The Bossier banner., 1892-02-25
THE FEMININE FUssER.
Happy Only When Miserable, She ISM
Popular Anywhere.

Happy, onlY W H6n MIS0TADlos ShO
Popular Anywhere.
Once in while one meets fussy
man, and most certainly masculinity in
this aspect shines forth as the most dis
agreeable being in all creation. But,
as rule, the Great American Fusser is
a woman.
We all know her, for we meet her
often. Sometimes she is on the horse
car. and is certain that the conductor
will not remember to stop at Four
teenth street, although in six blocks
she has logged his memory three times.
No matter if the car always stops there;
perhaps it may not to-day. Or she
stands at the ribbon counter and looks
at ten pieces of black ribbon before she
decides that she would prefer to have
her new gown trimmed with fringe.
But at home she is rampant, and
guests as we'll as members of her fam
lily suffer from her peculiarities While
entertaining friends in the drawing
room she will bounce from her chair and
proceed to wipe with her pocket hand
kerchief the shelf of the bookcase
which that careless Nora must have
forgotten to dust" Servants are
driving her into her grave" she declares
solemnly. Her house is always ''roast-
ing hot" or ''dreadfully cold" She
pants with heat from recent exercise
and SINNERS au1ibly, insisting on
throwing open windows and doors in
spite of the suffering of other people; or
she shiveringly declares that she must
have caught her death of cold, her feet
and hands are like ice, and servants
must bring her shawls, and turn on all
the heat for she is simply frozen"
When the Great American Fusser is
! i'll more sympathy should be felt for hel
| family than for her, for their lot is in
deed hard one. She is always sure
that she is going to die. This pain in
the chest means pneumonia, or, worse
still, angina pectoris. Her aunt went
in just this way. No, she will not see
a physician. He could not help her
She has no appetite and is faint from
lack of food. But bring her nothing tt
eat, she positively can not swallow {
mouthful. As she becomes GONZALES
cent, her tea is cold, her toast scorched
! her broth lacks salt. She will not have
these things remedied; she feels already
that she is a burden upon her family,
cumberer of the ground.
In travelling is the time that her pecu
liarities are most prominent. She hate
whatever vehicle she happens to be in
If an ordinary passenger car holds he
precious form she longs for parlo
car, and, if in a parlor car, the swinging
seats make her dizzy. The road OF
which she rides is always the dusties
in the country; the man III front of he
leaves his window open and cinders ge
in her eyes. or all the ventillators ar
closed and she is made i'll by the stiflin
close car.
She is never quite well and is alway
dissatisfied. She can not bear the wiz
ter. 1t is so cold and bleak; the summe
is intolerable with its heat and fie'
while spring and autumn are unplea:
ant seasons, neither hay nor grass. Sh
is pers;stently wretched, and never hal
by unless miserable.
Those who are not intimately ~
quainted with the Great American Fu
ser may think this picture overdraw'
but let them stand thankfully in tho
lot until they are thrown into close r.
lations with her and then they ma
give their OpiniOn-N Y. Recorder