Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-25
HUMAN NATURE.
Naugity Little Girls Views OF Life
Points that GrOwn.up Children
Can Appreciate.


Points that GrOwn.up children
Can Appreciate.
From the Chicago Times.
I'm only little girl, but l think have as
much right to say what l want to abou,
things as boy. 1 hate boys; they're so
mean; they always grab all the straw berries
at the dinner table, and never tell US when
they're going to have any fun. Only like
Gus Rivers. The other day Gus told me be
was going to get off some fireworks. and let
Bessey Nettle and me GO and look at them.
All of US live in q hotel, and his mothers
room has q window with q balcony. His
mother was gone out to buy some creme de
lis to put on her face, and he'd went and got
eleven boxes of lucifer matches and ever so
many pieces of CASTLE soap. He stealed
them from the housekeeper. Just when she
went to put them in her closet, Gus went
and told her Mrs. Nettle wanted her min
ute, and while she was gone he grabbed The
soap and matches, and when she came
back he watched her; and she got real mad,
and she scolded Della Chat Is the chamber
maid) and said she knowed she did it, and
was real glad, because when / was turn
ing somersets on my mothers bed the other
day, Della slapped me and said she wasn't
going to make the bed two times to please
me; then Bessie and me sticked the matches
in the soap like ten pins, and Gus fred
them off ana they blazed like anything and
they made an awful 81 ell anc Gus went and
turned little gas on SOS his mother would
think it was that.
We get our dinner with the nurses cause
the man that keeps the hotel charges full
for ho Irar hary elf Of Ho ta6
in the big dining-room. Oncs my mother
let me go down with her and talked q
heap at the table, and gentleman that sat
next to us said, 'Little girls should be seen
and not heard" The mean old thing died
last week, and was real glad, and told
Della so, and she said if | went and said
things like that could't go to heaven. Much
she knows about it; and l wouldn't want to
90 if diEty things like she is went there.
Yesterday Mary, our nurse, told Bessie
Nettle's nurse that she heard Larry Finne-
gan was going to marry her. Larry is one
ofthe walters, and he saves candies for me
from the big dining room; and Bessie Nettle's
said, "Oh, Lord! what a lie > and Bessie
Nettle went into her mothers room, AMI
her little brother said she nipped him, an6
Bessie said, "Oh, Lord what lie!" and
you should have heard how her mother did
talk to her, and went and shut her up in
dark room where she kept her trunks, and
didn't let her have nothing but bread and
water; and Gus Rogers went aud yelled
through the keyhole and said, "Bessie, the
devil is coming to fetch you'll" and Bessie
screamed and almost had fit, and her
mother tcld Mrs. Rogers, and got Gus lick
ed, and Gus says hos mind to set the
house on fire some day and burn her out.
One day went into the parlor and crept
under the sofa, and there wasn't nobody
there. They don't let dogs nor children go
into the parlor, and think it's real mean;
and so had to creep under the sofa 80 no
body could see me; and Mr.. BSyce came in,
and Mrs. EllasoD; she said one day that
children were more nuisance than dogs.
And Mr.. Boyce and ISIS Jackson came in
and sitted down on the sofa; and he said:
so, Louisa, l do love you so much" ard
then he kissed her, for heard it smack.
And then she said: 30, Thomas, l do wish
l could believe you; don't you ever kiss
anybody else?" And he said: "No, dear
est" and yelled out, "Oh, what big sto-
~, for saw him kiss Bessie Nettle's Lurse
in the hall ons night, when the gas was
turned down." Didn't he jump; you bet
and he pulled NE out and tore my frock,
and hssaid: 'Oh, you wicked child; where
do you expect to go to for telling such sto-
ries ?" and told him: ''Y on shut up; |
1 amt going anywhere with you" l wish
that man would die, like the other one, so
do; and | don't care whether be goes to
Heaven or not.
Gus Rogers mother had lucnh party in
her parlor, and they had champagne, and
they never gave him aay; and when his
mother wasn't looking he found bottle
half full on the sideboard, and he stealed it
and took it in our nursery; and Mary wasn't
there, and Gus and me drinked it out of the
glass Mary brushes her Teeth in; and it was
real nice; and we looked in Mary's Ward
robe and found her frock she goes to church
in; and Gus put it on, aud Msry's bonnet,
too; and We went in the hall, and we'tum-
bled down and tored Msry's frock, made
my nose bleed; aud Gus said, soho, there's
a earthQuske!" cause we couldn't stand
up; and you should see how the house did
go up and down-awful; and Gus and me
laid down on the carpet, and the housekeeDer
picked me up and tookad me to my moth
er's room, and my mother said: ooh, my
what have you been doing?" and l said,
Oh, Lord drinked champagne out Of Gus
Rogers mothers bottle in the glass that
Mary b. ushes her teeth in" And the
housekeeper says, sob, goodness gracious!
that child's as tight as bricks;" and SAT-:
"Y GU bet; bully for you;" and then was
awful sick, and I've forgot what else.