The St. Johns herald., 1885-07-02
AN EXCEPTION TO THIS cENER.
 AL RULE.

While at EI PaSo the Otner day, we saw at the Grand Central hotel many things worthy of note, most notable, unaccountable, unexplain- able and unnatural-one of them we are impelled to give the HERALD readers.
 A family applied for quarters at that celebrated hostelrie, and while waiting for the attendance of the ushers, severally made them selves conspicuous by an exhib- ition of restlessness, patient ser vility and fatality. There was in this family five, whom we shall designate in the order they ap- peared to take in importance as they passed in review. The wife, dog. husband, servant and baby. The wife was fair, fussy, fat, fluffy and forty. The dog, who perhaps would tip the beam at two pounds, was of the Scotch poodle-if such thing exists. The husband was a great tall creature, say six feet one inch, with a gaunt look with out fexibility or ease in any posi- tion. The nurse was a stalwart negro woman, so black as not to leave a doubt of her being thor oughbred, and the baby, bright, rosy cheek specimen of about six months existance in this vale of tears. They were, without doubt, upper-class folks; all were prop erly arrayed for a contact with the dust and smoke of railway travel. The madam was clothed in an ex- quisitely made garment of buff colored worsted fabric, elaborate in finish and style, Her head geer would have filled the desire of the Queen of the Orient. The canine had on his summer collar of pink and blue illusion, which seemed to comprise his whole uni form. The six foot one inch was invested in an overcoat of brown linen that hung upon his angular shoulders and found rest upon his insteps; his eyes were dazed, and every feature of his counte- nance looked as if he was hoping for and dreaming of deliverance, while the sweat was standing in hummocks on his pallid brow like sand dunes on the desert. The dark attendant wore heavy woolen clothing with round, narrow-brim- med turbaned trimmed hat, also of dark material. In her arms and close against her breasts sine carried the little six months. offspring of fashionable sentimentality, The baby's wraps were of the purest white, looking all the fairer in con- trast with the attendants complex ion. The tiny thing looked alone to its dark nurse for the gratffi- cation of all it's wants. It knew or seemed to know it only as its mother, and it will do so while it's wants are satisfied in that direc- ton. Its little heart will be drawn to the source of all its comfort,' and the woman that gave it birth will have no part or lot in its affec- tions.
 We carefully observed every movement of the wife, while the man, almost overcome with the in- tolerable heat of the day, was en- deavoring to gather together the innumerable parcels, packages, satchels, bags, etc, the while talk ing orders, cautions and instruc- tions from, and being driven near ly to death by the fidgety frenzy of this appalling specimen ofmarried femininity. This fussy head and tail of the family seemed to have but two personal objects in life, one was to test the amount of agony the partner of her sorrows could withstand, and the other, to determine how near human she could treat her two pounds of dog meat. We saw all this in less than half the time it has taken to tell it. The family was soon quar- tered in spacious experiments the doo woe nactlad haneotb tba dali