The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-31
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS.
''BAB" TELLS ABOUT THE FRAGRANCE
OF SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY.
The Southern Girls Afootionate Nature
and Her Delightful Courtesies-Danc-
ing Until Her Satin slippers Are Worn
Threadbare, Yet Never Fatigued.

ing up into yours, and these words are coming
out from two rosy-red lips. It's the belle of the
White sulphur Springs giving you her opinion
as to what 'our men like" From her youth up
brother has been trained to wait on her, but also
from her youth up she has been trained to give
the pretty little thank you, the aectionate little
nod, the caressing word that is so delightful to
the heart of man. and which makes all the diff
ference between the woman and the shirt-front
1t is the shirt-front that she thinks "our men"
wouldn't like much. The shirt-front in all its
glory aud grandeur = stiff and immaculate
And to be little bit subtle she is deploring in
1t the influence of the white linen. She stands
mp, and, with hands behind her, like the picture
of Dorothy Tenant, SAYS, How wouldI look in
a shirt and jacket?" Well, it's funny thing,
but you don't conjure up picture of how she
would look in a shirt and coat, but you see in
stead how she does look in white null frock, Il
broad sash about her waist, bodice that is v
shaped at the throat both back and front, and
gives you tautalizing glimpse of white throat
head crowned with soft brown hair, and a half
French, half American face glowing at you.
THE WAYS OF FAIR soUTHERNERs.
She has happy time of it-this belle of the
White Sulphur Springs-for life here is series
of dances, mipt juleps, and admiration. She can
dance until her satin slipper is worn threadbare
and doesn't tire. She does not drink so many
juleps but she manages to imbtbe them as a
bird might, her pretty face showing above the
bunch of green like the flower that it is. She is
adored by young and old, and the secret of her
dance with the man whose heart is all her own
to hobble through one with old Tom Gordon.
who Will persist in dancing, though he has
wooden leg, but who fought alongside OF papa
and once saved him from being killed during
and frivols, but, like her English cousin. rather
inclines to cotton frocks and to wear her best
gown on one occasion and the one that was new
last summer on another, while the real old
oneH frequently describes the limits of her
wardrobe. OF course. there women here
than at many of the Northern % Watering teri G places,
but they are the wives either of tobacco kings
or Odd gOd the e4gss The soft
fectious. and hard: hearted, cross-grained old
brokers find themselves saying polite nothings
whoever may have attracted their admiration.
The Northern man is as wax in the hands OF the
Southern woman, and if she had fought the war
she'd have won it, for she never would have
given up while there had been man to compli-
ment. she doesn't hight her foe with the fierce
full request to be told all about something, be-
cause you know so much" and the coquettsh
inquiry, Now stop thinking about all the great
problems that are in your mind and tell me how
you think look ?' Undoubtedly in the South
the feminine element is the stronger, aud in the
hands of its women lieth salvation.
SOUTHERN WOMEN PROUD OF woMANLY WORK.
1t the first place, they are not ashamed to do
honest, womanly work, and in the next place the
neighbor who does not have to work recognizes
the gentility Chats good old-fashioned word y
of the worker; and the girl who saves the money
to get her null gown by selling the early straw
berries or raising bed of violets and sending
them to some Northern florist to be coined into
gold is not less respected because of it. but is ap-
piauded by having people say. What clever
girl jim Gordons Mamie is" You can't but ad-
but think that to work for womanly belongings
ana IN g womany way is the best method of en-
cOuraglng men to work.
SUPPORTING WORTHLESS MEN.
The best way to make a lazy man a busy one is
TO force him to realize that the women of the
family have no idea whatever of earning his
trousers for him, but while things look dark are
wiling TO do the best for themselves and the chill
qren II ne is strong, capable man he can get
his own bread and his own belongings. But un-
fortunately the Southern women who have made
less lazy men. woman said to me the other
day, Did you ever know successful Southern
other people to keep" ! had to confess / did
not, and added that as long as they were old
women or little children il was all right, but when
1t came TO being big, lazy, handsome men |
wanted TO rise up in my recently acquired English
hesh and knock down every man who wasn't old
enough 10 be put IN an aged mems home who let
Il woman take care of him. Invallds and drunk
ards would of course be debarred from this com
bat, for women have been taking care of drunk
ards ever since the world began, and probably
Will continue to do so as long as the world lasts
/ really believe the average woman would rather
nurse man through an attack Of deirium tre-
mens-a bad, human man-than take care of a
saint through an attack OF low fever.
SUMMER BEVERAGES IN THE SOUTHLAND.
But to return to what's going on here. If any
ShiiE' INC JUMPS are sig SWeeIef, whisky
used in them has more oily taste-I mean this
III complimentary sense, for the whisky that
rasps the throat is not conducive to the joy of a
Juep. 1t must go down in slow sort OF tcb0g.
gan fashlon, and all the while you are smelling
Inc spicy flavor of mint, and wondering who first
discovered it and who made the first com buation
OF whisky, mint, and sugar, gave it its title and
mace IL one OF the great seductions of the South
you may go declaring you do not like them; you
may nave an English preference for brandy aud
soda; you may announce that the champagne Gun
seems TO touch your heart in a fascinating way
but once your foot is on the native heath of the
Southern girl you meekly bow down 10 inlens
accept the one that is sent to you after the morn,
ing dance, and wonder how you ever Thought
awning else worth drinking; Next 10 the julep
comes the consumption of chicken, and though
you think chicken good thing in its way and
undoubtedly healthy, IL does seem surprising To
see these southern women take it meal after meal
ana prefer 1t 10 the juciest steak, the most nm
aerdone bit OF roast beef that ever was served
DO they hope TO become angels in this way? Are
the teathers growing out of their shoulders or
20 they thlnk some special virtue lies in il that
VIII! make them young forever? If one were
honestly asked what is the chief industry of the
South one would honestly have to reply the in.
Iant one, Tor nobody has less than four children
ana most people run thirteen and fifteen Al n
Weddlng given near this place not very long ago
inc great desire OF the bride was to keen an old
lafhey named Aunt LlZZle Howard away from
ncr because she possessed Tnystic power known
As tue laying on OF hands, and which insured
10 Iile happy couple handsome and healthy
pan VI Daoles pelore the year was over.
THE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS WORK.
EFeryoody-that is, everybody that is in the
SWIM IS having ner photograph taken by the
amateur tne result being more interesting than
artistic. If the artist has any feeling of tenda,
ness toward MS subject the picture will he a
PosluYe Iallure; Tor IN his desire TO touch her
ioot' place each hand just so, TO turn her face
just as ne thlnks IL ought 10 be-whigh ceuuires
An immense amount of labor--the resuit 10 ,is,I 10
Any one Rhere lhere Is blurred mass of femi-