Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-04-24
SOME PET NAMES.
Wives InaptIy Bestow Them Upon Thei
Husbands.

Wives Inaptly BestOw Them Upon Their
Husbands.
The little god of love betrays even
dignifed people into the most ingeni-
ously incongruous terms of endear-
ment sometimes. And this in defiance
of the fact that the real love words OF
every language are the most unsteady
beautiful combinations of sounds pos
sible.
So sweetly melodious are our own
darling" dearest" Sweetheart, :"
that one is fain to pity him or her who
has never heard them tenderly uttered
With special application. While the
French mon ami "cherie," INA
mignOnne," etc, are spoken music, and
even the German "meine geliebste''
might glorify that strong language
Honey" "deal ie," Sweet" are still
on the right side of the ridiculous. Even
pet is admissible, though it once oc.
CURED to me that to address a swarthy,
six-foot, 25O-pound Cuban at public
dinner as petite" might be just on thu
borderland.
But where the divine passion is real
ly dominant, all these expressions are
quite too commonplace.
1 know a well-built, well-groomed
man of the world, with strong, mascu-
Inc face, a splendid, athletic figure.
standing six feet three inches in his
stockings, and stately and dignified in
his bearing. His enraptured wife finds
10 word so expressive of her apprecia-
ton of his churms as kitten" She,
by the way, is Juno, and he, not to be
outdone in matters of the heart, also
calls her kitten" So it is Kitten and /
Kitten, until 1 am sure they have for
gotten that the English language pc.
tesses proper nouns, in general usage
in polite society.
Then there is fat man with pudgN
face and protruding figure. Nothing
seems to satisfy the soul of his doting |
wife but Birdie Birdie he is, Birdie |
he must be though all the world would |
blush for it.
Then cannot forget one of my dear
friends whose husband, 20 years her
senior, is a hard-headed business man.
who is said sometimes to wander
into ways that are dark, and tricks
that are vain" Happily, do not know
just what she calls him during these
periods. But 1 do know that during
his temporary lapses into virtue she
IS q most devoted. loving wife, and that
when her passion for him is at moder-
3 tie height she contents herself with
mail tweetness," and cunning
single" but when it rises to flood tide.
she casts upon him the most loving
and languishing chances and calls hin,
Crow"
Another tall, gaunt, raw-boned, i'll
avored friend is also worthy of passing
mention. His hair is carrot-colored
ind scraggly, his neck so thin that it
assemblies nothing so much as snarl ,
# strings, while his hands, feet and
natomy generally call up visions of
chabod Crane. His affeetionate spouse
ould find no name for him that so
'leased her farcy as "Puddin." She
colded him as ''Puddin" and loved him
s ''Puddin." As "Puddin" he was
owed, driven and bullied, and as ''Pud- -
in" he was coaxed, wheedled and
aressed.
There is well-known editor of one
this country's great papers, a man of
talwart frame, keen countenance, brill
ant intellect. To his wife he is city
ne, and she to him is ''Preshy" (pre-
ious).
It is surprising that a delicate, re-
ned, high-bred woman could best ex-
ress her ardor for her husband in the
ords "SnoolSs" and Snoopy" yet
have known such to be the case; and
would seem as though digniled
'ofessor might object to being called
Hubby" but have seen him respond
it with smile so wide that the
leshire cat wasn't in it.
One prominent literary man rarely g
dresses his tiny young wife as any -
ing but "Kid," which is not inap- :,
opriate if somewhat unmusical. But q
is usually the very little man with the q
ormous wife whose ebuIitions OLSEN
mental tenderness can only find ex-
ession in calling her Baby"
These are by no means the vagaries ~
youth and inexperience. was once
lveling in one of the western states, II;
ZEN groom Of about 20 came aboard "a
til . lalushing bride of perhaps g.