The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-23

protectors. The inclination to use bad
language is almost irresistible, and
nothing but my early training and future
consequences keep me from It. A few
consumptive strawberries and some des-
olate and disreputable shad have found
their way to market; tomatoes and
green peas have arrived from Georgia
and other places farther south, but the
leaves have only just started on the trees
here, and the atmosphere makes me feel
like going out into my backyard to
shovel away the snow. II certainly has
been most trying season, and 1t keeps
on trying; but 1t does not effect much
except TO make people very miserable
and very grumpy.
To the creditof our people let it be
recorded that the rolIer-skating craze is
dying out, although the records in this
weeks tournament has exceeded any
thing of the kind ever known before,
the public took no stock in 1t and the
whole thing fell fat. As an evidence of
the danger OF roller skating, aside from
the deaths that have occurred from
over-exertion, the other night at one of
the Brooklyn rinks, beautiful young
lady fell, cutting open the side of her
face, disfiguring her nose and running
hersels for life. When she fell the
whole crowd behind her piled on top of
her and aside from her other injuries
she was nearly suffocated, Roller-skat-
ing got black eye as well as the young
lady, and we are not sorry for it.
A better illustration of the old adages
-"marry in haste and repent at leis-
ure," and "wilful woman will have her
own way" has never occurred in my
memory, than in the case of Anna
Frances of Brooklyn. Like mademois-
ellie Theo's song, she was pretty as a
picture, and might have had her pick
out of half the young fellows in town,
but to the great disgust of her family
and friends she went off and married a
dwarf with hump on his back like a
camel, and if Miss Frances is to be be-
lieved, the temper of a wildcat and the
manners of brute. At any rate, be-
fore the honeymoon was over he made
1t rather warm for his bride; and in her
application for divorce she duplicates
him with round dozen, it is evident
that the atmosphere of Salt Lake would
be more congenial to his health than
that of New York. 1t Is evident that
O4e young iduy iHduS great luiSldke-
she has found it out rather late; but
Notwithstanding the cry against divorce,
hope the law will relieve her, so that
she may have an opportunity to try the
matrimonial experiment over again un-
der more favorable circumstances.
The rush for Europe is tremendous;
the steamships all go full, and places are
spoken for weeks ahead. Millions of
money made in the United States will
be spent abroad this summer, the high
prices of country board making it less
expensive to make tour of the conti-
nent of Europe, than to go to fashion
able watering place. Country board in
the summer has got to be terror. At
farm houses where they feed you at an
expense of dollar and half a week
they ask you fifteen or twenty dollars
sleep you on straw bed with cotton
pillows, and feed you on fried doughnuts
and watered milk. l think the air of
Paris or Vienna would agree with me
this year, but if went you would miss
your letter from
BROADBRIM.