Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-08-20
BABS INTERESTING LETTER
Her Experience With Steed in
the Country.
FEMININE CONTRARlNESS IN DRESS
Rural Houses and the Naming
of Them.
Indian Names Too American for Americans
Aunt Maria's willie as a Guide ana
Phnosopher-sIrs. Dasher's Ways = Tho
Decentralization Of Society.

Aunt Maria's Willie is having a weeks
vacation and spending it at home. He is
at present clerking in a hardware store,
and burning the midnight oil 10 the inter
est Of Greek. He is saving his money with
the view Of going 10 college and then
studying medicine, which means, OF course,
either becoming very rich man or
starving. There is no happy medium in
medicine. Willie. however. is likely TO
succeed. He has the first requisite to-
ward being good doctor. He is intensely
sympathetic with women, and sees moth
ing funny in anything they do. The CON
sequence Is that be was willing 10 under
: take teaching me how TO drive. Al first,
when | saw the horse | was TO control.
j feared that his opinion and mine would
iiffer in regard 10 speed. He was an
animal with curious eye. Framed in
white, 1t seemed TO flicker about in an
unsteady sort Of way, and looking into the
future, / imagined him sailing through
the village controlling the reins, while
Willie and were dashed out and had our
brains spilled. But things never turn out
as expect them to.
The colored gentleman, who held this
animal while | mounted the wagon, told
me that he was great horse, that he had
uioon ~ nis veins was Eiau " hsat
tnis' ior from ms eye ! iehreI that gum
powder hlled that portoh OF ms system.
lie SAM that ne was progeny. ms
was rather Terrifying put under WINES
advice took the reins and OH We started.
II TOOK me some time 10 get nseh 10 that
horses eye-the right one. He kept look
ing ba.k and looking back as much as to
say, "You don't hold those reins right"
And didn't / held Them in a fierce WAY
ana rugged at them IN tantallZing iasl-
ION that would have mace morse pred
In Kentucky on Kentucky whisky lose
hls temper. But as looseheh the reihs
the eye ceased 70 stare az me, ana II
dawned on me that Whine, IN ms sympn-
thy WIN me, as woman, had bitched 10
that wagon not horse, nut sheep, ana
tnht there was no necessity LOT me 70
hang on TO the relns at al; II was only
asked mat let the morse alone, ana theh
ne Wouln take inc driNe tnut was oest lof
both Womhh ana beast. we went AT Il
pace that was easy, kicked up no dust,
made no noise, gave passers-Dy the I'M
preston that l was driving, and while
really the horse was pulling the wagon
and regulating the speed 10 SUIT himself.
tnuk TINS IS the KIND OF horse l Ike.
now know that u ! set up a trap IN the
CITY, the best sort OF horse for me to buy
would De one that III ms early days was
attached TO a cross-town car. In time he
could pc 1attened, made to look sleek and
well, and then attached TO my vehicle.
we might hide the bell under the seat and
ring It when we wished him to stop.
lhere Is one good thing about driving q
sheep ~ the country--you get chance II
look at tne houses What pleased me was
me sudden tuncy that mas risen for at
tnehing names to cottages. A small
mousse painted milky gray, with fierce
LOOKING thfrets, mat suggested pepper
boxes, bore Inc legend IN white on o
blnck ground, announcing that it was
the "Priory." Where was the prior, and
where were all the monks! A rather
MISUNDERSTANDING house, painted light
rose color, with green shades, having Il
Daby bay window, and piaZza that per
united one rocking-chair and two foot
stools To crowd 1t, was called 'Elmhurst.
AFTER mat there was succession o.
fIursts, from bakhurst 10 Mnplehurst. O
Maplehnrst y may he SAID that there wa
NOT maple Tree wlthih hye miles; but thu
proprietor, who was bit Of Il waG, sait
they suited lheir living TO the name Of til,
cottage, and had maple syrup for break
last. do not see why this mania 10
naming houses has increased, unless it i
that the feminine part of the establish
ineht like to have a mare Mt the hea,
of their letter paper. Somebody with tw
acres of land in a hollow calls her plac
bellevue" and the only view to be got
ten Is the back of brewery. Somrhod
else, evidently Of Il respondent state o
mimi named n gloomy-lo0kinr cottage
N0odiawn,' with hope that the arch
tect VIII feel as funeral as he ought tc
lhen there Is the nest that looks as if
were painted with the volks Of the egg
from dairy that dealt in second elias
ones. and TINS Is proud Of It's title u
boiilh Bower Then there is 'Sunnl
slhe' SunhEside being next TO CEN,
tefy, ana with no end Of cedar trcr
hpout H. phice b"mum' is paintc
above the door OF another mansion-i
color IL II bilious, not sweet.
III people really have places wort
naming, why don't they 90 back TO III
iLdian language, and sock for names thu
nave meaning, and that are NOT silly
Ihls " not my suggestion, but Willie
ne SAID why not name some pla,
iona, which means Hunters restF q
why not call house that is surrOundG
~ Iafs, III which there are brooks an
httle lakes, 'Iaiula, which means lcapir
Waterf Or another, 'Ossego,' whic
means falf View Or another, hwilt
stehe, anu on u high mountain, Taric
"Ilch ~ p 1,,.,, rock 2
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