Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-06
AND WE DID NOT KNOW IT.

Our friends across the ocean, on their fright little, tight little isle" of England, must gather curious impressions concern ing us, when reputable journals gravely announce as facts some items of which we innocent ones are entirely unconscious. In one paper we read that smoking Is so prev alent among women in the United States that carriages for 'lsdy smokers" are at tached to most railway trains, and in an- other inst women may now be seen driv. ing cabs in the streets of the oity of New York. These statements may be correct, but 1t Is safe to say few of us have been in- formed upon these matters, and are very much surprised when such tiaings reach us in this roundabout fashion.
 A weekly paper published In London re- oenriy embodied the following choice bit of information in a column of Literary and Scientific Gleanings." Whether 1t is to be clsssed as Literary" or "scientidc" Is not stated.
 "The word 'saues' is used to mean vsgs- tables in New England. U. s. Long sauee' means carrots, parsnips and SO on; short sauce' signifies potatoes, turnips aud the like. Long sweetentne' and long sugar mean treacle, more usually however
 
 "Long sweetening" and "short sweeten- ing" as we learn from the dialect stories, are the droll names applied to molssses and sugar by southern Crackers; "gar- den saas," ss we also learn from the stories, is applied by the agricultural New Eng lander to various products of the farm. | But 'long sauce" and 'tshort ssuce," as explained above, are new and rather sur | prising. Can any one tell If the charge Is | true, or Is 1t ''all of piece" with the smoking csrs and women cab driver stories. It may possibly be choice bit of misin- formation, such as even the redoubtsble old "Thundersr," the famous London Times, occasionally offers Its readers, only e little while ago enlightening them ss to the location of Hamilton college, which 1t seems, is at "Nsw Haven, U. S. A." | This leads us to wonder whether many such items concerning matters and man. ners foreign to us are not equally mislesd- ing and unreliable. Probably much that we read is to be mentally masticated, not "with grain" only. but with @ whole tea spoonful ''of salt"
 l APPRECIATED.
 "A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and in his own house, Is a proverb that has stood the test of l Q more modern rendering of the same idea, and tLis also has worn well. And yet, where else are some people 80 appre- ciated, their work SO valued, their good qualities 50 admired and their fsilings SC ignored, ss within the circle of the loving friends at homea The commonplace mar idealized by his wife, the stupid child es teemed a paragon by doting parents, ths faded and fussy woman upon whom ths husband still looks with the Adniring eyel | of the lover-who has not met them and realized that human nature is a comple, and many sided thing, and that no on. proverb could possibly be made to fit al cases9
 An instance of appreciation somswha
 beyond that ordinarily bestowed upon [ husband comes to us from our country capital. Hero-worship, 1t appears, may b. carried too far, and interfere with the bes interests of the worshippsd. A Washing
 ton physician requested his admirtng wifi, to make out his bills, which she did witt gratifying promptness. The bills, how ever, were not SO promptly paid, and soor from all sides complaints and indignant
 remonstrancss began to pour in upon thu
 surprised medicine man. Investigating
 the cause of the complaints and the kick ing, he found that, ss the of ended patient
 had stated, the bills were indeed exorbi
 tant, double and more than double his reg
 ulsr charges. And behold! this was th' work of his appreoiative wife. Sh
 knew his skill and patience, hi
 efficiency and tirelessness. She knev
 of the long. busy days and th, broken, unrestful nights, and she intended
 that his services should be paid for at rate which should satisfy her sense of jus
 tice. Therefore she doubled all the charge made upon his books, with the lamentabl' , result above mentioned-patients angry the worshippse annoyed, and the worship per herself in Q peck O trouble. Henc :. we discover that 1t is we'll not to seek t |, force our estimate of the beloved one worth upon an unapprecistive public, les , 1t embarrass and psrplex him. Let thi : dreadful example of over-appreciatio , serve as a warning. But msyhap there b l | few that need it.
 HILARY.