The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-06-30
NYE ON MOURNING.
HE TELLS OF SOME OF THE USES 1T
MAY BE PUT TO.

A Letter From One Who Wants to Have
Some Fun-The Story of a Musician Who
Took q Bath and Got Himself Disliked.
Copyright, 1894, by Edgar w. Nye.l
1t is very pleasant to know that a
strong effort is being made to secure,
through the efforts of the postmaster
general, a stamp for letter postage, to be
known as a mourning stamp, to be used
on mourning stationery and to harmon
ize with the grief supposed to be con-
tanned in the letter ITSELF
The possibilities of mourning have new
er yet been fully worked out by any
means. We have mourning livery for
n coachmen and mourning rosettes
and harness for the horses, and even
though the team should kick up and feel
gay or the coachman get his skates on. to
use an alcoholic term, it is a joy and a
comfort to know that they have black
rosettes, etc, on them, and that they ex-
ternally mourn like everything.
A postage stamp with a broad black
border and representing q widow with a
long black Grape veil, and other black
clothing from the skin out, and leaning
over a marble slab, p large weeping will
low forming the background, a pool of
tears in the foreground rejecting the
sad face of the bereaved, while the Sec
n husband may be seen concealed be-
hind the willow Though of course this
last will be hardt to arrange successfully,
would be a good design for a widows
stamp. The widower could have one
representing himself in the act of tearing
up the green grass in the cemetery or
oiling a revolver to be ready for suicidal
purposes, while looking surreptitiously
through the picket fence at a female col
lege out for a walk.
The great field of mourning evidences
has as yet hardly been touched. We
have mourning clothing, jewelry, livery
n harness, but even such a glorious
possibility as mourning ice cream, pie
and watermelons has never been given
any attention. l have even known black
haired widows to suddenly become
golden haired in the midst of their
mourning and put milk in their cafe
noir.
The time is coming when such things
will be termed vulgar.
Why should we show other evidences
OF mourning and not paint our houses
black? Why doesn't some enterprising
florist grow a variety of black flowers?
Why not muzzle the lark, and the thrush,
and the bobolink, and make them shut
up their glad songs? Why should the
green grass grow and the brook babble
on in the golden sun and enjoy itself?
There ought to be a way by which all
nature should be made to stop and pay
attention to our grief. Then it could
open up again when the period of our
mourning is over, provided some one
else had not been bereaved in the mean
time.
A physician tells me that he has in
vented recently a sort of iron tincture,
to be used in cases of extreme grief,
which turns the whole inside Of the
mourner black. This is surely a most
refined method of giving expression to
sorrow.
Sometimes, of course, the external and
visible signs of mourning do not betray
a bursting heart, but that is neither here
nor there.
just received a deeply bordered let
ter, with a black seal of shoemaker's
wax on the back, and | must admit that