The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-02-24
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marks of modern architecture. They strf.
kingiy resemble the structures OF antediluviam
times. Their position indicates, also, that
they were left In their prebent piacfs b. .
force which had not reason % Guide =. An.
houses into such attitudes - these occupy.
There is degree Of oddity and ifreeulA1tty
about them which has attracted the n0t!ce q
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, and hear that No -
certainly built before the flood. He can make
the case unusually strong. Let 10 80. Hsre
Is residence with Its end TO the street;
there Is a one stored building with two flights
OF steps from the ground 70 the door just
beyond Is another with Its back coldly turned
on Main street; out there In the lot are those
celebrated brick rows, >. whose dingy walls
and blackened roofs bring TO memory the /" De-
wick did not visit Manchester. Hecould have
gathered material for q dozen pamphlets.
THERE'S another fact which goes to confirm
most bissfully ignorant Of the benefits Of
paint. It is remarkable that the present
owners Of these Asiatic establishments will
not modernize and beautify them with paint.
Happening to know why such 10 the case,
will proclaim, II to mankind.
There prevails here superstitious dread OF
paint. 1t Is said to produce fever OF an lncu-
rable type. They have proverb that paint
religiousiy believe that a painted house never
gets dry until some one dies In It,. Many per.
sons are DESTROYS Of painting theft residences,
but are deferred by this superstitious preju-
dice.
An old man told mother last Sunday that
many of the houses in Manchester had not
been painted since the war offs. This, sup
pose, is true.
which tradition says La Fayette climbed du-
ring the Revolution for the purpose Of watch.
ing the British. II that patriotic Frenchman,
instead Of dying, had waited patiently TIL
same tree, he would see matters in pretty
much the same condition he saw them nearly
q century ago. Free from the superstition OF
which have spoken, am anxious TO see these
ting process Of paint. Somehow think this
absurd prejudice will be soon exploded. SIEVE.
raj circumstances encourage me-. number or
painters, said to be experts in their business,
have settled here, and offer their services 70
the public. Another fact, still more signih-
cant, fills me with hope. A very respectable
physician has lately had his office elegantly
painted. Possibly he may have had no other
motive to actuate him except taste for ele-
gance. My opinion Is, that he had another,
and yet a more cOmmendable design In view.
believe that he intended to cast contempt on
the superstition so prevalent here, that paint
is unhealthy. In my heart honor him for
this timely and manly rebuke OF q feeling too
ridiculous to be tolerated longer. Some will
ignorantly suspect that 1t Is a shrewd device
for enlargng his practice by misleading the
people.
Having spent time enough in scanning this
subject externally, let me now invite You to
an inside view. Just walk in and look Tor
yourself. AS we enter, you need not notice
would open outside, and that 1t Is never shut
This is as 1t should be. The design Is to pro-
duce equality among the races by hattening
the noses Of the white folks.
Ithas not been my privilege to examine. the
interior of many houses in Manchester. This
matters little. I never saw General Lee, but
I know as much of him as many who have
seen him. So OF these houses. know enough
to justify me In making the following state
ments in regard to the interior OF the Man.
chester houses: Those that have cellars are
generally damp. Hard rains invariably over
flow them we nave an associ 1ahoa. , nsro,
bers make fortunes in the wet seasons by re-
moving water from overfown cellars. II ID
said that the town is well ditched, but the
bitches, like their distinguished authors"
The Manchester houses have also pleasant
way of leaking in bad weather. This 10
thought to be great advantage, inasmuch a.
Ii furnishes new method OF securing; bestdee,
it serves to show the various uses 70 which
buckets and pans cant be applied also, gives
exercise to people In rainy seasons by requiring
them to move their beds about forty times
These also n ARE
conyeniences. They have doors, windows,
and chimneys, together with steep and wind
ing stairways. This Is all.
But am growing facetious.a humor that
little BELTS the state Of one whose griefs are
such as mine. SrRrGaLks
P.S. For several days the factories have
Ibeen closed by the rise in the river. Sweet
release from the whirl and noise to which ]
am accustomed. My JOY would be boundiess
but for the sickness Of mother, which keeps
me in. doors, and the saddening reflection that
with my work also stops the slender means OF
Xour support.