The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-22
HOPE FOR HOLSTERS.
A Wandering Yankee Reporter Discovers
that They Are Not Barbarians.

A Wandering Yankee Reporter Discovers
that They Are Not Barbarians.
Correspondence Boston Herald.
The women of Indianapolis are exceptionally
handsome. 1t is true that in street crowd,
one will see many women as we'll as men be-
traying by their sallowness the ravages of ague;
but these are mostly country people who have
come to the city to shop. Indiana is fat State
and malaria still holds sway here. The bright,
black-eyed school girls of indianapolis, with the
bloom of perfect health on their plump cheeks,
have piquancy which make them the despair
of the lassies of more northern lattudes. Some
body has said that the American '1ine of
beauty" runs through Baltimore-and it runs on
through central Indiana as a promenade through
the streets of the Hoosier capital will show. The
black eyes of the Carolinas and 'old Kaintuck"
reign here Neither smoke nor malaria can pre-
vail against the vitality of Southern blood. Our
own Massachusetts Salem is renowned for the
Puritan freshness of color and litheness of form
of her bewitching Priscillas, veritable modern
witches, but it is lot a matter of odious com
parison between Salem and Indianapolis in this
matter. There is the beauty of the South as
we'll as of the North.
The male Hoosier is not as handsome as his
sister. The traditional Tall Sycamore of the
Wabash" still holds his footing on top of the
ground Often the men are so tall as to bend
over. The long lank Hoosier schoolboy of the
rural region is character with his elusive
sliding accent, something like bird note. The
awkward country youth, wearing coon-skln
streets of Indianapolis, as lifelike as when first
depicted in the pages of Southwestern novelists
The polished man of the city, the pruned and
cultivated Hooser, is fine specimen of Ameri-
can manhood, courteous, generous and free from
Western boastfulness, and never given to
talking stockyard statistics or to the enum-
Grafton of astounding facts" about his
city and State. The demon of Brag,
destructive to all intelligent conversational the
horrible monologue of the setting sun mathema-
tician can be called conversaton-does not pre-
side over Hoosier dinner tables. Indiana is an
agricultural and mining State, with few small
manufacturing cities. 1t will in twenty five
wears be the Pennsylvania of the West. Its
vast coal beds will bring manufactures here, and
the community will take on Pennsylvania char
act eristics. There is already strong Quaker
element here. l confess to a strong liking for
the Hoosier State its population, marked by
strong individuality; its tenacious men whose
energy is tempered by Southern courtesy of
bearing.
community which tempts Eastern scientists
to preside over its polytechnical institutes, and
POUNDS splendid public libraries, which has var
led its diet beyond the narrow Southern menu
of bacon and corn bread, which has begun to
conqner the dread malaria, and is exchanging the
meagreness of the pioneer physogomy for the
plumpness of well-nourished manhood and wo-
manhood, has right to challenge our Eastern
notion that the Hooser State is settled by semi
barbarians