The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-05-22

one in The next.
Everyone wondered why honors should
thus have fallen thick and fast upon
Canon Berkeley. He was q particularly
poor stick as a preacher, being neither
| learned nor eloquent, and | must say at
this point, that although | have never
liked the great John Of Blankhampton,
| he certainly ought to have known Il good
preacher when he heard one, for there
was no fault to be found with his own
discourses, which were both powerful and
well-delivered, always taking exception tc
his addresses to children, which invariably
gave one the idea of an elephant trying to
play spillikius.
Canon Berkeley was not popular man
in Blankshire, more I fancy because he
had an unpopular manner than from any
other cause. / may be wrong, but it
seems to me that parson and doctor,
more than any other class of men that you
can name, ought first and foremost of
their qualifications to possess a certain
charm of manner. believe if scheme
could be organized by which relays of the
clergy could be sent to a sort of Staff.
College in London Cor would not the grand
new Clergy House that we have heard sc
much about lately answer the purpose?)
and take lessons in manner from say Il
score of the greatest medical specialists of
the day, that on the whole the influence
of the church would be about million
times as great as it is.
For the sake Of example and for their
own inestimable benefit, we would begin
with the entire bench Of bishops-stay
though, am getting along too fast fol
there is one spiritual lord among them
now who has delightful manners. I dc
not care to name him because / might
thus offend all the rest, but may most
emphatically say that he is not that bishop
of whom they say he looks like the devil
and has the voice of an angel; that gen
tleman is sort of Jekyll and Hyde, all
urbanity and the most cOurtly suavity one
day. the next lump OF SullenneSs, who
will go to country confirmation, and at
the house where he is entertained, sit
speechless and mannerless at the feast
given in his honor and glumly put out of
sight the whole of rich and extravaganza
dish of stewed sweetbreads or cream, and
then 90 off to bed with a curt good
night and be taken very i'll before morn
ing and throw the entire household into
an uproar. No, do not mean that gen
tleman, nor do think he could be let off
a severe course at the new Clerical Staff
College"
After the bishops we might give special
attention to the clergy of the metropolis
and particularly to those in the suburbs,
whose manners are atrocious. Then we
would gradually work downward through
the different ranks until we had put the
14ci% oh Ioct
dained deacOns.
Without joking, 1 really think I have
hit upon the grandest scheme that has
been mooted for at least fifty years!
In person Canon Berkeley was exactly
like hired coachman, | mean the sort of
coachman that you get in London with a
turnout from the jOb-master's; he was
tall and i'll proportional, and his gathered
legs showed off his fiat splayed feet to
their worst acknowledgement that he wore
CATERS that evening for his substantial
legs were clad in si1ken hose. He was
sloping in the shoulder and narrow in the
chest and wore the badly-grown beard.
scanty and patchy, which is so much af-
fected by certain class of successful
clergymen With all this he had some
what oily and sycophantish manner, in
tended to be very courtly one!
His wife was dowdy and had little or
nothing to say for herself, the sort of wo-
man who. taken on her own merits. would
inevitably have slipped into complete OBJ.
security, and on whom the little air of dig
nifty which most clergymen's wives as
sumo, sooner or later, sat very oddly, like
a diamond necklace on cotton frock.
She wore brown brocaded gown, of very
modest cut, only a small Y indicating that
it was not her Sunday church-going
frock. The only marks of worldliness
about it were arrangements (now oh So
lete) of white lace about the wrists and
along the V of the neck, and seriously if
Mrs. Berkeley looked somewhat old-fash-
Toned, her gown was in itself a sermon
against such apparel-or want of it-as
served to display Mrs Lovelace's arms
and shoulders.
There were now only two more guests
to come-Mr Gerard De Lisle and his sis
ter Mina-anG during the interval of wait
ing, Mrs Trafford worked her way round
to Major Lovelace and whispered to him
that he would kindly sit at the end of the
table and take Mrs. Berkeley in to dinner.
Then she passed on to Captain Legard
and intimated to him that Mrs. Lovelace
was his portion, and to Mr.. O'Hagan that
his lady had not yet come.
Then Cox appeared again and the De
LSles came in.
1t was odd to see with what different
air the brother and sister entered the
room. Nina was fair and very tall, with
shapeless features and a dimple that gave
her an infinite amount of trouble. She
had pale complexion and nice gray eyes,
with thick black brows which met in the
middle and gave her the appearance OF
having but one. She was rather slight as
well as tall and had waist just eighteen
inches in circumference. Her waist was
so short and her legs so long that in order
to avoid gawkiness she had been trained
to take very short steps, so she minced
into the room looking up from under her
black eyebrow in a Juvenile glrlish sort
of way (dina was thirty, all the same,
and with her mouth set in the sort of fixed
smile best calculated to show off that
dimple.
Then came Gerard, with such a marvel
Gus expanse of shirt-front that his legs
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