Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-03-21
Saint Narg's Beacon.
NOT ON SPEAKING TERMS.

new h0cDeile, ~. Les whose vile
has lived in the same house and sat
at the same table With him without
speaking TO him for more than
twenty years. They we're married
in 1868, and have four children,
Who are grown, and three Of them
are married. About twenty years
ago husband and wife quarrelled,
and the latter, becoming angry at
one Of his remarks, declared that
she would never speak to him again
until he apologized. He is too
stubborn to apologize, and she has
become accustomed TO silence.
They sleep and eat and sit together
like other husbands and wives.
They drive to town in the same
buggy, occupy the same pew at
church she mends bis stockings,
sews the buttons on his shirts and
fulfils all the other wifely duties in
the ordinary commonplace way ex-
cept that Of conversation, and the
husband has become accustomed to
the situation BY long experience.
He talks to her without reserve,
but when it 10 necessary for her to
communicate with him she does 80
through her daughter, who lives
with them and plays the part Of a
telephone for the old lady.
And yet people say that woman
cannot hold her tongue.
There is another and similar case
at Vestal. Broome county, N. Y,
where two brothers and two sisters,
named Glenn, al unmarried, live
together under the same roof, and
one of the brothers, John Glenn,
has not spoken to the rest Of the
family for fourteen years. he is
sixty.five years old, q bachelor. and
has always lived at home with his
brother and sisters. In 1886 their
father brought from town two suits
Of clothes for the two brothers, and
William, the elder, was allowed the
first pick. John became indignant
at this partiality and declared that
he would never speak to them
again. He has kept his word.
/ have been told also of two
other brothers, John and George
O'Brien, who have lived for sixteen
years in the same house on Beaver
Island, near Harbor Springs, Mich,
sleeping in the same bed, eating at
the same table and working in the
same cooper shop without exchang-
ing q word. When they were boys
they quarrelled over some triffling
incident and vowed they would
never speak to each other again.
Since then they have kept their
vow, although otherwise they ar 9
friendly.
Down near Salem, Mass, are
two old maid sisters of the name Of
Witherspcon who quarrelled over
the seats they should occupy at the
funeral Of their mother. The elder
claimed the privilege of sitting
next to the coffin. The younger
assented, but when the service be-
gan took her chair around to the
other side, so that she sat next to
the coffin also, and, as it happened,
on the right side. The elder, in
dignant at being outwitted in such
q manner, vowed that she would
never speak to her sister again, and
has been stubborn enough to hold
her tongue.
Living near NeWberryport, Mass,
are two sisters who, in 1879, quar-
relied over the best method of pre-
serving tomatoes. They separated
in anger, both refused to apologize,
and, although they live in the same
town, they have never made up or
spoken to each other since. Their
husbands and families are friendly
and visit back and forth daily.
Near Rye Beach, N. H., lived a
farmer who had two sons, both
married and fathers of families.
The three were we'll known through
ont the country and respected for
their intelligence, integrity and
piety. Philbrick, the younger son,
was famous for his fervency in
prayer, aud was always called upon
to pray ct church meetings and &C.
casions Of religious ceremony. He
also led the deyotions at family
prayers every morning at home.
The old man would first read q
chapter in the Bible and then in