The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1878-02-22
FROM THE ESCATAWPA.
Mississippi Reviews MIR. Nobody-The
Hat md Glove Qucsiion-The
Cost Tscrcof-F II ~usiness
Gibbs, Etc.
DOC RIVER, Feb. 10, 1878.

EDITOR STAR 1T seems the mill.
mems club OF Dog river must have
elected Mr.. Nobody" AZ their cAum-
pion, aud he has defended them
through your most worthy columns in
a most heroic and enlighted manner.
Truly their choice was II happy one. He
thinks it strange that ONE cannot see
things in the enlightened manner that
men can. 1 grant il is strange we are
not so enlightened IS Mr.. NOBODY"
for there are few men-the lords OF Gre
ation--who can reach his standard, and
you know that no one expects q m
to be as much enlightened as a man.
The light of the body is the eye, and
Mr.. Nobody" and bis friends have had
nothing to do OF late but keep their eyes
open and their mind active, while the
poor millmen's wives have had their
brains puzzled and muddled, and their
eyes exposed to sunlight aud heat ana
sind from morning till night. Mr..
Nobody thinks he knows it all, but
he proves he knows nothing about the
women's bonnets and gloves. Perhal
he would like to know what I was doing
at Mrs. So-and-Su's. l went there to
discuss the bonnet and glove question
as he supposes be is entitled to an ex-
PLANTATION. l heard that Mrs. So-and-
SO had her summer hat dyed for winter
use for the sum OF fifty cents, ribbons
ditto for twenty-five cents, one pair
gloves fifty cents. did trimming herself
total one dollar and twenty five cents,
in consequence of her miliman saying
he could not afford to buy winter hats
(wonder how many she would have re-
CURED; and as women are initiative
creatures, and as 1 am a woman, would
it not naturally follow that 1 should
want to know how she managed to settle
that important and vexing that and
glove" question. AS to the feathers
in the hat that Mr.. Nobody" thought
she ought not to wear when her hus-
band had not a cent coming in-those
feathers did not cost Mrs. So-and-So's
millman cent they were revived and
date as far back as the year of her be-
coming Mrs. So-and-So. The gloves
were bought with fifty cents received
for sewing. If the hat and glove ques-
ton is not satisfactorily explained to
Mr.. "Nobody's" enlightened mind, no
doubt he is able to solve the problem
from the items given, or will in future
at least.
He thinks if l had been at home do
ing the ironing, etc, / would not have
seen the gentlemen playing the little
game of marbles. l had finished my
ironing, etc, and had gone to the store
seed. Must q woman close her eyes
to the faults of the lords of
? Ineed not have gone to the
store, but there was no one else to go,
for my millman had gone to meet some
''on business" He says if We
could see things in the enlightened
manner that men can, We would not
say anything about fixing up the fence,
grape arbors, gates. etc, for did We
know that all lumber was guarded
BY the U. s. Ms. We did not really
link of that. We referred to the old
way of making such things from mate
'ial got from the woods, and where is
hat lumber that has lam around in the
pack yard in piles and otherwise, sup
'osed to be brought there for the pur-
pose OF repairing fences, etc. The old
Reuse is the best one--want of time;
much business.
Seriously, Mr.. Editor. if work does
lot commence soon at the mills and
freak up the session of the millmen's
Tub, we women will hardly know how
o manage about come things. As for
nyself, a new trouble has come for me
o surmount. The long and continued
itting OF the members of the club has
aused me not only to patch but to patch
he patches on my millman's pants TO
UGH an extent that there is nc more ma {
erial to go on. However, it is to be
.oped that all are not so destitute. 1
ee Mrs. So-snd-So's millman had on a !
lew hat (cost only three dollars). There
re some other improvements visible.
We notice some finishing up buildings, !
grape arbors, some making t
nd fixing up fences, planting potatoes,
tc. Mr.. Nobody" has called forth the c
ympathy of the entire community for i.
Handsome man who got hurt while
the potatoes. He ought to a
ave been more Handy. and had
ore experience in the work. Orange b
ices here and there have received some
I the much and long needed attention. g
nd some of the millmen have opened
,eir hearts, moved by sympathy for a
heir better halves, and have remained G
home a part Of the day ct least. g
elpipg in the garden, with the cows,
Aud then the man who thought A
lie girls had better not spend so much
me at the piano, but learn more about n
and the use of the wash-board,
c., has softened his temper somewhat,
I'd has no more to say on the subject. F
Ut thinks his wife knows best about +
Now some of the Yeted ques- q
are being settled that Mr.. mo. r,
thought worthy of so much time