Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-04-21
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to the cause of Temperance, ::
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:, LETTER FROM MRS. wEAzbE. ,
4. Good gracious me! how isorry I am that
Ididn't see that Mississippi letter before. =
T don't know how I came to neglect it, and
The writer no doubt pining and ftetting fqr
an answer. But I WASN'T expecting any
news ftomssofaref, and Rm something like
.a-young lady of my aoquaiutauos,. who is
forever borrovingboots, and returning them:
10 80 short time thatit scented impossible
for her to have read them. SO 'ous- dayI
asked her how she contrisedto read so fast.
'ssWhy, bless your soul, !" said she, 81 don't
undertake to read all of a book, only pick
out the love parts, and let the rest alone"
: AMI that's the way do with your paper.
2 pick out What suits me, and let the rest
20, the 7 acknowledges that sometimes / haze
come very near picking out everythiDgiu is.
I always begin With the editorials, forthey
are surestospleasesme: II. .nothing.else does;
.aad-theu l. read. the poetry-but letters, b
am not ant to read, they havesa dryiook D;
bout them, and read nov only for auase-
tment: I'mtou old and impatient to. be in.
structed, land kreadte drown thought, for l
declare that Lido oftepl thick. so-long and
deeply, thatwhen Iqouse mysehifesl tired
10 death. T do believe that lean build hner
air.castles, and keep them longer from tum-
bling down, than any other living woman,
for never let one 60 till it is finished OUT
| side and 10, and that swhat takes me 50 long !;
and I,redress more INJURIES, resent more in
+sults, refieye more poor people, and spend
more large fortunes--in. inagination-than
any ore else ever dreamt Of, and I expect
nothing else but that when TN taken 20
heaven I mean) 1T will be in the middle Of
one of them long thinks.
y, Bot 10 return to. Mr.. Punch. What an
.odious name. that is, Mr.. Editor. How can
,topsn a correspondence likely to have such
importans results, with q man who is SO: af-
rAicted2 He might as we'll baEebeen called
tssanebo Papza," fer'he must look like him.
he's obliged TO- ,.be. short and thick No
tailor could make "a Punch" look geDteel,
rand,my. daughters are death on gentdity,
particularly Jemima Jane. b.
) He's obliged to have a big, bald, shining
head, ,.anda great broad, red, jolly face J. he
cau'tbe refined and sentimental Chow could
a Punch be.so) audmy daughters are fuliOf
sentiment, espeoiauySeraphiaa Alicia.
He's-obliged to waddie ike a duck, and
NV daughters are famous for the graceful
way they lean upon sgentleran's .arm, es.
peciaHy Rosabel Eudora.- I'm afraid it
won'tdo, Ar. Editor, for I am satisfied that
any one of my daughters would faint at the
bare idea Of tahtny a Punch! But be can
apply to the Legislature, and get his name
changed, and Of course will do so, when he
knows nay objectiou-to it: And perhaps af-
ter all, it isn't his real name, and he may
not look, as I have faneied.
People do make odd mistakes about pames
sometimes. When General Tom Thumb
was here some years ago, his parents .dined
With us once when there were many other
guests, and one young man who did not hap
pen to hear their names, mentioned to some
friends that he had the pleasure Of dining
with Mrs. Thumb. Now, this gentleman
may be- no more, entitled to the hideous name
of "Punch," )" than was this lady tothe ridic-
-ulous one of "Thumb." At any rate, 1t
won't hurt him to let a body know what flls
name really is, and how he really does look'
and if he's coming to Columbia, and when
he viii come, and which of the, girls NE likes
best, and, what he really belieVes~to be the
reason that "he don't take" about home,
,wheret the people know him.
Now I don't want you to suppose that the
girls are very anxious to be marrled-the
anxiety is all my own, yetit is natural that
young things like them should be in kind
of tittillation after hearing about the matter,
for assembled them all and read the letter
to them, and I would like the affair wound
up at once. But before we 60 much farther,
I should like to know if he'sa literary man,
for they don't generally make the best hus.
bands-they are too anxious to shine abroad,
to care much about shining at home. And
if he's poet, he needn't say another word,
forTd as soon put "a rope round my children's
necks and drown them like kittens, as give
them to poet; they might as we'll drown
as starve, and they had better 60 at once,
than to die by inches. Hove poetry dearly,
but defend me from the makers Of it-they
are not fit for domestic life, "their souls have
their content too absolute )" when theyhave
content at all, they are too independent, OF
other people in their happiness, for my use'
and altogether too high-fown every way.
In conclusion, I must say that really DO
think it very strange that in place where