The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-10
MARY JAMES LETTER.
SIZE BLAMeS GEN. GReeLv FOR
THE SEASONS BAD WEATHER.
And She Hopes the Day Will soon Come
when a Woman VIII he at the Head
of the Weather Bureau - Some Per.
sonal Gossip.
Especial Correspondence.

Special Correspondence
WASHINGTON. juno If | mistake
not. at my last writing was complaining
that Washington was too cool, and, also,
believe said soma unkind things about
Gen. Greely and his administration OF the
weather Well. take that back, at least
part of it. and now my complaint is that
il is too warm. OF course. Gen. Greedy is
to blame Just the same, end why shouldn't
he be- What this country needs is n
woman in charge Of the weather. Then
il would always be in condition to go
shopping in. and TO wear pretty light
dresses in without danger of destruction
from perspiration on sunshiny days, or
other kinds of dampness on rainy ones.
We will get our rights one of these days,
and then the men will discover how little
they know about Misunderstanding govern
mental and elemental affairs for the great
est comfort of the greatest number.
spoke to Dickey about tins same thing
this morning, but Diclley never will un-
derstand womans influence and power III
matters of state.
That would be lovely. Mary Jane.
wouldn't it," she said, rapturously, and
Id like to be chief of the signal service.
I'd make it rain on those Smith girls
bonnets the first time caught them out,
and Id turn Il whole thunder storm loose
on Mrs. Jones new silk dress. The very
idea of her telling Fannie Scott that my
eros grain was surah and hers was the
finest watercd silk. 1t would be watered
after dropped the weather bureau on it
once.
Now what SORT of government could
YOU expect from woman whose patriotic
aspirations took such form as that
Thank Heaven, some of us are made Of
sterner stuff, and we will pry the lid of
Of the ballot box yet.
These thoughts remind me that Miss
Phoebe Couzins, of St. Louis, ex- United
States marshal, was in town recently.
She is still a handsome woman. but the
silver lines are showing in her magnifi-
cent head of black hair and i'll health
and disappointment are leaving their tell
tale marks upon her. She is not power
among the heroic, cast iron woman right
ers. for she has "A tender heart. and her
devotion to her family has prevented
that degree Of activity which the leaders
of the cause demand. Indeed one Of
them. and one of the most prominent, too.
said she didn't see why Miss Couzins
should mourn so for her father, for other
people had lost fathers as well as she,
and besides it was taking her interest
away from the cause.
I'm not that kind of q woman Fighter
Miss Couzins IS brilliant woman. II low
iug daughter, conscientious. industrious
honest and worthy of much more of this
worlds goods than she has or ever will
have. She has beautiful voice, and
though she has never given it the cult
vatOn woman possessing fewer talents
might have done, she is singer of no
ordinary merit Her devotion to her
father w.s such that she never married
Notwithstanding she had had many bril-
liant opportunities, but she does not hest
tate to say that that woman best fulfills
her mission who is the best wife and the
best mother xfx
Society has begun TO melt and run off
into various receptacles, by the mountains
and the sea, but the old guard never sur
renders or runs away and some of us are
here yet. and viii stay till congress ad-
iourns, which just now looks dimly far
away in the future.
By :bc way, ! never could understand
why congressman are SO anxious to stay
in Washington TO earn their salaries
when the universal sentiment OF the
country favors their staying at home
and doing it. Did anybody ever hear Of
the taxpayers lamenting because congress
adjourned Have they ever struck TO
force the national Legislators into work
ing twelve months :or the 5000 per year
they pay them?
However. I'm off the subject Of society.
As said, some of rs are here yet, and
we've come to stay. heard from one the
other day She is of the nouveau richesse
and affects the literary. Not long ago
some ladies called on her. and she had a
servant pass several new books around on
salver.
Look them over" she said in eyplana-
ton. There's heaps of good readin and
sights of purity picters. -
OF course think this story was fshed
up out of the depths Of the past, but it
was told to me as an actual occurrence
and in explanation Of the peculiarities Of
Washington society.
am NlllDp 10 CoulSSS NuiLl liIt So'ldi
freak is not entirely wanting IN the ma
tional capital. but don't think we stand
alone IN that regard.
heard q lady one day during the sea
son invite young man to come 20 her re
ccption on the following Wednesday.
BE sure TO come" she urged, for
Miss Blank will be there and yOu know
she il one cf the curiosities Of Washing
ton this winter.
The young lady in question was Of very
prominent family, and had been the sub
iect of much newspaper talk, bat until |
heard the lady's invitation she had never
struck me as Il curio.
Calvin $. Brice, the Nickel Plate
millionaire of Ohio, is getting himself
talked about lately by reason of his TAX
ing Il train load of Buckeyes to the St
Louis convention; but being talked about
is nothing new to Calvin Dung the last
ten years He is one of our remarkable
American productG-one of the strange
things that grow in the new soil Of a new
a no raI