Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-05-07


Special Correspondent OF Gazette and Journal
New York, May /. On very cold days
in winter we sing hymn describing
the joys of heaven as consisting prin-
cipally of never-ending music and sum
mer weather. The writer OF that hymn
never lived in New York. Summer
weather in New York means sun on
both sides Of the street; it means abso-
lutely no getting away from the fiery
rays, and it means general depravity
The only reason why every one of us
doesn't kill his neighbor during the
hot days is because some eXertion
would be required, and then. too, tho
blood would look hot. That is the
only why-for When the thermometer
is at 95 in the shade, every man is
every mans enemy, and every woman
hates every woman with an intensity
that can only be appreciated by Satan.
The messenger boy who answers your
call has his cap cooked on tho back OF
his head, and exudes heat do quar-
rels with you about the tariff, aud pres
ents of oranges or apples have no effect
on him. The book may say one thing,
but he says another; and he is grumpy
and disagreeabe doubts your being
perfect lady, and fully believes that
the place of punishment intended for
peonle who want errands run is Hot,
epeiled with capital ii. The elderly
lady who walks Broadway, with tiny
black silk parasol between her and the
sunshine, wonders that she feels SO
wicked. Her broad back is covered
with black alpaca; and all black ma
terials absolutsly seduce sun rays TO
como and rest upon them. She wears
mtis, and goes into the big shops, re.
tires to the ladies' parlor, 30 that she
may have an opportunity to use her
starch bag. She doesn't believe in
''boughten powder Her mode OF
preparing tho cooling stuff is to bang
tho starch with potato masher, until
il is fine powder, and pour Florida
water over it, and then, when it is dry,
put it in a flannel bag. This is her
refuge in trouble. When the perspira-
tion streams down her face. she stops
the liquid warmth by dabs with the
starch bag. and she looks, after she
has used the starch bag without a
mirror, like study in red and white,
tho red underlying the white, while
the white rapidly becomes lumpy. She
would lose her complexion altogether,
Lat when she gets home, limp, and
with no faith in anything, with a
doubt oven as to the truth of the West
minister Catechsm, she takes a cup of
hot tea to brace her up: this brings
about profuse perspiration, per-
Hpiration which amounts to rain
storm. and the dear old soul is saved
mentally and morally, while she drips.
- Weather affects the temper of the
N elevator boy. Yesterday he was deeply
= interested in novel called 1.-THE Queen
of Rubies, or, Who Was She?" But
h to-day no does not care continental
dam / spell it without the II, he spells
il with, whether she was a Typewriter
or manicure, but he knows no hates
everybody. He wonders if there is a
hereafter He thinks he is getting his
taste OF it now, riding up and down in
ballroom by the power of steam.
Civility and he are unknown quanti-
ties. He wonders why he was ever
born, and why, il he had to be born,
he was fool enough to be born in a
country where the weather man gives
you August heat in April, and March
winds in July. You can't tip him into
pleasantness. The heat has affected
him so that all he hopes for is a sudden
disappearance of himself into thu
poetica wave, that washes the shores,
and makes one acquainted with the
dirt that comes from New York tc
Coney Island.
He despises the girl that went up il
the elevator little while ago. She
looked cool. He heard her telling hel
sister her method for keeping cool, anc
he wondered how it would work if sh'
had to wear heavy blue cloth clothes
with gold braid and gold buttons OF
them. She said = first take YER.
hot bath and then, after the usua
1ruir t,rnraca | ppWfIpr u1Vanlf wei
with the very best French powder. No
no starch for me. Then l put on th
lightest of underwear, silk skirt and
shirt waist. L am wise enough tu haV
sensible waist measurement; it i
"a, Blythe by, and so | am not draw
ing belt in and making my face a
rod as possible. 1t always amuses m
to think about the women who lace
the judgment is SO certain and 80 sure
They not only got rcd faces, but the
get red noses, and the red of their nos
is the kind that comes to stay. oh
anybody can be cool il they want to =
1t was only the eectrocution, tina
beastly effect that prevented the eleva
tor boy from killing her outright, fo
Everybody cannot be cool.
MAN AS FASHIONS SLAVE.
Talk about women being slaves {
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nighted man doesn't dare put on
straw hat. no matter how hot th
weather is, until certain date ba
come about. And the consequence
that poor, benighted man is bot. lie
with a vengeance. Hot as the homes
worker in melodtamd. Hot in such
way that he makes everybody in hi
home more uncomfortable. The famil
wonder what is the matter with fathe
This is the matter. AS father is
fool, like most other men, he does nj
suit his clothes to the thermUmete
and he is wearing stiff shirt, heaN
wastcoat, equally heavy trousers, {
ordinary winter coat and high sil
hat. And that he doesn't turn into
grease spot is only because the gentl
man who reIgns in the regions dow
below has other little terrors waitir
for him
The woman Of fashion doesn't ha'
an easy time when the hot days com
She must live up 10 her reputation f
fine dressing, and it doesn't please h
when she realizes that drops of waite
those little drops SO atlectionately sui
about, are slowly hut surely travoil
over her cheeks, and making rather
confused mess of the rouge and Il
powder and the blue lines that she h
So carefully arranged. She doesr
look we'll unless she has few Sc
curls on her forehead, and no matt
how closely they are curled. Ii
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