The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-17

tar from head TO foot Ibis done, 90 u
rolled In feathers, which OF course stick &c
nim nnd give him the appearance Of an i'm.
nlense ugly duckhng. To give a finishing to
The operation, his clothes are sometimes car.
ried OIL, and the mob wish him coed luck.
Tbs chastisernent Is often applied 10 O
woman whose conduct Is known to be ilu.
moral In such cases | need 10. say it is tho
women who operate on the culprit They
want their husbands ana sons to he able 10
get about without danger, and they take
upon themselves the task Of keeping the moral
atmn'ptere Of the neighborhood healthy
The dea appears primitive, bat morality
thIiy.s by 1t.
HE susceptibilitles Of American women are
Dinetimes very easily wounded.
A PAPER having announced a mans death
1ndeT the heading: John X gone to a bet,
~ home the widow brought an action of
libel against the editor.
The further west one goes the more appar.
ent becomes the power Of the women. the
further west one goes the rarer does woman
get l. this the reasoni
To every American hotel there Is a ladies
entrance. This is 10 prevent contamination
from the possible contact Of man. When It
rams or SHOWS an awning Is thrown out over
Tue pavement but ! dare say a permanent
%triumphal arch viii ultimately DO demanded
by the ladies'.
Here IS a little story which would supply
a very good subject to the novelist or the
dramatist.
Idaho territory lies very far west indeed
and there Is an alarming scarcity Of women
there This has been ~curiously illustrated of
late In the town Of Wagon Wheel
Recently two young aides Travelled to that
remote region TO attend to their dying
brother The poor fellow did not long re-
luire their services, and Immediately after bis
Heath the sisters prepared 10 return home
Before. however, they could get away, nearly
the whole population Of the town-headei by
Tho mayor and other high oficials-were
making matrimonial oyertures TO them Feel
ing ran very high during five or six anxious
days and the mayors chances, despite bis
mature years, ruled the betting at six to one
AT the end Of the week both young aides had
capitulated, and were duly engaged The
mayor was however. cut out by a handsome
young miner The wedding day was fixed.
ana the mother Of the young ladies' was SUN
moned upon the scene. Ilors troubles beqan
Sho duly arrived. but was hotly INDIGNANT
with her daughters for the scant respect
which they had manifested toward their
brothers memory by such indecent
haste to we'd The girls explained that
they had literally been besieged. and had
yielded to tie overwhelming force OF circum-
As usual, explanations increased
tho oHensc, and the mother vowed that
neither Of them should 10 married out there
at an-that, IN fact, the engagements were
on" and that they must be of too. The
cup OF felicity was thus rudely dashed from
the lips OF the two accepted men, and they
haste 10 tell their sorrows to the town.
Indignation meeting was held, and the
mayor appointed a committee 10 wait
upon the uate matrOn In order to ask
- ~ if'fIl'i4ti IeI resolution. The
mayor with rare magnanlmity, consider
.ng the cruel blow bis own hopes had
Just received, placed himself at the
1ead Of The depUtation, and in the name of
patriotism Lmplored the good lady to grant
he petition, which TO ardently urged She.
however, stood firmly on her parental rights.
md declared that she would not leave the
own without her two daughters Then the
Of the mayor shone forth like the sun.
md proved equal to the occasion lie blandly
acompromise. Why need she leave
t aIi he drew her attention-of course 10
most delicate torms-to the fact that she was
air plump, and fifty odd, and that similar
might be taken as descriptive Of (:
.imselE There and then be offered her his
and and heart, and the young ladies a kind /
atber and protector. {
That settled the matter, and three mar {
iages TOOK place with a great flourish Of /
rumpets at Wagon Wheel.