The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1871-05-03
TRR SUPPER. THE LADIES, AND "JoHN.

The supper last Wednesday night, at the
new hall, by the ladies Of the Episcopal
Church, although gotten UP hastily, was
sumptuous, elegant and complete. Indeed,
the most dainty epicureau, we think, had
no cause of complaint, ueither to quality nor
! quantity. The tables stood up ''manfully"
(supported as they were, By the ladies. how
could they do otherwise y Under pounds upon
pounds OF pigs, turkeys. geese, Certain we
saw a goose gander ratherJ hams, &C.,
| &C., also aTalanches Of strawberries and
fountains Of cream and mountains Of cake
(little mountafns delicious cake. G-e-e-many,
didn'tsome chnps 60 for ths mountains! The
tables were also tas:efully dressed, garnished
and adorned 5Ysrpcrb bouquets, and cornered
and 5ordered by pretty, viv cious. nimble-
| fingered matrons and maids, whose spark
ling eyes AMI cheery voices lent an addition
81 splcndor to The NV and brilliant chande>
liers. which illumius'ei the scene 80 luminous
! iy. We saw .'bokay" which. five have not
been misnformed, was sold forty-tiYe times
-we saw 1t sold dve times, ourself-and the
purchasers thought the last "seIl' the best
And John we'll we'll leave
John awhile to bis cream and crab and re-
turn to him presently. Seriously we can't
but admire the elasticity energy, nerve ,verve
and dash of tho ladies. The supper was gotten
| up in presto order, and, but for the rapidity
of their movement and the cheapness Of the
dishes, the fair caterers would lave realized
a handsome sum; as it is they are quite sat
isfied with the returns. We said that
none could have had the temerity nor the au-
dacty TO think twice or thrice the amount
charged by the ladies' for their sweet viands
too much; and We are satisfied that the most
brusque and crusty old epicure could have
had filled for him the choicest course in bill
of fare Even had he wanted green turtle
soup, we believe, that in almost no time at
all, the ladies would have Knocked" him 50
that he couldn't have told 'tolher from
which. But we are just here going to exercise
the journalistic right Of 'grumbling little
The Indies must keep in mind hereafter, that
the gentlemen don't move, like themselves
with lightning-like rapidity-the prevailing
fashon won't admit Of it;and many were just
beginning to find out, when the supper was
over. what had been on the tapis. The idea
of the ladies in trying to infuse or trans
fuse, by sympathy or electrical affinity some
Of their energy, and go>ahcaditiveness into
the gentlemen is certainly praiseworthy, but
they must remember that the men have to
stop and breathe: their pantaloons are farto
tight; they can't move to the breach aud
breakfast table so fast IS they. We heard
one fellow despairingly say, "why didn't the
ladies give US longer notice? Just like
them, their heads, bless them ARE so h@rd but
then their hearts are soft, he interpolated,
and they work for our especial comfort all the
while" We began to expostula!e with him
for saying that the ladies heads were hard,
and asked him what he meant by the severe
remark. He said he could only say that
their heads were hard or soft; there was
no alternativc-no middle ground Of escape;
and he was quite certain that they were not
soft. He had never yet seen soft headed
woman; and no sooner does one make up
her mind to thing than It's un fait accompl,
if barely possible at an. That "when wo-
man wills she will, you may depend ont. and
when she won't she don't, and there's an end
ont" And he also expressed the hope that
the ladies would get up another "afFair"
,ome time, and give himsand Harry and Bill
u plenty Of time to talk the matter over, and
see if they can't persuade somebody's loving
little sisters to 60 with them-[haVing no
loving little sisters Of their own)-to the beau
,Tful booths and bowers, arberS and arcades,
for strawberries and cream and coffee
and cakes, and for promenade under the
fowery fcstcoaed arches. Yes ,Juhn mos :here
double .jointcd. fortified and fastened, and
Judging from what We SAW. as we'll rs from
what We daln + see, but we've tGN about BY
John himself, we should judge that his tast-
ing opparatr7s was three-quarters Of a mile
long, more or less; ovcr every inch Of which
almost every luxury travelled. Speaking nau-
tically, for John is an old salt, when natty
little barquc /. seen moving upon the waters
like thing Of life ,one exclaims, what trim,
taut little craft" and but for the trouble thst
might have arisen, we'd have been pleased
for our local, who was ubsent in Columbia,
(possibly trying to re assemble the legislature
| for the purpose Of changing his name 10
Johu) TO have seen John bending TO his oYs-
tcrs and devied>crab, and heard the thoughts
! floating through his brain-the association Of
idcas-all about the dancing, crested waves
of the briny blue deep. 'oyster beds and Co
raj reefs. sheep head, shark tnils, and drum
steaks, and the murmuring fugcs Of the tides
J I'm must have heard all this in his shell
fish, and then imagined that he was once
more fancy free upon the rollicking waves
and ling deeps of the dark blu sea-.
In conclusion, we are satisfied that John
will agree with Us that the entertainment
was fit for the gods and the giants, and
the sylphs and the sybils; and also in our
doubt as to whether melted suns, moons.
! stars, comets, rainbows, auroTaS and the
milSy-way thrown in could have shed light
more ravishing and seductive than that re.
fIccted from the ''orbs" which flashed and
sparkled on the pleasant occasion.
ScRAPs.-
Vegetables arc coming In and some few
persons are growing saucy as they get fat
When the blackberry crop is made there is
no telling how they will act.
On Monday night fue season Of rain
fell, which will materially benefit the crops.
The clap OF thunder which accompanied it was
terrific.
Care is said to have killed catbutit is not
so; with but little care man can hare O
house full, all alive. kicking, scratching, new
ing and caterwauling. We have seven, and
two dorgs, and offer five Of the former as
premiums to new subscribers. They are
beauties.
Sabbath morning last we heard some one