The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-20
BILL NrE AND THE BLIZZARD.
A Few Remarks Pertinent to the Late At
mospheric Disturbance.

mospheric Disturbance.
New York World.
storm like that of tbs past week, two odd feat
ures present themselves. One is the unmuzzled
joy of the New Yorker when he finds that after
patiently wearing for years the same kind of
clothes adopted by body else, he is permit
ted to throw off the thraldom of prescribed ap-
parel and array himself in the wealth of the
tic, the primitive comfort of primeval lawless-
ness and the unaundered wardrobe of the wig
wan. 1 am glad that this element in the uni
versal man cannot be successfully cultivated
out Of existence. 1t is the exhilaration of boy
hood asserting itself in later years. encouraged
by he taunts of the storm and the defiant dare
of the snow.
Darklv brooding over its waning power with
its ruffiad pIumage turned the wrong way, the
plug hat sought the solitude OF its den. re1uct-
antly yielding to all kinds OF resurrected head
gear, from the red flannel cornucopia of the
Canadian lumberman 10 the checkered fore and
aft horror of the bilious tourist.
Great men defantly snapped their fingers at
their tailors and went forth clad in plumage
borrowed from the rag-bag. Scholars and states
men defed the impossible trousers wern by the
doveeyed gentleman who dwell only in dreams
and autographs, and boldly tied down their
panties with buckskin strings. Van fwillers,
Van Buskirks, Van Blumenfeldts and Van Am
burgbs cast aside the cleaning patent-leather
and the saddle-colored eaiter to swathe their he
roc feet in the gunnysack swaddiine clothes of
cruder civilization, or socked their simple.
assuming feet into the low browed aud fat
chested moccasin of the dead past.
Men who have silently worn out $500 worth OF
UNI brellaS In years gone Dy, without gratifying
the hungry public with . view Of anything but
the carved handle and the unlmpassioned cover,
gladly laid aside all and showed their
slim congregation how these umbrellas
made.
Everywhere the maddenine clinkety-clauk of
the street car bell and the of traffic
still. The tortured. aggravated aud aggregated
eardrum of the mighty metropolis rested. The
muffisd football of the irrepressble American.
clothed in the gaudy trappines of the garrett,
fell like the measured hoof-beat Of a song and
dance artist distant moor.
No sound disturbed the restful silence but tho
long-drAwn swish and swash that came and
went as the sieet covered pantsloons of the
pedestrian interfered with each other, and then
all stllFas the breast of Southern moon
light trust. when the spirit had departed.
Men who have squeaSed the rubber chicken
on Broadway, wooed humanity with fringe
Of swaying. porpoise hide snoe-lace. were swa-
lowed up In the gray shadow oe the storm.
Their places partially filled by wealthy
men in disguise. The weil-drossed hog, with
his umbrella under his arm, and the eys OF
fellow man worn iauntily on its ferrule tip, had
gone to his hall bedroom to wait till the clouds
rolled by The streets given up the
good batured and courageous, unqnenchahle
American who had robbed q rag CARPET 70
make frost bitten holiday
Many years may drag their slow length adown
the corridors of time ere It will again Re neces-
sary for the landlord OF the Hoffman House to
tie clothesline TO himself when he goes forth at
evening time TO do his chores st the barn, but
time will not eface from the memory OF
the days when this wealth of silence. like
twenty pound saddle of venison. brooded over
the great. snow-clad city and men wore what
they wanted to-
It was the great carnival OF comfortable
cloIhes and stately commercial calm. The