The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-03-16
WOMEN AND WEATHER.
WoNEN ASSOCIATE WITH ALL.
S.s>;IA OF WEATHER..
The - ather Very Changea';le-- are the
Women Equally Sofa street Car In
cidet illustrating Southern Chivahy.

inch than III any city in America. There
Is likewise large quantity of weather to
be found here at this season Of the wear
The weather Is a very chang able sort Of
weather too, and should Judge, if there is
anything IL the law Of association. Boston
girls would be very sensibly affected by
this fact fer they certainly associate with
all sorts OF weather with the utmost i'm
punity
/ saw an illustration in a comic paper
the other day. in which the State Of Mas
sachusetts was impersonated by an ancient
dried-up, paper -curled, lantern jawed
heinous looking old maid It's a mistake.
Those sort of girls don't grow here They
get old, for time will roll on up here as
we'll as anywhere, but they know how to
rob time of his victories. No matter how
old they Set-they don't look old, or with
cred. They have mastered the secrets of
perpetual youth | have never seen any
thing like it before. | have met married
ladies here whose eyes placed at from
twenty five to thirty, and have had them
turn around before the smile of greeting
could fade from my face and introduce
me to a son twenty five years old who was
crawling or walking before was born.
And then by subsequent careful inquiries,
when | did learn their true age, | could
hardly believe it possible that could make
so great mistake as to take woman
from fifty five to sixty years old to be less
than thirty. Aud, the old maids! they re-
main green and fiourishing to an almost
incredible period,
Boston girls are not long necked, pale
faced creatures who are continuously rea-
sonlng on the whereioreness of the thus
ness auo OCCASIONALLY falntlng away IN
delicate Mysteries. They are round. rosy
oh hao cfr IL
through eight or ten inches OF snow against
hurricane blowing nVe degrees below
zero "lth an ease and grace that would
make a strong southern man shlver and
turn blue to look at, and wonder what on
eartn they are made OF anyhow. Balti-
more Is FAMOUS Tor lis beautiful girls, but
Nc seen as ma1y here as there, 1t seems
to ne. The only trouble is you can't tell
a servant girl from an heress. Two beau
tful girl stepped into car e other day
IN which was riding. They attracted the
undivided attention Of the male travel
lers. They We're dressed modestly but in
the height Of style. But alas, / recognlz-
ed them and the romantic wonder about
their lives was dispeied for me. They
were walters at the Norfolk House One
of them | remembered AS having had
charge Of the table next to mine when
stoppl there last Fall. All, how these
women work. Thousands upon thousands
Of them are now thronging the various
lines OF commerce III the fight for bread
many OF them so poorly paid the wonder
Is after all that more DO not tai! than
actually are wrecked
fear I'm fast becoming an orthodox
Yankee on some points upon which ''South-
ern ChiFalry, would still make nice dis
tlncti0nS. For instance I've about aban-
doned giving up my seat III a car to nv
feminine fellow citizens. By the time a
felio" stands up every trip he takes for a
month, he begins to feel like ne would en-
Joy the novelty OF sitting down for trip
Or two especially when yod ind nobody
seat, OF ever thanks you TOR giving up
s4,lr oM Il. No" ana theli iauy VIII say
lhanA YOU pUt Seheraiis 'hey look sur
| priSeu, and ~ 90" u "i,nou' ever giahcii1S 8
/ toward t'le animal VINO FacateS, as the
following lnoldent shows;
y handsomeiy-dreSsad young woman
| el;ttle" . 'fp"''eo street car. y iohS-
"liisHtfeo oid leiio". wearing dlhSs
slouch i'''' anu d sui Oh hofnespuh ciothes,
! S"t ~ anu Sdid' Mss take my seat 1
"o'i . iooA 60 "oii f'' ,hese hele Senlie-
i,ie,i nooui"S az se'eiai iiieh oul We
n, .
he .ouh9 "o,iiah sat GOWN without thahk-
ing the o'i Fellow Miss. sad the DID
i' HOW with smile, - oleve l LETT my
pockethook thar on that seat VIII you
please Set ups me young woman got up,
Inc Ola reno" sat Gown, ana, stroklng bis
! "hishers. remarked - leFe IL jest KEEP
oh set'ih here Miss We got ieetie more
PVi!te'ieSs 'nah ,neSe mere gentlemen, pu'
ha,e "'shlve'eo t'a' am So' high sc
Hit1Gi' senSe' ~,
Ai"' "oou' 'ii0 SUN vi II 100 ht
Women oilly ASH 10 DC iIeaieu equais snc
lIsist on IL ana men are Otsinn1nS 10 take
them at their ~ora-that Is so far as re
safdS woman III the abstract, or one witt
"nom you are not acquainted.
But am ABOUT 10 forget the other par
OF my subJect-the weather. The weather
Is one OF the staple products OF this coun
try. Ii furnishes employment to thou
Sahds OF merchants, nahuiactlrerS, JOB
oers; retailers, dealers IN ftlrs, rupbe
goods, snow shoveis, sielghs, &c, beside
being rich boon to the small boy VIII
shoVeis snow, ana the Ice man who har
'estS .ae zee, ana iie> ABOUT 'he crop oeiit
oao an 'he 'lfhe IN oFotf TO nave oasls o.
"h'ch ne can run up the price next Sum
inef-
ii SHOWS ffequently-snowS easily a
though Il were USED 10 1t. Sun SHINES L
me morning, II ciouua up III an hour o
TWO an" goes 10 showing as thouSh IL ma
been preparing Tor II year. ANA the