The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-06-18


His soul was ON the rack.
"Oh no." she yelled; /" l think bug
Is crawling down my back"
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Mind Your Eye-High Art in the City OF
New York-A New NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Gallant Soldiers Fell-Flowers for the
Blue and the Grey-A Story Of Our City
Charities-H0w the Priest and the Levite
Passed Blythe True Friends of the Poor
Hot Weather in New York.
NEW YORK, June II, 1881.
1 have never considered New York a
moral city; on the contrary, l have had
occasion at various times to signify my
displeasure at its shortcomings. In these
latter days am not looking for saints;
ifI were l should not expect to find
them, though it would not be strange if
Ibid, for am constantly running against
things that did not expect to find. The
other day was looking over one OF our
popular dailies, and came across the
advertisement Of an artist who makes it
. speciality to paint black eyes. His ad-
vertisement is headed in glarins capitals,
"Paint Your Eye While You Waltz
"Nice business " said to myself; what
a comfort it must be to Tammany
alderman, after an anti-Tammany meet
ing, to have an artist like this at his
command! AS a further inducement, the
artist assures his patrons "that flesh
tints are accurately initiated and ac-
cidcntal disfgurements artificially con-
ccaled." This disciple of Apelles and
Angelo is not only All artist III color, but
an exquisite connoisseur Of language.
What wonderful possibilities rose up be-
fore me as read this Incompatible ad-
vertisement! Think of attending first
class primary, and of being able to put a
head OH the leader of the opposite fac
ton, and of coming out of the scrimmase
yourself with both your optics in Grape,
aud then, by the aid Of this admirable
artist, to have your damages so repaired
that Mrs. Mulligan would think You had
been attending a Cooper Union revival
or a meeting of the Board Of Foreign
Missions; or Of being able to put head
OH Mrs. Mulligan herself, and then by
this artists assistance having the neigh
bors none the wiser! no longer Won
der that painting is considered fine
art; this last revelation makes me think
it one of the finest arts ever saw.
The week opened with our patriotic
holiday and a finer day for the Decora-
ton services could scarcely be imagined.
| don't know if our race of soldiers is
dying out but early in the day General
Jourdan, one of the veterans of the war,
had to dismiss his division ostensibly on
account Of the heat, several soldiers
dropped in the ranks, and the ambulance
service was as arduous as it would be
after All ordinary action. A like state of
affairs occurred at parade several weeks
ago, when nearly forty men were dis
abled by the heat in a single regiment,
and the officer in command was COM
PEELED to dismiss the entire brigade. 1t
is possible that the absurd uniform worn
by our soldiers may have something to
do with it. On the top of the head is an
iron casing, something between stove
pipe and bandbox; then comes the
coat, with stiff upright collar, padded
III the shoulders, padded in the sleeves,
and with something short Of q bale Of
cotton in the breast. The pants are
heavy, and, as a large part Of our citizen
soldiery are toney boys, there boots arc
generally two sizes smaller than their
feet. Under circumstances like these,
with the thermometer at $50 or 9Oo,
walking is seldom a success it makes
fellow feel as if he would like to take
ride on the elevated road, or take recess
in a lager beer saloon.
What we want for our Summer parades
is nice suit of blue flannel, sack coat,
soft hat, and an army regulation that
no man, private or officer, shall wear a
boot smaller than his foot. Do this, and
we shall hear Of no more dismissals Oh
account of the heat. l wonder what
Napoleon's veterans, under the shadows
Of the pyramids, would have thought of
these holiday soldiers The services
were impressive, both i'll New York and
Brooklyn. In fact, New Workers have to
come to Brooklyn to decorate the graves
of their glorions dead, as Greenwood is
inside the limits of the city. When this
beautiful resting place OF the dead was
first started, the widest visionary never
dreamed that it would ever he III the
heart Of the city but Brooklyn has
grown away beyond Greenw ood, and it
Will not be many years TIL it surpasses
New 4ork in population.