Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-06-07

With the threatened eruption of the
rag carpet as kind of venerable
successor tothe genuine Boston-made
Turkish rug. there comes q wall on !
the part Of the male portion Of hu-
manity and protest on the part of
all health-loving humanity.
l rise at this moment as the self
appointed representative of poor,
down-trodden and long-suffering man.
Already lady friends are looking with
avaricious and covetous eyes on my
spring suit and, in infancy, construc-
ting a stripe of navy blue, while some
other mans spring clothes are already
spotted for the "hit-or-miss" stripe
of this time-honored humbug.
1t does seem to me that there is
enough sorrowing toll going for moth
ing already, enough of back ache and
delirium, without tearing the shirts
of q mans back to sew into a big
ball, and then weave into rag ear
pet made to breed death and disease,
with its prehistoric perspiration and
its modern drug store dyes.
The rug now commonly known as
the Turkish prayer rug has a sad,
worn look, but it does not come up
to the rag carpet Of the dear old
home. Around it there clusters, per-
haps, tradition or an Oriental false
hood, but the rag carpet Of the dear
old home, and rich in association, is
an heirloom that passes down from
generation to generation, like the
horse blanket Of forgotten years or
the rag bag Of the dear dead past.
Here is found the stripe of all-wool
delaine that was worn by one who is
now in the golden hence, or, stricken
with the Dakota fever, living in the
squatter's home, and there is the frag-
ment Of underclothes prematurely
jerked from the back Of the husband
and father before the silver of Gen.
tury had crept into his hair. There
is no question but the dear old rag
carpet, with poisonous greens and
sickly yellows and brindle browns and
and doubtful blacks is big thing.
1t looks kind of modest and unpre-
tending, and yet speaks of the dead
past and smells of the antique and
the garret.
1t represents the long months when
aching fingers first sewed the gar
ments, then the first dash of gravy
on the front breadth, the maddening
lcry, the wild effort to efface it with
benzine, the sorrowful defeat, the dus-
ty grease spot standing like a pork
Igravy plaque upon the face of the
Ipast, the glad relinquishment of the
|garment, the attack of the rag car
lpet fiend upon it, the hurried crash as
it was torn into shreds and sewn to-
|gether, then the mad plunge of the
dust-powdered mas into the reeking
bath Of the paris green or copperas,
then the weaver's gentle racket, and
at last the pale consumptiye, freckled
sickly panorama of outrageous col
oring, offending the eye, the nose,
the thorax and the larynx, to be trod'
den under feet of men, and to yield
up its precious dose Of destroying
, poisons from generation even unto
generation. -.. ~
1t is not thing Of beauty for il
looks like the colored engraving of .
mortified lung. 1t is not economical
for the same time devoted to knocking
} out the brains of frogs and collecting
their hams for the metropolitan mar
ket would yield infinitely more, an6
lit is not worth much as an heirloom,
for within the same time a mortgage
may be placed upon the old home
stead which will pass down from faith
er to son, even to nations yet unborn
and attract more attention ia tin
courts than all the rag carpets that i
would require to span the broad
spangled dome Of heaven.
/ 1 often wonder that Oscar Wilde
the pale patron of the good, the true
and the beautiful, did not rise in hi.
might and knock the essential war;
and filing out Of the rag carpet. Os
', car did not do right or he would hav'
stood up in his funny clothes and
fought for reform at so much pc
fight. While he made fun of th'
Chicago water works, grateful pub
lie would have buried him in cut flow
ers If instead, he had warped it to tn
rag g-carpet and the approaching dude
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