El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-02

For the Better Half
Written for the HERALD.

straightway she was imposed upon by tn
winters horde of professional tramps
The next year when she gave but col
bre ad and meat she was not
If a man be truly hungry his ap
meat agreeable to him. 1t Ia epouRf
for the hungry. 1t pleases US to b.
boup tiful, but is it right! In tbi
problem, the housewife has to wrestl,
with q perplexity that economists anl
phil osophers have not been able II
solve. Those who have the city's welfsr,
at heart chide her, and rightly, If sh'
encourage the tramp who ls most otter
more than waste element In the
community. He commits hundreds OF
petty crimes, breaks any OF the mun1c-
ipallaw that stand in his way, is some
times an incendiary, often commits the
big crimes and the brutal ones. She helps
| to m sintain aud support q very dan
gerOus element to the community.
Yet she must obey Christ's command.
If she could forsake all and follow
Christ, letting family and home go, she
might follow each unfortunate in
dividual through his days, striving to
get work for him or to see that be is
has her home to guard-and wants the
city to be safe for her children she
should help to keep her town free from
an element that is dangerous to Its
peace and industry.
Ell Paso is strikingly unfortunate in
one way-that is in the fact that many
people come here because they have
to. They seek health and in the clear
bright air usually gain it and 60 about
taking some part in the life OF our
continually pine for the flesh pots OF
some other place. It is not philosoph-
ical of them. They are not liked be-
cause of it and they curtail their use
fulness to society. A little discomfort
ia very good thing, 1t urges towards
better things. A community without
it would be sluggish aud it is well to
listen to strangers who come to tell
how ''they" do things in New York or
Philadelphia or whatever flesh pottery
they hail from. It is well too
to have mercy and remember
that to all except Ell Pasoans, the little
city seems q remote border town
probably no better than it should be
and that it Is difficult for the faraway
east to realize what an altogether won
derful> and precocious city we a"e. 1t
is we'll to have mercy and remember
that it Is hard to be sick aud content.
The Ell Pssoan ia usually very tolerant
OF the stranger within the city's gates
even of him who raises high his
voice in criticism of Ell Paso, of Ell
Paso houses, schools, enter tainments,
morals, aesthetics, social code and the
citizens In general and particular.
Still, the strangers sometimes abuse
this good nature.
Some sigh for art galleries and sniff
because FL Paso has none. but If these
they are utterly without true art in
their souls. The earth is beautiful
and Ell Psso Is no step child of old
Dame Nature There are lines and
colors to be seen by the beauty loving
eye that would drive painter
into an ecstasy of effort to try to repro
duce on his canvas. One cannot tell
of them In a moment, in day or q
year. The beauty of blazing sunsets,
Mount Franklin and on the far away
Mexican peaks, of splendid blue and
live shadows in the Juarez ouutains
or their bold, dark sky line. There lie
a little weed that grows nthe cutters
here of q lovely saffron color with the
color of fire in its buds. There are
where a bright yellow daisy
peta'led flower makes patches Of gold
across the sand. Or one may see the
whole gsmut of yellow colors. from the
palest primrose through gold to the
deepest russell if he will go to the mesa
in October and look down into the
wooded valley. At twilightsthe olive
shadows soften everything, even the
adobe huts of the Mexicans. Little
beacons of light shine out from the
of houses Nesting at the foot
Of the hills, Mount Franklin towers
above seeming the higher because of
The tiny light at the foot, the stars fash
)ut one by one until at last one sees
The white simmer of the Plefades, q
windmill cresks slowly and the night
s perfect.
It is fine to have art galleries truly
20 see beauty with other peoples eyes
md souls, but one cannot appreciate
Rembrandt, Murillo, Turner or
Corot or any artists, either of land |
'cspes or of color, who cannot appre-
,iste the western skies, the stsrlit
nights and the mountain peaks Of Ell
Paso.
It is a wonder that the german is not |
lanced oftener in Ell Paso. The trouble |
9 that most people who have never |
anced the german have a feeling that |
t is something complicated and diff |
in reality it is simply |
about with leader to whistle |
way the time. The main difference
it and an ordinary dance is that
avors are given out. The usual figures
ire easily danced by simply waltzing
lfter the leader. Sometimes ger
Il an simply means dance with favors.
No figures Whatever are introduced, but
having the simple little favors and
lapcing by favoring makes the time
ollier.