Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-18
GLADSTONE II RETIREMENT.



/ porcelain lamp were suddenly illumin-
/ ate with a clear raiance within, so
| white Is the livid face, 50 brilliant the
/ deep-set ewes.
"Ii you are really good enough to be
! interested in 50 small a thing" he
/ said. lit is easily told, and in a few
words. During our trip abroad, the
physicians orders were merciless.
/ Breakfast was TO be taken i'm bed at
the late hour Of half-past eight. AN
necessity for such a lazy habit of life
I has now passed away. however. We
4 rise about half-past seven, attend
morning service at the village church.
/ 20 which. as il is scarcely q mile away.
We usually walk. After that we break
fast, although. | am ashamed to say, I
have sometimes Of late felt the neces-
Sity for cup of tea or coffee. which is
| kindly given me at the rectOry. if I
, require it. I do not know that l
WOclu recommend the habit. but / am
| myself very fond CT reading a book as I
| dress in the morning it was thus
that l read, @ couple Of months ago,
The life of Prof. Owen, with extreme en-
| j0yment and pyOIt 7 have found nay
pleasure IN some attempts at literary
| labor and, therefore, I can scarcely
refer to- it as work when I say that I
spend some hours before luncheon in
writing. / am at present engaged
upon q new edition of Bishop Butler,
who, TO my mind was one Of the nOblest
men and wisest writer's who ever
blessed the earth with his influence.
I This work. If l must cell it so, has
/ Frightened my few holidays for the
/ past ten years. have heard that an
I other book ON much the same lines
/ viii soon be ready for publication,
probably before my own can possibly
/ see the light. but do not for this rea-
son allow myself to be discouraged. l
/ shall persevere until the end is reach
/ ed"
You some times read novels, do you
not. lIr. Gladstone" one Of us asked.
eyes, I allow myself some light reads
/ ing usually each day, after dinner. I
think The TWO, perhaps which have
| seemed to me the most worthy Of re-
! 'ecti0n during the past year have
/ been Esther Waters and The Year OF
| Wbilecs. Both seemed TO me strong
] and able works, which ought TO live,
when many of their contemporaries
are forgotten.
/ SIT is wonderful that YOU find time
/ 20 DO so much. I said. amazed.
"porhaps il is because he lis so pune
| ual. and expects everybody else to be
/ So" smiled Mrs Gladstone. He is
always ready for everything and does
I everything very quickly. For in
stance. ne can dress for dinner, quite
fully. I'm less than five minutes. / can
not myself conceive how he does It,
| though I am not one to waste much
| time nor 10 encourage others 10 waste
| iJ, on personal adOrnmenL'
"I wonder If we might dare to ask
! whether yCU ever glance Ct any of the
I er-pictocial representations OF your
self in the newspapers an magazines.
I Z asked, trembling.
/ "C8riCaures, You mean, he said,
smiling again. "WCu. you see, one
cannot do everything. especially so
old man as /. and so, as l must give
ND something, ] have OF late years
given up the newspapers almost en-
tirC1v. Even when 7 DC make on ore
cepti0n to my general rule by reading
one. / md o-her subjects ran more -.-
terestiug than what may have CHANGED
10 Dee said of me. But fear that Mrs
Gladstone does sometimes look to see
how the journals have represented me-
think. at one time, she had even
gone SO fer as TO mako small collec-
ti0n of sketches. with what object /
am somewhat divided in opinion
However. Z am quite sure that She has
ceased so 10 amuse herself long ago.
"Do you ever 20 TO the theatre, Mr.
Gladstone ! asked
"I seldom find myself equal 20 or in
cliued for theatre-going of late, but l
cannot go so far as TO say that l have
given it ND. I confess, however. that
quiet game OF backgammon In the
evening. when I have laid aside
book. has for me great charm. IL is
. game which can scarcely be eNcelled
by any modern inyeHuon-assuredly
not superseded.
"Wiu YOU tell me what is your ia
vo-ite study?" I inquired, emboldened
by his good nature.
There are many answers which l
might be tempted to give to such
question" replied Mr. Gladstone, vet
the one which would regard after
ward with the most satisfaction would
be-the0logy. Ii has been the study OF
my life. though l am at eighty-five but
on the threshold. as @ learner. over
that threshold / may only pass with
DEATH
I was wondering, knowing what a
linguist Nr. Gladstone is, whether he
would not mention the study of Ian
euaees. But evidently he did not
care 10 rank it with theology. And so,
without questioning him further on
that subject. [ ventured hastily to ask
what was his opinion Of the New Wo-
man" and the stir she is creating in
the world.
81 am too old a man. he returned,
Ito have an opinion of any kind on thN
New Woman. as I consider that the
eyDonent of certain doctrines is err
roneously STYLED. My ideal woman
has not altered in the past three score
years and ten. and [ may affirm posi-
lively that it is not probable she VIII
do so I'm the time that is left. Boston |
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