Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-08-02
How Young LADY Fceis whea She Is
Engaged.

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DEAR AtrLr-I have got real, live,
grown-up beau; and isn't jolly ?, He's
perfectly splendid; just like those lovely
wax figures in the windows, only they
can't use their lips. It's my French
teacher, and says INA petite just like
COOLING dove, and he always smells SO
sweet OF pond lilies! l don't have any
thing to do with the boys now; those
little boys of seventeen and eighteen DO
very well when there are no men
around, il they can get money enough
from their pas TO buy us Gunihers can
dies, but they can't amuse lis girls OF
fourteen; they seem just like babies, and
! when they try to make loye-O, my
arnt they muShy T! Now, Monsieur
Fontaine acts rs il he had been engaged
twenty times, although I'm his first love;
but we don't let ON tctorc ma AMI
Thuse. Ii makes Arcthusa awful mad
to have me call her Thuse, and that's
the reason do it. l heard her ask ma
the other day if that Frcnohman man.
ncrs were not too familiar toward than.
child Child! She's awiully afraid of'
my being young lady What need
she care, now she's married ? Wasn't
she spooncy, though, about Fredl
When he used 10 come and see her. 4
would drag Tommy into the. room.
and put my arm around his waist and
squeeze his hand until her face woul'!
b. rs red as beet. Snch fun! |
caught her kisSin. him once-such n
little mipping kiss, just rs if she were
tasting pcpperSaucc. Now il pretend
ed to kiss a mani Id do il in right good
earnest; Just plant my feet square on
the ground and give it TO him sure pop
right on the lips q. Allie, poor Wusc
would gool' Oh dead FAINT at my low
bred expressions, and inform me, for
the nine hundrcdth and ninth time, that
my name is Ellsworth. Just as if
didn't know my own name, and what
docs il matter, anyway, when / expect
TO change il so soon do not intend
to hang on till I'm horid old maid,
like poor Miss Iarcy opposite. She
might be q warning 10 the strongest
minded. She's nervous, and how | do
love to scare her IpromiSed Tommy
the other day five GEMS worth ot pea
nuts TO let ME hold him out Of the third
story window He'd let me skin him
for paper of peanuts. So got him
out, aud knclt down under the window
ledge, where couldn't be seen and held
tight hold of his wrists. Thusc thinks
my strength is disgusting. Pretty soon
there was an elderly smicks, and then
an elderly form rushed across the street
TO mother; but by the time they got up
stairs / was seated quietly at my crotch
etwork, and Tommy was turning sum.
mersauts on the bed, over the lovely
fiutcd pillow cases. And ma still thinks
il is poor Miss Tracy Chat X ~ little
wild mt times 'if1'lf
love my brother Fred ever 10 much,
bat i don't see how he ever came 10
fancy such die away specimen rs our
Thusc Because she is so awfully prct-
~, suppose; but she just turns him
round her thumb. If he refuses 10 get
what shc wants, she just looks like q
martyr in the flames, and lets down all
her back hair like the Magdalens in tho
picture gallery. And although they aro
real pretty hanging on the walls, even
an artist docs not want 10 sit at the ta-
ble three times day opposite 1.-Two
one, with her eyes rolled up aud her
hair down her back. SO poor Fred al
ways gives in, and she smiles q iorgiv-
ing smile, puts up her hair and goes of
to buy the fine silk or the set of jewclry
that has taken her fancy And when
she gets it she keeps tight hold OF il,
too. She has never given me cyon y
cu0button. Thuse always was siiDgy.
And she is so stuck up, because she has
got SON. Just as if il were something
wonderful Why, Mrs. Tubbs, our
laundress has right OF thcn, bcsiiies one
that was drowned and one scalded, AMI
she isn't bit set up; but Arothusa says
any boy T. and docs tho maternal aall
to pieces. She thinks Alexis is made
out of nicer material than other babies,
and know she doesn't believe file cat
echism where il SAYS he was" made out
of the vulgar dust al the earth 4 sup.
pose she thinks rose leaves and corn
starch were used to make up his delicate
organization. II would relieve my feel
ings TO see speck Of dirt on that
child's face; it makes me nche TO see
him so painfully clean Ard she is ali
the time feeling his bumps, becinse'sbe
thinks he is going to lie q little Solo
mon, or some humbng or other. f,...
Now, Allie, ] have got secret that
you mlisnt tell to living soul ifyou
DO / viii never, forgive lyou. 4 have
promised Monsieur Fohtainc 10 be mar,
ried in three weeks, Oh my fourteenth
birthday, and if mother seems likely 10
object, we are going 10 elope, just Ike
the girls in the novelA Wont II be
splendid Just think Of whata senss
ton it win make |! The Chicago papers
will he full OF it. .,Elopemept in, high
life. The lovely daughter Of the, ricI,
and elegant Mrs E-h clol,ed Will, bcf
teacher" Poor Thuse would do high
tragedy, wiring ber bdhds, and ctaiE of
the disgrace to the noble hSose Of Ellsl
worth. / should think her delicate
shoulders would ache from carving our
noble house so long. Now, don't you
breathe word about il, and will stand
by you if you run away with shoe
black. - isnJs BE5rfg - liG
Married at fourteen. Just think,
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