Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-03-12

and natrimony. See, didn't even ask after the widow at all-I said tke Be- sants, as plain as could speak. Now, do you think you can come down from your stilts long enough to tell me who the Besants are?'
 "But, Mark, there are no Besants but Mrs. Besant," Mrs. Burrows pleaded.
 ''She is a widow with some means" l her husband explained, ''who lives in the best house in the village, and is de- cidedly the person of the place, as you will find out before you have been here very long. She has only one child, son, who is now covering himself with | glory on the battle-felds.'
 "Yes," Henderson interrupted. ''I spent the evening with him few nights ago at Sedalia."
 "What!" Mrs. Burrows ejaculated. "You have been all night in the house and never told us, this. Why, Mrs. Be-. sant will be wild to see you. Get ready to ga with me at once, sir, or I shall never be forgiven for having kept her so long from seeing you"
 "I object" ruthlessly declared Dr. Burrows. 'Mark is an invalid and wants rest" Then, seeing the pout on hiswife's pretty lips, he'added: "But I'll propose an amendment to your propo- sition. We've never attempted to give a party since we were married. Now, suppose you go to the Walnut House and invite Mrs. Besant to tea tonight. You can then trot round to the parson- age and ask Mir. Brentwood and his women-follz. and"
 USE OF THE TYPEWRITER. 
 Its Effect on Literary Style and Exs 1 celence. ::
 A young man, who frankly confesses that he has literary ambitions, writes to the Listener to ask if, in his opinion, the use of the typewriter has an in- furious effect upon the writer's lit- erary style. The question can only be answered in a qualified way. The Listener, after a good deal of observa- tion, is quite sure that the typewriter is a bad thing for literary style, but, of course, he could not pretend to say that the literary style of every author who uses it is injuriously affected by writing with a machine. The diction of certain writers might even be improved by it.
 The Listener is convinced that as 8 general thing the typewriter produces a sort of staccato, disconnected, jerlzy | less and bony style, and awkward withal. What isSwritten with the ma chine seldom has the ease and express iveness that the same authors hand- writing might have possessed. The spe- cial word by word planning that goes with it. be it ever so slight and even unconscious, does get in the way of free expressions; and there is a tendency in the writer to think out his sentences less thoroughly.
 In spite of all that may be said by operators about the process becoming } ''instinctive" after a time, it could not possibly become as completely instinct. i've as handwriting is unless every body 7 wrote from childhood with the type writer and nothing but the typewriter And even if every body did, it might re
 quire generations before the operation could become as instinctive with civil
 ized peoples as handwriting is. The
 Listener is quite aware that many
 authors who have taken to writing
 with the machine think that their style
 has not been affected by it; but are they
 sure that their friends always agree
 with them.
 In one sense the typewriter is bless
 ing to editors. It makes a page that il
 easily read, if the machine is operated
 at all we'll. But in another sense it ii
 not q blessing to them, for the reason
 that the Listener has stated-it ma,
 produce poverty of expression wher
 there might be something better, and
 is always matter of grief to an edito
 to have any one write not as well as h
 might. It seems, moreover, that tn
 diffuse writers, whose style in tn
 process (be 1t ever so rapid) of punch " ing out ones words rather than writin, would seem to make more compact an expressive, are not helped at all by ii e but, on the contrary, are made stil more diffuse. The ideal way of pre- pairing ones manuscripts for the pres U is to write them with pen, revise ther 7 carefully, still with the pen, of course 's and then have them copied out i r lrr typewriter by an operator who is fa '' miliar with the handwriting.-Bost
 Transcript.
 GEN. PALMER CHOSEN.
 The Long Struggle for the senatOrship