The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-10-27

groves and gardens Why prolong a list
which might be expanded into feminine
census and wardrobe inventory of the South?
With both eyes blindfolded and my right
hand tied behind my back with strap of
blue lutc-string ribbon, can name, of my
own personal acquaintance, thousand
women and young girls south of the Poto-
mac and Ohio rivers who, in all the attri-
butes of cultivated and refined taste in
morals, manners, art, literature and cos
tumery, are the radiant peeresses of any
thousand that can be found from Winni-
pisseogee to Yuba Dam. I say it, and
am willing to leave it to any competent
jury Of my countrymen or countrywomen,
Northern or Southern, and to stake my
scalp, my worldly goods and ills, my debts
and my single-blessed freedom on the de-
cision.
THE JEWELS OF THE SOUTH.
"Such daughters of the sunny Southland
as Mrs. Charley Hoyle, Mrs. Joe Carr,
Mrs. Jessie Lansing Ray, Mrs. JEFF CLARK, \
Mrs. ABBY Choteau, and Misses Matte
Blow, Hildegarde Sterling, Sybil Rex,
Mary Dameron, Clyntie Evans and Mamie
Broadhead, of st. Louis; Misses Matte
Harrison and Mamie Lamb, of Hannibal,
No; Mrs. Edward Wilder, Mrs Tom Gay
lord, Mrs. Bette Vance Rutherford, Mrs.
Allan Houston, Mrs. Sally Marshall Hardy,
Mrs. Harry Gilmore, Mrs. Kate Sharp
Foster, Mrs. Sterling B. Toney and Misses
Carrie Duke, Kate Eaches, May Tomp-
kins, Louise Burge, Bella Lloyd and Matte
Yandell, of Louisville; Mrs. John G. Car
Isle and Miss Marguerite Walker, o. Cow
ington, and Mrs. Rosa Vertner jeffrey,
Mrs. Charlton Morgan and Miss Susan
Preston, of Lexington, KY; Mrs. Adolf
Dahlgren, Mrs. Joe Washington, Mrs. Van
Kirkman and Misses Harriet Marshall,
Carita More, Fanny Rhea McAllister, Sadie
Polk Fall, Mamie Rogers, Margaret De
Moville and Annie Clare, of Nashville;
Mrs. w. C. Foulkes and Miss Hattie Ems
ley, of Memphis; Mrs. Stephen D. Lee, E.
H. Trabue and Miss Louise Muldrow, of
Mississippi; Mrs. Clement Clay Clopton
and Misses Nellie Foote, Mona Winter,
Olivia Arlington and Maggie Peet, of AL
ALBANIA; Mrs. Thomas Kennedy, Mrs. Jane
son, Mrs. Cora Urquhart Potter and Misses
Susie Richardson, Cora Townsend, Temmie
Cage and Lulu Bohn, of New Orleans;
Miss Fannie Gordon, of Georgia; Mrs.
Mamie Paul Adger and Miss Lucy Simon
ton, of South Carolina; Mrs. John N.
Staples, and Misses Emma Blakely and
Katie Scales, of North Carolina; Mrs. W.
F. H. Lee, Mrs. Lizzie Henry Lyon, Misses
Mary Dearing, Ella boswell and Lucy
Buckner, of Virginia; Mrs. james Carlyle
and Misses Winnie Beckham, Cornelia
Denver, Nancy Norton and Katie Riggs,
of Washington, and nine hundred and
twenty-five others of the thousands could
name are, individually and collectively,
capable of upholding gloriously the fame
of their. sunny native region before any
tribunal under heaven where taste-taste
in its highest, purest, most delicate phases
and forms-is the standard and test.
wIPING UP THE FLOOR WITH THE CogRE-
sPoNDENT.
'sThis fault-fnding correspondent is
New Yorker, and New Workers are in
tensely localistic. To them Manhattan
Island is the world, and s.the universe is
bounded by the North river, East river,
Fulton ferry and the aqueduct. He
makes the mistake of setting up the New
York standard of taste and dress for all
creation, regardless of climate and count
less circumstances and surrounding. He
might as well set up an iceberg as the
model for palm tree or polar bear as
the pattern for golden pheasant or pea
cock. The light, fluffy muslins and broad
brimmed gypsy hats, with their bright rib
bons and plumes, are as appropriate among
the orange groves and palmettoes as the
tailor-made cloth suits are on Fifth avenue
or under the elms and naples of Central
Park. The furs which are proper and
lovely in New England or Dakota would
be monstrosities in Florida or Louisiana,
and Madison Square dude would be far
funnier on bucking broncho at Wyom-
ing or New Mexico roundup than the
widest type of cowboy could ever be on
Broadway.
"Let the blasphemer who decries the
gay tintings of Southern girls dresses as
"the tawdry gaudiness of the barbaric
negress" demand that the hummiDg- birds,
parrots, orioles and macaws of Southern
forests shall strip off their gorgeous plumage
and array themselves in the sombre feath-
ers of Northern thrushes, catbirds and barn
owls. Let him call on the magnolias,
Grape myrtles and jessamines to lay aside
their dazzling bloom and perfume and don
the sober garb of the oak and hemlock.
Let him take to task the Almighty Artist
who blended all the colors of heaven and
earth in the lustrous prismatic arch to
which all human eyes turn as the emblem
of peace and the perfection of beauty.
Let him find fault with the Hand that
plants its many-hued fires in the opal's and
the diamonds heart, and that even now
decks the forests of the Northern hill and
mountain sides with all the gorgeousness
of coloring that natures infinite paint pots
can supply.
WHY LIFE is WORTH LIVING.
"When contemplate the rottenness and
corruption of our politics, the venality of
our Legislatures and boards of imported
aldermen, the SANDER and blackguardism
of our presidential campaigns, the false
hood and Ignorance of our sham statesmen
whom the mob sets up as leaders and Gre
preventative Americans" the pillage by law
that our people not only endure but seem
to enjoy. the humbug and universal chi
canery in legislative, executive and judicial
halls, l am often tempted to forswear
America and make my home in some other
country. One thing keeps me true to my
native land. All my loyalty has femi-
nine string to it. Knight swap countries,
but where could l find >ocuInrywonen
equal to my own? 1 have wandered in
many lands and have seen the women of
every nation beneath the sun; but nowhere
have ever found any comparable to our
own glorious daughters of Columbia. They
combine in themselves all that is noblest
and brightest, sweetest and best in the
feminine character of all other races.
admire and love my fair countrywomen
North and South, East and West. Beau
tyand womanhood are bounded, thank God,
; by no sectional lines. Northern and