Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1851-11-28
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Fsr tue Len.stowa Gazette.
gAyDOM SAETC HE'S.
BY 4 RESIDENT OF IpLERsylLLE.
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have ! attempted to put those thoug hts
upon paper for the purpose of benehtung
others by their publication in some tia-
zette but. Mr. Editor have invariably
found that il is much easier 10 fa'2h than
10 mrife. True, any one possessed OF the
cacathes scribeaai. which rendered into
plain English properly means a scrlbbcr
who can string sentences together on any
subject, even If il be L" a fooAess stocking
without leg''-mav indi,e communica-
lion under some iashy head, devoid of
either point, or wit, Or meaning, but 10
write righf, my word for it, is a different
matter. Let me not be understood how
ever to say that whatever may appear with
mv signature, is to be above mediocrity.
| am not vain enough to believe so, for as
! said before, it is much easier to think than
10 put your thoughts on paper, else my
experience must be totally different from
others. Even now, while had in view
the penning of flight of fancy, which |
believed TO be at my fingers ends, behold,
with pen, ink and paper ready, all has
vanished into thin air. and like some brave
warrior, of whom | have either read or
dreamt. find myself haIting before start
ing Thus again has been lost a bright
idea, that might have edited some reader
Of your goodly paper or wakened into
life the dormant energies of some slumber-
er who knew not what his Uranium con-
famed
All well-a-day If | cannot rise into
the clouds and soar among the sublime,
why not come down to common sense at
once, and see whether success is not with
in my reach Why, confound my stupid
head, what better subject need have than
the picture before me now There sits
Aunt Tabby, plying her knitting needles as
mechanically as if they were par; and
parcel of herself while her tongue is keep
ing pace with her fingers, as she is relat-
img to my mother and my sisters what she
Is pleased to term the extravaganza of
n9ighbor PlUm's daughters, and, by Jove,
though she may scoid me for a week and
cut me off with shilling in her WILL I'll
not only write down what she SAYS, but
faith, I'll prent it,
Such extravaganza, exclaimed Aunt
Tabby; who ever heard of the like
declare its enough to make one crazy to
see girls that can't afford it LAYING ont seven
dollars and half each for a silk dress
Wonder how much Aunt Tabby's dress
cost
But interposed my mother, Mr..
Plum's girls work hard for their parents,
and if | remember Alright, their mother
told me they had earned this money by
using their time to advantage instead of
gadding about the streets, as too many do
both night and evening.
My sisters Lib and Suse both nodded an
affirmative 10 this statement.
But sister'-Aunt Tabby always calls
any mother sister when her dutch is get
ting up TO blood-heat-' tell you It's a sin
and a shame that such girls should spend
SO much money for dress, when there are
SO many other things they might have got
for 1t more useful and more enduring.
lis true observed my mother, fifteen
dollars might have been applied TO many
good and useful purposes, and certainly
procured articles that might have proved
Of more utility than silk dress, yet ven
ture 10 say the girls will have and wear
those dresses for Years, and always refer
TO them with pride as the product Of extra
and hard labor. Our means are three,
perhaps six times as great as theirs, and
did we keep an account we would proba-
bly, discover that we spent more in proper
ton than our neiehbor pIum's girls
Aunt Tabby laid down her knitting in
perfect astOnishment, and after deep
drawn sigh exclaimed Nv gracious !
La, me ! Mary continued She. don't
believe I've spent that much in a year :
Oh ! Aunt Tabbv : said Lib and Suse
and mother all at once, at which Aunt Tab
by began to get a little red in the face.
when she added,
At least, not a great deal more
Why Tabby,' said mother, how much
Dad that shawl cost you bought at BIymy-
er's few months ago ?
Only ten dollars and half SAID aunt.
and | ghink il was very cheap at that
And how much did YOU pay for that
silk dress YOU got at Watson u Jacobs 2
said Lib.
La, child had forgotten that said
IaDby, believe II cost fourteen dollars
And how much did You pay for that
handsome bonnet YOU bought At John A.
Steret's ? said Suse.
Dear me, said Aunt Tabbv. | didn't
thlnk OF that 1t cost five dollars! =
and what did that alpaca cost you pot
at Sigler & Suarl's'. said mother.
And the CATERS Mr.. Montgomery made
SAID Lib.
And the ribbons and velvet al Firnvod's, :,