Fish, as the wife of the Secretary of
Ftate there happened aa amusing inci-'
dent, which 1 w.ll relate to instance
the trouble to which tbe wives of pub
lis men are often unnecessarily put. I
will call the lady Thomas. Her bus
band is a clerk on a staall pay in one
nf the departments. She made no socir.l
pretensions ived in a quiet, humble
way, in a very pride bouse in the tu
iuibs, kept ijo domestics, and did ber
own .vork all this greatly to her
credit. Soiog one Wednesday after
noon in the neighborhood of the "Fish
.Mansion," the proposed to her eister
" to go in jast for a look and see what
the high-flyers were d-ing." At the
door a footman presented his salver for
a card. They had none. The assist
ant tervaut banded another salver with
a blauk card and a pencil. The little
woman wrote ber Diue and address,
thinking it a were form, an! tbe twain
were ushered into the drawing room,
where the courtly Mrs. Fish received
thetn with ill the impressment due a
Queen. About ten days after this, the
industrious housekeeper was mounted
on a stp ladder in front of ber modest
little homo, engaged in the unpleasant
task of wasutog windows.
