Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-10-28
From Our Young Folks.l
BUsT LIKE AUNT BANGER


? JUST LIKE AUNT BANGER
''NOw, girls, it isn't %
! Trim, in her superior manner, smiI
ed,-for it was Trim who had just said
, Lovely ~
half frightened, half disappointed
from over her breadths of green silk
into Aunt Dangers face
Aunt Bangor was running breadths
too everybody was running bEeadths
excepting Trim who had brought the
last Bazaar, and sat, in a heap of Dem
orests and Godeys, comparing notes
and criticising eurtly.
Rye, with her feet crossed, swan
about at intervals on the floor, in bill
lows of green silk, after floating gspools
thimbles, needles )it has been estimat-
ed by mathematical friend, that Rye
/ will lose, upon an average, six needles
to five minutes sewing), and seizeC
the opportunity, whenever she could
to hold her new dress up in the thick
of the afternoon sunlight, s'to see the
emeraIds come OUT
Aunt Bangor certainly had not
meant the silk when she said, ''It
isn't''; in the first place, because she
gave it to Rye herself; in the next, be-
cause I doubt if there is a prettier piece
of goods in the market. 1t looked
like nothing in the world but lighted
q
weed tossing over them,-a1 green,
but the green that lives and quivers
and crystalizes in gems, as Rye
thought.
1t was like playing at a sea-bath to
make it up. When it came to trim
1 ming, Rye grew perfectly solemn.
/ 1t was a fact familiar in the family his
tory, that Aunt Bangor objected to
ruffles.
/ 'And frilIs, and pIaits, and fiounces,
! and everything that flies and quirks, .
Rye had confided sadly to Trim So
Trim was over with Cooley, and that
/ superior smile.
The pretty mother,-Rye' you will
I member,-herself trimmed to the
pretty waist, had said, with a secret
look of sympathy that was almost as
sweet as ruf1es to Rye's little foolish
heart, "Don;t make Aunt Bangor
trouble, my dear, I" and had gone away
to take a nap, because dressmakin g
made her head ache.
SO all was quiet on the Potomac, and
/ with Trim for reserve force, Rye had
undertaken to fight it out on that line.
Trim had her finger on plate in
/ Harper representing young woman
with face like cream candy and a
dress like
"a grab-bagl'' said Aunt Banger--
aA country charity fair grab-bag =
| Nothing belongs to anything. Dt9ecta
Latin" whispered Rye to Trim,
who had never studied it.
zzWhab does it mean ?"
flashed up said Rye, after med
! itative silence.
Aunt Bangor laid the Bazaar across
! her sharp knees, and sharply ran her
sharp forefinger over the eream-faced
1ady.5
"A candy pull y Rye suggested, try
/ ing to laugh but she felt more like
! T-lIfft
We're 'sthe thing this was last spring.,
/ and Trim always knew what was the
stthing'' better than Aunt Bangor.
There We're ruff1es enough on the
creamy lady. Ruf1ies on the bottom
/ ofthe skirt, ruff1es on the middle of
/ the skirt ruff1es in fact all over the
/ skirt; ruff1es on the saeque, around the
/ edge. up the back, across the SleeV es,
M the front, around the collar a ruff1e
I lin another plate, but the same unfor-
| tunate lady, in the same unfortunate
suit, for her Sacque lay ruming the so
/ fa) on the waist of the dress, on the
+ sleeves of the dress, on the sash of the
! dress
''Ruf1es, ruffies everywhere. "a
cor YOU might take off the upper
two, and make double skirt.-with a
ruf1e, - observed Trim, sweetly by way
Improvement.
s'Now, girls ~ repeated Aunt Ban
Not bit OF it.'i-she turned over the
the leaves Of the fashion-books in her
II Quick relentless Way,-"there amt
three dresses here I wouldn't be
L ashamed to be seen no, not even il
I were Rye. What with your fri1ls,
and your perks, and your peaks. and
your odds, and your ends, and your
streamers, you 1870 girls look more
like a little set of poll-parrots at a
monkey-show" (Aunt Ranger was in
too much of a hurry to attend to the
Il remarkable Geological construction OF
her sentence) ethan you do of refined
sense. I say refined sense. Common
sense I leave out OF the reckoning al
together"
& But we must be in fashion," plead
ed Trim, as Aunt Bangor pause to catch
her breath.
. tfI'd rather sew myseIfinto a rag bag.
than go round looking as if I came out
of the ark?'' said Rye, hotly. She felt
the ruffies rolling away over the bill
lows of breadths. She had begun in
her mind with the modest number 0.
Il Eve. If she asked for three now, shs
knew that she should do it in the teeth
of Fate.
''Not to speak of the money!" pro
ceeded Aunt Bangor (when she at once
fairly begun it was next to impossible
to stop her),-"not to say of the money
ten. twelve. fifteen, twenty, thirty
but those that have got to settle tht
Lords and dressmaker's bills for it
for work and material of trimming
single dress, and the Indians starving
to death on Lake Superior"
r''What have the Indians to do will
it ?" put in Trim with an air of higl
/ personal culture.
s'Not to say a word of the Indians,
continued the old lady, 'nor any othe
folks that cannot afford ruff1es, nor tn,
I s.,I-r ~ V.zE
Trump, nor anything but the pTettl
of it: it isn't pretty! These rigs ar
not in taste, girls they're not ladylike
they're not neat; they're not graceful
by any laws of God or man. Their
isn't an artist in the country, wouldn'
tell you, that, when you walk dowl
, town in that plaid suit of yours, Trim
you cut ridiculous figure. A ridicu
1ous figure There Now I've hat
9 my say, do what you like with you
dress. Rye Robbins,-but send hom
Trim and Cooley, before you decide
"But one must trim skirt laugh
ed Trim, by no means offended, thougl
by no means convinced.
ga short skirt. Perhaps. Well, yes
? It's more in proportion. / don't wan
Rye to look ugly. I want to make he
just as pretty as can She know
1fYes,D assented Rye. uncertainty
the ruf1es had all slipped off on til
green tide, now.
/, "What a0oasLd you do, Aunt Bangor
(! ifyou a0ere we, you knowP" This cues
: ton came thoughtfully, after a pause
Z 'I wouldn't flop round" said Aun
Bangor, promptly. I'D braid, binc
fold, contrive. I'd have too much var
ity not to look heavy and rich and uu
s crumpled and in place, and where
belonged. I'd as soon wear a mea'
bag, for instance, tied on behind no
as that sash of Trims. I'd look Jiqltsl