Wanted a Phrase. 1 he newspapers speak of the prisoner In a late murder trial as ' tho Patterson woman." That' accords with prevailing fuptom In thle eountry when for any reason rea-son It do. h not se. m cuitahle to put the u.-ual respectful prefix Miss ' or "Mrs " hi lore n woman's name. What dos the reflecting reader think of that custom" The Kngllsh practice )8. when tho prefix Ik left off. to call women, as well as men, by their last name alone. Women of entire en-tire repectabllltv. surh as housemaids or lady s maids are "Hopkins" or "Robln-gen "Robln-gen " No douht with us the phrase "the Smith woman." "the Jones woman " al-Ways al-Ways Implies a rt.-tVrt In respertahllltv Whether th,. same phrase Is us.-d In England Eng-land and with the same Intent iin.l r-sult we don t knoW n joe however as if our spoken language, would be .me- v hat richer if It enabled us to d.-signate a particular woman, a w, ran d. dgnate B particular man. simply as she stands without either an honorary pr. tlx or a ml'-location ml'-location of words Implvlng dlsrenute Harper's Weekly.