The morning news., 1894-09-30

I reputation Tor dullncSS ana stiffness:
once fastened upon a girl. and society
/ votes her heavy and uniuterestinC. how
/ ever pretty, accomplished aud really wei
| informed she may be. All that may be-
utilized later on. and will come admira bly
I into play after she has acquired the art OF
, ta king. but in the beginning anything
/ viii do. A well-kuown novelist has said
! that by USAGE only can YOU attain the art
/ Of society talk Gradually, If you practice
I the system assidUously,you will be able tC
4 walk alone. Your unconscious phrases
I will become exactly like those of your
/ neiChbors. You viii then only need 10
] open your mouth, stretch the vocal chords
and supply the necessary breath. and ad-
mirably constructed inanities viii roll out
without e7ort "'
Tolstoi, until recently. SAYS the New
York sun. had no audience in his wife.
she did not approve the course he took 10
autagouize the Russian rulers. and begged
him TO desist and write the stories at
which he is so apt and which pay him so
handsomely. After a time, though, she,
too, was converted to the severe style of
thinking followed by her husband, and
now callers see the couple evenings bend
ing over a plain wooden table, while the
count reads aloud his written pages with
the days ink fresh upon them.
John Stuart Mill had the most appre-
ciative wife a writer ever had. In one of
his books he has a dedicat tion inscribed TO
her, declaring that, but for her bright
clear light" he could never have penned
a line worth reading. To her criticism he
attributed all his success.
Rebecca Harding Davis, herself a fam
Gus tale writer, is responsible for the
career of two others well known in liter
ature. Her son, Richard Harding Davis,
thanks her for his literary career, which
she encouraged by getting all his first
good stories in print, and destroying
others that would not add 10 her sons
reputation. This she did until he could
go alone, as one says of child. Then
there is her husband, Clarke Davis of
Philadelphia, one of the first editors of
the country, and one who thanks his wife
for her advice on ali knotty editorial
points and questions of literary judgment.
Mrs. Gladstone IS not an intellectual
woman, yet her husband says she has
helped him very materially in his
speeches and writings. And she has "as-
sisted more by what she has not
done than by her actual deeds For one
thing-and she herself boasts of this
She has not bothered him when he was
getting out new speech or writing some
thing on the vast number of subjects he
has treated in the last sixty years and
she has kept the children quiet too. Not
always has he read his writteh documents
to her, because they were often on topics
which she did not clearly apprehend. Yet
to her MIR. Gladstone gives all the praise
shOwered upon himself Once she had
carriage door slammed upon her hand as
she was getting III on her way to hear her
husband speak. And she did not tell him
until afterward, lest it keep him from do
ing himself justice in his speech.
Charles Dickens did not have this kind
of a wife When the truth is told after
time has softcned its hard outlines, it will
be learned how difficult it was for the
great novelist to work at home until he
and his wife agreed to disagree in the
way they did. Both are now at rest.
Thackeray had terrible time with his
wife. She neither would listen to his
writings, nor allow him to continue to
work with his pen. Finally it was dis
covered that the poor lady was hopelessly
insane. And for years the great-hearted
man supported her in luxury in private
asylum, while he brought up his bright
children the best he could. Mrs
Thackeray died only last spring, having
outlived her husband thirty years.
Many living writer's have wives that
are true helpmates. Among these help
ing wives are the beautiful Mrs. Eugene
Field, Mrs. Robert Louis Stephenson
who herself writes well, and Mrs. Julien
Hawthorne. George Parsons Lathrop
has an authoresS wife; MIR. PCary, writer
and explorer, has wife, who, in scrip
tural utterance, holds up both his hands
toward heaven" Thomas. Nelson Page
has wife, who, though not long married
TO him, is intensely interested in every
written word. and Win Carleton has
home and appreciative household second
to none other in the world.
1t is always to be regretted, I think,
when love comes to a girl before she has
attained her moral and intellectual ma
jority, writes Mrs. Burton Kingsland in
October Ladies Home Journal The
man whom she would love at sixteen is
often quite different from one to whom
she could give her more mature affections,
and there is rlways the danger of seeing
him at a disadvantage, when larger ex-
perience of other men will lead her to
make comparisons. There are some
things to which time is the only guide,
and in so mOmentOus a step as the choice
of the companion of lifetime, the un-
reasoning madness of love" can. in ex-
treme youth, rarely be trusted A young
girl has so many illusions, so little know /
edge of human nature so slight an ac-
quaintanee with her own heart, as to
make the risk always a serious one.
The attention OF the visitors at St.
MOritz, says the Boston Transcript is at
present concentrated on the two morning
glories of the place her Royal Highness
the Duchess OF York and her mother the
Duchess of Teck, both of whom 20 about
as freely and with as little form as the
very natives themselves There are a
few young people in attendance, it is true,
hOfal st "a "a ~ haf hot