Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-02-03
LITTLE SWEETNESS 1ELLS WHAT
rs GOING ON AT THE HOTEL.

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have as much right TO say what want
to about things as boy. I hate boys;
they are so mean; they always grab all the
strawberries at the dinner-table, snd new
er tell us. when they are going to have
any fun. Only I like Gus Rogers. The
other day Gus told me he was going to
let off some fireworks, and he let Bessie
Nettles and me 60 and look at them
All of us live in a hotel, and his moth
er's room has window with balcony
His mother was gone out to buy some
creme de Us to put on her face, and he d
went and got eleven boxes of lucifer
matches, and eyer SC many pieces of cas-
tile soap he steaIed them from the house
keeper. Just when she went to put
them in her closet Gus went and told
her Mrs. Nettles wanted her a minute,
while she was gone he grabbed the SOAP
and matches, and when she came bach.
he watched her, and she got real mad
and she scolded Della (that is the cham
bermaid) and said she knowed she did it,
and was real glad, because when I was
tur ming some somersets on my mother
bed the other day, Della slapped me, and
said she wasn't going to make the bed
two times to please me the Bessie and
me sticked the matches in the soap like
ten pins, and Gus fred them off, and
they blazed like anything, and they make
an awful smell, and Gus went and turn
ed 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
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 set next to us, said :
"Little girls should be seen and not
heard" The mean old thing died last
week, and was real glad, and tol Della
50, and she said if I went and said things
like that, [ couldn't go to heaven
Much she knows about it; and I wouldn't
want to go if dirty old things like she is,
went there.
One day went into the parlor and
creeped under the sola, and there wasn't
nobody there. They don't let dogs nor
children 60 into the parlor, and l think
its 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 Mr..
Boyce and Miss Jackson came in and sit
ted 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, "Oh, Thomas, do
wish I could believe you; don't you nev-
er kiss anybody else ?" And he said, "No,
dearest" and [ yelled out, "Qa, what
big story for saw him kiss Bes-
sic Nettle's nurse in the hall one night,
when the gas was turned down." Didn't
he jump up, you bet? and he pulled me
out and tored my frock, and he said,
ooh, you wicked child, where do you ex-
pect to go TO for telling such stories ?"
and I told him. "You shut up, I amt
going anywhere with YOU" [ wish that
man would die, like the other, so do;
and | don't care whether he goes to heav-
en- or not.
Gus Rogers mother had lunch party
IN her paror, and they had champage,
and they never gave him any, and when
his mother wasn't looking, he found
bottle half full on the deboard, and he
stealed it and took it in our nursery, and
Mary wasn't there, and Gus and me
drinked it out of the glass Mary brushes
her teeth in; and it was real nice; and we
looked in Mary's wardrobe and found her
frock that she goes to church in; and Gus
put it on, and Mary's bonnet too, and we
tumbled down and tored Mary's frock
and made my nose bleed; and Gus said,
"Oh, there's an earthquake" cause we
couldn't stand up; and you should see
how the house did 60 up and down, awful;
and Gus and ME laid down on the carpet,
and the housekeeper picked me up and
took me to my mothers room, and my
mother said, "Oh, my, whatever have yon
been doing ?" and | said, "Oh, dear F.! |
drinked champagne out of Gus Rogers
mothers bottle in the glass that Mary
brushes her teeth in" And the house
keeper says, ''Oh, my goodness gracious,
that child's tight as bricks" and said,
"You bet, bully for you; aud then / was
awful sick, and I've forgot what else"