Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-06
4 W0MAN'S MUSINGS.
THE ALTON LADY PHMOsOPHIZE:
ABOUT SPRING, LENT, &c.
gIgTER LINGERING PERSISTENTLY
The Mountain People Are in No
Hurry for the VernaI Senson-The
Single Tax and Indiscriminnte
kissing.

correspondence Of the Dispatch)
ALTON. VA, March 5.-February went
OIL, with such friendly nod that no
one was prepared for the lion of March
70 come in with whistling, angry growls
sr5 Q. shower Of snow from his name ana
tail
We really felt that it was time the
backbone" Of winter was broken, Tor
Old Death has reaped with too sharp
sickle since November. In the sudden
changes Of temperature, from degrees
below zero TO spring-like, muggy days
the weather has played the part of Alad-
eu's carpet. and often whisked US In an
hour from Florida to the Yukon.
ReDorts from our foremost physicians
say that they have lately discovered
the health standard of this country 10
be lower in the spring than at any other
season" They don't say how late this
discovery is. but the grandmother or any
modern Esculapius cherished the belieI
that there was a certain fatal influence
,1 the spring air. and fought 1t OF py
means of flannel wrappings ana Woollen
stockings. worn until June, and doses %
raueeous teas and barks, administer Gu
10 each child as soon as ne was AVIAN
Grandmother treatment was not la
wrong. Owing partly TO the polsono
exhaIation of the drying earth' ana III
mart TO the nervous exhaustion succeed
Inc an sctiva winter Of work or society 5
demands certain IL is that there Is an
actual loss of vitality and lowering OIL
The whole physical system that shoulo
be- met AT this time with rational care
And so inst a little longer II you
rIaesa we'll sing our madrtgals 10 WlhteI
srg the beautiful snow, which Is Coiiihe
down now in gusty Whirls anu NUNS
moor and mountain in shroudlhs IoluS q
foot deep. ...,.,+,,,e,
Draw the curtain sadly, we templlns
dealers in earth's vaniues, before 'ho
oreaudies, in burnt orange ana cS ,Is-
besprlukled with ferns, ana emp h S'.
vreathed in roses, ahead OF the MAJ nv.
and bring back daddy's pectoral syn
erf rorC,5s masters and poor mamma S
Ifre hook and box Of homeopathy
pellets for March according 10 the Oiu
poets is a clustering, tickle felloW' eve
likely 10 change his mind ana posing
rrammatically. under false seH"0i'
THANKFUL FOR WINTER
N,rsrubile I'D here we selhshly
,o..a with a soul above ana a pocN W.
irrk bslow springs fashions anu ~
vofI.ies we are soberly keeping LoHs
and h~eathing paeans of thaLlh
TIA, tbe cold snap Is holding pach tne
swelling tree buds and giving 10 p.,.o,-i,, .
~ rsriqe peacb-blooms ana hoWerlIls
vrsatbs ~ apple-blossoms, later OH >0i
a good fruit year. loo, iy favor
Tbe Tenten season is growing III laNV =.
here as elsewhere. This SHOWS ln@' a.
meets a real want, and that /" 90,
this IS evidenced by the lact TO. 800
nearly three centuries II mas Oe [,t,r,s.
60 useful by two such pouieS lathe.
rams and that in later years, chuI0i ~
a. whatever UNCONVENTIONAL NAME
cities are utilizing the season 10 ~ ~
own epiritual benefit. The Lehteu -,
son rightly observed, serves 20 PIoiiIo '.'
the devotional feeling, ana 10 ,tso
that feeling upon the daily soclal NJ =.
So far from losing, IL rather gains
value n instead of adherlns 10 ~, 49,
o.d-tirne ideas underlying ft-such ds VI,
forty-days' fast Of our LORD, OF VIZ >,
be It's protOtypes-it is simply inar ~.
stand for a period OF abstinence .bat
pleasurable indulgence In festlFieS S,,,,,o,,.
a few weeks may be given 70 ne IN,
meditation and TO the cultivation Ot q
auietcr duties OF the home. Herein :.
gain for the body as well, In the res
between the social exactions OF w., 40
and summer. even though we may
carry our designations 10 excess, .,,o,
II is Just al this time OF the yea. o o,,'a
nature assert itself and that Len ,,,oiI
tributes no less 20 ones physicsi =,
being than its religious phase ooes
the spiritual needs OF man. NeceSsn "a,
the rich and even gross 1000 OF o ,on,
Weather is rejected now, and people loh.
for more vegetable diet. IL ~ ho S,s
hypochondric fancy that we turn ~.
lastefully away from meats ana swe''
and crave for something green.
know not, indeed. as 70 whether tnis -
lingering trace of some prior existsH 49,
wherein man fed upon fruits and g,aps
leaves fried IN batter-as st Lueuie'S