Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-20
A Country Girl on the Shores of Lake
Michigan.
From the Cincinnati C mmercial.


keeps me in state of nervousness that 7
do not beileve even DIR. Mitchell himself
could relieve or cure. It's like waking
nightmare. There are so many hideons
silver things on the table, that may be the
Sphinx's tools for all that know. and
OFTEN refuse food that l am just diving for
because | am so terribly afraid that I
shall not convey it to nv mouth or swal
low it in Just the correct way. And
whenever get up to cross the room feel
as if l belonged to my hands, instead of
my hands belonging to me. | have an
unpleasant consciousness that the Girls
are all the time expecting me to mortify
them In some way.
They are very kind. but whenever
there is company present / hear them
catch their breath spasmodically every
time that | make "a remark and you
Know | will talk no matter what happens.
l tod gentleman the other night that
MIXED three cows Al home reguarlv.and
Ella told me atterward that | should not
talk about milking cows in company: i,
was not customary, and not quite proper
and that very evening when we Went TO =;
party she wore dress that was NOTHING
but skirt, for there was so little waist 10
1t really II was not worth mcntioning,and
she put white paste on her forehead
and red paste on her cheeks, and black in
the corners OF her eyes. and she waItZcd
all the evening, with her head on the gen
tlemcns shoulders Il saw them brush
their coats attcrward where she had LETT
some OF her complexion), and nobody
a N oil CO 1 N
that was proper, but milking Il good hon
est Old COW is not considered so. 1t makes
me feel a little confused in regard to the
true significance OF words | will write
and ask Mr.. Grant White about it. A
fashionable young lady, who was even
more economical in the waist department
than Ella, asked me if was not very UNI
comfortable, my cheeks were so red and
| was dressed so warmly. "Why," said |
Miss Livingston, always dress myself
when 90 to parties" and she told Ella
that her little country cousin WAS very
spiteful
Mamma. I really am little con
cerncd about my wardrobe: it is
so distressingly plain, and l know
the girls laugh at it. They say that my
dress skirts must all have a fan in them.
the fan is just like turkeys tail-so
highly genteel, you know; and with few
yards OF silk and alpaca, / could alter
them all. II is so funny. They just take
any old rag for an under-skirt, and put on
tlouncc of silk-then with polonaise
over it, they sail round elegant as Won
please. They want me to cut my hair
short in front, and wear little curls and
frizzes, but Uncle David said, 'No, Kate,
don't you do any such thing 1t is n re-
lief to look at you after seeing nothing
but human poodle dogs aud Skye terriers
all the week. And the girls got up and
pounded him until he gave them S. apiece
But would like to look az other girls do.
and if youfare willing shall friz my hair.
too. And would yon care if ] powdered
my facc2 would not use the red stuff
for the world, but the white is so differ
cnt; and Ella says have 100 much color.
| suppose Uncle will be sorry, but think
he must be very old-fashoned-hc is so
fond OF his wife.
Perhaps you would like to hear about
my cousins. Ella Is the beauty, She does
not talk much, but strikes attitudes and
makes tableaux of herself, rolling up her
eyes, then lowering them again to show
the long ashes, parting the lips to display
the white teeth, and when she finds that
some other girl is attracting too much at
ten ion she puts her hand to her forehead
as if in terrible agony, and looks as If She
were going to faint in the most impres-
sive manner. Then the recreant beaux
all gather abot her with fan and salts and
water, and you have no idea how interest
ing the little performance is the first
time you see it. But the fifth or sixth
representation it pals little upon the
fancy, aud YOU wish she would do some
thing else. Elias iittiesidc show
Clara calls it.
Clara is the Wit of the family, or she
considers herself so, but her wit Is merely
personality, and what she says the stupid
est person might say, if only rude enough.
She will call gentleman a great goose,
and then expect every one TO laugh as il
she had said just the funniest thing i'll
the world. And think the people here
are very obliging, for they do Iaugh quite
hard when | cannot call up the ghost OF &
smile. She said to me one day. why,
Kate, you do not appreciate jokes.
They do not seem to enter your head at
ALL"
NO answered, ''they cannot very
well enter my head unless they have
some little point 10 Them" and she did
not say anything more.
Ida is a poetcss. She sends verses to all
the Sunday papers, and signs herself
pine Cone The first piece ! read |
thought was beautiful, but then all the
others are Just like it. 1t makes no dit
ference whether she writes about Love"
or Death" or .Sleeping Inyants," the
same ideas have to do duty in each, and
suppose it is the healthiest way for a
writer, as there cannot be any grcatstrain
upon the mortal powers. | do not be
lievc that Idas efforts Will ever produce
softcning Of the brain. Clara is always
making fun of her, and calling her the
Inspired 1t is too bad, for Ida is as
sweet as she can be Several weeks ago
we went to see the vessel that came ashore
at Lincoln Park, and Clara managed to
have Ida stay at home, for she said, ''Ii.
the Inspired goes, she will gaze awhile
upon the boat, then raise her eyes to
heaven, and taking out her note book
will write, go, stately bark, by what mys
FERROUS chance, &c" 1t did sound Just
like Ella. But it is very strange that
there have been no verses in the Sunday
Tribune about that vessel. Such an in
spring theme! The tuneful choir must
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