The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-01-29
Little Sweetness tells what is Going 70
At the Hotel

/ IN only little girl but think | have
as much right to say what want TO about
things as boy. | bate boys; they are so
mean; they always grab all the >trawber
ries at the dinner table, and never tell Us
when they are going 10 have any fun
Only | like Gus Rogers. The other day
Gus told me he was going to let off some
fire works, and he let Bessie Ne,,les and
me 60 and look at them. All Of us live in
a hotel, and mother room has window
with balcony. His mother has gone out
to buy some creme de Us TO put on her face,
and he d went and got eleven boxes of lu
ciier matches, and ever SO many pieces of
Ca tile soap; he stealed them from the
housckeeper. just when she went to put
them in her closet, Gus went and tod her
Mrs Nettles wanted her for minute
while she waS,gone he went and grabbed
the soap and matches, and whyn she came
back be watched her, and she got real mad
and she scolded Della (that is the cham
Der maid, and SAID she knOwed she Did 1t,
and was real glad, because when | was
turning Some somersets on my Dother'> bed
the 0 her day, Della slapped me, and said
she wasn't going to make the bed twice 10
please me; then Bessie and me sticked the
matches il the soap like ten pins, and Gus
fired them off, aud they blazed like any>
thing, and they made ali awful smell, and
Gus went an | 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
prices for children If they sit "a the table in
the big dining room. Once my mother let
me go down with her, and talked q heap
at the table, and gentleman that sat next
j {. Al. II, l. h.
and not heard. - The mean old thug died
last week, and [ was real glad, an told
Della so, and she said ii Went AMI told
things like that, | couldn't go to heaven.
Much she knows about it and | volidn't
wen. there. Yesterday Mary, our nurse,
told Bessie Nettles' 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 Nettles' nurse said. ooh,
| Lord what lie!' and Bessie went into
| her mothers room, and her brother said
she nlpped him, and Bessie said, "Oh
Lord what lie y and you should have
heard how her mother did talk 10 her, and
went and locked her up in dak room
! where she kept her trunks, and didn t let
her have nothing but bread and water; and
Gus Rogers went an yelled through the
key hole, and said, Bessie, the devil is
coming to fetch you, and Bessie screamed
and almost had fit, and her mother told
Mrs. Rogers, and Gus got licked, aud Gus
says he is mind to set the house on fte
some day, and burn her out.
One day L went into the parlor and
creeped under the sofa and there wasn't
nobody there. They don't let dogs nor
children go into the parior, 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 jackson she
said one day that children was worse
nuisance than dogs. And Ar. Boyce end
Miss jackson came in and sitted down on
the sofa, and he said, ''Oh, Louisa, | do
love you so much, and then he kissed
her, for / heard it smack. And then she
said, ron, Thomas, do wish | conld be-
lleye you; don you never kiss any body
| else p And be said, mo, dearest" and
yelled out, "Oh what big story for
saw him kiss Bessie Nettles' nurse in the
ball one night, when the gas was turned
down" Didn't he jump up, oh you bet
and be pulled me out and tored my frock,
and he said, "Oh you wicked child, where
| do you expect to go to for telling such sto
ries?" And told him, you shut up,
aiu't going anywhere with you" l wish
that man would die like the other one, so
do, and ! don't care whether he goes to
heaven or not.
Gus ROGERS mother had lunch parry in
her parlor, and they had champagne, and
they never gave him any, and when his
mother wasn't looking, be saw bottle hal