Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-11-12
Bah ON ALITTLE JAUNT.
What She Saw in Other cities - Some
Things That Arc Misunderstanding on,
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NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-There comes times
in everybody's life when they want to
meander a little. 1t is funny word that
meander, and yet it covers the ground
exactly: You want to go here. there and
everywhere. You want TO see something
you haven't been in the habit of seeing.
You want TO eat something strange, you
want to ride behind slower and bonner
cab horses than New York furnishes.
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, will
all give you these.
THE WARRINGTON CAB HORSES.
The popularity of the cab horse in
Washington is that he seems to know Just
where You are going, and the speed that
you would like. He makes the punish
ment suit the crime. Once | went out to
see voodoo doctor at the Jail, and that
cab horse thought | was being sent up for
10 days, and SO he kept me as long time
getting there as possible. He was the
French w call, synlpatico. When he saw
me come out of that Jail, and saw the
gentlemanly warden present me with o
bunch of bright red geraniums, he came
TO the conclusion that | was Mckinley
polltlclan, and he trotted me back to
Washington and dropped me at the
Arlington with the same old thud that the
actor describes as dull and sickening. If
he thinks for a little minute that you are
out with'your sweetheart, really believe
he puts on blinkers, for he never turns his
head to look. and he goes as slowly as
possible is perfectly willing when you go
home for you to give an account of your
self, and put the blame on having the
slowest horse IN the city. He is nice cab
| horse, very.
BALTIMORE AND PHILADELPHIA "cABBTEs."
The Baltimore cab horse is rather more
digniiied. Its driver invariably declines
10 near any suggestion that you may
make. He thinks he knows it all, and his
idea is that You shall live your life as he
wishes it, while the horse himself has the
same manner of arrogant blue blood, and
a great knowledge Of civilization. He
comes out great at Masonic professions,
when the men who wear horse collars and
| plunes on their hats, are to the fore, and
he Frances as If the templar Of old were
indeed in the 10th century.
| The Philadelphia cab horse is more than
simply peculiar. He has no knowledge
whatever of the city itself He lives in
the basement of the Pennsylvania railroad
station, and thinks that wherever else you
want to go it will be wisest to finish up
there and leave the town. Even
CAB HORSES KNOW SOMETHING.
He knows but one shop; you can imagine
| whose that is, and though YOU may talk
and beg to be taken somewhere else, If it
is not right into Mr.. Wanamaker's bazaar,
it is two blocks away from it, or just oppo-
site TO it. or if you go in there they will tell
YOU. The Philadelphia cab is not a success.
The horse is of u bony order: perhaps he is
a protoplasm. do not know exactly what
a protoplasm is, but it sounds well. The
hanson itself has no modern adjuncts. Its
doors do not close by electricity, and there
is no sign of a mirror inside, but the rates
do stare you in the face and, If you are a
| woman, and give the man quarter over
the, price he has to pay the company, he
| looks at you as II you were an angel come
from New York, to make happy shabby
and untipped drivers.
INA NEW YORK CAB.
The New York cab is not without its
| pecuiarities, by the by. | have been sus-
pended out of the window myself scream
ingto the cabman, and he has been equally
| persistent in choosing his own way But
atleast he meanders little bit and doesn't
get in line like the Philadelphia one does
on the car tracks. with three OF Wanna
makers wagons. two cars and another
hanson ahead of him. and the same num-
BET. of vehicles, presumably behind him,
and then proceed as il he were going to
a funeral. This mode of driving is not
good for nervous woman; she gets to
wondering where the corpse is, and then
there comes over her an awful conviction
that perhaps before her home is reached
she will be the corpse herself. Still, cab
on the track Is smooth, and it is better
than being iolted over the stones.
MORAL AND MENTAL JoLTINa.
Though, did you ever think little Jolt
ing did one good once in awhile2 A little
mental, as well as little moral jolting ?
Sometimes we get great big jolt, and
think there is nothing In this wide world
but sin and wickedness and disagreeablc-
ness; and then sometimes we get anothe Ter
kind of jolt, and we see all the sunshine
and all the good people, and we want to go
along, giving kiss of brotherly love. l
myself approve of kiss of brotherlylove,
always with the proviso that il is somebody
elscs brother. But this is another story.
| felt this way the other day, and so said
to myself: There is a lot Of good in the
sunshine; come out and see it;n so me and
my soul loafed
Mrs. KENDAL As A WOMAN.
We dropped into see one of the best
women and one of the most charming and
cheerful actresses i'll the world and that is
Madge Kendall; happy, industrious, always
hopeful, ready to cheer whoever is down
hearted, and never failing to do it when
she tries. l looked at her, and | thought
to myself, everything on the stage cam OF
be wrong when there is one good woman,
and just here want to tell you one thing,
my friends, Madge Kendall, the woman is
good all the way through; she don't look
eoldly and harshly at the sins of other
people, because she knows she has sins of
her own. She Is greatly given to consider
ing the temptation before she says one
word of Judgment | like her and so dc
you. We have both read all newspaper
announcements about her being too good;
now, between you and me, especially II
you are Il man, we can't have women who
are too good as the world goes nowadays.
You may think it is because like her
| PprhntNg I . hat is vi N
, | many women young and old go to see her
act. There has never been an honest
woman on the stage who was good actress
who was mot appreciated. Boldness and
badness don't make the fame of an actress.
Unfortunately, because the life of the
stage is So full of temptations many OF
them have done what You wouldn't want
your mother or your wife to do. and yet
have succeeded from an artistic standpoint
because they did good work. But the feel,
ing of the world to-day is expressing itself
when notorious adventures who is not
good actress makes an absolute failure.
So after all we can see, thank God, that
there is an appreciation of goodness.
MR.. cHILDs AS woMAN's FRIEND.
After this my soul and trottcd off tc
see a good man. | like q good man.
, like men anyhow. God made them that
women might like them, and be taken
, do it; then they are not men. suppose
they are protoplasms. Well, we got on
the ferry and on the train, and we came
, over, Introduced ourselves to the cab horse
of Philadelphia, and went to see Mr.
Childs. Now, there is q good man, who is
, doing his good while he is here. He has
been maryelously kind to women in the
, best way possible; he has put it in theii
power to get work when it was necessary
for them to support themselves, and take