The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-08-14
How 1 Young Lady feels when
She is Engaged.

The following intercepted letter
from the Home Journal tells funnii,
how /. young mis- feels when she
mrreptitioualy engaged
DEAR ALLIE.-I have got rea
hive. grown up beau and isn't it jolly
He's perfectly splendid; just like thos
lovely wax figures In the windows
only they can't use their lips. II
my French teacher. and he says I'm
petite" just like . cooling dove, and p
always smells SO sweet Of pond lilies
don't have anything to do with tn
boys now, those little boys OF seven
teen and eighteen do very well wnen
there are no men around, If they cal
get money enough from their pas g
buy Gunther's candies, but they cam
amuse Us girls OF fourteen they seem
lust like babies aud when they try e
make love-O, my. arn't they mushey'
Now Monsieur Fontaine acts As II M
had been engaged twenty times. al
though I'm his frat love but we DOM
let on before ma, and Thuse. II
makes Arthusa awful mad to have me
call her Thuse, and that is the reason
do it. heard her ask ma the Other
day IL that Frenchman's manners
were not too familiar toward that
child. Child, She's awfully afraid
of my being . young lady. What
need che care, now she's married :
Wasn't she spoony though about Fred.
When he used to come and see her. l
would drag Tommy into the room and
put my arm around his waist anu
squeeze his hand until his face would
be as red as q beet. Such fun! |
caught her kissing him once-such
little slipping kiss. just as If she were
tasting pepper sauce. Now ii | pre-
tended to like man, I'd do il in right
good earnest. just plant my feet
square on the ground aud give II TO
him sure pop right on the lips. .,
Allie. poor Thuse would go off In
dead faint at my low-bred expressions,
and inform me for the nine hundred
and ninth time, that my name is Els
worth. Just ~ If didn't know my
own name, and what does il matter,
any way when l expect to change it
SO soon. do not intend to hang Oh
to il till am horrid old maid, like
poor Miss Tracy opposite. She might
be . warning TO the strongest minded
She's nervous, aud how i do love to
scare her. promised Tommy the
other day five cents worth Of peanuts
to let me hold him out of our third
story window. He'd let me skin him
for paper of peanuts. So got him
out and knelt down close under the
ledge where l couldn't be
seen, and held tight to his wrists.
Thuse thinks my strength is disgust
ing. Pretty soon there was an elderly |
shrek, and then az elderly form |
rushed across the street to mother; !
out by the time they got up stairs |
was seated quietly AT my crochet work,
lnd Tommy was turning somersaults
IN the bed over the lovely futed pill
owcases, and ma still thinks it is poor
Miss Tracy that is "a little wild at
INES"
l love my brother Fred ever SO
much, but l don't see how ever he |
came to fancy such die away speci |
men "a our Thuse "because she is SO |
a~fully pretty, l suppose but she just
turns him round her thumb. If he
refuses to get what she wants, she just
looks like martyr in the flames, and
lets all her back hair down like the
in the picture gallery.
And although ithey are real pretty,
hanging on the walls, even nm artist
does not want to sit at the table three
times day opposite live one with
her eyes rolled up and her hair down
her back. So poor Fred always gives
IN, and she smiles q forgiving smile,
puts up her hair and goes off to buy
he fine silk or set Of jewelry that has
aiken her fancy. Aud when she gets
t she keeps tight hold of il too. She
la- never given me even a cuff button.
rhuse always was stingy Aud she is
- stuck up because she has got q son.
Just as If it were something wonder
full. Why, Mrs. Tubbs, our iauudress
has eight OF them besides one that
was drowned aud one scaldeti, and she
isn't bit set up; but Arthusa says
my boy ~ aud does the material all
to pieces. She thinks Alexis is made
out OF nicer material than most babies
and know she doesn't believe thu
catechism where il says she was made
os the vulgar dust Of the earth | sup
pose she thinks rose leaves aud corr
starch We're used 10 make up his deli
cate organization. 1t would reliev
my feelings to see bit of DIT on tn
child's face it makes me ache to Sc
him SO painfully clean. And she
al the time feeling of his bumps, be
cause she thinks he is going to be
little Solomon, or some humbug O
other
Now, Allie, I've secret that 20
mustn't tell a living soul; if you do,
will never forgive ycu. have prom
Used Monsieur F0ntaine to be marie,
In three weeks, on my fourteenth brit
day, and II mother seems likely to OF
iect, we are likely to elope-just lik
the girls in the novels. Won't il b
splendid? The Chicago papers vii
be fol- Of i'll Iopemont in high life
the lovely daughter Of the rich an
elegant Mrs. E-h eloped with he
teacher Poor Thuse would wrin
her hands, do high tragedy and tall
Of the dis grace Of the noble house Q
4 Ellsworth. should think her deli
cate shoulders would ache from carry
| ing our noble house SO long. Nov
don't you breathe word about it, am
III stand by you If you run away will
a bootblack.
Married at fourteen,h Just thinl
Of it! ] shall beat Thuse out and out
Then, too something may happen y
Mons. Fontaine. OF course | woul,