New-York tribune., 1900-07-07
GATHERED HERE AND THERE.

inc Mother Hubbard derided by man and long
taoooed by the women Of the East is still the
summer garment par excellence in the Salt River
NaHey Ariz With the mercury standing day in
and day out anywhere from ll5 TO l2O degrees in
the shade. and higher occasion, the pomps and
'alhues OF life are quite forgotten. and the end
and aim of existence Is simply to keep cool. When
'He Eastern women who go to Arizona for their
health first arrive they invariably declare that they
at least Will never be guilty Of a Mother Hub
oaru out after few weeks of shirt waists
even dressing sacks. the last vesttge Of sartoral
prloe Vanishes, and the erstwhile tailor made girl
taxes on the semblance of a full blown hollyhock
There is no use in my trying to keep my church
open after the first of July" says a good pastor
piaintively, for the whole town is metamorphosed
INTO Mother Hubbard brigade and shirt sleeve
regiment
With the going down OF the sun. however the
Mother Hubbard folds it's tentlike proportions and
aows are thrown wide open, and IN the crispest OF
Crowned Sdir mIeh @ fTour0u Of lace and a8weG
conquer and be conquered. Then the Quaint little
etsy senoritas Win scarlet pomegrana5e blossoms
Spanish cavaliers with maEdons guitars dance
uenna "S s band bays pe 69 he p9z
headed occupants Exchanging sheery greetings li as
they pass; horseback cavalcade clatters along
riding cross saddle, Ike 50 NAM many AmaSons; While
t0rian notes of the Salvation Army blend with the
cink OF cowboy spurs and the click of the ivory
doors By . O'Clock however the Pageant is over,
and the whole population save the gamblers and
the troubadours with their guitars is asleep under
the stars.
Members Of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty TO Animals will be delighted to know that
their efforts teing ably seconded by the Amer
lean IN Manila. A recent issue of The
Daily American" published in Manila, sounds a
vigorous protest against the overWorkng Of the
horses on the streetcar lines especially up the in
clines at the bridges and the trick Of poultry deal
ers and purchasers of tying numbers Of fowls to-
gether by their legs and then suspending them
with their heads down. Watch the birds" SAYS
this champion of the defenCeless, 'and them
and watch them when laid down on the hot side
walk while their owner haggles over other bar
gains and them founder around to relieve their
cramped legs"
The employment of women in the postal service
IS not American idea. II was by no means un-
common in the old days, when postmasters kept
post houses and were persons of some consequence.
In l54S Leonard, Of Taxis appointed a woman
postmaster az Bralne-le-Comte important point
in France" says c. ". Ernst. Of Boston From
1928 TO 1916 AleXandrine de Rye was Postmaster
General Of the German Empire the Netherlands,
wee through the horrors Of the Thirty Years
War"
Lydia Hill was postmaster at Salem Mass in
the second half Of the eighteenth century, and
t4lizabeth Harvey was postmaster of Portsmouth,
\: H. at the beginning OF the seventeenth century.
Women served in England IN that capacity as early
as the Restoration
Carrots have been regarded as a moderately use
ful but not especially interesting product of nature