Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-10-13
Ceurting In Ncbraska---Efrect Of a
5st Scarcity Of Women.


I Scarcity OF Women.
Nebraska Correspondence Of the Syracuse stant
A heavy dose of girls, noneof you
homeopathic prescriptions, Is wha
Nebraska needs. A party OF US wer
duck hunting the other; day I'm tn
Missouri bottom, Night overtonk a
before we were aware of It, and W.
we're obliged to seek lodgings at TN,
first dwelling we could find. II wa
small one story structure Of three
roolns, and occupied by q family o
lsix--father, mother, daughter ant
three SONS. The sons were all un'
married. and from the, calls that wer'
made afterward we should judge tim
the daughter was unmarried alsos-
We hadn't been In the houssa Nv,
minutes when some kind Of q vehicl,
drove up and two Young men were
] ashered into the parlor. Straightway
the mother aud daughter held !
| whispered consultation which closee
with an iuvitation to the sitting roon
,fpr supper. II was evident the ynuill
men callers had been To tea. AS the,
staid In the parlor with sweets Elk
teen Rft1
| Scarcely had we taken our seats al
the table when howl from the dogs
outdoors announced another cohser
He seemed to avpi,i the front door
and knocked at that where our party
was just sitting to supper. 'rhe
mother rose 10 answer the summons
when we were surprised by the
daughter opening the parior door
and rushing forward with, "Don't
git up, mother! It's one Of my EEL
lows! Come in, Jim; how do you
do?n
| And Jim entered In response to the
CHEEKY salutation. He made himself
as comfortable as possible until we
had finished supper. when another
whispered consultation proved thai
tho "pnrior IL full as 1t ought to be, =
Wills pered 10y Miss, In .responre to
some inotherly suggestion. The old
ventleman solved theauestion by in-
viting us into the kitchen to smeke.
twasevident that Jim didn't smoke,
fsrise femained in the sitting rpom.
We should have doubtless enjoyed q
quiet cigar had not the old lady
Eopenedsthe back door and shouted a,
the top of her voice "Come round
here to the back doorV ~ ..4.t,
1t was another young man, and we
faneied he looked as If he had come
In rather late. Two young men
within the parlor, one I'm the sitting
room and one in the Kitchen. What
shouli 4 be done The courting busi
ness was getting hot! There was
another talk between mother aud
daughter. 10 wan evident their de-
vices had been exhausted. The old
gentleman was called into the cor.
ner. He settled the question by u
whisper: tt xaBa5htna3 cav
"I'll be damned II TN move again
until the settin' room IL full y, AaaiHI
Into the sitting room went number
four, and we smoked. IL was full
ten n1lnutes before the next disturb
erss came and they entered the kitch-
en- with the air of old acquaintances.
We looked anxiously - the host
Taking his pipe from his mouth, a
singie sentence relieved us:
Thssnis the.widowers .Stickiu
And we ''stuckn and smoked on.
For the next half hour the girl nust
have been kept busy. The widowers
had certainly third of her time. =
ftwHss O'Clock. We wished to 60. 10
bed. and the only bed we had dis
covered was I'm the parlor. The Old
gentleman divined our wishes, and
said:
Y .I'm sorry. gentlemen But this
10 one of the regular cauFtin, nights (!
Them two fellers In the parlor never
leave afore midnight. and the wid>
overs aiIus stay all night. And that
amt the worst of It. Dan'Il be here
at ~ O'clock; I and the boys allus
sleep In the haysta1k Friday nights.
Yer welcome to tiaatal O ;o2 'li9n@d !
The parlor, sittlng-roon. aud kitch.
en- full, we retreated to the hay.stacls.
In response to question on the point
the old gentleman said that: ER
Friday nights it's purity bad, but
Sunday it's wuss. Last Sunday
might there was ten on 'em, and the
girl Is getting more and more partik.
lIsrs The more she gets the more
|sl1e wapts I" ase9aaatt'oii
= on the hay.siack. with a stiff
breeze diving away the mosquitoes,
we heard Dan drive up. One of the
last remarks of the old man before
we fell asleep was. '.Yes. gentlemen,
courtin's hot In Nebrasky." And
we believed him. aab ,att ssR tte4 ,ts'