El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-06

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81 was highly pleased with what l
saw in the opera house last Thursday
night" said a stranger n the city TO
Round bout last evening. nave
been travelling continually for the past
wear and have been in many opera
houses during that time, but L never
saw so many ladies at the opera with
out large hats on as [ did last night.
was agreeable surprises land the pretty
way the ladies of this city do up their
hair is more attractive, to my mind,
than if they should appear there Win
hats on that cost one hundred dollars
each. But here's where the joke comes
in. While | was sitting there admir-
ing the ladies in the audience for their
thong htfulness in regarding men
wishes, a lady took a seat just IN front
of me and wore a hat seven stories
high with seven ostrich plumes Ia 1t
standing straight on end. She looked
as though she had just come IN from
the county and WAS out OF place IN
that audience Of hatless ladies'. 1t
kept me do0 gipg ehind that hat and
seven plumes 10 get a peep at the &C
tors on the stage, and | never did get
to see many of the high kicks made the
red-stOckinged actress on the stage.
l wished | was some other man sitting
behind some pretty woman VINO hao
left her hat at bone"
Il am inclined to think" said cit
izen this morning, "that the committee
appointed to examine into and report
on the condition of the city's books and
q n6 N O
the indexing of the records in the
clerks office. That the motion was
intended for the good of the city there
is no doubt, but the cost OF that work
would be more than the city can afford
to pay during the present strlngency.
| think though the recommendations
regarding stubs TO the city's documents
is a good one and should he carried out,
even if it does cost a little money. L
am strictly in favor of one officer keep
ing a check on another, no matter how
honest they may be, and besides it
often lets an officer out of an embar-
RAISING position. by requiring them to
adhere strictly to the law"
Il am glad to get back TO the sunny
southwest" said Ray Blino, who arriv-
ed yesterday from Ohio. Il went back
| to my Old home in OHIO about one year
| =
| iona and Texas. but [ couldn't stand
| the climate back there and never eX
| pect to reside in that section Of the
country again. When l reached my
old home in Ohio | found 1T just as [
| had left it. The same old gates were
still off their hinges and plckets were
torn off the fences in the same places
| that they were when | was Il boy. But
| IN nay younger days l did not notice
| that the sky was always cloudy and the
! dir murky. However, after d life in
| the southwest under clear skies and a
| dry atmosphere L did not feel right
back there and yearned for my western
home and associates and | made up my
mind to come west again. As arrived
| at La Junta on the Santa Fe Y spirits
| began to rise and when | reached San
| Marcial l was actually hilarious, in
| toxicated. not with spirits, but with the
| Joy of getting back to clear ana azure
skies where ASSOCIATIONS are more con-
| genial and free than in the east
Around the oasis in the deserts of the
| west the sand storms may move the soil
| in chunks, the coyote may howl at
night and the cactus may cause lnc0n-
veniences occasionally: the tarantula.
rattle snake and centipede may ABIDE
here, and they may call US wild and
woOlly. but with all these draw backs it
| IS better than the fete east. where TO"
| six months there is always d cloudy sky
aud bitter cold weather, WHERE one
must work for six months to supply
sustenance for another six months OF
| cooped up inactivity"
ga young lady in Kansas has been
arrested on complaint of d young man
| who charges that she did suddenly,
forcibly and Intentionally hug him
| thereby causing him great confusion
and mental Anguish, - said an old
| bachelor today. Now will you tell
| me what's the matter with this west
ern climate? The women of the west
| clamor louder for women's suffrage
| than they do in the e 4st- Take it rig bit
| here in Ell Paso, for instance. Some of
| the girls don't wait for the boys to hang
around and catch onto them, nor do the
boys have 10 sit on the fence while the
girl goes by o., no. Toe girl just
simply goes after the boy and she gen
orally catches him-untll some other
prettier girl com along aud takes HIM
away. OF course in this wild westeru
way the affair is seldom serious, but
sometimes the girl does succeed in
landing her fish, but when she does 1t
is generally case of divorce later.
When the pith and romance has been
hooked out of Irritation, the hirtS
| usually feel the worse for their acts,
III wneu they continually keep up the
same line of acton they make them
selves little prominent and the result
IS that If it is a man he soon gets the
Z. b. by girl that he really admires
and could be serious with, while 1t 1t
is d girl she generally is neglected
eally n life and becomes ID back num-
Der with the male seX-whO do not
care to make girl hi. wife whose only
recommendation is her boLst OF the
many BEATS she has caught aud liirted
with. A good modest gIrl Is always q
staple article on the marrlageaL lie
market. But one who is 50 impulSive
that she has to force herself on the men
is the kind that makes marriage Il fall
ure and causes the divorce docke5 in
the courts to be filled with Cases. |
am go stickler for prod IshnCss IN girls
that is just the opposite extreme for
the i'll 70 take. bIL thGre is a middle