The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-02-06


l.: "WI'at Do YOU say, Mr.--,Guilty o1
Not GliIty?'
"'W,ll, sir. you ni4ht ha' known bvfor,
way, for it can't max, no difference to me-
han.in he don't 'urt me-
"'Eery true: sir, says so | rc.5;t2ty I'D
'cc as Not Guilty. what do you say, sir ::
"'N cll, sir, says lis Il case Of ten lives
again one. You know DR.. WAS our
parish d ctor, and it was only last Tuesday
week he was Oh hiS rounds, ami lie comes
and saves my ten little children "a was tuked
mortal bad with SMALLPOX, aad now yon
axes me to hang 'un. Why, 'cc's only killed
an auld wcuman who must have died short
lay III the caulsr Of nature, and saved my
ten children against She ; SO | says Not
Guilty, sir
"Eery well, sir says 7; and axe, No
3, and he says:
81 say the old weuman deserved [ die,
for twas preuved that the very night before
she died her was a eatin' of rabbits and
onions and if you or bad do'tc that at
twelve clock o night, and gone to bed
with our bellies full of such whites as they,
why lis ought to die, if We didn't: SO saws
Not Guilty.
"'Gcud, says I, and What do ycu say,
sir%
az should say none of your neck or moth
ing measures. Given vart'ight in the
Debtors Court-rve 'ad it there myself
and you'll find it bad enough for 'cc' And
so zee says Not Guilty, and turns to No 5
"I says said he, ANY person Will natu
rally die who don't stick to Mr. Olloway's
pills and ointments, which cured poor Mrs
Marie Jolly, after forty years hexcruciat-
ing hagony from the wind; and never
'eard as how her used they, so Ishall say
Not Guilty for he.' .-*
'Well, next comes No. 6. and he says, 4 |
says Not Guilty, for took a hoath when |
was small boy, behind counter where
there steud cracked tea pot, with half
crown inside it, and | was accused and
wopped for avin prigged 'em, that should |
ever see eny person accused Of Stealn' |
anything else, should always swear that |
he who was accused was falsely sworn a
gainst' -. .tr'c:'r~ -
so came to No. Z, and he says We'll, |
gentlemen, it is very pretty and treu, all |
you've bin saying but you seem to me to
have overlooked one fact that ifyou *ang
zee you don't bring she to life, so should
say leave both poor devils alone.
THE next said: Take and i'm, for what
I care, aud the others followed all; but for
we sad enough votes for to save
.is life, and that's how it was",
-. =: 3.
"a WHERE The Fashions Come From
The imperfect adoption by women of the
means of dress, it is true, ends in never
failing subject of complaint and ridicule
against US by the other sex; but it is
not surprising that the fashions are so Of
EN- grotesque, exaggerated, inconvenient,
md even physically and morally injurious
when it is known who sets them. Not
he ladies of the French court, not even
he "queens of the demimomde," that the
so love to talk about, design
he things that destroy our peace; but
french, and German men, in the employ
If the manufacturers. and for their bene-
it make water-color drawings Of every
novelty and extravaganza that comes in
o their heads and send them, with the
lew stuffs and trimmings that another
let of men have invented, to the Partisan
uodistci, who, in conjunction with their
icl patronesses, the court ladies' and
ourtesans, contrive to modify them into
wearable, but still absurd
noug b. as a. suffering sex can. testify. J
Toilets at once heallhful, suitable, and !
'eautiful for women of every age, of ev- .
ry grade of means and position, and on t
very occasion, will never be attempted
or SO much as dreamed of, until culti- !,
ated ladies, uniting that special. talent
o. dress, which is, one of the most belied
nd abused of the feminine attributes to
0 an accurate knowledge Of the struc.
ure and requirements Of the feminine
hysique, and fine perception of the
leal possibilities Of all its types, and a
istortcal and artistic mastery Of all the
esources. for its .adornment,. shall make
le attiring of their felow-women their
pecial VOCATION Atlantic Monthly