The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-28
Pinned fo,. Boston.
The Pretty Westerner Gives the Hub
Something to Think About.

Something to Think About.
'At an evening party a short time
since" says a friend of mine, II was in
troduced by the hostess to most charm
ing young woman from the West, who.
after praising the New England climate,
the park system and our Puritan an
cestors, said that she had been longing
to reach Boston in order to ask few
questions which she knew would be cor
rectly, fittingly and intelligently answer
ed here / modestly advised her first
to try Cambridge. but with an almost
imperceptible shrug of her shoulder she
fastened her beautiful eyes on mine and
eagerly asked: What do you think of.
Dom Paul. and have you read Kipling's
absent Minded Beggar"? Do you know
that one of these African kings sleeps
in a folding bed which came from Chi
cago? Isn't it too bad that Butler has
lost his chance for a peerage? How queer
to call Methuen 'sMethven." and isn't it
cruel of the Beers to offer $500 for
Cecil Rhodes, dead or alive. when you
know they may have only 50 in the
treasury? What about Selling Delagoa
Bay? Is -four, in your opinion, contra
band Of war, and do you not think Mr..
Hay too young to be sent as our repre-
sentative to the Transvaal? But, then.
Colonel Laurens was sent, when only
twenty-six, by General Washington to
France in 1851 as our special Minister,
and was not his mission very successful?
He died later on, with his face to the
foe, a soldiers death-but, oh, the I'M
speakable horros of war: Are you
member of the American Peace Society,
or are you an anti-imperallst? DO you
discountenance the use of Dumdum bull
lets, and what do you think Of those
1,-1l 70 ssPohc'' q funny
name for a lord, and do you believe
DIsraeli said that the present right hon
orable Colonial Secretary wore his mon
ocle like a gentleman. Papa says Gem
eral Joubert is like Stonewall Jackson.
Perhaps "Bobs'' is that style. Doesn't
his march to Candahar look like it? But
what about Dom Paul? I'm really dying
to know. He drinks too much strong
coffee and smokes too much, doesn't he?
Goes to bed at S o'clock and all that
sort of thing? What a primitive pagan
he must be, to be sure. In Cape Town a
, while ago friend of mine from St Louis
rode in an electric car with eight other
Americans from different parts of the
| States: the car was made in Philadelphia,
| the rails in Pittsburg. the other things
| in Lynn the motOrman was from Frisco
| and the conductor from Boston. They
| heard the conductor humning: the lines:
| .''"When 'Omer smote is bloomin' Tyre,
| ED card men sing by land and sea,
| An what e thought e might require.
'E went an took-the same as mel
| Dom Paul. they tell US, reads the Bible.
| and says: Cursed be he who removes
! the landmarks Of his neighbors!' But
didn't he and his people, after their
trek across the !-aal, remove boun-
| diaries that belonged to some one else?
Or don't the landmarks of the natives
count?'
Just then an admirer of hers from
| Vancouver came up, and with parting
! bow and lingering look of admiration,
+: raised on into the conservatory to quiet
~ think it all over. And I am think
| ing it over STILL"