Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-01-02

III you work Lhis racket Tor all IL Is
worth, you will soon become more pop
ulsr with your friends than you are at
present. Speaking of the Blaine divorce
suit, a few days ago ! came home ana
found Minerva in tears reading a New
York paper. thought at first her por
trait was IN the paper, aGd looked so bad
that she was crying with rage, but |
found out that she was shedding the
briny over the woes of Mrs James G
Blame, Jr.
If l were you, said |, Il would make
blsnkety blank pump Of myself crying
about the young Mrs. Blaine's divorce
case, particularly when Blaine. Juniors
treatment of his wife is doing so much
to kill of Blaine, senior, and thus put
Snort and Harrison once more in the
presidential chair. "
1T isn't that, sobbed Minerva, but l
was thinking how dread ul it would be if
--if-BIll Snort, Jr were 10 take after
his father and turn out TO be no good
when he grew Hp, like some of those
other great men. Ptesiden Mt HAIR son and
and Secretary Blaine
This was the meanesg dig ever | got
Minerva was evidently paying me back
fo- what | said to her lew drys ago.
The other day after dinner, while was
slipping glass of wine and en- loving q
fragrant Havana, Minerva said, shaking
her head sadly:
Il am, afraid, William dear, that you
find yourself bored haYiug to stay home
with me in the evenings. Do you not
regret having become oenedic,2
ssMjuarpu - va,Iiod Al cloud
of smoke, you were never more mis-
taken in your life. The truth is like a
married life so much, and find it so pref
cradle to single blessedness that if YOU
were to die suddenly I'd go right off and
get married again
Will you believe it that Minerva few
OH the handle and got as mad as a wet
heb? | have never beer able 10 find out
what was the cause of it, but suppose
1t must have been about what said. l.
| had said didn't like married life she
would likely have got mad just the same
| Like the peace of heaven, the ways OF
women passe all uDde standing
II Blaine, Jr Is as poor as he swesrs
he is, can tell how he can remove some
of his poverty. Let him apply for po-
sition on some New York paper All he
will be II quirt to do will be to swear to
the circulation. ] hear. however, the
proprietor of the New York Eden Musee
has already offered him large salary.
He wants to exhibit him in the Chamber
of Horrors
Perhaps you have noticed in the pa
pers letters signed Caroline Scot, Hnr
rison," thanking the Daughters of the
Revolution" or the Queens DaIph
ters, or some other female society :or
having elected Mrs. Harrison a member
OF the o'gauiZation Now Mrs. Bill
Snort is really the'frst adv OF the land >"
and We resolved that she 90 should get a
niue cheap newspaper otoriety,
There Is secret order IF colored ladies
who take III washing C II, d DE M site
Slsicrhood ob De Seben IncompTehensi-
bic Wise DarteTs Oh pc Queen ob ~hehe. ,
Matilda, whom | still owe small we.h
dill, is Most Puisssnt Past Grand High
Priestess and Curtain Flxer of he Inner
Temple. | wrote to Matilda that if she
would have Mrs Bill Snort elected an
honorary member wou pay for wash>
ing those shirts away back IN 1882 Ma
tilds was lickled to death at the Prospect
Of getting her wash bill paid, and conse-
quently the following card, not signed