El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-23
For the Better Half

drum almost forces one to keep ssel
and follow. 1t takes q distinct effor
to keep from following and 1t Is Inn pos
sible not to keep step. Armiet
know the worth of the
drum, how it holds the .t.ps OF sold
iers to their duty and gives strength
to the weak flesh when fatigue and
danger are ovsrpowering. AS for the
IT, m BOURNE the jingle and clsnk appeal
| to what lie, in one way, an Opposite sense:
| it ia the gypsy music, wild and free,
the music of the forests and she
| wandering paths, OF freedom from
restraint and copventionality. There
| liz an in vita ton to tho freedom OF the
forest and the road ia every clsnk.
Men will listen to the tam BOURNE who
would fee from q piano. aud men who
bolt from the church doors will follow
the drum.
So every night the drum beats its
com mauding roll, the great flags are
horne futtering through the streets.
the tam BOURNE clinks it's Invitations,
the little army falls in. and the woman
With the strong, free voice tells OF the
adventures of men and women in the
wilderpasses and dark places OF elm,
OF their encounters with the darkness,
and of their glad victories. Or she
tells of the sinner who will not turn
they lead him 10. The Salvation Army
is aa every day eocurren cs with Ne, but
1t Is none the less picturesque, inter-
e:ting, and vital. l. is an army that is
working the will of God in its neces'
sary way.
Ell Paso will have the opportunity
next week to show off her sights to =
crowd Of people willing and intelligent
TO appreciate them. First and best
OF all is old Boundary's sharp peak at
sunset, next the mesa view In tho
cool of the late afternoons, when east
and west, north and south is glowing,
tinted, and blazing with sunset color:
next the evening star that rises in
the sunset glow and shines out OF the
green or turquoise hued twilight.
then the night scenes, the juarez
mountains looming up darkly. and
the starry spaces, Cassiepeis's chair,
Orion, the Milky way, the Pleiades,
all shining and twinkline vastly more
brilliantly than they shine anywhere
mornings full of little csressing
breezes, bird songs, rosy clouds, and
most heavenly GOODNESS. The birds
take these hours to give their young
music lessons and one hears galan
intervals over and over again and
gentle trills being practiced dozen
times. There are the Eve o'clock IN
low breasted, blue winged and rod
headed birds drink aud gossip snd
sing, and there is the jewelry OF hum
ming birds and the minstrelsy of
~ ocking birds.
There are the marvellous opal and |
turquoise stones to hunt up and ad-
mire. Comparatively few people have
ever seen these gems in the roush and
are entirely unaware OF Natures
wonderful art in setting them in colors |
that do most enhance the light of the |
gem. The turquoise in it's soft, clear,
ecru or ivory matrix is a thousand
time bluer and more shining and |
perfect blue than 1t is cut, polished,
and caught In gold fingers. And she |
yellow and red fires of the opal leap
brilliantly from the dull red brown
rough stones that nature sets them In
There are the horrible bull fghts OF
Mexico to see and the sweet music OF
Mexico to hear, the quaint old cath !
edra] to visit, and the picturesque |
ssnoritas in their black rebozos. the |
dark faced seuores in their pointed |
sombreros, the shiny eyed babies in |
next to nothing, all to be wondered |
over by eyes that are not accustomed |
to things Mexican. There are-but to |
one who has eyes TO see, there are
may Interesting sights in Ell Psso |
and 1t is to be hoped that the strangers |
within the city's gates will not miss |
any of them.
The automobile fad has full swing In |
Paris now. The Parfsians have been |
Autom billing for several years, long |
before We Americans took 1t up, but |
asver before these 1900 days have the
carriages been so graceful and
splendid. AParis letter thus describes
3ejane and Sarah Bernhardt as they
nay be seen sunny afternoons on the
Avenue des Acasias:
"Mme. Rel ane goes along steering
lerself with lazy grace in q duke,
III of burning red, set off with gilt and
White varnish: Sarah, the aging, but
always divine, her autumn leaf hair
n the Due de Reichstadt curl, and her
'ody buttoned slinly and solemnly In q
rogged black satin coat, takes her
way, her white Rauntled hand on the
ever of dead black duke lined with
lull black satin, and a vast heap of
Fellow roses always piling the cushions
# her feet-the most cOnspicuously
admired fig ure In the long row."
The descriptions of Sarah Bern hardt
never decrease in piqusncy although
he Ia grandmother and we'll along in
hose years when women think they
lave earned the right to the simplicity
md dignity of plain frocks and smooth
y banded hair, comfortable shoes and
Iuiet bonnets. LIE Gellienne who saw
sarah Bernhsrdt at the Shakspere
est1val at Stratford on she won COM