The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-04-12
From the Northern n. Y. Journal
The Science of COurting...A Tale of Love
and Romance.
BY LITTLEMORE FAX,

/ lately paid Uncle Joshua Grinnells
Or, as he is familiarly termed, Uncle
Josh-a visit. He owns one of the
best farms, makes some of the best
cider, and has one of the best-natured
and generous dispositions that can be
boasted of by any of our good old
fashioned New England farmers. Eve
rything about him is an index of COM
fort and honest thrift; and no woman
could have better calculated to coop
crate with him in securing this envia-
bic situation, than Aunt Jerusha. No
one looks with a more vigilant eye to
the we'll being of those about her; and
her larder affords substantial contrast
to all your fashionable, highly-spiced
yiands. Aunt Jerusha, like her prim-
ative Pilgrim, ancestry, eschews all
the "pomp and circumstances )" al
though Uncle Josh did show me an
elegant two-horse barouche that she
had induced him to purchase, and she
herself dwelt largely upon the superior
qualities of a new Brussels carpet, which
had supplanted the old rag on hel
"square room foor;" still the old lady
intends having the carriage used fo,
Sunday service, aud the old carpet wa:
badly worn.
While tarrying at my Uncle's pleas
ant party came off in that vicinity, ant
all of my long list of cousins Offspring
of the venerable twain, were invited t,
attend. Extensive were the prepare
tions for making conspicuous ap
pearance on the occasion-especiall,
among the female portion of them
Gauze, lace, lawns, plumes, and tn
whole array of milliners' "fancy dres
goods were called into requisition
Notwithstanding Aunt Jerusha's whole
some admonitions on points of dress
; and frequent crusades against the fash
ions of the times.
I On the evening of the party, afte
the last beau had made his call an
carried away his precious charge, W
sat ourselves down by the cheerful fire
side to enjoy a comfortable chat o
family matters in general. Uncle Jos
had procured his! customary mug {
sweet cider, pan full of fine grafte
apples, and his everlasting pipe, so thu
we might have, as he expressed it, :"
; leetle tech of gud times as well as tn
rest on 'em." Conversation natural
r turned upon affairs connected with tt
party, and extensively did Amt Jerush
launch out in comparisons forcibly
: lustrating the fact, shines amt now {
4 they used to was" She could easi
e observe sad degeneration indee'
il Uncle Josh seemed rather disposed
E E have people enjoy themselves in the
b own way, but Aunt Jerusha was vel
Al certain that the old and experience
4 should dictate the fashions and custom
e He agreed that as a country, custom
,e and articles of dress changed, fashion
- should change-as they most certain
do. She thought that if things d
is change, it was not for the better al
: she disliked, above all things, to S
this eternal running into flimmery fiu'
ge meries she hated to see young fol
I'D so displayed. Everything, now-a-da
Gid was puckered and starched; evel
in thing was so terribly stuck up it W
ne quite different in her younger days.
u an Here Uncle Josh interposed the
IS, mark in his own provoking, good-i
mored way, that it was rather his
preston that he had seen somebo