Smyrna times., 1868-10-21
Hotel Life, by Little Girl.

I'm only very little girl, but | think have
just as much right tc say what | want to about
things, as boy. | hate boys, they re 80 mean;
they always grab all the Strawberries at tho
dinner table, and never tell us when they re
going to have any fun. Only like Gus Rog-
crs The other day Gus told NE he was going
to let off some fireworks, and he let BESSIE
Nette and me go and look at them. All of US
live in a hotel, and his mother room has
window with balcony, and it was there We
had the fireworks, right on the balcony. His
mother had gone out to buy some creme de lis
to put on her face, and he Il went and got
eleven boxes Of Lucifer matches, and ever so
M my pieces of CASTLE soap; he stealed them
from the housekeeper just when she was
going to put them i'll her closet Gus went and
told her Mrs. Nettle wanted her minute, and
while she was gone he grabbed the soap and
matches, and when she came back we watched
her, and she got real mad, and she scolded
Della, that's the chambermaid, and said she
knOwed she did it; and | WAS real glad, be-
cause when L was turning someTsets on my
mother's bed the other day, Della slapped me,
and she said she wasn't going to make the bed
two times to please me; then Bessie and mo
sticked the match in the soap like tenpins, and
Gus fired them off, and they blazed like any
thing, and they made an awful smell, and Gus
went and turned little Of the gas on sos his
mother would think it was that.
We get our dinner with the nurses, cause
the man that keeps the hotel charges full price
for the children ii they sit at the table in the
big dining once my mother let me go
there with her, and talked heap at the ta-
bic, and gentleman that sat next to us said
" Little girls should be seen and not heard. "
The mean old thing died last week, and was
real glad, and told Della 50, and she said if |
went and said things like that | couldn't 60 to
Heaven Much she knows about it. lWOuldn't
want to go If dirty old things like she is went
there. Yesterday Mary, our nurse, told Bessie
Nettle nurse that she heard Larry Finnegan
was going to marry her. Larry is one of the
walters, and he saves candies for me from the
big dining ROOM And Bessie Nettle's nurse
said: ''Oh, Lord! what lie + and you should
have heard how her mother did talk to her, and
went and shut her up in dark room where
she kept her trunks, and didn't let her have
nothing but bread and water, and Gus Rogers
went and yelled through the key-hOie, and said
Bessie, the devil is co ming to c,tch you,
and Bessie screamed ana almost hal fit. and
her mother told Mrs. Rogers, and got Gus
licked, and Gus says he's good mind to set
the house on fire some day and burn her out.
One day | went in the paror and creeped
, under a sofa, and there WASH nobody there.
They don't let dogs, nor children go in the
parlor, and L thisk it's real mean-and L
, creeped under the sofa, SO 5 nobody could see
, me; and Mr.. BOyce came in and Miss jack
son; don't like Miss jackson; she said one
, day children was worse nuisance than dogs
was. And Mr.. Boyce and Miss jackson eame
and sitted down on the sofa, and he said, 20,
Louisa, | DO love you so much, and then he
kissed her | heard it smack And she said,
, 90 Thomas, wish | could believe you don {
, you ever kiss anybody elSe?' and he said, mo,
, dearest" and | called out, 80 what a big
; story, tor | saw him kiss Bessie Nettle nurse
t in the hall one night when the gas was turned
e down" Didn't he jump up, you bet-Gus
f always says you bet-and he pulled mGout and
a tored my trock, and said, 20 you wicked
j. child, where do you expect to go for telling
o stories ?" and | told him. = You shut up,
amt going anywhere with YOU. ] wish.that
e man would die like the other did, so do, and
9 don t care whether he goes 10 heaven or not.
/ Gus Rogers mother had lunch party in
d her parlor, and they hAd champagne and they
+ never gave him any, and when his mother
! wasn't looking he founded a bottle half full on
p the sideboard, and he stecled it and took it in
: our nursery, and Mary wasn't there, and Gus
: and me drnked it out Of the glass Mary brush
), es her teeth in and 1t was real nice; and we
!, looked in Marys wardrobe and tinded hel
v frock she goes to church in, and Gus put it on
i and Mary's bonnet, too, and we went in thu
a hall and we tumbeed down and tored Mary
is frock, aud made my nose bleed, and Gus said
in 30 there earthquake, cause we couldn'
n stand up, and you should see how the house
re did go up and down, awful and Gus and NJ,
: laid down on the carpet, and the housekeepe
RS picked me up and looked me to my mother
le and my mother said, 30 my, whatever hav
n you been doing?" and l said, 20 Lord,
ut drnked champagne out Of Gus Rogers moth
1f er's bottle in the glass Mary brushes her teet
a in" and the hOusrkeeper says, " . my good
pr ness gracious. that child as tight as bricks,
I'd and | said You bet, bully for you, and the
I'd l was awful sick, and | have forgotten wha
n else.