The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-05-08
THE REAL SOUTHERN WOMAN.
Her Easy-Going Methods Prevent Nsr-
yous Prostitution,

yous Prostitution.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
Southern women at least can
never be accused of being afraid of
fresh air, and in the South one sees
fewer cases of nervous prostration
than anywhere else in the United
States. The real Southern woman
takes things easy, and rarely ever
livessin a badly ventilated house.
From Tennessee to the jump-off
place in Florida | believe that more
bedding is put ia the air in the
morning sun each day than in all
the Middle and New England states
put together. The mattresses, pill
lows and bed clothes are hung over
the piazza ratings, till, looking out
on your neighbours back yards, you
almos: feel as though you were in
the midst of Massachusetts house
cleaning epidemic.
The kitchens are often separated
from the house by a latticed porch ;
or if the house is built in a more
modern way. there is usually big
back porch, we'll covered, at the
back of the house, and on this back
porch the mistress of the mansion
makes the salads. prepares dainty
desserts, and if there is but one SER
want and a large family, she sits
there in the cool Of the morning
and shells the peas and prepares
the other vegetables for dinner, and
does much of the work which a
Northern housekeeper does in a
hot kitchen.
And then there's the afternoon
nap. Once at Tennessee noun
tain resort, in which all the guests
were Southerners save half dozen,
| took some notes on the nap ques-
ton, and found that not woman
among them who had been born
south of the Mason's and Dixon's
line was ever known to forget her
siesta, and that most of the gentle
men as we'll took their after dinner
maps. Of the five Northern women
in the house three had troublesome
nerves and looked it, while many of
the Southern women were remarka-
bly, fresh and young looking, though
/ will admit many of them were
there to drink a certain mineral
water for dyspepsia, due most likely
to the eating of hot bread three
times day the year round. There
was one ambitious little Northern
lady in the house who preferred a
little music to nap after her mid
day meal, and so for some time she
played Chopin after dinner, till one
day she found a notice pinned on
the wall beside the piano that the
"guests in the house requested that
the piano should not be performed
upon between the hours of 2 and 5. ]"
The afternoon nap" was to be an
institution in that we'll ordered hos
telry. And so between the hours
of 2 and quiet was made to reign
supreme for the nerve and beauty
preservers.
Southern women are conservative.
Perhaps it is the climate which
makes too much energy a dangerous
thing. Clubs are not numerous and
tlourishing here, but instead one
sees and feels the strong influence of
the women who love home and FAM
lily best of anything in the world.
Of the prospector Sam Davis says
in the Chatauquan: ITO the brave
and rugged prospector, with his
cheap outfit of mining tools, his
empty stomach, and his hopeful
heart is due the rapid development
of the West. AT the tap of his pick
the doors of natures treasure vaults
open but their wealth is not for
him. The stock sharks, the specu-
lators and the promoters rob him
Of his interest, and the snow is no
sooner sinking from the slopes of
the foothills than the poor fellow is
vending his course into new terri
tory. He appears in the rocky fast
nesses of the mountains, and, with
no companions but his pick and
frying pan, is lost to memory. Sud
denly comes the news of another
discovery, and city rises like
pillar of fame in the wilderness.
Lucky Bill has struck it rich,' gam
bled away his pile and pushed on.
The bones of hundreds of the ad-
vance couriers of civilization blaze
the path of progress in the West, or
moulder in forgotten graves, while
in their wake are teeming cities
they have founded AMI the ceaseless
murmur of the money-seeking mul.
titude whose fortunes they have
builded."
When the little daughters of Mr..
and Mrs Cleveland had their bon
nets on to go away from the White
House, MIR. Cleveland, who was
then President, asked: "Where are
you going, children?"
1--WE are going to Princeton" they
replied.
"Why are you going to Prince
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