Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-04-26
EDITORIAL CLINIQUES.
HoCsE or HEALTH, WARD so,
SAN Francisco, April -, 1879. !
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Ny LEGACY.

came about, as by "the first intention, as it
were, thuswise namely, as follows: | will
premise my remarks by saying that my med
icine-man is strong believer in the efficacy
Of milk dict for his patients. All the milk
the invalid can drink, is his invariable pre-
scription in cases like my own. Now it so
happens, that good friend who has some val
uable COWS of is own sends me, night and
morning, a measure of fresh, rich, creamy
milk. Last night some accident intervening,
the usual supply was lacking. So | must fall
back upon the milk ration afforded by the
hospital My garcon being summoned says
in excellent but fragmentary English: 81
soppos Eat oil 70 meek is boil bot | weel see.
Pretty soon he returns with a pitcher of the
tactical fluid fresh, and as it came from the
COW. He explained matters as follows; "I GU
know Eat man wot die zis morning. Wall re
doctaire he have order two quart day letf
for Eat man. Now he dead, / have re meek
for YOU" This was said with an earnest
cheerfulncss and in tone of satisfaction full
of encouragement You see the point ! am
the dead patients heir. | have MIXED his
estate! Certainly this denotes i'll emphatic
terms, the survival of the ittest
STREET CAR STUDIES
am not without an eye to business. Every
now and then | send out female scout--a
sort of civic Belle Boyd--to spy out the OBJ
scrvables and bring me a report of what she
sees along the picket lines of civilization. 1t
is to loo said here that your real feminine
woman confines her acutest observations to a
critical inspection of such members of her
own sex as come under her curious eye. She
rarely finds place i'll her notebook for any
items Of masculine ecccntricity. Now this
scout Of mine comes in and reports wha; She
has experienced in her street car rides Being
fairly observant she has already detected the
invariable fat woman who sits opposite to her
and who always is i'll profuse perspiratlon,
always has q silver "galvanic' ring on her
red right forednger, alwayshas great big mar
ket basket moro or less heavily laden, and
who always comes in and goes out of the car
sidowisc and under great stress cf wind. This
person always seems to have an unlAlitcd
spread OF c..l.co and to lie very stoutiy con
strultud alift the miazcu rigging. Moreover,
this ssout ;suialo IS trU picture of com
placoncy carrying about win her an air of
subducd matter of-coursenoSs, as if she and
the hcrse-cars mad been weanei ON the same
bottle $3.50. Then comes into our sketch the
smart ooquette with the black eyes, corkscrew
uuris, enormous shawl-pin, and, what seems
her grandcst triumph, u par Of six button
lids. These marks of all extraordinary gen
tility have seen service before. They arc of
suspicious cream color and not little scicd
1T the tips She has one glove on and fully
buttongi. She toys necessarily about her
locks H,th the hand that is thus equipped,
diyer5ityinc her motions by a deliberate ad-
justIueat OF the buttons of the other one with
haU pin. Meantime a vast bracelet of
oroide is osteutatiously unclasped and then
replaced On the wrist with sharp swapping
Of the spring (By this time, my scout, for
whose especial benefit all this pantomime has
been going on, is mad as a hornet ...
And How trips in the little lady with the
pretty boots and the vivid consciousness of
darling little feet BY the time she has
showed these exquisite extremites even to
her boot-tops and the tassels thereto append
ed, the spy aforesaid is ready to snap little
footsy -tootsy's head clean off her presuming
atom OF body. But now cometh an assn
agement Ii prances a portly city female of
the coarser fibre chaperoning backward |
young woman from the bucolic parts. The |
couple are evidently i'll at ease, the elder one
of the pair being the least bit ashamed of her
verdant companion, and the country girls !,
face constantly exhibiting sense Of embar- |
rassment and painful shyness which is alarm .
ingly intensified when her pilot, in an effort
to ''shOw off makes an awkward and humil
Eating Jitur pcs in clutching at the strap of the
alarm bell These retreat from the car as
awkwardiy az they entered it,; and the elder
exhibits her sense of modified triumph by
her tongue and Hinking her eye at
the bashful rustic as they safely regain the
freedom of the street, (My scout
has by this time relieved herself
with quiet chuckle, and feels botter.)
80. My reporter would show herself too
badly blunted for any practical use if she
failed to note the presence Of the devout
priest who, with his closely shaver face
buried in his left hand intently peruscs his