A SUPERINTENDENT OP THE OLDEN DAYS. 
happened, all her female friends came to visit her, to 
hear all her news and all her adventures, and she was 
<luite queen of the day. She had suffered nothing in 
character, or in the estimation of her female, friends, not 
she ! We firmly believe she had risen immensely in their 
estimation ! as being a woman of rare pluck, and 
well worthy of imitation, they dare not do the like 
— for would not their husbands beat them well. Whe- 
ther it was the threats of dismissal, or that the 
honey-moon sprees were exhausted, and the man and 
his wife had become aware of each other’s peculiarity of 
temper, we know not, but this we know, that there 
were no more quarrels or unpleasant scenes, and all 
“was serene”; from which, we venture to doubt if 
what is called the honey-moon is the really happy period 
of married life : we think the contrary. The couple 
are not aware of the private peculiarities, temper, &c., 
of each other, and it may be quite inadvertently a jarring 
chord will be touched, apt to produce or induce a display 
of temper, and as they know each other better, of course 
this is avoided, but we are no judge. We may b© 
wrong. It is only the opinion of 
P. D. Millie. 
CHAPTER XXXV. 
A Superintendent of the Olden Days. 
John Kenneth was a ship steward in one of the 
old Bombay and China trading vessels, a trade which as 
far as regards sailing vessels is now altogether a 
thing of the past, at all events, as compared to 
what it was then. The commanders of those vessels 
in addition to being very highly paid, had in many cases,, 
it may be every case, liberty to trade or venture on 
their own account! so, it was generally understood, with 
their liberal allowances they would in course of time, 
undoubtedly realize a fortune, or at all events a handsome 
competence. It was an essentially necessary qualification 
that these gentlemen, should be gentlemen in every sense 
of the term, because the passenger traffic in their vessels 
was something very considerable, consisting very 
often of great numbers of ladies. Thus it was for the 
interest of the owners of these vessels to look, not 
only to the nautical ability and capability of the com- 
manders whom they should select, but also to their 
general style of manner, it being taken into consi- 
deration, the character their ship could ob- 
tain and sustain as a model passenger vessel, and the 
Captain had a good deal, in fact every thing in hie 
power, in obtaining this character which was not such 
