Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-06
LITTLE GIRL 1IARTYRDOM.
4 Protest from One of the Sufferers

From the Springfield Republican.
Mr.. BOLEs: l don't know as little girls
ought to put pieces into the paper, but
and Lilly Jones and Susan Baker and all
of us have such Orful hard times we can't
help tellin' somebody and our mammas
won't hear q word and our papas don't
seem to care, but | guess they will when
they see it in the paper-don't you! We
do have such dreadful times, and l guess
you would too, Mr.. BOles, if you had TO
have all the hare in your head BRAIDED up
in a dossen big strings every mite, and
then jerked and pulled as tite as ever it
could bee until every hare jumped up and
down, and you had to sleep all night on
top of a lot of bunces as hard as rock
pullin all the time without a speck of
chance to get your he'd lade anywhere,
or your neck ether from bedtime
until tomorrow morning. l guess
you'd fret and seoul some, even if your
mama or your nurse did jirk and shake
you round and tell you to hold still and be
a good little gurl, shouldn't you think you
wood, Mr.. Boles, or didn't you ever be
norty when your mother slfaked youl l
spOse when you see us out a walking in
the daylite wit our friZzes all a bobbin
and flying out inter the wind down our
backs you thinks it looks nifty pretty and
don't know nothing about what we've
underwent threw the mite before, but |
want you should think how you'd feel if
twas your hare and if you wouldn't
sQueel sometimes. My ma sails she does
it to make me look descent, but grandma
Olds-yOu can't think what an odd, dear,
good old grandma she Essays, when
little guTls wore their hare Ecut short or
| only curled up by natur, who | spose was
the nurse, tina looked ten times nicer
TRAN they do now, cause they had good
sleep atnights, and was moar like sevilized
human beinsinste of like wild African blak
nigroes whose hare was made so krinkly
without emmy strings at all. most no
she speeks the truth, and if tina didn't
look perty tha'd feel perty, and guess
feelins more than looks, don't you My
| ma allus sails tina Is, and that we mustn't
think at all about our looks, but how can
any body help it who's lane all night on a
pile of bunchy hare and then had it all
set a fiyin round her head and neck a
ucklin on EN- all the time One day
when it pulled wOrser than ever / asked
my ma why God didn't make my hare
kinked up like black Sally's if he wanted
me to wear it so, and my par larfed, but
ma sayed Unjust not be pertinent and
shaked me a good deal. didn't no was,
and let her pull it dreadful and only
groaned incide. Susy says she wants l
shoOd tell you about all our troubles, she
fesls just as bad as l do, but Ida Secilia
don't she likes it, and if you
Good see her shake herself and
| jiyget round l guess you'd think she did,
bat Susy and l. don't care bit about
looks, nor about boys, eether, that is boys
for boze, we like little boys to play with
ever so much, but we don't want any
boze and grandma sails to troubles come
soon enuf without one beginning with ,em
in our sleave apruns. If you put this
in your paper l shall no you like the little
children and feel for them and my mama
will see it and guess will wink her eyes
and no papa will larf. May be | shall
rite you more about me having to go to
night parties that are wurs troubles than
waring hare almost only I don't know
which is the wurst-do you?
LAURA SENsIBLY.
Grandma thinks l spell very well for q
! little gurl.