Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-08-16

cine. Willie, however, is likely to sue
ceed. He has the first requisite toward
being Il good doctor. He is intensely
sympathetic with women, and sees
nothing funny In anything they do. the
| consequence is that he was willing TO
undertake teaching me how to drive.
At first, when | saw the horse | was to
| control, I feared that his opinion and
mine would differ in regard to speed.
He was an animal with a curious eye.
Framed in white, it seemed TO flicker
about in an unsteady sort of way. and
| looking into the future. | imagined nm
sailing through the village controlling
the reins, while Willie and were dashed
out and had our brains spilled. But
| things never turn out as l expect them
| 10.
The color5d gentleman who held this
animal while l mounted the wagon told
me that he was great horse, that he
| had blood in his veins l was glad 10
| hear this, for from his eye l feared that
gun powder filled that portion OF his
system. He said that he was
progeny This was rather terrifying,
but under Willies advice l took the
reins and off we started. Il took me
some time 10 get used 10 that horse s
eye-th6 right one. He kept looking
back and looking back as much as 10
say: you don't hold those reins right.
| and | didn't Iheld them in a fierce
way and tugged at them IN a tanializ-
| ing fashion that would have made
| horse bred on Kentucky whisky lose his
temper. But as lOosened the reins the
| eve ceased 10 stare al M. and il dawned
on me that Willie, in his sympathy for
me. rs a woman, bad h.tched 10 that
wagon not a horse. but a sheep, and that
there was no necessity fcF me to hang
on to the rens at all; 1t was only asked
that let the horse alone. and then ne
would take the drive that was best tor
both woman and beast. We went
Alta PACE THAT WAS EASY,
kicked up no dust. made no noise, gave
! passers-by the impression that l was
eriving. and while really the horse was
pulling the wagon and regulating the
speed to suit himself. l think this IS
the kind OF horse | Ike. l now know
! that if | set up trap in the city, the
| best sort of horse for me 10 buy would be
one that in his early days was attache!
to Il croes-town car. In time he could
be fattened. made TO look sleek and we'll,
and then attached TO my vtlic,e. We
might hide the bell under the seat and
ring II when we wished him TO stop.
There Is one good thing about driving
q sheeD in the cOuntry-yOu get chance
TO lock n the houses. What pleased me
was the sudden fancy that has arisen for
attaching names to cottages. 4 small
| house painted milky gray. with fierce
| looking turrets. that suggested pepper
boxes. bore The legend in white on a
! black ground. announcing that it was
! the "PriOry." Where was the prior. and
fvhere were al the monks? a rather
MISUNDERSTANDING house. painted a rose
color. with green shades. having a baby
bay window. and a piazza that permit
! ted on rocking chair and two foot-stools
! 10 crowd it. was called "Elmhurst.' Al
| ter that there was a succession or
| Hursts. from Oakhurst, to M1plehurst.
OF Manlehurst It may be said that there
was not a maple tree within five mil s.;
but the proprietor, who was bit OF a
" . said they suited their living 70 the
name Of the cottage, and had maple syr-
IN for breakfast do not see why TINS
MANIA FOR NAMING HOUSES
has increased. unless it is that the femi-
nine part Of the establishment like to
have a name at the head of their letter
Daper. Somebody with two acres OF
land In a hollow calls her place Belle
vue and the only view to be g0tt-n is
the bac Of brewery. Somebody else,
evidently of a Respondent state OF mind,
named gloomy-looking cottage,
"Woodlawn," with hope that the
architect Will feel as funereal as he
ought 10. Then there is the nest that
looks as if IL were painted with the
yoiks Of the eggs from a dairy that
dealt in second-class ones. and this IS
nroud OF its title as "Boflin's Bower"
Then there is "Sunnys.de,' Sunnyside
batpg next TO cemetery, and with no
end of cedar trees about it, "Dulce
Domum" is painted above the door Of
another manslOn-in color il is bilious,
not sweet
If people really have places worth
naming. why don't they 90 back 20 the
/ Indian language. and seek for names
4, :hat have meaning. and that are not
SLY? This IS not my suggestion. but
! whites. He said, Why not name
some place Iona. which means Hun
-or's rest? Or. why not call house
that Is surrounded by park, in which
there are brooks and little lakes, Ia
lula which means leaping water? Or
! another 'Ossego which means Fair
We've Or another, built Of stone, and
on a high mountain, 'Tario,' which is
! beautiful r0ck?'
AMERICANS ENGLISH WAYS.
told Willio thar nobody would call.
their places By these names because they
arc American. and the average Ameri-
can likes 10 name his country place az
tfr some castle bull, and inhabited by
m Eng'ishman. In the next town 10
| IA and 10 which am driving, there is
n fancy for adding villa 20 The name,
and so there are all sorts Of coiored VII
| las. and villas with peoples names ne
fore them. and Villas with nonsensical
dissertations ahead of them, while In
reality they are nothing but small cot
fagos submerged under big titles. one
man has named his place Gotham:
7 supDoso he thought :, sounded big. but
as he made his money Ia timed meats,
! al Tho sma, bows IN the ncighbOrhood
| on ~ "go- ham" AS Willie knows
everybody around here he has tod me
tho history Of ;he people as he mas
800. .i.o Iou-p- One rather d.