Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-01-29
MY WIFE AND I.


that the effect of this is to make her more
Juvenile, which may have a soupcon of
truth in it, but 1t is, for all that, trifie
inconvenient at times. 1t was so, for OK
ample, II week ago.
Of course since Julia's second was born
she has too much to do at home to spend Il
great deal of time at our house. and as
Maria has no one to talk to but Susan,
and she has lately grown grumpy-as all
old servants do at times, especially those
who brood over the fact of their never hay
ing had square offer Of marriage-there
is a loneliness about the life which makes
Maria's eyes light up when she sees Harold
or myself come back from business.
This has made me give up the club q
good deal for her sake 1t Is of course
more or less of sacrifice and one that
take care to remind her Of every evening
in some sly way Indeed Maria some
times suggests that I'd better go to the
club, rs my absence would be better than
my eternal song of sacrifice.
But l am forgetting Mrs. Shooter and
Mrs. Crawley, both of whom have some
how crept into Marias life of late and look
like even cutting Mrs. Starleigh out.
Well, they both came up to our place
last Saturday morning, and they asked
her If she remembered that divine lady,
Mrs. Crook, who used to live just out of
Bedford square Mr.. Crook, it seems, had
become consul at Cardiff for the Malacoa
isles, where he has large interests, and
Mrs. Crook, who is not overhead and ears
in love with the Welsh seaport, had writ
ten to her two feminine friends to come
down at all cost and help her to stave off
the monOtony.
''And we are going" said Mrs. Shooter
and Mrs Crawley in one breath "There's
Sunday league train starts from Pad
dington at midnight Oh Saturday for 6
shillings return Think of it, dear, $50
miles for shillings, and Mr.. Shooter and
Mr.. Crawley are both coming to Padding
ton station to see us off. Do say whether
you can come, and write and ask Mrs
Starlight; it would be such splendid
quartet, auntie added Mrs. Shooter. She
always calls Maria auntie, and this is the
only token of the difference in age that
ever leaks out in the course of their eau
serie, and r-ithout consulting me in any
shape Maria consented, and when l re-
turned home in the afternoon was mad
and remon' rated but of no avail.
Mrs. Crook has wired to say she will
be in her husbands carriage waiting for
us at a. m. at Cardiff station"
simply insanity" remarked and
argued the point for nearly half an hour,
but all to no purpose.
Yet at midnight l am on Paddington
platform, and manage, thanks to a most
urbane representative of the league, to get
them comfortable carriage to themselves
Shooter and Crawley were both there, but
Starlight was too i'll, yet seemed glad,
from what we could gather, to be left BIZ
his wife at home.
We all sympathized deeply with Mrs
Starlight and promised to go up and see
him on the morrow, and then, amid many
handshakes the train steamed out Of the
station.
Then Shotter said we had better adjourn
to his club, which was Bohemian show
somewhere just out of the Strand, and we
went and heard beautiful songs by profess
sional singers and drank Scotch whisky,
and when we came out the bright dawn
was breaking, but Crawley, who is in the
wine trade, said if we would only drop in
at his place on the way home he would
give us drop of rare 1884 Gungl, a brand
that only emperors could afford to buy,
and we all three got into cab, and Craw-
ley, who lives near Portland Road station,
brought out his champagne, which was
certainly very good. / honestly believe
we should have staid there till church
time If it hadn't been for noise in the
street.
"What row!' said Crawley, putting |
out his head
'Only some one wanting to fight cab
man." observed Shooter Let's go out |
and see the fun
Which we did, just as the cabman gave
his antago1 ist one, two and downed him
in the gutter We helped to lift him up
very much disheveled, and, to our horror,
found 1t was-Starleigh, who, despite all
our circumstances, was taken into GUS
tody
And Mrs Crook met her friends and
made much Of them and showed them
Penarth, and the exhibition, and the
docks, Cardiff castle, Llandatf cathedral
and all sorts Of things-kept them all at
her place. And the point Of the thing Ia
we've all telegraphed and written several
times. At last l got Julia to write and
expostulate. For answer she received the
following newspaper cutting this morn
ing:
"Marylebone. Charles r. Starlight, "a,
described as an Organist and composer,
was charged before Mr.. Jones with being
drunk and disorderly and furiously at
lacking cabman at $50 a. m. on Sunday
morning. Mr.. Shotter Mr.. Crawley and
another gentleman, who did not atten
were witnesses of the affair." and the two
former rendered evidence to the effect that
Mr. Starlight was friend who was in i'll
health and had been in this case the ag-
grieved party. They animadverted strong
ly on the conduct Of the police On being
asked by the magistrate what they were
doing out ct that hour they did not seem
able to give any lucid account of them
selves, and as the inspector on duty pro-
nounced them intoxicated the defendant
was fined 40 shillings or month, and the
witnesses were severely cautioned by the
The question ia whether there is no law
back. l have consulted barrister frienH
and he saye there would have been If w
had not shown consent liz seeing them off
We men hare all four met and have calcu-
lated that tley can hold out till Christmas,
for their jevelry will fetch at least 1900.
Eheu! What sickening world 1t Isl
shall 60 down to Cardiff tomorrow
Moonshine.
Washed His Heart.
A 12-year- old boy at Parma has just had
bis heart washed. He was suffering from
acute pericarditis, and his doctor, using ,
an instrument invented by Professor Riva,