Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-15

eIB papa says ne uOL5 As loE me- 4
think he smells Of pOmade."
''Where does he put his POmade
He has hardly three hairs on his head. .
"Yes, but they curl, my dear. | am
5 sure he ought TO wear 4 little crimson
velvet cap with tassels. Dear me, how
do hate man as fat as that Papa.
! who is slender in comparison with this
, bear, seems TO me 4 little-when he Is
shaving -. Well if it was not papa,
I should like to plane him down a
r little"
"But, girls, Idon't mean the stout
one; mean the one by his side, with
an aquiliue nose and mustache. There,
he is taking an ice. He seems TO be a
; lion. Now he's blowing his nose; he's
J Col. c."
"Oh yes, I see. Dear me, how hard
, he blows his nose Your colonel has
} a cold; one can hear him from here
ha! ha!"
There is nothing strange in his hav-
ing cold; he has just come from At
rica; see how tanned he is. Well, my
dear he is lion"
"Then he is an attache ~
-'Oh, how stupid you are! l say he
is lion because ne fought like tiger,
"Then say he IS q tiger. and have
done with it.
(Shrugging her shoulders "and that
at the battle of Rapata-Ratata--o
| Patara-I -0aa't remember exactly
what, bat..i vas. a frightful battle
lgiaers- fisl a Z - BIT the DUST That's
| it, word for word, as papa read i aiolId !
the other day out of the paper. ."
fgHVhv did fbay hifa the duzt f''
"Why, because they were angry. |
You know when you are in passion |
Well, in this battle the colonel received |
cannon-ball or bullet don't re-
member Wilhelm his left shoulder,
and they could not extract it, so he
returned to France very ILL.,"
Chow terrible these battles must
bep'
''It is the day after the battle that is
terrible. just think oft 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"
''Yes, in time of war, but in time of
peaee-in time of peace-well, they
talk over the way they got their wounds,
and the band plays while they are at {
dinner. 1t 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- I
sides that you can make calls on the I
wife of the prefect, the receiver gener- {
al and the bishop" {
"On the bishops wife? What are {
you talking about? Ha! hal" (She |
takes off her gloves and begins to bite I
her nails.) '
II did not say the bishops wife; you ]
are a naughty girl"
Besides, it's only a generals wife i
who makes calls on tho projects wife, /
like that"
Il only began with the colonel; one t
soon lets to be general. DO you sup '
pose that Col. G., for instance, I
won't be a general soon?' {
"As for me, would rather marry a {
general at once" g
"Yes, but a general does not get {
married in uniform?
''Why not, if you ask him to? That |
is something fne-a general at the al I
tar. There is nothing more imposing l
than the military at church. Their 1
gold epaulettes seem TO go with the
organ. At the church of the Carmel /
ties there are always one or two Off 7
GERS, but they are little ones, and they !
do not have the same effect. You did |
not know | was at the church of the '
on Advent Sunday? Oh, q
there was a good father there who
it was indes cribablei Why s
don't you wear a braid across the top q
of your head? My dear child, every c
body wears them; won't your mamma G
bet your I
at is not that, but you can't posi- {
bly, make braid go over the top and L
then two rolls behind, all out Of your l
own hair" y
"Well, you can get false hair. Ha! 5
ha! What an innocent lamb you are.
You can get false hair, my dear child L
ayes, but papa won't let me; he says i
I'm too young to begin" >
"What pity. As for me, had no
trouble about it. Mamma said, Its a
yexatious, but what can you do, my :
child? You can't go to n bell in a cap;' a
and so we went and got two beautiful 3
blonde braids." =
"Why twol" q
'Let me finish. See, there is Nine. 7
de v coming in; do you hear the I,
door creaking? Well, as l was saying, :,
| had to buy two braids, for the very :,
simple reason that l lost the first. It :,
was very funny. Wehad hired coupe n
for the day, papa having taken ours Y
for himself; he always does. We start u
ed off for the hairdresser's in this hired "
carriage. l bought superb braid, and /,
they wrapped it up nicely for me. N
got into the coupe and put my little II
parcel up against the window, you ;,
know, under the strap that you pull a,
up and dewn by. That was all very n
nice, but when we got home, and l i
was looking for my parcel before get
Ting out, no parcel was to be found n
made a gr, at fuss, and mamma did {,
too. Only think! it had slipped in by
The glass of the window. and had fall
IN into the inside of the door. l sup Z
pose it's still there. There's TO way of =,
getting it again, you see, so l had to -
buy another braid (bending down her T
head cOquettishly), (which 1 have the =
honor Of introducing TO you; it is :,
-hick,. of good color-One of the very .
best" {
Oh, wish l could have one, but h
I m afraid shan't before Pm married. Il
gee, there is Joanna bowling to u.s. (
Oh, that everlasting dress of hers D
Doesn't she look like fright with that u
pink pompOn in her hair and her red !,
lsse? She's a kihd-hearted girl, but Il
hen that pink! Pink never looks IL
we'll with light hair. 1t always looks
10 me like salmon with white sauce
Ha! ha. Speaking of salmon, by the
way, you left too early the other even e
ing; we had such supper, my dear!' ,.
"Oh, how lovely Julietta looked.-tnn II
Didn't she? What a lovely head she 7
has! l would give ten years of nv :,
life TO have a head like hers. Ten =
years, dear me, yes, gladly; life isn't :
such very good fun after all And Il
how becoming that headdress was to n
lerp'
1T was really magnificent; you !,
know il came from Persia" :,
"Did it, really? From Persia? I =
heard it came irom1yOu know the :,
place, ever so far off, where the colo E
MES are And how about her marri- .
lge?' h
"Ifs broken of; she said 70, and it's n
all settled" =
"But the trousseau2 Mamma saw !"
the three cashmere shawls. three won :;
iers. One had red ground with little .
figures on it-yOu know the sort they :,
are wearing now: that shawl was real !
" eloquent. I think that sort of =
thing Is like music, it delight one so."
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