San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-07
POT POURRI FROM DALLAS.
A Rainy Day At The Fair-Sir Edwin
Arnold's Marriage-Spicy Chat
About The People And
ThinpS

| Arnolds Marriage-Spicy Chat
| About The People And
Things.
Special correspondence.
Dallas, Tex, Nov. 5.-Rain, mud and
slush did not prevent a large crowd of
people from attending the fair last Sat-
urday.
A steady down pour continued from
early morning until late in the after
noon, making the street nitolerably
sloppy
who wouldn't be a man on such
day as this?" said pretty girl who
was making a desperate effort to keep
her dainty skirts out of the mud.
Women are at a disadvantage on
rainy days with their long and excess
sively full skirts.
Not one woman in fifty knows how
to lift her skirts the proper distance,
with a degree of grace.
The display of foot wear ranged all
the way from dainty French boots to
slippers run down at the heels and
from which every vestige of glory had
long since departed.
With painful sigh we realized chat
black hosiery was fast being relegated
to the rear.
Petticoats that had once been snowy
white were despatched and bedraggell-
ed.
One could but sympathize with the
fair wearers, for they must have been
uncomfortable as well as unsightly.
Appreciately dressed is well-dressed-
fact some women have never learned.
Coming home in the afternoon on the
street car there was a man aboard who
had fingered too long in Smoky Row."
AS Gov. Bob Taylor would says he had
imbibed rather freely in mountain
dew" Just enough to loosen his ton
que His inexhaustible supply of jokes
was amusing, although must be confess
sed some of them were rather stale.
Be it said to his credit that he never so
much as alluded to the hackneyed sub
ject, viz, old maids and mothers-in-
law. In his bemuddled condition he
must have forgotten them entirely, for
the funny man" usually aims the
most of his witticisms at these too
much abused and long suffering class
| es of people.
| "Old maids are necessary evils" we
heard a man say recently.
We afterward sympathized with him
when the story leaked out that one of
these necessary evils, had the good
| sense to refuse him.
| 1t was a bright but misinformed man
from San Antonio who said in con-
vention speech that IF he had his way
he would put all of the old bachelors
in the penitentiary. The old maids,
| God bless them,) l would not do
thing to them, for they would get mar
ried if they COULD"
Dear misguided brother, never make
so rash a statement again, else one of
these unappropriated blessings may I'M
dertake to convince you of the error Of
your way.
The State Letter Carriers association
met in this city last Wednesday.
A large number of delegates, from
almost every city in Texas, were in at
| tendance.
DR.. Bell, who had a swine exhibit
at the fair had his pocket book con-
tanning $500 stolen, while he slept.
So far no clue has been found as to
who got the money.
Mr.. J. Howard Audrey and Miss Guy
on Hayden were married at the resi-
dence of the brides father Rev. S. \.
Hayden last Thursday night.
Miss Hayden was very popular in
Oak Cliff Society Circles.
English people are still discussing Sir
Edwin Arnold's marriage with the dus-
ky daughter of the Orient.
Lady Arnold is the first japanese wO-
fn hnppnna nv marriage En-
glish lady of title.
1t is said that the author of the
Light of Asia" enjoys more distinc-
ton in the U. S. than in his own coun-
try.
Able Victor Charbonnel wishes tc
make Paris a sort of religious rendez-
vous during the exposition in 1900.
Something similar to the Worlds
: Congress of religion, presided over by
= the Barrows during the Worlds fair in
Chicago.
Christianity should never be put or
an equal footing with the religions OF
; Pagan countries, as it would if this
French woman's plan was carried out
t Among the new books published dur.
ing the month, THE Memoirs of ALFRED
= Lora TennysOn," by his son, is one Of
the most interesting.
The book contains the correspondence
I of some of the most noted men and wO
men in the 10Th century.
Lady Tennyson, who died last Au
gust, corrected the proof sheets of the
I life of her illustrious husband.
Rev. c. L. Seasholes, late pastor o.
: the First Baptist church, of Dallas
who has always been an active worker
2 in the B. Y. p. u. movement, has &C
cepted a call to the pastOrate of tn,
Baptist church at Lansing, Mich.
The scheme of Commander Booth
$ Tucker to colonize the poor and i'm
provident of our large cities on farms
in the west seems to be deserving o
/. success. He is a broad minded MAJ