Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-01-23
OVER THE COFFEE CUPS.
Breakfast Table Talk with just n Hint of
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| Commercial This may seem like far
| fetched remark but If the political rela-
tons between the two countries are
| strained some peculiar social complica-
lions may arise, as the majority of our
! American girls who have married Eng
! lshmen are the wives of men more or less
prominent in the political affairs of Great
! Britain. The social ties between Eng
| land and this country have been growing
closer year after year, but this social
growth has not lessened the old-fashioned
| spirit of true Americanism. Certain Amer
! leans, with a good deal of 'jingoism" in
them preach good sermons on our lack of
patriotism and national pride upon the
occasion of every international wedding.
| 1t will be interesting to watch the effect
of the present controversy-which has
stirred no little bad blood-upon our in
| ternational society. Three of Engand's
greatest political leaders of recent times
married American wives-Sr William
| Vernon Harcourt, who married Mrs j. L.
| Ives; the late Lord Randolph Churchhill,
who married Miss Jennie jerome, and the
! Hon. Joseph Chamberlain whose wife
| was Miss Mary Endicott, daughter of the
Secretary of War for President Cleveland
during the latter's first term. There are
many other persons whose patriotism
would be put to a test If the present state
of affairs should grow worse.
| How we would like to hear the sincere
| opinions of such men upon President
| Cleveland's message as Sir William YER
non Harcourt, the Hon. Joseph Chamber
lain, the Hon. G. n. Curzon, Sir William
Beresford and the Hon. Michael Herbert,
| all of whom are prominent in English af-
| fairs, and then, also, the heartfelt ideas
of their wives. The opinions would diff
fer somewhat 1t has been truthfully said
| that though the American girl may be-
| come the subject of queens and kings,
! CHI
| HAL Columbia" yankee Doodle" or
our national anthem.
A certain Miss Y. was in the habit of
calling on minister's family often, and
sometimes the calls lengthen into visits
which were very wearsome says the
| Boston Transcript. One day the DOM
| inie, in his study, heard Miss KS voice
and Kept long and vigorously at work
| Some hours afterward when his wife
summoned him to lunch he called down
stairs IAN right-and is that bore gomez"
Yes, dear" replied the wife but Miss
X is here and will take lunch with u.s."
Thus she saved his life
Another story Is about a college prcsi-
dent who Is d great gardener and wears
a glass eye One day this college presi-
dcnt-it being summer and he on his va
cation-rushed in from the garden all
soilcd and spattered and without his
| glass eye His wife was seated with a
caller of Importance. She preceived the
eternal untitness of her husbands con-
dition and frigidly said to him: John
go at once to the library and tell your
master Mrs.-- wishes to see him."
lie went and soon reappeared, clothed,
eyed and in his right mind This college
president 1t Is plain. is himself a man of
presence of mind. There are plenty of
men who confronted by such a remark of
genius as this. would have stared and
! Pal nnJ
spoiled it all.
| The Washington correspondent of the
St. Louis Republican learns from the wife
of a senator who enjoys very intimate
relations with Mrs Cleveland that it Is
the intention of Mr.. Cleveland to devote
| two years of foreign travel on the eX-
piration of his present term, and that
| they expect to start a year from next
May and be absent from the country
two years. She said that the course of
travel had not yet been fully planned.
but that all the nations of Europe would
be visited and that the tour would en-
tend to Egypt, India, China. and Japan.
The president has never been abroad,
but Mrs. Cleveland before hcr marriage
spent some time in Europe. Mr.. Clove-
land has already selected his companions
for the journey, which VIII be made
leisurely and with a view to instruction
as much as entertainment.
Rudyard Kiplng made wise answer
the other day to some one who asked
him if fame is all he had anticipated.
| There is only one great pleasure for an
author" he said land 1t lies in work
A writer finds his happiness in creating,
not in critics"
Yvette Guilbert is charmngly and de-
liciously frank. II am not always to be
what you call young" says she. thine
Hiac nd xtTln al. oil
what then? Who will care for me by
and by? Personne! Bien! | must have
re monnae in my petite pocket! N'est
pas! Ou, QUIZ
A good story at the expense of a resi-
dent of Louisville, Ky, is told by the Com
mercial of that city. The gentleman, wish
ing to take his family into the country for
the summer, looked al a small farm with a
view to renting it, Everything was very
much to his mind and the negotiation was
nearly completed, when the question of
hiring the farmers COW came up. She was
an excellent COW, the farmer sa d, and even
after feeding her calf would give five
quarts of milk day. Five quarts a
day." said the city man; that is more
than our whole family could USE" Then,
noticing the calf following its mother
about the pasture he added. Il tell you
what, | will hire the small COW. l think
she's just about our size"
DR.. Wilders appeal in behalf of the Cor
nell Brain association, for the brains of
educated and moral persons for scientific
study has resulted in the acquisition of
eight brains, and the formal bequest of 25
more, which are still being used by their
owners. Dr. Wilder now possesses the
brains of a lawyer, the lawyers wife, an
educated farmer. a teacher, a philosopher,
a college professor a dentist and college
bred woman. They cannot be called aver
age brains, for most of the persons were
of strongly marked individuality, but all
were educated and moral, and make a
strong contrast to DIR. Wilder's other,
more ordinary collection, which bears tags
like murderer" insane woman" Zig
norant black" ETC. Among the % formal
requests made by persons still living are
those of Thomas X. Beecher of Elmira and
Mrs MCGEE, daughter of the astronomer
Simon Newcomb An old soldier sent on a
: bequest with the word that he would bring
his brain before he died. to see its future
headquarters.
A well known bishop who takes a promi-
nent interest in everything affecting the
working classes, wishing to judge for him
self what IA journey in workmans car
rage was Hike, took ticket and Joined the
, miscellaneous crowd which fills these
trains on the Great Eastern railway AT
ter "a most undignified struggle for a seat
he found himself damned in between u
NAVY smoking strong, black pipe on his
right and an artist In house painting
smelling strongly of his craft and careful.
ly balancing can of green paint on his
left hand. In addition to apprehensions
for the safe balance of this can and the