Too Fast.
Men prematurely bald, oli, "unable to carry their liquor," and anxious beyond their face-years are getting conspicuously, "common ~\ jn Adaerida. The r sl©w sententious Yankee bf-tho* stage is becoming rare m the cities, and the cool individual who oßcrs the suspicious stranger a cigar-light struck m the muzzle of: a revolver is happily confined to Creek or Gouge Eye Gulch. f lhe women are more lovely than ever. Their faces are the faces ot angels. chiselled m marble ; but the pallor is 'unhealthy/ and u ' the live* linesa of the American is, to a great ex* cent, incipient djsease. It is like their beauty, part of that nervousness which is afflicting- their race. This can be said, of the Colonies as well World.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 72, 1 March 1883, Page 2
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125Too Fast. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 72, 1 March 1883, Page 2
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