John is not John until he is married. He assumes the sobriquet at the altar as truly as his bride takes the title of Mistress or Madame. Once taken the name is generic inalienable and untransferable. Yet as few men marry until they have attained legal majority it follows that your John-my John-every wife's John-must have been in making for a term of years before he fell into our hands. Sometimes he is marred in the making. The most loyal wife admits to her inmost self in the most confidential season of self-communion that she could have brought up her husband better than his mother or whatever feminine relative had the training of him succeeded in doing. An opinion which I remark is not shared by the relative in question. The mother of a growing son will know how to sympathize with her Mamma-in-law when her own son-