Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-08-21
A Naughty Little Girl.
HER VIEWS ON LIFE AND SOCIETY ~ GEN.
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HER VIEWS ON LIFE AND SOCIETY ~ GEN.
I'm only a little girl, but | think have
as much right to say what want to about
things as a boy. - l hate boys; they're SO
mean; they always grab all the straw
berries at the dinner table, and never tell
US girls when they are going to have any
fun. Only like Gus Rogers The other
day Gus told me he was going to let off
some fire. c-works, aud he let Bessie Nettle
and me go and look at them. All Of us
live in hotel, and HE, mothers room has
window with balcony. His mother
was gone out to buy some creme 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-stolc them
from the housekeeper. Just when she
went to put them in the closet, Gus went
and told her Mrs. Nettle wanted her
minute, aud while she was gone lie grabbed
the soap aud matches, and when she came
back he watched her; and she got real
mad, and she scollcd Della that is the
name Of the chambermaid), and said she
knowed she did it, and | was real glad,
because when was turning summcrsets
on my mothers bed the other day, Della
slapped me, and said she wasn't going to
make the bed two times to please me then
Bessie and me stuck the matches in the
soap like ten-pns, and Gus fired them of,
and they blazcd like everything, 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, be-
cause the man that keeps the hotelchargcs
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, aud gentle
man that sat next to us said, Little girls
should be seen and not heard" The mean
old thing died the other day, and was
real glad, aud told Della So, and she said
if went and said things like that would
ut 90 to Heaven. Much does she know
about it, and | wouldn't want togo if dirty
things like her went there. Yesterday,
Mary, our nurse, told Bessie Nettle'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 Nettle's nurse
said "Oh, mighty! what u lie! :" and Bes-
sic Nettlc went into her mothers room,
and her little brother said she nipped him.
aud Bessie said, "Oh, mighty! what a
| lie" and you should have heard how her
mother talked to her, and went and shut
her up in dark room where she kept her
trunks, and didn't let her have nothing
but bread and water and Gus Rogers
went and yelled through the key-hole and
said Bessie, the devil is coming to catch
you" and Bessie she screamed and almost
had fit. and her mother told Mrs Rogers
aud got Gus to be licked; and Gus says he
has mind to sot the house Oh fire some
day aud burn her out.
| One day | went into the parlar, and
creeped under the sofa, and there wasn't
nobody there. They don't let dogs nor
children go into the parlor, and ! think
it's real mean; and had to creep under
the sofa, so nobody could see me; and Mr..
Boycc came in, with Miss Jackson
she said, one day, that children were
worse nuisanccs than dogs. And Mr..
Boyce and Miss Jackson came in, and
sitting 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, I do
wish could believe you; don't you never
kiss anybody else" And he said: "No,
dearest" and yelled out: "Oh, what
big story" For I saw him kiss Bessie,
Ncttles nurse, in the hall, one night, when
the gas was turned down. Didn't the jump?
you bet; and he pulled me out and tored
my trock, and he said: "Oh, you wick
ed child Where do you expect to 60 to
for telling such stories" And | told
him: "You shut up; l amt going any.
where with you'll" 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 party
in her parlor aud they had champagne, and
they never gave him any; and when his
mother wasn't looking board, and he sealed
it, and took it in our nursery; and Mary
wasn't there, and Gus aud me drinked it
out of the glass that Mary brushes. her
teeth in; and it was real nice; and we
looked in Mary's 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 tumblcd down and
tored Mary's frock, and made my nose
bleed; and Gus said, "Ol, there's earth
quake" cause We couldn't stand up and
you should see how the house did 60 up
and down-a aud Gus and me laid
down on the carpet, and the housekceper
picked me Yp' and took ME to my mothers
room, and my mother said: "Oh, my
what have yon boon doing" and I said:
"Oh; Lord! l drinkod champagne out Of
Gus Rogers mothers bottle. in the glass
that Mary brushes her teeth in" And
the honsckeeper says: son, my goodness
gracious! that child's as tight As brick ~
and said: "You bet-bully for YOU"
and then was awful sick, and I've forgot