Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-03-12
Ward Among the Sha-
keFS--Ekis "Yaying'' EXperi-
ence with two pretty Shaker

<-@ ~ Atn Two pretty Snaker.
Africans Ward, in this weeks Tanity
fdir. gives some of his experiences among
the Shakers:
sot down to the table, and the female
in the meal bag poured out sum tea. She
SEQ nqfhin, and for FIVE minutes the
oniy flSe thing in that room was old
wooden clock, which tickt IN subdood
and bashful manner in the corner. This
deathiy Stiffness made me Uneasy, and /
ee,crmined to talk to the female or bust
bieeve, marmi"
TIE sexes Iiv strickly apart, speOt''
It's kinder singler,'' sell, putin on my
most sreetest look and speakin IN winnin
voice, that 50 fair made as thow mover
got kitched to sum likely man." n. B.
She was upward Of forty, and homely as
stump fence, but thawt I'd ticki her
i don't like men," she sed, very short.
Wall, / dunno" seq |, "they're a
raytEer important part of the populashun.
l don't scarcely see how we could git along
without 'em."
us poor wimmin folks would get
along a great deal better if there was no
men p
You'll excuse me marin, but / don't
think that air would work. 1t wouldn't be
regler."
'I'm fraij Of men" she said.
"That's unnecessary, marin. You amt
in no danger. Don't fret yourself on that
pint"
" Here we're shet out from the sinful
yrOrl1 Hare oil g
brothers and sisters. We don't marry, and
consistently we have no domestic Difficult
tiee. Husbans don't abooze their wives
wives don't worrit their husbans. There's
no children here to worrit us. Nothjn' to
worrit us here. No wicked matrimony
here. Would thOw like to be a Shaker 2''
No" SEE |, ait amt my stile."
had now histed in as big load of per-
yishuns as | could carry comfortable, and,
leanin' back in my cheer, commenst pick
In my teeth with fork. The female went
out, leavin' me all alone with the clock
l hadn't sot thar long before the elder
| poked his head in at the door. you're a
man of sin ?" he sed, and groaned and
went AWAY.
Direckiy thar cum in two young Sha-
keresses, as putty and slick lookin gals as |
ever met 1t is troo they was drest iu meal
bags like the old one I'd met previs!y, and
their shiny, silky har was hid from sight
I by long white caps. oich as | spose female
| costs wear; but their eyes sparkled like
| dimonds, their cheeks was like roses, and
they was charmin enuff to make man
throw siuns at his granmother, if they
axed him to. They commenst clearin
away the dishes, castin shy gIances at me
all the time, got excited. ] forgot Bet
sy Jane in my rapter, and SEE ], my pref
ty dears, how are you ?"
ave are WE'LL" they solumly sed.
=" Whar's the old man?" sed l, in soft
voice.
"Of whom dost thou speak-brother
Uriah ?"
:. ] mean the gay and festiv cuss who
csfist-ne man of sin. Shouldn't wonder il
his name was Uriah"
T" lie has retired"
have sum fun. Letsplay Puss in the corner
What say?"
:" Air you Shaker, sir ?" they axed.
Wall, my pretty dears, | haven't ar
rayed my proud form in long weskit
yit. but If they was all like you perhaps
I'd jine 'em. AS it is I'm Shaker pro-
| temporary"
They was full of fun, 1 seed that at fust
only they was little skeery. l tawt ZEN
Puss in the corner and SIGH like phase, and
we had nice time, keepin quiet of course
so the OLE man shouldn't hear. When we
broke up, seq l, my pretty dears, ear
go you nave no objections, have you, to g
innersent kiss at partin?"
"Yay," they sed, and ydyd." -