Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-09
GATH's" 0BsERvATIaxs ON FEC
PIE FROM vAgI0Ts SECTIONS.

There 10 wonderfully taking manner
about the Southern man. he gives
more time to human intercourse than
the intellectual or rather more thought
full northernsr. Notwithstanding bis
courage in the var he Is not macd OF
vindietive man and is quick 60
make allowance for yoar temperament
or situation or anything else. When he
CONES up after an absence and takes
your hand and looks into your face you
only wish you had the civilization 20 be
as fratsrnal 20 your OWE fiesn and blood.
Therefore | argue that We are ultimately
10 become q much better nation of men,
learning from each other. The Sou hern
people are learning method and the
value Of thrift; the northern people
want to learn 10 become more heart
felt.
In some Of the southern communities
there is too much style. have an idea
that you get as good manners in South
Carolina as anywhere in the Southern
States, and | think you get the worst
manners in Kentucky, though there are
excellent traits of character IN the Ken
| tuckians. fhe understanding people
| IN the world, or, at least, on this CONT
| nent, are the extreme Eastern men who
have been altered in States like Kansas.
| saw the Kansas club come into Chica-
go, escorted by the New York County
| Democracy. and il seemed to me that
every man there looked like old John
| Brown or his sons. They had those
| queer, long red boards and | saw one
| fellow whose beard was passed inside of
his vest, and it came out below his vest,
1 aa1N 70 90 EaNt 80. -
knees. What he wanted so much beard
| for was greater puzzle TO me than the
| political platform adopted there. Now,
| can You imagine more ridiculous
thing than these wild. tall, lank man,
each of whom would have made human
| telegraph pole. carrying a banner on
| which was Latin inscription, which
said something about We hope to the
stars, for hope and ourselves are as tall
as the stars" Yet when a man goes
West and sees the splendid encounter
everybody is making with human nature
| the land, miasma, etc.-what u called
the culture of the East looks little alb
surd.
| Inotioe eye glasses seem Indispensable
to every young person in the Eastern
| towns, while | have never seen all eye
glass. think, in the West on any young
person. How is this to be accounted
for? Ii cannot be great study, because
the Western men read their newspapers
all through in little type and ought to
have no eyes at all. IL cannot be the mu-
tatiOns of the weather, for the average
Western man is always full of either
chills or quinine, and he is up in the
morning trying to find his cattle in the
| fog and frequently is drunk at night
| trying to find his way home. Others
drink so much cold water in order to es-
tablish their stability on the temperance
question that their eyes have an aqueous
and filmy nature. have about come to
the conclusion that the young man from
the East wears an eye-glass because he is
fool. Ii seems that the latest agony
is TO wear only one glass and look
through it with both eyes; this is suppos
! ed TO give precision TO the mind. By
the time the West gets properly civilized
large part of the East will have be-
come barbarous through its affectations.