Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-07-25
LEONE LOCAL CHAT.

LEONE LOCAL CHAT.
The Common Question. The Dragon,
and its Keepers. Hosc to Keep Cool.
Linen listers, and the Water Cure.
Temper. --An,e't.- A Suburban
Watering Place. = The Old. fashioned
Picnic The Band Excursion. -Mer-
its Of the Union Services. - People
about I0aca.-&c., &c., &c.
500 reward, payable at the Post
Office, General Delivery, for the dis
covery of man who never said,
warm enough for you ?''
Don't you know that an offensive
partisan lives in hot water? Then
why ask foolish questions.
Perhaps you delusively imagine
that great dragon, the public, as stol-
idly insensible; but its custodians know
better. The clergy, the lawyer and
the doctor could tale unfold; but it
remains for the Post Office Officials to
get the full benefit. Mr.. Mccormick
says he don't mind being asked every
hour how much it costs to send pos
tai card, nor to explain why it is that
all stamps are cash, and no trust till
payday, but he was startled by lit
tie girl wanting to know when they
were going to bury the dead letters.
/ imagine he didn't give her much
encouragement, or she would have
followed that up with other questions
relative to the funeral arrangements.
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Talking about hot weather, if you
could get an occasional glimpse of
vine wreathed back porches, and the
aforementioned condition Of their
habitues, the question of how TO keep
cool would be solved, at least for the
stay-at-homes. A lone linen duster
on promenade as full dress, might be
subject to some criticism.
But there is a way of keeping cool,
as physiological fact, ifyou are cour-
ageous enough to try it. Bend your
self over,-something like croquet
wicket, for instance) and drop cold
water on the back of your neck, al
lowing it to trickle down your back
over the spine. l don't charge any,
thing for this information, neither
will / irresponsible if you allow some
tricky friend to do the doucheing, and
you get half drowned.
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When it comes to the water cure,
To IArI1 hnIinxync in ~ hn rlx
drowned out the Dodd firm the other
day. To hear him laugh you would
not suspect him of harboring a bit of
temper, but the people who seen his
pet dog carrying empty fruit cans
around town at the instance of some
heather, can tell you that
righteous indignation occasionally
holds forth in his genial soul.
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There is a great deal of migratory
on the part of the society
boys, they drift out the Winchester
Pike, generally in the cool of the even
ing. Is there any watering place out
there? anyway, they seem to have
found summer resort. / know that
water is very scarce-still-can it be
possible that we do them an injustice
in thinking that they might have pre-
ferred other mild drinks rather than
have gone such distance for water.
Will some truthful James ariseand eX-
plain.
What is the matter with the rail
road excursion system, or is it only
for ga change" that Sunday schools
are again indulging in the primitive
method of picnicing via conveyance
to the woods? With this regime, the
young man will again he in
danger of rending his garments in
places while climbing a
tree to fix up the swing and the pic
mic repast on the moss covered ground
be seasoned with ants and bugs and
spiders, and the custard pie taken for
a cushion by the unwary youth, with
divers other drawbacks of which we
have vivid recollection.
The Mechanics Band picnic was
largely attended, and was very en-
|OydUl0 dlldlT.
The Union Services being held in
the different churches are very desira
BILE from several points of view {:
they rest the minister and interest the
people; and-as a lady naively re-
preacher is sure of hav-
ing good sized congregation to listen
to him, and it is, in the spirit of the
times, a change.
Neal Berry, the popular young mer-
chant, has been very i'll.
Charlie Cline is home from Wheel
ing with the expectation of resting
here for few weeks during the heat
ed term. He says that the Martins
burg girls are his favorites yet, and
he didn't say that he was
inclined, there are
symptoms of it. So girls, watch out
how you try to firt in his direction.
Mr.. George Muth, of Washington,
with his wife and their bright little
children are visiting at the residence
of Mr.. Muth, West King st.
Rev. r. III. Pitt and wife have the
sympathy of many friends in the loss
Of their interesting little child, who
died on Tuesday night.
LEONE.
Miss Nettie Beck, of Piedmont, is
relatives in this place.