The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-25
GUsH IN ABUNDANCE.

woman, and the baby may be one OF the
most promising citizens of the country, but
it has always seemed to us the height OF
absurdity to make Rome howl in behalf oil
these two members Of the MASON family.
1t might be doing only the
proper thing if Mrs. MAsoN's family
should take care of her dur
ing the confinement of her hus-
band in the penitentiary, but there are to-
day in the United States of America a
million women almost, who are equally OF
more destitute, indeed, and hose better
halves have never been accused OF even the
suspicion of crime. Justice is justice, and
if BETsEY and the baby have to be hand
somely provided for, at the expense of the
public, let all worthy and poor women be
treated to the same generous con-
sideration. We cannot refrain, un-
der the circumstances, from quoting
II few sentences from the Terrc
Haute Express. 1t may not be very gal
liant so to do, but the remarks Of the Ex'
press, of course, are not leveled at Mrs
MASON or the baby" but at that dis
gusting gush and absurd sentiment which
is and has for some time past made Amer
lea the laughing stock of the world
If there is .one thing above
another supremely and rdiculously mex
cusablc and contemplate, it is the average
American disposition to run crazy over
matters of no earthly public significance
except such as few leather-heads see fit to
give it. Our sympathes are always with
the poor and unfortunate. Fate and the
cold world allow no beds Of roses to those
who are unable to pay handsomely fol
them, but indiscriminate or partial char.
ity, that which forgets the misera.
BILE multitude, but runs wild over
the individual, is not only asso-
ciated in our minds with injustice, but
when to the exclusion of every other con-
sideration it takes the form of popular
movement it is high time to ask in the
name merely OF good sense stoppage.
Under such light this apparently triiling
matter Of "BETsEy and the baby becomes
natioral and is peculiarly indicative of the
weaknesses and gush the scntimentality and
impulsivencss of the American public.
But to be more pointed. The exchange be-
fore mentioned in commenting on the fact
that the Philadelphia Press recently sent a
representative to Washington with the
$500 raised by that city for the lady
referred TO, says with levity but admirabl o
sense "rhe Philadelphia Press sent man
over to Washington the other day to drop
about $500 in the lap OF SERGEANT MA
SONS wife. He waited to his paper a de-.
scription ofMRs. NJ S surroundings. There is
such an air OF melting tenderness about thu
sad recital, and so much picturesque gush
to the square inch, that We reproduce his
graphic remarks. 'MRs. MASON has been
living for the past two months with rel
alive at No Al Seventh street, $. W., in
this city The house is u small ding, twi
story frame structure, neither pleasant in
exterior nor cheerful within. The first door
on the right from long, narrow, bare.noor
passage, opens into a small, stuffy parlor,
where MRs. MASON received the representa-.
tives of the Press. The principal articles OF
furniture in this parlor are an eighteenth
century piano and nineteenth century
crib. There was cheap carpet on the
floor, three hard, and one alleged easy
chair, rocker, and several cheap prints
and photographs on the wall. Folding
doors separate the paror from small bed
room in the rear. Mrs, MAsoN's boarding.
house is evidently the home of working
man in poor circumstances, with large
family and IL is not rs clean and comforta-
BILE sher home on the edge ofthe wilderness
in Orange county, Virginia, al expect to 80
home in n few days." said Mrs. MASON"
after greeting her visitors. THE baby is
teething and he has not been well since
came to Washington, can't do anything
more here, and might Us well return to
Virginia" The above will, perhaps, strike
the contributors to the MASON fund with
surprise. II must have been the great
American idea TO surround this glorious
type of American womanhood with such q
choice collection OF household decorative
art rs would have a tendency TO wean
her from her family allliction. This is not
secured by an eighteenth century piano, so
long rs there is nineteenth century crib.
Things must be made to consist. That
baby must be allowed to pound away on an
upright Chckering, or the popular heart
will throb with Indignation. Our
sense of propriety rccoils at the mention of
cheap carpets and ordinary chairs. This
should be remejied at once. The Philadel.
phia fund should DO devoted to the luxu.
ries of life without delay. Nothing short of
Administer carpets, dvans upholstered in
purple plush, elaborate lambrequins, and
the finest bits Of decorative art will satisfy
the popular demand for justice to this
stricken dame. We trust that Philadelphia
will issue general order on the subject"
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