The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-09-14

oe remembered. We would like TO
give n few hints to the ladies IN this
article, but how absurd they wOuld
DO no good, and the ladies on start
ing to the Centennial would do Just
ike all the rest-as they pleased bur
were we TO come again we would
most assurcdly y take "NothgiePs" ad
vice in regard to dress. for we know
now, by experienc, that it would have
been much for the best. But no LADY
will listen, and we would be willing to
say that the very next lady that starts
from Oskaloosa to the Centennial
will wear all her jewelry, bring all
her train skirts, and her finest bon
net Now, in the first place, what
lady tourist, climbing up in church
towers and walking over the walks
of the Centennial Grounds, and
being jammed in crowded street
cars, (the worst feature we see here
the jam is intolorable, no matter
at what time you go) wants to be
bothered by holding up heavily trim
med crinoline to keep some big awk-
ward man from stepping on it and
tearing it all to pieces, or as bad a
fate, being saturated with dust, or to
keep the wearer from stepping in it
and falling headlong from the top of
"George's Hill" or some church tow
er; and what lady wants to have her
dreams disturbed by visionary pick
pockets relieving her of watch and
other jewelry. Why, when you are
here you do not need o watch here
are the town clocks; and in the hur-
ry and excitement you will forget you
ever had watch and will almost for
get that there is such thing as time.
Every lady instead of wearing her
Glove of bonnet" had better arm
herself with big umbrella to keep
her nose from resembling a rum bios
som and her cheeks more than roses.
We think the costume Of DR.. Mary
Walker would be beneficial to the la
dies, Gust while they are attending
the Centenni"D, and Centennial pill
grims whom ye start out be sure and
arm yourselves with note book and
pencil; you will find it very bene-
fetal we did (noD. We started out
thus armed; our first station was
Rose Hill, which we pictured in let
ters Of living, and sentimentaIized on
the beauties of the classical Skunk,
and In fact we believe that by the
time we got to Chicago, we had melt
ed into poetry and uttered effusions
like the following:
Oh, Chicago what pity
That thou vast burned, dear city, ETC.,
And we still continued to indulge at |
Niagara Falls, and all along the line,
and when we got here we tried to
read it, but the jarring of the car had
rendered the hand so like some Of the
lawyers bushes hands, (Will Lacey's
or Judge Crookham's for instance) |
that it was an impossibility.
la the last few days we have met
many of our Oskaloosa friends, as
follows: Morris Levi, S. Baldauf, |
G. w. Hale, G. w. Lafferty, Mrs.
u. IL. Moore, Mr.. and Mrs. Naylor,
New Sharon), Col. Cooper of Grin
neil ,and Mr.. and Mrs. Vale and daugh-
ter Ada of Keokuk, relativesof Capt.
j. I'll. Evans, and Charley Evans, for
merlv of Oskaloosa. The Iowa peo-
pie all seem delighted to see each
other and are nicely treated by Mrs.
Flint at the Iowa Headquarters. TIE
first day that We visited the Centen-
nial our note book was dropped III
discouragement and has not since
been looked at, and we no longer try
to keep together for it is an impossi-
bility, and each one goes alone-and
get along just as well-if you ask ev-
Of a police. ~.. J. .""
Well, "Barkis," as it is almost
church time 1 will bring this short
epistle to a close. ."
Au revoir, PEGoTTY.
N. B. Will write you again next
week. =. .-.a P.