The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-05-07


''Oh, how stupid you are I say he
is lion because he fought like tiger,
and he"
"Then say he is a tiger, and have
| done with it. D."
(Shrugging her shoulders) "and
that at the battle of Rapata-Ratata-
or Patara-I can't remember exactly
what, but it was a frightful battle
where the Arabs bit the dust - That's
it, word for word, as papa read it aloud
the other day out of the paper"
"Why did they bite the dust?"
Why, because they were SO angry.
| You know when you are in a passion
| Well, in this battle the colonel received
cannon-bau or bullet don't remem-
| Der Wilhelm his left shoulder, and
they could not extract it, so he returned
| to France very i'll. "
"How terrible those battles must
be II
cit is the day after the battle that is
| terrible. Just think of It'll They found
this poor colonel under a mountain of
| dead men at the very moment the wild
beasts were going to devour him like
the missionary in the Propagation of
the Faith. Being swallowed by croc-
| odile is, indeed, terrible"
"That's nothing. When you think
you have before you a man with an iron
machine in his shoulder that you could
hardly lift, you can't help shivering.
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 full Of triumph.
eyes, 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 project, the receiver general
and the bishop"
con the bishops wife? What are
you talking about Hal ha!" (She
| takes off her gloves and begins to bite
her nails.)
"I did not say the bishops wife you
are naughty girl"
besides, it's only a generals wife
who makes calls on the projects wife,
like that"
''I 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, I would rather marry
general at once"
eyes, but a general does not get
married in uniform?
s. Why not, if you ask him to? 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 OIL
| 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
CarmeIites 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 Ny dear child, everybody
wears them won't your mamma let
you?"
"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"
"WelI, you can get false hair, Hal
| ha! what an innocent lamb you arei
You can get false hair, my dear child. "
eyes, but papa won't let me he says
| I'm too young to begin"
"What a pity! As for me, 1 had no
trouble about it. Mamma said, It's
| vexacious, but what can you do, my
child? You can't go to ball in a 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,
I had to buy two braids, for the very
simple reason that lost the first. 1t
was very funny. We had hired coupe
for the day, papa having taken ours for
himself F.; he always does. We started
off for the hairdresser's in this hired
carriage. I bought a superb braid, and
they wrapped it up nicely for me. 1
| 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 1 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. so I had to bdy another braid
ending down her head coquetishly),
(which I have the hon 0r of intrOduc-
ing to you; it is thick, of good color
I-one of the very best.
"Oh, wish I could have one, but
I'm afraid I sha'n't 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 well with hgh
hair. It always looks to me like
salmon with white sauce. Ha! ha
Speaking of salmon, by the way, yoJ
left too early the other evening; ",
had such a supper, my dearl
"Oh, how lovely Juliette looked
} Didn't she? What lovely head sht
has I would give ten years of m.
life to have a head like hers. Tel
years, dear me! yes, gladly life ism
such very good fun, after all. An
how becoming that headdress was t
J heri"
1t was really magnificent; 20
know it came from Persia"
/ ''Did it, really? From Persia
heard it came fTOm-yOu know tn
Z place, ever so far of, where the cOlonie
; are. And how about her marriage ?"
q It's broken of she said no, and it
: all settled.
5 but the trousseau? Mamma sa
the three cashmere shawls, three wOI
I ders One had red ground with it'll