The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-05-20
A Little Girls View Of Life in Hotel

have Just as mucn flSHC W S"y .rn''' L
want to about things, rs Il boy. hate
boys, they're SO mean, they always grab
all the strawberries at the dinncr-tablc,
and never tell us when they're going to
have any fun. Only l like Gus Rogers
The other day Gus told me he was going
to let off some fireworks, and he let Bcs-
sic Nettc and me go and look at them.
All of us live in Il hotel; and his mothers
room has window with Il balcony, and 1T
was there VIC had the fire, works ri ght on
the balcony. His mother was gone out to
buy some crome de lis to put on her face,
and he'd went and got eleven boxes OF
Lucifer matches, and ever so many pieces
of CASTLE soap, he stcalcd them from the
housc-keeper. Just when she was going
to put them in her closet Gus went and
told her Mrs. Ncttlc wantd her directly
q minute, and while she was gone he
grabbed the soap and the matches, and
when she came back we watched her, and
she cot real mad, and she scoldcd Della,
that's the chambcrmaid, and said she
knowcd she did it; and was real glad,
because when / was turning somersets
on my mothers bed the other day, Della
slapped me, and she said she wasn't go
ing to make the bed two times to please
me, then Bessie and me stickcd the match
i'm the soap like tenpius, and Gus fired
them off, and they bazcd like anything,
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 char
ges full price for children if they sit at
the table in the big dining room; once my
mother let me 90 there with her, and |
talked heap at the table, and gentle
man 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 so, and she
said ii | went and said things like that |
couldn't 90 to heaven; much she knows
about it, | wouldn't want to so, if dirty
old things like she is went thorc. Yestcr'
day Mary, our nurse, told Bessie Ncttlc's
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 Acttlcs
nurse said, 80 Lordw and Bessie Nettlc
went in her mothers room and her little
brother said she nippcd him, and Bessie
said, 80 Lord what q lie" and You
should have heard how her mother did
talk to her, and went and shut her up in
Il dark room where she kept her trunks,
and didn't let her have nothing but bread
and water. and Gus Rogers went and yell
ed through the kcyholc, and said, "Bcs.
sic, the devil is coming to fetch you" and
Bessie screamed and almost had fit, and
her mother tcld Mrs. Rogers, and got Gus
licked, and Gus says he's good NJ nd TO
set The house on fire some day and busn
her out.
One day went 10 the parlor and creep
cd under IL sofa, and there wasn't nobody
there. They don't let dogs nor children
go in the parlor, and ] think it's real
and 1 creeped under the sofa, SOS
nobody could see me ; and Mr.. Boyce
came in ond Miss Jackson; l don't like
Miss jackson, she said one day children
was a worse nuisance than dogs was. And
Mr.. Boycc and Miss jackson came and
sitlcd down on the sofa, and he said, 30,
Louisiana, do love you so much, and
then he kissed ber. [ heard ii smack.
And she said, 80 Thomas, wish could
believe you, don't you never kiss anybody
else - and he said, ''No, dearest" and |
called out, 20 what u big story, for | saw
him kiss Bessie Nctllc's nurse i'll the hall
one night when the gas WAS turned down.
Didn't he lump up, you bct-Gus always
says you bct-and he pulled me out and
torcd my trock, and he SAID, "Oyon wick
ed child, where do you expect to go for
telling stories Z" and l told him 'you shut
up, I,ain'l going anywhere with you" /
wish tina, man would die like the other
did, so | do, and | don't care whether he
goes to heaven or not.
Gus Rogers mother had n lunch party
in her parlor, and they bad champagne
and they never gave him amy, and when
his mother wasn't looking he founded
bottle halt full on the siGcboard, and he
stcalcd it and took it in our nursery, and
Mary wasn't there, and Gus and me drink
cd it out of the glass Mary brushes her
teeth in, and il was real nice; and We
looked in Mary's wardrobe and inded her
trock she goes to church in: and Gus put
it on, and Mary's bonnet too, and we
went in the nall and we tumblcd down
and torcd Mary's trock, aud made my
nose bleed, and Gus said, 20 there's q
earthquake" cause VIC couldn't stand
up. and YOU should sec how the house did
90 up and down, awful and Gus and nc
laid down on the carpet and the house
keeper picked me up and looked me 20 my
mother, and my mother said. 80 my,
whatever have You been doinsT and |
said, 20 Lord, drinkcd champagne out
of Gus Rogers mothers bottle in the
glass Mary brushes her teeth i'll" and the
house keeper says, 20 my goodness sra.
cious, that chld's as tighl us bricks, and
i said ..vnn bet. bnlly tor YOU" amd lhen