The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-05-06

is lion because he fought like tiger
and he"
"Then say he is a tiger, and hov
done with it. "
(Shrugging her shouldersl "an'
that at the battle of Rapata-Ratata
or Patara--I can't remember exactl.
what, but it was n frightful battle =
where the Arabs bit the dust - That
it, word for word, as papa read 1t alou'
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 passion
Well, in this battle the colonel received
a cannon.ball or bullet don't remem
Der Wilhelm his left shoulder, ant
they could not extract it, so he returned
to France very ILL.,. "
How terrible those battles mus
bep
"It is the day after the battle that is
terrible. Just think Of It'll They foun5
this poor colonel under 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 man with an irol
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. Tc
begin with, every one respects them,
and their life is iull 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 Mt
dinner. 1t seems the colonel can have
the band play whenever he wants to.
Naturally, since it's his band. y
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"
con the bishops wife? What are
you talking about? Ha ha" (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 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
be a general soon?
Gas for me, / would rather marry a
general at once. "
Yes, but a general does not get
married in uniform?
"Why not. if you ask him to? That
is something fine general at the
altar. There is nothing more imposing
than the military at church. Their
gold epaulettcs seem to go well with
the organ. At the church of the Oar
melites there are always one or two oill-
GERS, bnt they are little ones, and they
do not have the same effect. You dld
not know | was at the church OF the
Carmelites on Advent Sunday? On,
there was a good father there who
preached; it was indescribablc ! Why
don't you wear II braid across the top ol
your head? My dear child, everybody
wears them won't your mamma let
you?'
at is not that, but you can't posi-
bly, make braid go over the top and
then two rolls behind, all ont OF your
own hair.
"Well, you can get false hair, Ha!
ha! what an innocent lamb you are!
You can get false hair, my dear child, ~
"Yes, but papa won't let me he says
I'm too young to begin"
"What PITY AS for me, had no
trouble about it, Mamma said, Its
vexacious, but what can you do, my
child? You cant go to ball IN cap,
and 80 we went and got two beautiful
blonde braids."
"Why two"
"Let me finish. See, there is Nine
dc v coming in; do you hear the
door creakiug? Well, as | was saying,
/ had to buy two braids, for the very
simple reason that | lost the first. 1t
was very funny. We had hired a coupe
for the day, papa having taken ours for
himself he always does. We started
off for the hairdresser's in this hired
carriage. / bought superb braid, and
they wrapped it up nicely for me; L
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 nee, but
when we got home, and | 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. l suppose it's still there.
Theirs no way OF getting it again, you
see, so / had to buy another braid
ending down her head coquetishly)
(which 1 have the hon)r of introduc
ing to you; it Is thick, of a good colol
one of the very best.
ooh, wish could have one, but
I'm afraid | sha'n't before I'm married.
See, there is Joanna bowling to us. On,
that everlasting dress of hers Doesn
she look like fright with that PINK
pompon in her hair and her red nose
She's kind hearted girl, but then that
pink! Pink never looks well with light
hair. 1t always looks to me like
salmon with white sauce. Ha! ha!
Speaking of salmon, by the way, you
left too early the other evening; we
had such supper, my dearl
"Oh. how lovely Juliette looked
Didn't she? What a lovely head she
has 1 would give ten years of m,
life to have head like hers. Tel
years, dear me! yes, gladly; life ism
such very good fun, after all. An
how becoming that headdress was t
herl"
ct was really magnificent; so
know it came from Persia"
"Did it, really? From Persia? ?
heard it came from-you know tt
place, ever so far of, where the coloni'
are. And how about her marriage ?"
"It's broken of she said no, and it
| oil pafflad "