The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-30
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In q letter which i wrote some months ago /
menmoned Miss Middle Morgan. Considering
that she talks horse almost as we'll as Rosa Bon
heur paints the animal, there is no harm in mem
tioning her again. Any one who goes much
into the editorial roams of the Daily Times
Office, or who attends a cattle show, or who
walks along Park Row several times during the
day, will be pretty certain to run across Miss
Middle. She is not rs tall as Ada Swan, the
N wa Scotia ~giantess, nor as short as Minnie
Warren. If you add these celebrities together,
divide by two, and add two feet to the result,
you will probably come as near Miss
Morgan's height as 1t is given to
human calculation unassisted by actual
measurement to approach. In other
words, Miss Morgan is very tall, and deserves
the epithet strong-bodied ut least as much as
that of strong minded. Her appearance among
the audience of a theatre or of any public as
semblage always makes q sensation. People
will not be comforted until they find out beyond
reasonable doubt that it is not q man In petit
coats. And yet the face of this feminine cattle
yard reporter is not a coarse one. 1t is the
sturdy, manly sentiment in 1t that makes a man
who cannot talk about horses uncomfortable in
her company. A day or two, for instance, she
attended on behalf of the Daily Times a sale of
some building lots a little out of the city. While
the lunch that had been provided was in process
of being swallowed, a young man of elegant
appearance approached Miss Morgan, who sat,
comparatively forlorn, in a corner. He dropped
like an intellectual spark upon a conversational
powder magazine, and from that moment until
1t was time to return to the city the fair veteri-
marian talked nothing but horse. But she
did not talk 1t in the sam style In which
an ostler or q circus-rider would have done the
D business. She did not SOW the tares of sawdust
slang or stable dialect among the wheat of good
English. OF course no one can talk horse in
telligently and picturesquely without using
terms that are incomprehensible to ordinary
hearers, any more than one can talk much and
well about music or pictures without using
epithets that are the exclusive property of the
arts of which he speaks. What / wish to say is
that, in talking horse, Middle Morgan don't
talk slang. You might lie in wait in vain to
hear q single word fall from her lips that a fast
girl would use in describing q race. At the
same time 1t is easy to see that Miss Morgan's
heart is among the horses. If she were con-
demned to imprisonment for life l fancy she
would become comparatively resigned on con-
dition of being allowed to feed and fondle a pet
steed for half an hour every morning.
A suBstroke Hospital.
A small hospital for sunstroke patients has
just been opened upon the southwest of the
corners formed by the intersection of Centre
street and Chambers street. Until lately the
building thus applied was used as one of the
stations of the Metropolitan Fire Department.
The lower floor consists mainly of a laundry
and a kitchen. Throughout the rest of the
building the wards are painted blue. This is a
great Improvement upon the hospital fashion of
whitewashing. Hospital patients are not too
apt at the best to Imagine themselves in heaven,
so that the nearer the change from whitewash
approaches sky-blue the more their imagina-
tious will be assisted. The new hospital
already contains enough patients for sympa-
thy to work upon. One of them is
from over the sea, suffers from delirium and
babbles incoherently of relatives and friends
whom those that wait on her know nothing of.
Some of them are laboring men, stricken at
their work and probably rendered incapable of
ever returning to it the same men that they
were before. Among the miscellaneous cases
for the patients admitted are not limited to
those suffering from sunstroke-is a little news
boy whose legs, through accidental burning, are
scarcely more than cinders. One of the sensible
regulations of the hospital is the keeping of an
ambulance in perpetual readiness to be sent
after people stricken down either by the sun or
accidents in general. The ambulance is under
the guidance of experienced men who do their
work quickly and kindly.
The seven-o'cIock Saleswomen.
The lady saleswomen," as some of the
speakers at their public meetings persist in call
ing them, came together last night, but for va
nous reasons said and did very little. One of these
reasons is that many of the members of the
Male Clerks Early Closing Association were
present less for the sake of listening to the
pretty arguments than of looking at the pretty
girls. Another reason was that the majority of
the young women present were overa wed and
browbeaten by the presence of several members
of the defunct Woman's Suffrage Association.
Before those august luminaries they felt them
selves to be ignominiously small. A third reason
is to be found in the fear which many a worn
out girl felt that she would be dis
charged if her employer found out that she
attended the meeting. Hence, rather than
run such a risk, she remained mute, and allowed
feeling to smoke within her without bursting
into the fame of speech. If the attendance of
the young men can be prevented, if the Suffrage
Association pillars can be kept away, and if the
timid can be made to understand
and feel that better times for them depend upon
their freely expressing their sense of wrong,
then perhaps miss Nettas' will begin to swarm
and sorne very ugly but interesting facts will
come to light at Plympton Hall. / promised to
describe the meeting, but that promise was given
on the assumption that there would be some
thing to describe. The attendance, however,
was not very good; nobody but 'Miss Meta"
made any statement that was worth listening
10, and the general aspect of the room was that
of a set of covering and frightened creatures,
trembling both under a sense of outrage and the
fear of eXDraaginO il. All RARA