Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-12-30
Back from "Yurrup."

Back from 'Yurrup."
Mark Twain, in the Buffalo En-
press, tells how some "traveled"
fools talk:
Have you ever seen family Of
fools just back from Europe-or Yur-
rup, as they pronouce it? They never
talk to you, of course, being strang-
ers, but they talk to each other and
at you till you are pretty near dis
tracted with their clatter; till you are
sick Of their ocean experiences; their
mispronounced foreign names; their
dukes and emperors; their trivial
adventures; their pointless reminis'
cences; till you are sick of their inn
beetle faces and their relentless clack,
and wish it had pleased Providence
to leave the clapper out OF their
empty skulls.
l travelled with such family one
eternal day, from New York to Bos-
ton last week.. They had spent just
a year in "Yurrup," and were re-
turning home to Boston. Papa said
little, and looked bored; he had sim
ply been down to New York to re-
ceive and cart home his cargo OF
travelling imbecility. Sister Ange-
line, aged twenty-three, sister Aue
gusta, aged twenty-five, and brother
Charles, aged thirty-three, did the
conversational drivel, and mamma
purred and admired, and threw in
some help when occasion offered, in
the way of remembering some
French barber's-I should say some
French count's-name, when they
pretended to have forgotten it. They
occupied the choice seats in the par
lor of drawing-room car, and Tor
twelve hours l sat opposite to them,
was their uis-a-uis, tn ely would have
said, in their charming French way.
observation-disclosures that nahsty
(nasty) steamer! I've the headache
yet, she rolled so the fifth day out"
Angeline-"And well you may.
I never saw saw such nahsty old
tub. 1 never want to 60 in the Vile
de Paris again. Why didn't we 60
over to London and come in the
Scotia?"
Aug-"Because we were FOOLS"
RI fervently indorse that senti-
ment.]
Ange-"Gustie, what made Count
Caskowhisky drive off looking so
blue that last Thursday in Parry?
(Paris she meant.) All, own up
now"
Aug-"Now, Angie, how you talk!
told the MAJESTY creature l would
not receive his attentions any longer.
And the old Duke, his father, kept
boring me about him and his 1000
600 francs a year till l sent him OIL
with a flea in his ear"
Ha-ha-ha!'
Charles Pulling a small silken
cloak to piecesl-"Angie, where did
you get this cheap thing?"
Angie-"You, Cholly, let that
alone! Cheap! Well how could !
help it? There we were tied up
in Switzerland-just down from Mon
Blong Mont Blanc, doubtless); could
not buy anything in those nahsty
shops 80 far away from Parry. l had
to put up with that slimpsy forty
dollar rag; but bless you l couldn't
gonakedv'
ChOrus-"Ke-he-he!"
Ange-'sGuess who I was thinking
of? Those ignorant persons we first
saw in Rome, and afterwards in
Venice; those"
Ange-"Oh, ha! ha! ha! 1t was SO
funny. Papa, one of them called the
Santa della Spiggiela the Santa della
Spizziola. Ha! ha! ha! And she
thought it was Canova that did
Michel Angeles Moses! Only think
of it! Canova a sculptor and Moses a
picture! I thought I should die. ]
guess I let them see by the way /
laughed that they'd made fools OF
themselves, because they blushed
and sneaked off,"
Papa laughed family, but not
with the easy grace Of man who
was certain he knew what he was
laughing about.
Aug-"Why Cholly! Where did
you get these MAJESTY Beaumarchais
gloves? Well, wouldn't if l were
YOU"
Mamma with uplifted hands,
"Beaumarchais, my son!
Ange-"Beaumarchaisl Why, how
can, yoGi Nobody in Parry wears
those nahsty things but Uncommon
est people,"
-"They are rum lot; but
then Tom Blennerhasset gave 'em to
me; he wanted to do something or
other to curry favor, Is'pose."
Ange-"Tom Blennerhasset!"
AUCTION Blennerhasset!" ~
Mamma--ssTom Blannerhasset!
And have you been associating with