The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-19

lighted with incandescent electric lamps from
cellar to roof. understanding that English
people preferred candles, provided some,
eighteen inches long. Mrs. ,Kemball had "a.
distinct sensation when she found the bed
cover "a pale-blue satin couverture exqufs-5
litely embroidered in pink wild. roses the
bed paneled in porcelain, a group Of maidens
painted on the footboard while the furniture
was covered with gilt arabesques and the
curtains were in green stripes and pink rose
wreaths After partaking of decoction
called English breakfast tea. Mrs. Kemball
thought great deal of the American preju
dice against the English can be accounted for.
Mns. Adams and her sister Verona enlight-g
ened the Kembalis on things American to
some extent and very funny things hap
pen. Kemball went on change and was
mystifed, and enjoyed "a dinner that one
would expect to %eat at other times of the
year. a dinner at war with itself and the
almanac but he objected to the fact that
the diners were, in every movement, perfectly
visible to the people in the street. through
fawless and curtainless plate glass windows.
There are some lively episodes dealt with
before the book ends, but here are. some ''ob-
servations' recorded by Mrs. Kemball: T.,
"H's only you Americans who go on being
such good haters; l can't imagine why. un-
less you've never forgiven US for not thrash
ing you at-where was it-Yorktown?''
''You can't exchange international batteries
with an American. He may or. may not say
Thanks. very nice Of you, but he thinks
he's worth all that and more, and he'd thank
you to get to business and understand that
that sort of thing doesn't go down with
him. y -:-..s.z=--. ~. Is 4
Experience has taught me the folly Of dis
putting the meaning spelling or pronunciation
of any English word with an American. l
myself think the language Is one OF the few
Of our institutions which they might con-
slider they have not improved, but 1 soon
found one mustn't say so.'i ~ i,
II think Americans like to look at each,
ether, and no wonder,-such toilettes and
such backgrounds: for, although there were
little compartments at one end of the car,
where one could be private, nobody occupied
them, the preference was plainly to sit in
rows, each travelling American taking in.
swinging around in his or her pivotal chair,
the picture Of the other travelling Ameri-
can
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There is not much sunlight in this story,
which is the first with northern locale
which Mr. Cable has written since he left
the south and settled in New England. There
is IA sombreness about the tale throughout
which is somewhat oppressive. but as it is
a story of jealousy which bordered on in
sanity, the theme can hardly generate cheer
fulness. The hrst portion of the book is pc
culiar in that the situation is disclosed al
most altogether by dialogue. as if the charac-
ters were talking in a play The jealous
man was clergyman who suspected his
young wife before and after marriage of
loving another man and he lived in a state
of barely suppressed fury with intervals of
Intelligence SUFFICIENT to make him feel that
he was cultivating hell within himself. He
tells his wife: aThe darkness is Id me, and
all the lamps that light the worlds ships
into harbor. could not dispel it: Oh. my wife,
my. wife! save me, save me from the green
eyed demon that has gnawed, gnawed, gnawed
at my heart till it Is rent to shreds and at
my brain-my brain!-till 1t is almost gone. -
And in his sleep he rose and tried to strangle
his wife in bed. Haunted by fends which his
jealousy had summoned up, he treated her
SO dreadfully that she fed with her baby
to her mothers house This unpleasant ex-
istence ceased when Arthur's release came
after he had uttered "a freezing shrek. 1t
is Z gray and lowering atmosphere clear