The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-03-13
YOURS TRULY INDIGNANT.


'IF she Is noi oa qhsanue1lsis!n' Did
Yours Truly's eyes deceive her? Nay.
verify, for there upon the printed COZ
umn grinned that ghastlyJ, reminding
her that such was fame.
Yours Truly had particularly prided
herself upon her literary style. She
fancied, in fact, that there was nothing
like it, that there was no likeness Of it
in heaven above or the earth beneath or
the waters under the earth. She had
carefully gone over her pet phrases and
expunged therefrom every idiom which
she had heard other people use, and even
made sonle of her own expressions APP
pear ridiculous rather than they should
fail to be original, aud now comes a
scribe, whom she will not call Phari-
see, though strongly tempted, who says
''she has good mind Il she is not an
amanuensisw emo. fr
Mrs. d., did you ever dash off your
most brilliant fancies at white heat,
and send them forth upon the wings OF
the press all laden with your most radi-
ent metaphors, and sit hearing yourself
commented upon and praised and criti-
eised when nobody but your publisheI
knew who you were =? Did you ever
submit TO all this till you faneied
you were growing famous, and some
body might sometime pay you the
worth of the blank paper upon which
you seribbled your productions of gen.
ius, and then, when you'd gotten placid
and self-satisGed, and imbued with the
idea that you were going to be somebody
some day, did any ruthless critic evel
strike your aspirations down by suppOs
ing you might be an "amanuensis ?''
Shades of aspiration, how ridiculous
And yet Yours Truly knows fall wei
how hard it is for men to believe tina
women, especially school girls, hav'
brains enough TO originate ideas. Th
other day she chanced to form one of {
number OF animated chatterers and tn
question came up, "Who is Your
Truly ~ or course nobody knew
How can anybody guess at suel
an obscure eognomen The weight.
subject was discussed at length, and Il
nally decided that Yours Truly was
man, and not young man, either.
vain Yours Truly expostulated. Sh
told them That no man could discours
as lcarneily upon panniers, ruffle.
beaux, buggy-rides, Star Spangled Ban
ners, Fourths OF July,the American eagl
and politics as Yours Truly. A ma
would write of "woman's sphere, an
good cookery, aud economy and WON
anly oLedicncGi and all that-don't 20
see? But Yours Truly conldn't max
'em see, ami, as she adjusted he
beau eatchers around her forehead
straightened her new necktie, brushs
out her rufiles and donned her ha
: for the street she heard one of th
! girls say to her broad-shouldered youn
man, who hadn't the chivalry to reseu
the insult: There's no danger that
frivolous firt like her will ever make
NuiS A AlsAN 4oAAlf TIC Aobllr.Nf lOohc
! annoyed under the the flash of Your
: Truly's eyes, but he couldn't defend hel
not he! And would you believe it, Mn
D., be had the audacity, as soon as W
We're alone, 10 beg Yours Truly never I
to "write for the newspapers, for
didn't want kis wife TO be the laughin
, stock of the townpi
Yours Truly gently reminded hir
that she 'casH't his wife yet, and if L
r wasn't suited with his bargain, he eoul
r go further and perhaps he'd fare betteI
e that making women over was slo
!. work and decidedly unsatisfactory, an
e so forth, and she loved him too well
: make him miserable for one momen
$ Men imagine that they are far sup
rior.to women in strength of purpose, bl
4 who ever saw one of them using th.
!. strength TO conquer his own prejudice.
d Tom went of in a jiffy aud You
b Truly hasn't seen him since, and nov
e let her say in conclusion for the benef
Of Mr.. Engle and all mankind, that 81
T, is again in the matrimonial market an
II is not AN "amanuensisi but