The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-23
For the Farmer and Mechanic
WARM SPPiNGS A.. i,

ror the Farmer and Mechanic
WARM SPRiNGs, Aug l.
There Is 40 p~erceptiblc decrease in nm
crowd though a decided change IN RI,
faces within the last two weeks. Tn -,
stairs parlor Is the meter by which W,
gauge the crowd. When that is nr,.,,;a'
ITS a bed room by newly arrived lad;as
who have to wait till some one vacataS
room, we know the house is tull and =
the great disgust of the musical thor,
mas Deeh no admittance to the piano Their.
Tor some time. Mrs. Hay left us, not r.
return THIS time, on Tuesday. Her briehl
sunny lace, pleasant Danners, aod rea
kihuhess vi heart, render her a universal
iaVorite, and We all miss her.
Among the late arrivals. is Mrs L,a,;t;s
W aiker. OF Leaksvllle, who has inst re-
turned fIom Mount Vernon. wher. >.
Vice regent Tor North Carolinp. she wen,
10 attend toe annual council of the As,o
clatIou. she represents the room asirn
ed TO our State as almost bare OF flrni-
ture, and Is most anxious 10 collect IN
peranuated chars ami tables, cracked
bowls aud pitchers, "a dilapidated bureau
and wash stand, and a pair of sheet, said
To De a bundled years old, the thread of
which was spun by some ancient dame.
whose descendants have kept them sacred
because zen. Washington once slept on
them. Joking apart, II seems as III the
garrets OF our State ought to be able
To supply her very reasonable de
niand for old furniture Of revolutionary
date there must be a good many things
among our old historical families which
would lind a a fitting place in this room,
and, II they are heir looms which the
owners are unwilling to part with, they
can be tlcketed with their names and
merely lent TO the Association where they
will be taken care of aud be returned at
any time.
She would of course prefer something
associated with Gen. Washington's visit
to North Carolina, but as it would be
impossible to fill the room with furniture
OF this kind the next best thing would
be to put In 1t all the articles of every
Kind that are identified in any way with
the history of North Carolina, such for
instance as were in Governor Tryon' 5
palace at Newbern, of which there are
several owned by the old Newbern fami-
lies. One of the mirrors from this palace
used to hang over the mantle in the back
p%arlor of the old Governors palace In
Raleigh, but has now disappeared from
the sight of man, Mrs. Walker having
made several Intellectual efforts to trace
1t. 1t Is a round-corner mirror, which,
in the days of Governors Morehead, Man
~ aud Reid, used TO made couples grow
small By degrees and beautifully less, >
A. they danced opposlteit at the good old
Tune Governor parties given In those
days. Lit must have been taken down at
some time when the parlors were re-fur-
nished and either sold or slowed away.
ruS,suor Vance says 1t was not in the
mouse during either OF his terms OF office.
The history of it was told to Mrs. Walker
by Governor Swain, when, as Miss Lett
tia Morehead, she sat by the fire place
over which 1t hung. Any information
respecting its fate will be most welcome
To her, as, If it can be purchased, she viii.
gladly buy it for the North Carolina ROOM
at Mount Vernon.
Tie fur of all the North Carolinians
mere has been rubbed the wrong way by a
recent letter IN the New Orleans Pcdyunt
from Pearl Rivers, the nom de plume OF
Mrs. T.. j. Nicholson, of the firm owning
that paper, who has been spending some
"CCnS III ASICNliIC duu MIllCS vi lut
young ladies there that they are more
Western than Southern in the boldness
and freedom of their manners mounting
| ~ the top vi an omnibus and riding al
| over town by the side of the driver,
lowing and smiling 10 their gentlemen
| acqualntances on the street. She thinks
our girls, like the ore In our mountains,
may be good metal but need developing
and refining.
Well, there is no accounting for taste,
particularly, that of a lady who wishes
she was a big earthquake, to shake the
mountains till she had leveled every
bald high peak and every grassy billow
into one beautiful big green Sea. For
~tunately her low-iandlsh desire to fight
our mountains is impotent, but that is no
reason she should be spiteful about oul
girls. There are, at the least calculation,
five hundred strangers In Ashevllle, and
vehicles of all kinds are constantly charter
ed to tax parties out to see the views
round the place. Well | suppose some
people would say it is very bad taste. and
very demoralizing TO our North Car
DINA girls, that the young ladies III
these parties do sometimes for the sake
of a better view, or because the omnibus
Is full inside, or just out OF her glrllsh
fun, prefer to ride out side with their
brothers or their beaux. 1t would not
do for a North Carolina woman, who,
whenever she can, rides on the engine
through these mountains, to come down
hard Old these strangers within our
gates for riding outside of q stage; but
| hope some Que with a cleaner record
than mine, In such matters, will caution
| the Asheville girls not to mistake every
Que who visits their own In the summer
season as a fair sample of the best socie-
ty, of the place from which they come,
and feel snubbed because the sins OF the
visitors are imported to the residents.
Asheviiie has grown SO rapidly since
the curative powers of its climate have
become well known that it is no eIagera,
ton to say that not more than halt 1t.
present population are native born North
Carolinians, so ii the disgusting habit
of dipping" Is, as Pearl Rivers asserts
largely INDUCED in by the women OF all
classes it cannot be confined to our noun
tain girls alone. Nj. b. Z.
RAILROADS kLLIEF. That most COM
Portable Ticket Ofice lS7 West street,
New York, is r,eslded over by MIR. {.
Y. Y. Wand, nno thus addressed one OF
our representatives recently: Some
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