The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-18
MARK TWAIN Ahp HIS WIFE.
A. Ideal interchangeable Three Chill
d-sn-An Infant AuthOress.

dren-An Infant Authorizes.
And now about the people was asked
70 meet I can harCiy wait TO tell you
that a lovely wife Mark Twain has. 1t
i q relief when we know genius to
whom a whole continent Is indebted 10
find that his wife Is an ideal wife for |
anv man. / cannot be trespasslng on |
sacred ground, for does she not belong |
to usl when tell you she Is young ana
pretty, with black, lustrous eyes, ana :
pervading air of refinement and dehcato
breeding that prOclaims her, as she Is, 10
the manner borne OF course MARX
Twain knew when he was pilot on INC
Mississippi that it was but one OF tho
vicissitudes Of his varied career, as was
also his after experience IN mining
camps. Doubtless he had an idea OF a
wife even then, which he found real
lied long afterwards in this attractive
high-breed girl of Elmira, n. Z
He follows Stuart Mill and many OF
our own illustrious men in saying tnaI
he owes his success in life to his wife.
It is delight to see her happy eyes
dance as merrily as any ones over INC
quaint speech and irresistible stories Oh
her husband. And then their threc
children each one with so much indivi-
duality-such gentle reproductions OF
their mother. They already write as
naturally as they talk. Notwithstanding
their frequent letters and the kilograms
Mrs Clemens eagerly reads, nothlng
couId keep her long away from them.
This visit is almost her first separation
from them. Mr.. Clemens said, MY
wife can trust Providence just about
forty-eight hours-no longer.
How can tell you with what ENJOY
ment we sat around the room, some
thrown carelessly on the vide lounges OF
living on cushions and rugs before the
fire all listening to Mr.. Clemens, whose
genial flow of characteristic speech
mike any one we ever heard
would be resumed if we re
belled at his pauses. lie some
times smoked his corn-cob pipe
for no one objects to tobacco at care
away Cottage" while he walked about
drawing out the best portralture OF al
classes and conditions OF men. de re
called scenes in the mining camps, or
the Missouri town where ms Iather d
sheriff reconstructed the town, and III
motber as private executor of family LAY
administered the whippings at home
His brother rarely did anything wrong
but If he did tho punishment was IL
1icted on tho mischievOus member, 9
the mother seemed to think nothing
tho kind could come amiss with tho cldf
son.
There is no inclination to take an
keep the floor in Mark Twain.
laughed as heartily and enjoyed
eagerly the contributions of others
the circle TO the general conversation
If he wero not the very qualntest, drol
est man IN all our land.
was especially amused at htt
history of the elder child: The paren
discovered that she was secretly wrItn
q life Of her father; at night they ste
the infantile MSS, while the hlhputl'
authoress slept. Mark Twain, with tr1
sense of fun from that on, posed beto
his historian with reference to n
sizing him up in her manuscript; in o
Of the chapters they filched the ne
night they found something like this:
suspect fither knows that 1 am writ
his life, for he acted tod
As if he knew / was writ
about him." and then she went on
write comments on her fathers habI
aomething about her impression I'll
since her mother had known him the
was q decided improvement in his use
strong language. All this from gra
little woman Of perhaps 10 years see
very droll, with his telling. II
Elizabeth B. Clusters Letter.