Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-19
STELLA AGAIN.
On the Hunt for clearinghouse in st.
LOuis-Drink and Dogs. h
Another Young Man After Her-A Tea
nessean on his Cheek-Oh TO
California.
lrom nn OccasLonnI Correspondenl.

From an Occasional Correspondent.
ST. Louis, September l5.-St. LOuil
people talk about committee sittinl
on the bridge" / have an idea OF call
ing one TO SO on the clearinghouse
They might be provided with ham
mocks and awnings upon the roofs, anC
so get along quite comfortably. AS yoI
may imagine, have been hunting ;
place where guests are received, but fins
must pay for the privilege OF being ;
guest. The other morning, soon ate
breakfast, / started out; the first place
visited was q handsome three-story
house, in a nice eneighbOrhood; altogethe
if was so nice that / should no
have thought Of going in had 1 not seer
on the door the card that one sees OF
almost every other house in some Dor
tons Of the city, furnished and uHfur
nished rooms to rent.n l gave the bel
a gentle pull and waited, all was still
"not a sound was heard, etc; anOthel
pull, and another rest on the doorstep
half dozen similar trials, and then
though am usually amiability itself,
began to get mad, and in walked. JUS
as i got 10 the hall, 10 whose blacknes'
Egyptian darkness couldn't hold 3
candle, something that looked like wo
man, came out OF the gloom and advsnc.
ed toward me- / said politely, "Cau
l see the lady of the house?' "Well, y
said this parsonage, 'just you open YOU
eyes and look at me, and you'll be APT
to see her; aint she pretty?" this last
with drunken leeT, as she staggered
back against the WALL. | thought il
best for me to leave, and started for the
door, but / wasn't 10 be let out that
easy. The "lady Of the house, reeled
toward me and said: 81 thought you
wanted 10 see me; can you lookup
thought discretion the better part OF
valor,n so / said meekly, Eyes, nam,
if you will open the door so ! can see,
I shall be glad to admire you" This
she was willing to do, and 1 descended
the steps with more celerity than digni-
ty, never looking back until l bad
turned the first corner. Going up Pine
street / saw a place with the usual card,
and IL looked nice, toO-in fact, il is 3
house / had been wanting to get rooms
in ever since l came to st. LOuis-so in
[ went, but when / reached the front
porch a fierce bark and the rattling of a
chain was my greeting, and there was q
y
nerve to break his chain and get TO me.
| smiled my sweetest smile at him, told
him he was 'nice, pretty doggy" but
that dog wouldn't swallow fiattery worth
a cent, though he looked ready to swal-
low me. 1t was no go, and after stand
ing there for some time l came to the
conclusion that those rooms wouldn' 'tsuit
me and rdgo home, which / accordingly
did and found mamma at the gate, en-.
gsged in the amusing occupation o.
wsicbin,- the neighbOrs. / joined her
and we noticed one young man who
looked over a., us quite often. We had
noticed him sew t>ral times before, and
rad dubbed him "n,s Smma's man, We
soon went in the house, and as l sat al
the window relating my experience o.
the day, who should see but mamma
man" coming in the gate. ] hadn't
time to say a word before he was at the
door. Papa went out and the following
conversation ensued:
Stranger from over the way-"Good
evening sir, my name is NJ"
Indeed, and to what am 1 in
debted for the honor Of this
caIl,n from papa, as stiff and un-
bending as though he had just swal-
lowed half a dozen ramrOds. The young
man hesitated, coUghed, and then COM
menced II know he had learned 1t all
by heart before he came over; he hoped
the mOtiUe that prompted the visit would
be his excuse; he was a stranger here,
and our parlor looked so gay and pleas
ant, etc, etc. He didn't say what the
motive was; suppose papa thought
him anxious to make his acquaintance,
| was sll this time in the paTlOr, listen
ING. and my maternal parent, whose or
gans Of hearing are slightly out of order,
couldn't imagine what was going on at
the door. As she sat there, winking
and blinking at me TO tell her,
eouldn'tstand il. Sochoking with laugh
ter | stuffed my handkerchief in my
mouth and rushed upstairs, where L
hung so far over the bannisters, trying
to hear, that / came near falling over on
my head, which caused some little COM
motion, and gave the stranger man time
to remember more of his lesson. be
said he was so lonely evenings be had
nowhere TO go. Poor fellow, / suppose
he had never before been away from
0nnarprna. y and the ways of a Dig city
were unknown to him. Papa pulled
his whiskers why men want always to
be tugging at their POOR, harmless boards
when they are in a 4aandsry don {
know. However, Pap2 went to work al
bis. and "silence reigned." l know the
stranger man felt very much like crawl
ing through a small-sized tin gutter that
came down near the door; if he didn't
he ought to. At last a voice was heard
from pater fqB3iliGS, though he eouldn'
have been much cooler If any one had
put him ia goOd-sized refrigerator and
packed ice around him. Said he:
'sYoung man, this is very strange; !
don't know what TO say; where are you
fromT'
Young Assurance-i'I am lately from
k, but used TO live in Memphis
"Memphis," said mon pere; who dc
Won know thereW
Tbe1 followed long account
of mp,uaI friends, snd at last
he was asked in. / was dy-
inc TO GET Gpwn and have look al
this man of cb, ,Nek, but / know papa
wouldn't call me, he perhaps didn'
quite understand t,H'e motive that
prompted thecall. After an bile another
friend called, and got a chan 'e 20 ~
NOhMs tllldnktI was NlAlt iJlGe-
and we found him the reverse of u
in fact he and ] would be quite good
friends If we didn't quarrel so much. /
told him he might thank his lucky-staT
that he knew our Memphis friends, for
had be not, he would have left, proba-
bly, feeling more than ever like crawling
through a gdS-pipe, or anywhere cut of
sight. ! think of advising him to
take a sewing-machine agency, or
to try life insurance, think his
cheek would make his fortune. How
ever, it's a good thing to have hopes,
and my bashful friends win just remem-
ber this little story, how a gallant son of
Tennessee, when be wants to get ac-
quainted and cannot, will 90 IN on his
check and fight to VIM
Before this letter reaches You shall
be en- route for California. 1t viii be s
business trip, and shall not stay long
| think ! have inherited a gold mine,
and am going TO see; If have / shall
not forget you, my first love Of news
paper, that / used 10 read printed on
wrapping paper in Grenada, Mississippi
and Atlanta, Georgia, 10 the old days
when i was small girl-rebel, getting
fat on corn-bread, way down In ''Dlxie. v
a hard-looking paper il would have
been to our northern friends, but to me
and as the same old APPEAL. So, if my
trip is a success, III just send you a mil
lion OF two TO buy champagne and drink