The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-05-30
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE JOURNAL.
Salutatory.The Weather and Crino-
linc...Out of a Snow storm, into
a Mosquito Bar -. Commercial
Distress, SC.

CINCINNATI, May 20 1871.
"There is nothing so hard as the beginning,
Except perhaps, the end"
Judge from the text, Mr.. Journal, what
the texture of this cpistolary fabric will be.
To be out of the habit of journalistic cores
pondence is bad enough, but to have waxed
rusty in custom wi ich practice had made Us
natural as to read the morning papers, and
in addition thereto, to aggregate the agony
By experiencing dearth of topical matter.
are obstacles of q formidable character which
must needs be overcome to enable me sue
cessfully to insinuate myself into the favor
of Evansvillians, with anything approach-
ing gracefulncss. If you be q whit dainty,
or at all fastidious. shall be constrained to
cry your mercy for barrenness OF pith, but if
on the other hand. you are plain, substan-
tial, Y atter-of fact people, endowed with
good, sound, .'horse sense" and saturated
with humanity-as take You to be-apolo-
gies will not serve my turn, and excuses. as
the philosophic Toots would patheticaly say
will be .'of no consequence" You will see
what's the matter, and so, after such an elab-
| crate salaam, with such broad swath Of
depreeatory rhetoric. will you permit me the
| qualification of tickling or torturing you gen
tie Hoosiers, with few fine Metropolitan
touches, got up with the spirit and finish
! which usually distinguishes the interesting
columns of the racy Journal.
| THE WEATHER AND cRrNoLISE.
The weather is an important functionary
in our elemental organization and should
never be sighted. Our .'cunnngest patterns
oil exceliing NATURE recognizing the force
of this rrecept have taken advantage Of tho
little weather we have had in MAY, to ex-
pand their wide circumference in all ampli-
tude in our fashionable thoroug hfares, as the
Phillistines OF yore were wont to spread
themselves in the valleys Of fruitful Canaan
if we may rely upon the mystical annals Of
ancient chroniclers. And rs semiexcuss
for diversion-upon very little topic, submit
that the weather aud the ladies-associativ,
, ideas-especially the latter, occupy such spac,
Just now in the public mind, rs to serve a
protection against the cavalier disposition
that might otherwise be made of them. 70
in the twin ideas, ere embraced a boundles
variety of notions flowing from suggestion
OF production and consumption; fine weathe
: producing health and material aid for sensu
D al and physical qualification; fine women l.
consume the productions ofar: Tor the promo
! motion of industry, trade and the genera
: prosperity Of mankind. And these fancie
c irresstably excite Il glowing admiration il
generous minds, of the bountifulnes
and power of that benefcent nature who's
resources so happily develope themselves il
; the production ofsuch agencies as fine wealth
!, er and fine women for the encouragement c
= att anu al tiic u>clui sitit pictSinl Scleuccs
D But for this Wisdom and foresight in ma
ture she and her journeymen might have sui
: fered hartships now happily unknown I
: the human mind. Thus we see that as thei
e is no condition in life within its solaces, n
n Jack without his Gill; that as''it's an i'll win
9 that blows nobody good" so it as surely TO
n lows as the night the day, that fashion itsel
q however extravaganza or absurd is bountifi
y contributor to the treasury of human hay
! piness. and increases largely the sphere
: woman's lcvliness.
A0ropos of the weather.-We are reminde
ie of "A sudden transition from ffigid winter il
ie to the blare and blaze of summer-out of
snowstorm into mosquito bar. But vii
"a admirable philosophy, horticulturists e,
tracing comfort from very remarkable SCI
70 son, congratulate ms upon the Aattering pro
a poets for magnificent fruit crops; florists a
re radient with pleasure in the budding promi
+ OF their out-in- the-open- air flower garden
/, and suffering merchants take courage in q
=. coming time of good collections Just aft
ID wheat harvest, wool gathering, and when t
IS Hoosiers get their hogs killed. Hoosier,
"a the way, is an epi.ome Of the torn hospita