Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-03-09
From the Chicago Times.
A Naughty Little Girls Views of Life.

mucn rlght to say what l want to about things
as boy ] hate boys; they re so mean they
always grab all the strawberries at the dinner
table, and never tell us when they are going te
other day Gus told me he was going to let of
some fireworks, and he let Bessie Nettle and
me go and look at them. All of us live in 8
hotel, and his mothers room has window
with balcony. His mother was gone out tc
buy some creme de us to put on her face, and
he'd went and got eleven boxes Of lucife1
matches, and ever so many pieces OF CASTLE
soap; he sjeelcd them from the house-keeper.
just when she went to put them In heI
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 he watched her; and she got
real mad, and she scolded Della (that is the
chambermaid), and said she knowed she did it,
and was real glad, because when [ was turn
Ing somersets on my mothers bed the other
day, Della slapped me, and said she wasn't gos
Ing to make the bed two times to please me
then Bessie and me sticked the matches in the
soap like ten pins, and Gus fired them off, and
they blazed like anything, and they made an
awful smell, and Gus went and turned little
gas on SO 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 if they sit at the table in the big
dining room. Once my mother let me go down
with her, and | talked heap at the table, and
gentleman that sat next to US said, Little
girls should be seen and not heard" The
mean cid thing died last week, and [ was real
glad, and | told Della so, and she said if [ went
and said things like that [ couldn' go to Heav-
en-. Much she knows about it; and wouldn' t
want to go if dirty things like she is went
Xccto dow horx told
Nettles nurse that she heard Larry Einnegan
was going to marry her. Larry is one of the
walters, and he saves candles for me from the
big dining and Bessie Nettle's nurse
said, 'Oh, Lord what a lie - and Bessie Net
tie went into her mothers room, and her little
brother said she nipped him, and Bessie said,
"Oh, Lord what a lie T. 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 moth
ing but bread and water; and Gus Rogers went
and yelled through the keyhoe, and said
Bessie, the devil is coming to fetch you, and
Bessie screamed and almost had fit, and her
mother told Mrs. Rogers, and got Gus whipped,
and Gus says he's mind to set the house on
fire some day, and burn her out.
One day went into the parlor and creeped
under the sofa, and there wasn't nobody there.
They don't let dogs nor child4en go into the
paror, and | think it s real mean and | had
to creep under the sofa, so nobody could see
me; and Mr.. Boyce came in, and Miss Jacks
son; she said one day that children was worse
nuisance than dogs. And Mr.. Boyce and Miss
Jackson came in and stted down on the sofa !;
and he said, 20 Louisa, | do love you SO
much" and then he kissed her, for | heard it
smack. And then she said, 20 Thomas, do
wish [ could believe you; don't you never kiss
anybody else?' And he said, mo, dearest, !"
and yelled out, ooh, what big story!" for
| saw him kiss Bessie Nettle's nurse in the hall
one night, when the gas was turned down
Did mt he jump up? you bet; and he pulled
me out and tored my trock, and he said, "Oh,
you wicked child, where do you expect to go
for telling such stories p and | told him, "Y ou
wish that man would die like the other one, SO
[ do; and [ don't care whether he goes to
heaven or not.
Gus Rogers's mother had lunch party IN
her parlor, and they had champagne, and they
never gave him any; and when his mother
wasn't looking, he found bottle half full on
the sideboard, and he stealed it, and took it in
our nursery and Mary wasn't there, ard Gus
and me drinked it out of the glass Mary brushs
es her teeth in: and it was real nice; and we
looked in Mary wardrobe and found her frock
she goes to church in and Gus put it on, and
Mary's bonnet, too; and we went in the hall,
and we tumbled down and tored Mary's frock,
and made my nose bleed and Gus said, ''Ob,
there's earthquake p cause we could mt stand
up; and you should see how the house did go
up and down-awful; and Gus and me laid
down on the carpet, and the housekeeper
picked me up and tooked me to my mother S
room, and my mother said, "Oh, my! what
ever have you been doing p and | said, "Oh,
Lord | drinked champagne out of Gus Rog-
err mothers bottle, in the glass that Mary
brushes her teeth in And the housekeeper
says, "Oh, my goodness gracious that child s
as tight as bricks;'' and | said, "You bet
bully for YOU; and then [ was awful sick, and
I've forgot what else.