The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-02-08
MY AUNT'S WATERFALL.
BY CLARA AUGUSTA.
Ever wore a waterfall?

Eyer wore waterfall
No? Well, I'll declare! Where
have you been all your life?
Almost everybody has wore one
either made of their own hair or the
hair Of some other individual.
Fact of it is, people must be in the
fashion. 1t hain't no kind of mattel
wha: the fashin is-folks must be into
it whether it's silly or sensible. If il
should be the fashion to hang a string
of onions round your neck, everybody
would do it-onions would rise al
once, and Westhersfield in the State
of Connecticut would be the richest
place on the footstooi.
Now, hain't CRATE hand, myself
to fOller the fashions. l hain't given
to the vanities and flummydiddles OF
this spear as many be. Thank the
Lord for it. 'Twant born in into me
1 spec, A phrenologer that examined
my head once, said that my bump oi
dress wasn't developed half as much
as it might have been.
Aud think he was correct. He
was a smart man, though he had ter
rible wart onto one side of his nose.
that hurt the looks of him powerful.
If it had a been mine, l should have
tied q riece of green silk onto it and
wore il till it was eat Off. or else
should have put the juice of milk weed
on it. That's the grandest thing TO
Hnish up wart that know of.
Ny name is Jerusha Gilpin,and I'm
highly respectable woman of the fe-
male persuasion; widder of Josiah
Gilpin, Esq, Justice of the Peace and
chorus-late of Bangviile, deceased,
intestate.
suppose am rather better looking
than the majority of women folks !;
but law l can't help it, as knows of
don't use but dreadful little to
dress. If am beauty, l'm beauty
unadorned, as the poet says.
l hain't vain; but when Capen
Leighton came a sparkling of me, last
summer, he sez to me, sez he,
"Mrs. Gilpin, if you will allow
me to make suggestion, l shall be
very happy"
"Mske enything you like, capen,"
sez ''only don't get the shavings on
the carpet, because Pm justswept up
Ye see, thought he was calkilating
to whittle out something, for he had
his jack knife and piece of wood in
his hand.
He laffed, and sez he
"You misapprehend me, my dear
Mrs. Gilpin, entirely. l desire to
make suggestion. 1t is this-I wish
you would do your hair up in water
fall"
"Goodness airth - sez 1 !; ga water
fall? What's that?'
"Why. the way Mrs. Judge Jenkins
does hers" seZ he; mot bu. what you
are as handsome as a pink, any way.
Jerusha. You look better in calico
gown than Mrs. jenkins does in that
brocade silk of hers"
"Laws. capep,' sez | ; chow you do
go on!" and ne squeezed nay hand, the
master, never seeming to notice that l
had just took it out of the butter I'd
been salting. -,
The capen's suggestion made some
impression on me. l hope L hain't SO
sot but what can change my ideas
when Pm satisfied they haint just the
thing. Now, when hoops first come
in fashion, didn't believe iu 'em at
all. l latIed at 'em the hardest kind.
l sed if enybody ketched me inside
them steel things they'd be likely to
cotch white blackbird, But after a
spell everybody got to wearing of 'cm
if | went out into the street all the
little boys kept string bean"
at me; so thought it over a little,and
the result was got skilington.
had an awful time of ii at first. l
took out the stove hearth moren a
dozen times, and swept every table an
chair clean of everything QUITO 'em;
but after spell got used to it, and
now / don't have no sort of trouble
with 'em. l can go through knot
hole with my skillington, if the knot
hole is only big enuff.
I'd hearn tell of waterfalls, afore
Mrs. Judge jenkins began to wear
one; for 1 seed in newspaper that
they was made out of old stockings.
boot legs, shavings, pill boxes and
horse hair, besides other articles too
numerous to mention,