Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-23
A BOY OHAMBERMAID.
Row in o Fashionable Boarding
10 ], House. sl. 7.sl
A Romantic StOFy-A Landlady
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boarding house in the central part of tn
city, occasioned by the lynx>eysd land
lady discovering an intrigue between on,
of her chambermaids and q young maj
from Illinois. who had come to town Il
attend the Fair and the Psschall Hous,
| drawing.
The young man happened to be the
sorof an eminent minister Of the gospel
and was himself preparing for the sacred
desk. The affair might have passed of
| quietly, but for the boisterous indigna-
| zion Of the landlady, who proclaimed in
q loud voice that "her house was dis
graeed p that such q thing had never
before occurred under her roof = thai
" she wouldn't submit to it, etc. In she
/ tempest Of her passion she thrust heI
head out Of window and cried oul
Fire Police murder !" al the top o.
her voice. Her cries, of course, aroused
the dodgers, who rushed pell-mell down
stairs, some with but one leg in their
pantaloons, some with no pantaloonS at
all, and others with carpet sacks in hand
and clothes under their arms. The fe-
male portion Of the household were in
no better plight, but modesty forbids that
We should dwell upon the scantiness Of
| their toilet. 1lDl E 81. 1.iE'f.eJ I
The policeman happened to be at the
further end of his beat, and did not hear
| the row until the excitement had nearly
subsidized, and when he arrived he was
told there was H@shing the matter"
After the ruInpus had Quoted down
and the landlady had recovered her
equanimity, she apologized to her board
/ ers foe raising disturbance about moth
ing, and assured them that her conduct
was oecasioned by adreadful dream"
She had eaten to much cold apple pie at
the fair, and had the nightmare. In her
dream she witnessed the drawing Of the
Paschall House, and had seen Mayor
Thomas receive the lucky number
from the big wheel and hand it to
Gen. Rozier, and had heard Capt. Dan
Taylor, at the little wheel, call out,
"Prize No. 1-Paschall Housed" and be-
lieving that the prize ticket was the one
she had received from Mr.. SnodgraSs in
payment Of a weeks board, and dream
ing that she saw Lizzie, the chamber
maid, snatch the lucky ticket and run in
to the young mans room, she had
jumped out Of bed and raised all the dis
turbance. She concluded by advising
her boarders never to eat large guam
tity of cold apple pie, as it was very in
digestible, and sure to cause bsd dreams.
With this explanation the boarders
were satisfied, and departed to their sew
eral touches but one young fellow, a
life insurance solicitor, who had boarded
in the house for six months, and is sort
ofpet, was incredulous, and having inves-
tigated Spiritualism and operated Plan
chettee, he determined to see further in
to this mysterit Is manifestation. He
had seen the landlady eat q whole apple
pie at eleven O'Clock at night, on coming
home from the theater, and this was the
first time he had ever heard Of her being
troubled with indigestion and nightmare.
1t took him three days to get at the truth
ofthe matter, and yesterday he related
to us the result Of his inquiries, swearing
US to eternal secrecy; but as we give no
names we do not consider that we be-
tray confidence in relating the following
rather romantic story
Parson Jones, las we win cali him,)
has two sons, the first born about
eighteen years Of sge, and the younger
sixteen. His eldest son he had educated
for a lawyer, and the youngest he de-
sired should follow his own footsteps, and
become preacher The boy, however,
had taken into his head that he was pre-
destined for q great traveller, and instead
of reading Barnes Notes." and similar
good books, he spent his time in deyour-
ing books Of travel, and was familiar with
the works Of all the great travellers, from
Herodotus and Marco Polo down to Bay
ard Taylor and DR.. Livingstone. His
father had frequently examined him on
theological subjects, and while he found
him well posted in the forty years wan
behring's Of the Children Of Israel, the
voyages Of the Apostles and the geogra-
phy Of the four corners of the earth, he
was sadly disappointed at the progress
his son had made in infant baptism, the
doctrines Of Calvin and the sermons Of
Henry Ward Beecher. One day when
he had sent the boy into the garnet with
a ponderous volume Of doetrinal sermons,
and soon after surprised him with the
wandering jews in his hands, his
Christian forbearance could hold out no
longer, and he took the lad out into the
orchard and gave him q most unmerciful
switching. This was the first time the
old man had resorted to such violent
measures, and the feelings Of the boy
were so deeply wounded-to say nothing
of the lasceration OF his back-that he
determined to play the part Of the prodi-
gal son, and go out into the world to feed
somebody's swine. .... .-...
1t happened that the very next day he
got hold Of a st. Louis paper containing
an item about the contemplated pilgrim
age of Mayor Thomas to the Rocky
Mountains for the purpose Of finding an
air line route to Omaha. BE determined
to ioin the expedition and see something
of the world. He left home on foot, and
n three days arrived in this city; but to
his dismay he learned that it would cost
seventy dollars to go with the Major,
and the change in his pocket did not
amount to seventy cents. He walked all
over the city, and at twelve O'Clock at
night fell in with party Of Irish SER
want girls on O'Fallon street, one of
whom was chambermaid at Mrs. -
boarding house. The generous hearted
girl, on learning that the boy was stran-
ger destitute of means, proposed to give
up her situation to him and hunt another
for herself When he told her he could
not be chambermaid, because he was
Of the wrong sex, the ready witted girl
replied:
"Tt's no matter for that I'll make q
a girl Of We in few minutes. Yer face
is as smooth and purity as lady's, and
when We get on my Sunday dress Of
green merino, how will they fad out !
that you are not as much Of girl as the |
best of them % r-z-r-- .. -.s
Without going into further details of |
the transmogrifcation Of the boy, it is |
enough to say that the next morning !
when the landlady found new girl Off |
ciating in the place of Bridget, she made
no objection, because the new chamber !
maid was stronger than her predecessor,
and could handle the heavy trunks and
bedsteads with more ease. - 1913
The remainder Of the romantic story !
we give in the language of the, young
man who related it to US
noticed from the first that there was
something queer about the new chamber
maid; for instance, if she happened to
pop in when 1 was drawing on clean
shirt, or sewing button on my pants,
she didn't cry out 90 my! W and run out
with her hands over her eyes, but went /
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