"Yes; and we had a great many flowery pet-names beside," replied she.

The younger men who saw her were set aflame at once, or sighed afar in despair; while the elderly felt an unaccountable desire to pat her golden head, pinch her softly-rounded cheek, and call her such pet-names as their fatherly character and gray hair allowed.

She gave me the pet-name of "Fanny" because she did not like mine, and there was an old joke about "John."E. A. W.

The individualism of the Anglo-Saxon cannot let go of the idea that husband and wife are two persons;hence when they disagree, their separate rights are recognized, and when they agree, they exhaust their vocabulary in all sorts of silly pet-names andnonsensical blandishments.