The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-06

abruptly. | suspect for purposes Of oscu-
lation, leaving me Easping. Why. I pom
dered, should two normal, healthy. sane
people, who have been married five months
al least, and cut their honeymoon teeth,
go on in that ridiculous way? But, If
have exaggerated aught OF what fell upoi'
my ears. may / be- doomed to marry my
self and to speak uhst language all the
days of my life,
From inquiries ] begin 10 suppose that
II Is a common enough practice; yet for
my soul ! cannot see the rationale OF adj
dressing "a grown person as II he or she
We're "A baby in arms. however much you
love them. Fancy accosting stranger
with "Peese tell | time" or Use dot a
painey IN my tumlcule," as / once heard
one OF this couple remark. Imagine the
efectl If a stranger did II to Evangellne
/ know she would be sick. Why then,
should II lose it's nauseating power when
applied by the object OF your so-called
affections? Can an emetic change its
skin?
In public Evangellne and her husband
are perfectly sensible and well behaved,
gifted with abundance Of humor and ex-
cellent company. ! do not know whether
TO suspect that this external propriety Is
q mask that newly married couples wear
In order to create an unmerited impression
on outsiders, or whether It rs the other
from everyday usage. as lovers foreswear
good coinage in private and exchange
a battered currency of mutiated six
pences. on the whole ! favor the former
view. for all this baby prattle seems to
come quite spontaneously. Nor, / must
confess. for all my soothing. does It sound
so condemnably idiotic IN the HIPS of these
innocents as It does when reduced TO the
formal level Of print. 1 am the more anx-
ions IN al n
as ! myself have found it rather Infectious.
] have even caught myself at odd mo-
Wents thinking, if not actually speaking,
in the doggarel Of the cradle, the patols
Of tho perambulator. At the same time
I have been conscious that my mouth was
pursed up into a pretty pleading ex-
press .on-the os tenerum pueri baIbumque
as Horace puts II. / know instinctiYely
just how those two great babies look at
one another In the seclusion Of the library
and can almost foretell their respective at
titudes; but / viii not betray confidence
too far
Seriously. I cannot make up my mind
whether this habit Of specch-for, Of
course, 1t IL nothing more--is funny or
disgusting. I know Tom Woodruff well
enough not to suspect him OF anything
approaching to effeminacy or Insanity. He
is a rather brilliant young scientist. and
the book elats" over which he was be-
strewing so much admiration, ! afterward
discovered to be a newly bound set Of
Herbert Spencer. IN morocco, embracing
the scattered contributions OF that pro-
found thinker to his wonderful System
Of Synthetic Philosophy" Evangelines
antecedents / have already denoted. At
the same time Il cannot be denied that
nine people out Of ten who heard them
going on as | have described would de-
sp!se them, and probably recommend
speedy Incarceration in HanweI
/ began after a while from my occa-
sional eavesdropplngs. TO compile a sort
Of new Lovers Lexicon" or English
as She is Broke" but on examination 1
found that the number Of ideas capable of
being expressed in baby language did not
amount to above half-a-dozen al the rnosr.
Il love YOU was the continually recur-
ring theme. Many Of the words there
fore merely synonymes for one another.
and were introduced evidently to give q
tone of fictitious variety to the CONVEX
satiOn. Thus reproach would be expressed
by such interchangeable terms as beast
girl" naughty bad-girlie," or simply
"she is a baddun;" approval 0hey were
generally pleased with Themselves more
often than not by the negatives Of these
expressions, mot naughty girlie-good
grille" mot bad babies" and 50 on. II
put in the interrogative. the same words
did for self-approval, and had generally