River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-11-11
BRITISH HORROR or
DRAUGHT.

THE BRITISH HORROR or A
DRAUGHT.
Don piatt says, in letter to the Wash.
ington Capital: Ii there is anything
John Bull breads with terror that can
not be expressed in words il is draught.
He may have his umbrella stolen, sit on
his hat, be cheated by cabby, and yet
retain that high courage and calm, phleg-
matte philosophy which for centuries has
preserved the noble Briton from state
OF servitude. Bat let draught strike
any part of his sensitive person and he
Immediately succumbs in an abject state
Of fear, really pitible. He cries out "God
bless me y and one knows from the tone
that draught has struck him. We
were conversing with an officer Of the
army one day at dinner. This venerable
military rooster had made his spurs re.
spectacle by gallant services in the Cri.
mean war. We spoke Of the horrible ex-
posture and hardships Of that campaign,
and he gave us details Of life, or rather
death, in the bitches that made us regard
him one Of the immortal 900 who had
such quantity OF artillery on the right
nawsty," he said with emphasis, his mill
tary memory reverting to those memora-
BILE days, "but the worst Of all in dwarfs. 4"
We thought he referred to the new levies
Of raw troops. and said rs much. mot
that, bless my soul, not that he
responded. IL referred TO the dwafts in
the bitches. Do what one could and il
was impossible to escape a blarsted
dwaft, you know" This is what chilled
the noble Briton in his terrible war, and
darkened its glory with coughs. colds.
catarrhs, and consumption" to quote our
DIR. Cook when discoursing on his Balm Of
Life. This dread of a natural plague has
affected English architecture, and given a
popularity to the public buildings found
in no other part Of the inhabited globe.
Private residences, churches, and theaters
are built with reference to this pest, and
and in such respect the last are perfect.
THE YANKEE FARMER AND HIS
WIFE.
But if they are silent they are not
surly; give them time and they are anna
BILE enough, and they are first and last
honest. They do not ask too much for
board, and they show some slow willing.
ness to act upon q boarder's suggestion
for his greater comfort But otherwise
they remain unaffected by the contact.
They learn no greater glibness Of tongue,
or liveliness Of mind, or grace Of manner;
if their city guests bring with them the
vices of wine and beer at dinner and to-
bacco after it. the farmers keep them.
selves uncontaminated. The only pipe
you smell is chat Of the neighboring
Irishman rs he passes with his ox-tesm;
the gypsying French Canadians, as they
wander southwark, tipsy by whole fsmi-
lies, in their rickety open buggies, lend the
sole bacchanal charm to the prospect that
it knows. These are Of race whose in
domitsble lightheartedness no rigor of
climate has appalled,, whereas our Anglo
Saxen stock in many country neighbor.
hoods of New England seems weather
beaten in mind as in face and this may
account for the greater quick.wittedness
of the woman, whose indoor life is more
protected from the inclemency Of our
skins. II is certain that they are far
reader than the men, more intelligent,
gracious, and graceful, and with their
abe connivance the farmer stays the ad-
versity creeping upon his class, if he does
not retrieve its old prosperity. In the
winter his daughters teach school, and
in the summer they help their mother
through the enterprise Of taking board
ers. The farm feeds them all, but from
the women's labor comes thrice the
ready money that the land ever yields,
and il is they who keep alive the sense
of all higher and finer things. Heaven
knows with what heroic patience and dc.
voted endesvor. The house shines,
through them. with fresh paper and
paint; year by year they add to these
comforts and meek aspirations toward
luxury which the summer guest accepts
so lightly when he comes, smiling askaHce
at the parlor organ in the corner, and
the Northumberland chromo-litho
ora rhs nm tho walls