The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13


Oh, it's fine to be soldier in fact you
may call it the noblest profession. To
begin with, every one respects them,
| and their life is tull If triumph"
g Yes, in time of war, but in time of
peace-in time of peace-well, they talk
over the way they got their wounds,
and the band plays while they are at
| dinner. It seems the colonel can have
the band play whenever he wants to. +"
" Naturally, since it's his band.
" Well, all that is very nice, and be-
sides that you can make calls on the
wife of the prefect, the receiver general
and the bishop"
"On the bishops wife? What are
| you talking about Ha hal" (She
takes off her gloves and begins to bite
her nails)
81 did not say the bishops wife you
are naughty girl"
Besides, it's only n generals wife
who makes calls on the projects wife,
| like. that"
81 only began with the colonel one
soon gets to be general. Do you sup
pose that Col c., for instance, won't
| be a general soon? ?"
As for me, would rather marry a
| general at once"
20 Yes, but a general does not get
married in uniform?
"Why not, if you ASK him to y? That
Is something fne-a general at the
altar. There is nothing more imposing
| than the military at church. Their
| gold epaulettes seem to go well with
| the organ. At the church of the Car
melites there are always one or two Off
| GERS, but they are little ones, and they
| do not have the same effect. You did
not know I was at the church of the
| Carmelites on Advent Sunday? Oh,
| there was a good father there who
preached; it was indescribable ! Why
| don't you wear a braid across the top Of
your head My dear child, every body
wears them won't your mamma let
you?"
60 It is not that, but you can't posi-
bly, make braid go over the top and
then two rolls behind, all out of your
own hair"
Well, you can get false hair, Hal
! hal what an innocent lamb you are!
You can get false hair, my dear child. 3"
Z" Yes, but papa won't let me he says
I'm too young to begin"
d" What a pity! AS for me, had no
! trouble about it. Mamma said, It's
vexacioUs. but what can you do, my
! child You can't go to ball in cap
and so we went and got two beautiful
blonde braids. -
"Why twol"
"Let me finish. See, there is Nine.
! de v coming in do you hear the
| door creaking? Well, as I was saying,
had to buy two braids, for the very
simple reason that I lost the first. It
was very funny. We had hired coupe
/ for the day, papa having taken ours for
| himself ; he always does. We started
| off for the hairdresser's in this hired
carriage. I bought superb braid, and
they wrapped it up nicely for me. I
| got into the coupe and put my little
parcel up against the window, you know,
under the strap that you pull up and
| down by. That was all very nice, but
when we got home, and I was looking
| for my parcel before getting out, no
parcel was to be found. made great
! fuss, and mamma did too. Only think
it had slipped in by the glass of the
window, and had fallen into the inside
| of the door. I suppose it's still there.
Theirs no way of getting it again, you
! see, Sc 1 had to buy another braid"
! ending down her head coquetishly),
(which I have the honor of introduc-
ing to you; it Is thick, of good color
one of the very best"
"Oh, wish I could have one, but
I'm afraid l sha mt before I'm married.
! See, there is Joanna bowinG to us. Oh,
that everlasting dress of hers Doesn't
she look like a fright with that pink
pOmpon in her hair and her red nose !?
She's a kind-hearted girl, but then that
| pink Pink never looks we'll with light
hair. 1t always looks to me like
salmon with white sauce. Ha! ha!
/ Dfg T,o
left too early the other evening we
had such a supper, my dearl !"
''Oh, how lovely Juliette looked
Didn't she? What lovely head she
has I would give ten years of my
| life to have a head like hers. Ten
years, dear mel yes, gladly life isn't
such very good fun, after all. And
how becoming that headdress was to
her!"
cit was really magnificent; you
know it came from Persia"
"Did it, really? From Persia I
heard it came from-you know the
place, ever so far off, where the colonies
are. And how about her marriage ?"
cts broken off she said no, and it's
all settled"
"But the trousseau ? Mamma saw
the three cashmere shawls, three won
ders One had red ground with little
! figures on it-you know the sort they're
wearing now that shawl was really
eloquent. think that sort of thing is
like music, it delights one So"
"That was very fne-three cash
meres, and diamonds, too, and she said
noP"
"She said no, and she was right, for
it seems he limped frightfully."
Who did ?"
"The gentleman, of course"
"But, my dear girl, people always
give three cashmeres. Only think a
minute; the long cashmere for calls In
winter-weil, that's one then you must
have a square one it would kill you to
wear long cashmere in hot weather !;
and then you could not refuse a third
to go to the bath or mass in-well, that
makes three, don't you see ! would
not be married with fewer. No, thank
you, wouldn't go about looking like a
chambermaid. No, indeed wouldn't. "
did the gentleman limp badly ?
For, after all, he was a consul"
oh, as to that, his position was a
magnificent one. It seems that in the
country where he is consul people are
carried in palanquins.
"That's the least thing they can do
for lame people. As for me, / think
she has done quite right. have hor-
for of deformed people one is never
sure that it may not be something
catching. Do you remember Sister
Adelaide at the convent, who had one
leg shorter than the other? Well,
wouldn't have sat down IN her chair for
hundred thousand francs.
What would you have done if yo7
had to marry her ?"
" How silly you are Don't look over
there see nj. Pincette coming to ask
us to dance. The more see of him,
the more detest him. He is stupid,
he is fair, his whiskers are large, he
doesn't dance in time he has no at
fractions. Don't you think he looks
like the Able Julien, who used to heal
our catechisms, and who was always
saying, Not another word, my chill
dren'2"
Eyes, he does look like him, espe-
oioIlv Vrben ba iS ualfzinu. he has the