The morning news., 1894-11-25

In one OF DR.. Maurier's earlier drawings,
says the New York Tribune, two pretty
sisters, an older girl of perhaps 20 and a
pert looking little maid of Y or there
abouts, are depicted walking on a sunny
road. You can come under my shadow
if you are warm, Ethel" says the elder,
with well-meant kindness. Much obliged,
Maud but / have a shadow of my own,
thank you" returns the little one, with an
independent toss of the head, which the
clever artist has caught and fixed for ever
more. We might paraphrase this little
aneCdOte nowadays by substituting Bri-
tannia for the eldest maiden, and Column
bia for the lassie with "a shadow of her
own" for it is very noticeable of late that
fashionable people have almost, if not en-
tirely, given up Anglomania, and that
we have at last healthy, national social
life of our own. It sounds almost provin-
cial now to hear people affecting an Eng
lish accent, or using British terms in lieu
of familiar American expressions, when
we know that they are the recently ac-
quired affectations OF supposed culture.
Even in England, moreover, it is very no.
ticeable that the "Haw! HaW! English
man" and the old Dundreary types have
been relegated to travelling adventures
and pretentious nobodys, and that the cos
mopolitan English gentleman Of to-day
has very little accent to distinguish him
from an American gentleman of the same
social standing.
But many good American has not yet
learned these facts and sometimes makes
mistakes in chnging TO foreign customs.
Cn never-to- be-forgotten occasion a So
.cially ambitious woman belonging to an
other city stopped at d well known coun-
try house in Great Britain, where the post
was only delivered once a day. 1t was dis
tributed by the hostess, to whom the post
bag was brought every morning at the
breakfast table, and who unlocked the
bag with a tiny key suspended from her
chatelaine Considering this to be quite
the correct method Of procedure for coun-
try houses, Mrs. -- purchased a postbag
forthwith in London; and, on her return
to her palatal American home proceeded
to inaugurate the matutinal distribution
OF letters, which were brought to her as
she had seen them delivered to Lady NJ.
She was sublimely regardless of the fact
that there were three mail deliveries dur
ing the day and of the evaporation of
her guests, who knew that their letters
were being kept over for this needless
ceremony. The same lady on another oc-
casion. while looking for a city house to
rent quite puzzled the agent by asking
about the Offices and their arrange
ments. Il do not think" he said. in reply
to her questions. that Mr. - (the owner
of the house, would care to let his dwell
ing for professional purposes and there
was nothing for 1t but for her ladyship
to resume the vernacular and explain 10
the man of business that she referred to
the kitchen, laundry, servants hall pam
tries, etc.
wives Of naval officers, says the New
York Times. are almost proverb-
iaIly satisfied with their caprcious
destinies. when young woman
pllghts her troth at the altar TO
the gallant sailor IN Ucle Sans sea army
whom she mas houorcd by her choice, she
does il with a fun and complete under
standing lf the cold-bloodcd impartialiy
of the naval department and with the
kuowlcdge and expectation that fate, and
the secretary OF the navy VIII play her
happiness strange tricks before they are
through with her
II must have taken an The f0rtitude pos
sassed by the wife Of "a young lieutenant
however. and an the slored-up satisfaction
4he finds iu her condition, % have ads-
tntuad her through "a recent ordeal Her
buyband'a ship. just up from an eighteen
montbs' cruise lu South American waters.
,s..a 0u fha Pacific roHHt. aHd Was ordered
to Honolulu she bad started from AfW
YORK h8pinW to meet htm an San Francisco.
I'D arrived to nna latten from hlu li.
suad. ursinr her io como on Hl once hN
th. Uaxf puaseuGtf steamer fo the itn-
.ifs HFH 4saf WWIHr. Haff took