il. LeweJ was not the object Of
this passion" OF course not George
Il. Lswss was only the person most Gym
pathetic to her in the whole world; he was
only tie person without whom no single
line OF her wonderful wovels $50 far as one
can see) would ever have been written;
not only her inspiration, but her critic and
L. oil he We
could And no nsne doarer thar fnis under
which TO write; the manuscript of every
book was given to him, with the tenderest
words inscribed upon it; of their solitude
a deUG as she herseli calls it, neither OF
them ever VeAriej, and his death left her
heartbroken Bat it was Herbert Spencer
she Was really in love with;
he was tho object of her grand
passion. wonder when Mr.. A. p. C.
talks about her feeling for Herbert Spencer
being more than an intellectual friend
ship" if ne realizes what such q thing
would be to a woman of George Eliots
calibre? A woman, not OF more head than
heart, which no poet could be, but whose
head and heart were at least equal. Well
| suppose he don, know anything about ii,
but can tell him OF least one thing. A
grand passion is essentially selfish, George
Eliot was essentially The reverse. Haven't
we had enough gossip about literary peo-
Iplef because woman has q message
from one high TO the world, is every spirit
usl Sawbones to consider himself free to
dissect her life and examine her heart with
q microscope in search of the scenes of old
love affsirs' Would you like it. Mrs. A. or
Mrs. BIZ A. P. G says 0esrge Eliots first
love was Edward Clark, who married her
sister, Chissy Now, if that were So
which ldon' believe -tbink what tragedy
of domestic misery it reveals to US. II l
had discovered such thing-ssI certainly
did not-written between the lines Of her
Life and Letters," should have had the
grace 20 keep it to myself, at least trust
80. Mr.. A. P. c. doesn't 60 into the ques.
tion Of her marriage to Mr.. Cross, perhaps
he could not make it square with his
theories, or perhaps because Mr.. Cross is
still living, and might possibly become vio-
lent if personally attacked.
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Speaking Of books, reminds me that /
heard to day that the Public Library may
possibly be closed for week or even q
fortnis ht longer. 1t seems that the room
adjoining that now in use has been rented,
and is 10 be opened into the other by two
large srchwsYs. 1t will be very nice and
convenient, no donbt, but | wish it could
be lone by art msgic. like Aladdin's pal
ace. shall be reduced TO reading "Schle.
gels Philosophy Of Life" and though that
is very nice book, | had rather evolve
mine as ] 20 along.
Has any one been awakened by the roar
of bull fiddle" on the First Of April3 A
bulLfddle. dear reader, ia a grocery or
other such box, With the sides rosined, and
is played upon With tree box, by way Of
bow. 1t makes noise enough to awaken
the Seven Sleepers. Some young gentle.
men of tender age had il in charge, but
the performance was net Of ss high grade |
as might have keen expected from the |
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