Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-26
TALKING PEOPLE.
Bah Discusses Those Who Know When
and When Not to Speak.

THE HOME LIFE OF CEhl AIN 'ii1-'
Observation-Disclosures WAYS
WIVES TREAT THEIR HUSBANDS
HOW TALKATIVE ENGLISH
AND FRENCH MEN HANDLE
THEIR WIVES EXAGGERATED
FRENCH POLITENESS - THE
AMERICAN MAN TOO CBEDIENT.
DEsTITUTION OF THE GENTEEL
POOR-LEAP YEAR ENTERTAIN
MENTS-ODDITIES AT A WIDOWS
LUNCHEON - RETURNING TO
FACE PAINTING - INSINCERE
COMPLIMENTS OF THE AVERAGE
MAN.
From Our Regular Correspondent
New York, January p, 1896.
The cleverest thing that very clever
man. BENJAMIN Harrison, ever said, was
in praise of a certain lady. OF her he
is credited with saying: "She knows
how to talk when you want to talk, and
she knows how to keep quiet when you
want TO think" There have been books
written on How to Be Happy, Though
Married" on How to Keep Hus-
band" on How to Get a Home, and
How to Keep It," on The Art OF Liy-
ing" Indeed. there have been books
written with all sorts of titles, to tell
women how to keep their husbands at
home and in love with them, but there
has never been a book that summed
I'D the whole situation as well as that
sentence does.
Mr.. James Banker comes home from
Wall street, losses OFF his business
clothes. dresses for dinner and then
chants, and enjoys
THE CHAT OF A CHARMING WO-
MAN.
Possibly. after dinner, he remembers
something. his sentences grow shorter,
and wise Mrs. Banker gradually ceases
to speak and permits him to think. II
! he raises his eyes he sees a pretty wo-
man who has tact enough 10 seem en-
ployed about something, book or bia
| of needlewOrk, but something that can
be dropped when he is ready TO talk
again. His younger brother is not so
! fortunate He has a wife who permits
no thinking time unless il is away from
the home, so called. and he has to un,
dergO histories of the neighbOrhood. OF
the household worries, of the children,
of the servants, and of all the other
/ wonderful things that a woman can
| talk about when she possesses what
might be called an uninterrupted flow
| of language. Another brother is quite
as badly Off-his wife meets a bright
speech with an Indifferent stare, or n
short answer, and proposes that he shall
| think all the time The woman who
| can talk when you want TO talk and
keep quiet when you want to think is
the woman TO be looking out for, mas
much as she is the proper one for you
| to marry.
If q laxative woman Isl married to
an Englishman, he coOlly and calmly,
either by Indifference or brutality,
gives her to understand that he don't
want to listen to her. A Frenchman
will endure it as long as he can and
then depart to his club. and. if he de-
| sires 70 think for any length of time
he is perfectly capable of finding some
/ lady sufficiently cOngenial TO permit
| him TO indulge in thought while in her
| presence. An American-well, an
| American is always polite, and if a wo-
man will talk, will persist in talking
! and never allows even the thought Of
| the thinking cap it dawns on him how
easily divorce may be gotten in some
States. Speaking of French people re-
! minds me that the pOliteness usually
credited them is rather exaggerated A
! FrenchmanS politeness is like the icing
on plum cake-there is no great
depth to il, and it is by no means the
/ best portion. An Engishman is more
or less polite as he chooses to be, to the
woman in whom he is interested but
TO the world at large he is an unmiti-
| gated bOor. 1t is true that if one fell
! into the river an Engishman would
rescue one without an introduction,
and without making any row about it,
| but one can't 20 tumbling into rivers
every day, and it does seem to me that
q little less extraordinary bravery and
a little more consideration about trides
would make all life smoother.
AN AMERICAN is POLITE TO A
WOMAN
because she is a woman. and not, as a
Frenchman suppOses, because he eX-
poets something from her in return.
She is a woman, and he, stronger in
every way, can afford to cater to her
whims. respect her likes, and often
make himself her obedient servant. |
often think he is too obedient, but still
he is very nice It doesn't hurt wo-
men, indeed it is very good for them,
quite as fattening as sweets, and much
more efiicaciOus in keeping wrinkles of
their face, than any well advertised cos
matic, to feel that they have their own
way. Enthusiastic? Yes. / am once in
a while when I compare our men with
foreigners. You know the old saying,
when he dies a New Yorker goes 20
Paris" Well if that is so, when she
dies a good English woman is Paradise
gets an American husband.
These awfully cold days people have
been saying how sorry they are for the
poor, but I don't feel so very sorry for
the awful poor, who can 90 to missions
and all the other wonderful places. and
have things given 10 them ] do feel
sorry for such poverty as heard Of the
other day. Two gentlewomen, mother
and daughter. who used to give French
lessons, but because of the hard times
have lost their scholars. were discov-
cred sitting on the floor. because they
were burning the last chair they pos
sessed And they had had nothing tC