Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-04-18

eyes; keeps the heart warm with the gar
ments of praise, and causeth all the foun-
tains of life to send up jets of JOY to an
eyer-inereasing height. a ga.a. 81
The Woman Who Never Gossips.
Oh, no, I never gossip! I have enough
to do to take care of my own business,
without talking about the affairs of others
Mrs. Smith, .-
Why, there's Mrs. Croeker, she deals in
scandal by the wholesale. Tt does seem
to me as though that woman tongue must
be almost worn out but, no, there's no
danger of that, If everybody was like
me, there wouldn't be much trouble in the
world. Oh. no, 1 never gossip
But did you know that Mrs Elliott had
got new silk dress. Mrs. Smith ? You
didn't? Well, she has It's real bro
cade never saw it myself; and l do
say it's shame she should be so ex-
travigant Imean to give her piece ofmy
mind, Mrs. Smith You believe her uncle
gave it to her? Well I don't care if he
did. Why it's only two months Since her
father failed; and now to see her dash out
in this style, it's burning shame. ] sup
pose she thinks she's going to catch young
lawyer Jones but think she'll fnd her
self mistaken He's got more sense than
to be caught by her, if she has got bro
eade silk dress. .. sd. -.-aa. ZIP @
And there's the upstart dressmaker,
Kate Mauly, setting her cap for the doc
tors son. The impertinenee Of some peo-
pie is perfectly astonishing. I don't think
she's any better than she ought to be for
my own part, never did like her, with
her mild, soft look, when any body's about
Ny word for it, she can look cross enough
when there amt. ---9..55 t SIS
Then she says she is only seventeen! !!
Goodness knows she's as old as my Arabel-
la Lucretia and she's-well I won't say
how old, but she s more'n seventeen, and /
amt ashamed to say SO, either; but I
think DIR. Mays son will have mere discre-
tion than to think of marrying Ler. Some
folks call her handsome. Well | don't
She amt half so good locking IS my
daughter Jane. Then the way she does
up her hair in such fy-away curls. and,
if you believe it, Mrs. Smith, she actually
had the impudence to tell me that she
couldn't make her hair as straight as my
Maria's. Impertinenee ! If she d let curl
ing-papers and curling irons alone, I'd risk
but what her hair would be as straight as
anybody's.
But what do you think Of tie minister's S
wife, Mrs, Smith? You like her ! Well,
all can say is you've got a very peculiar
taste. Why, she's as proud as Lufcer-
been married a whole week, and hasn't
been to see me yet, You presume SIZE
hasn't had time | don't see what the
Minister wanted to go out of town to get
him wife for, anyway; and then, abov e
all things, to get that little girlish-looking
thing! Why didn't be; take one of his
Pensioners! There's my Arabella Luo-
-retia whould have made him a better wife
than be has got now. And she's just
the right age for him, What do you say
that Arabella Lueretia is two years old
er than the minister? should tbiak it was
a pity if / didn't know my own daugh-
ter's age, Mrs Smith! If some folks
would mind their eEn business, as | do, Ia
thank them, ae a sa.
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EXPLICIT r.-''.fI say fellow. can you tell
me where Dir. Schwackelhammer, the
preacher ives?' Yah, You. sbust
walk de road up to de greek, ard durn the
Iritch over de stream. Den you go on dill
you gum to read nit goots around a
schoolhouse; put you don't take dat road.
-Eell, den you 60 on dill you meet a pig
parn, sbihgled nit strow. den you durn
the road aound de field, and go on dill you
gum to a pig red house, all speekIed over
nit white, and de garret up stairs VIII,
dat is my proder Hans house. Den you
turn dat house around de parn, snd you
see road dat goes up into de voots. Den
you don't take datroad, too. Den you 60
right straight on, and de nextis a barrack.
Veil, be don't lif -dere. Den you viii get
fnrder, aud you wiz see house on de hill
about mile, and 90 in dere and ak de old
woman, and she VIII dell you redder as
can.