El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28

The wild verbena with It's rose
purple blossoms. its heavy-sweet scent
she lowlands and little red headed
birds are nesting in the caves and
zcolding whomsOever goes near their
homes, so one may believe that the
summer is surely at hand and the days
Of gray clouds, bleak mornings and
Saturday afternoon sandstorms are
over ana gone.
They were goasipping over their COT
fee at the boarding house: the talk
turned to the posi- bilities of Ell Paso' q
having a mint and other cities where
the government has established minis
were being named and counted.
the young lady.
"Oh yes, it must have" said the
young man looking up from his paper,
because l remember reading til at
Pitzsim N Dos and Cor D tcoined money
there."
At the, Art Exhibit the other day Or q
y round picture. All of her pictures, she
said, were square aud she'd always
wanted round one.
Never before has any of our country
women, except Miss Columbia, come in
for so much cartooning and editorial
parsgrsphing in our papers as Mrs
n8nt OF course . leen Victoria is always
being csrtconed, especially by the
French papers, but In our country
women are not often the subjects of
cartoons, but ever since his wedding
day the Admiral-Hero has bsen car
TONED with his wife's skirt hens or
French heels or her bonnet with Its
bee In evidence rs part Of the fun of
politics.
There were two gentle women dis
onssing the fne art OF dbblnR, or
''sArradiddling' as Du Msurier puts IL.
Both ad mitte1 the necessity for a
limited amount of polite untruth but
they differed widely as to methods.
II never can 6b straight IL / plan 1t
beforehand. I've got TO shut my eyes
and jump. L can tell Mrs. X her fright
OF a gown is no end Of beauty, if |
don't worry about IL before l get to
her. II think first l contradict my
self and repeat and get in pickle of
difficulty"
snow am just the other way" said
she OF the wide gray eyes, 81 never
can tsrradidde right off the bat thai
way. l always practice mine in front
Of the mirror until 1 get them pleasant. |
1 don't get along very we'll unless | |
know beforehand. But after a little |
practice [ can tell Miss Z. that en-
joyed her solo so, that her range is
wonderful and her notes as full as an
organ when every body knows she has a
voice like 3 noon WHISTLE
Students OF psychology might have
secured some Interesting data on the
processes of making up the mind
feminine had they been at the auction
last week with their note books ready. |
In the first place, being q jewelers. |
auction 1T might have quite reasonably |
been considered an auction of Injuries, |
but every woman made II up with her |
conscience that she was going, simply |
20 buy herself q few of the bare ne
cessisles OF life such as cut glass and |
silver handled bIotters. Rarely did a |
woman go alone, usually she and a |
friend or two seconded and thirded |
each other to get enough courage |
among the three to do some bidding.
1t took three women, as rule, TO
make one bid for one OF them. They
would whisper and their hat feathers
and blo SONS would get tangled In the
close conference, they urged, blushed,
nudged each other to
say the fatal word and finally as net
result OF the consultation out would |
come tremulous little bid OF five cents
advance which the auctioneer would
snap up. But 1t was when a half dozen
spoons or forks would be sold to one
Of the three with the auctioneer
Offering her the chance to buy the
aoEen, that the whole processes
were apparent to the bystander. Usual
~ the woman who secured the fn-
II bid was so embarrassed at her ,
and success that she would