The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-04-16
WEAVER WRITES
A BREEZY LETTER
An Innocent Abroad. He
Sees the Sights and
Gets Impressions.
Denver Colo, April ath, 1903.

well aware OF the TACT That am not the
first Marietta man to wander outside OF
his home town or even visit the city OF
Southern states and had conceived a
kind of vague idea that this world was
right good sized affair-anyhow as
large as any world that know anything
about. By the time / got to St. Louis,
was pretty well satisfied that it is q
whopper-provided it should happen to
be as large in every direction as it was
in that.
To me-poor innocent abroad who
had never before been out of the good
old Southern land, many things have
appeared interesting that would be of
no interest to others. The first thing
that noticed after getting out of the
South was the good opinion that people
from other parts Of the country have of
the people of the South. A few morn
ings ago my landlady was giving her
boarders a discourse concerning her
neighbor across the street towards
whom she was not very affectionate
She closed by saying, THE red headed
thing tries to make out like she came
from the South, but know she didn't, +"
My landlady has never been in the
South in her life yet she just knows
that her enemy did not come from that
good place.
Denver is shout the size of Atlanta
or maybe some larger without Atlanta
pretty women or polite men. She al
most has none of either except what
few have come here from the South
may be putting that too strong. l
guess / am. They may be polite in
their way. amin elevators every day
and since coming here have seen only
one man take off his hat in presence of
lady passengers in an elevator, and l
would have bet my last nickel that he
was from the South.
Ladies here have to take care of them
selves and -they seem to be able to do
so. They don't seem to care for an es-
cort at night anymore than in day, and
go where they please alone. l suppose
that is one reason why the men don t
respect them as we of the South re-
spect our women, and is why more dis
disrespect is allowed. / was in one of
the incest restaurants of the city few
evenings ago eating my supper. Some
young men came in, seated themselves
and punctusted their orders with all
sorts of 'damns" and other rough ex-
pressions which could be heard all over
the room. Had that been in a first
class restaurant in Atlanta they would
have been occupied in swallowing their
teeth instead of the nice supper they
ordered But this is the state wherein
women vote, and do anything else they
please. May such customs never reach
the South
Another thing that Immediately made
very vivid impression on my mind
was that everything here costs so much
more than at home. lean only account
for it from the fact that Denver is one
mile above the sea and that these Dem
verites are strong believers that beef
was the highest when the COW jumped
over the moon. / was actually sur
prised to find that could buy postage
stamps at the same old price.
Everybody here is from somewhere
Else. With the exception of small
you can find no one that was
born here Some that come here from
the North call negroes Mr." and
Mrs" Shortly after arriving here
went into q large drug store to get
a drink at the soda fountain. And
what did they have there to welt on
me? A blankety-blank coon" with
his hair parted in the middle didn't
drink. l tried others and found the
same.
We people who are out here for our
health are called ''lungers," and "lungl
ers," il il be known don't stand az
more show than snowfall at the eq
tor or any other old hot place. w b
you 60 out to hunt board the first OF s
tion they fire at you is, "Are you sjck?".
pretended to be very ignora1s and
that thought that the WesterySay of
politely inquiring after :one's general
health and l would resAy, Il feel very
we'll this, morning, thMk you; are you
sick?"
The incest Office building in the city
is eight stories high. They charge a
quarter to let you go on top and "look. I"
That reminds me of the time Arte-
mus Ward, previous to an eclipse of
the moon, built an enclosure and went
to spelling that for ten cents you couhl
see the only. original eclipse ON
midway. As