Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-12-09
4 PULLMAN SMOKER.
How the Girls of New Mexico Worry
Conductors.

Conductors.
Chicago Times, Sante Fe letter
| As was befGre mentioned, the cars have
been run but little time into this strange
old, aud indeed the oldest town in
America and the officials of the road have
not yet mastered the sweet Lane usge of
this people. The train stopped at Galsteo,
| and passengers from Ell Paso and Alder
querque entered in large numbers, because
tue next day was to he the annual graduation
Of the students Of ths Christian Brothers
College aud the commencement of the
Academy 0f Our Lady of Light was 10
occur, There was but one Pullman car,
aud It was tcepti y occupied Into this
veive' -cesei, brilliant little fitting salon
these solemn-faced, immaculate lovers of
liquor. color. luxury and music
hurried, with far u.oro eager.
ues4 and alaerity than their blood
would have consented but for the lcconiu-
tive ahead of us, the hasty habits uf which
even the Mexican had learned by outside
observations. As the seuoritas had no
other method of calming their periurhed
nerves, they began to smoke, Murdered by
their inherited adherence of express, ion
from screaming nut, Good gracious !" as
you or l. dear sister, would have done in
carbohydrates. The wretched conductor
of the rarlor car wrung his hands He
could not utter sentence, except perhaps
he might have arranged few ornamental
words of Spanish profanity, aud, besides,
cou'd he have spoken their dulcet language
could he have ordered to the smoking
car those native afstucraia of Mexico,
these infantas, senoritas, and donnas? BY
no means Their embroidered Bbswls,
which they wore Els gracefully as the Gas
titan her veil their diamond ornaments,
which gliStened aud glowed, ellured and
deht interference, aud forbade an ap.
plication 10 them of the rules of the road.
Some of the younger Spanish ladies' were
DRESSED IN a most astounding assemblage
of brilliant colors and fabrics that must
have been crushing to the sombre national
pride OF their mothers.
Whether their toilets were an ackuowl-
edgment that they belonged no longer to
the old regime from which II appblicauism
had rent them, or whether 1t WAS con
pliment to saxon barbarism, sm uuubl,
to inform you, but certainly this up onted
and lately adopted sarcasm upon Partisan
fashion gave no little lilly snppresst d worry
to their mammas, who enacted the roles
OF duennas with vigilance that was
possibly Rs wise as it was relentless.
To return 10 the calm of the pretty
smokers and the worry of the conductor,
who dared not order them to the proper
car for fumes, nor could he ask them for
au extra fare. He was spectacle quite
worthy of pitiful attention. The cigar
cites could not be in the least offensive, even
to the most delicate of feminine nerves,
provided those fbres were not keyed ard
toned up by asubtle combination of tam
per and principle which, by the way, is
not an unfr'quent union Of social forces
Il passes under the guise of "a tender ele.
garce," or ''e d5lieacy of organization
IN many instai ces. This official, puor
wretch exhibited the only evidence of
uncomfortable warmth that We saw IN ali
The delicious days that we have spent In
New Mexico He logged to be faithful to
Ills duties, but all he could do in the way
of their execution was to look miserable
pace up aud down the luxurious aisle and
perspire copiously. These Spanish ladies
ladies travel but little, which fact is doubt.
less more gratifying to the parlor car con.
ductor than to the railway company, and
the former, by the way, will very soou
acquire their sweet methods Of speech.