The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-10-28
Our Young People
MADE UP FROM THE BEST CLIPPINGS
A Mothers Letter from Home.
NV Darling Mamma.

My Darling Mamma.
Papa says l may wright and tell
you that we are all we'll and you
must enjoy yourself and not worry
about us for we are getting along
splendidly.
That's just what he told me to
write, and he mas directed an enve
lope all ready for me to put the let
ter in. But 1 don't see what he
means by saying we are all well,
for there's lot of things the mat
tiers with us. There's measles, and
mumps, and malaria, and if there
were any more sicknesses that be-
gan with NJ, guess we would have
them, to.
Grandma-she's got the malaria;
that's the prettiest name, and |
think it's the prettiest looking
sickness. 1t makes her face yell
low, but it don't puff her out like
humps. Edith and me think it
makes her cross. Do grown folks
get cross when they are sick just
like children? She takes queeneen
to break up chIIls, she says, but l
am afraid she will break up herself,
for she shakes as if she would fly to
pieces some days. l think SKIES
got all the malaria there is in the
house for none of the rest of us
have had any; but there was meas
les enough to go round, and we've
all had 'em except me. l should
have had some of them, too, but
grandma says l had 'em nine years
ago when 1 was only year old.
Billy, the boy that carries news
papers, brought us the humps, and
we amt much obliged to him. 1
asked him what he wore his face in
a worsted comfortable for, an he
said caused he'd got a corn be-
hind his ear, and then he asked me
if 1 saw anything green, but of
course | couldn't through his big
comfortable. Anyhow, l don't be-
die OF winter. Hannah said, the
next tomorrow, when she saw him,
that twas mumps. an he had no
business to come here, and she
said, you'll catch it, Miss. for
talking to that naughty boy in the
hall when you was told not top
L did catch it, too, and l wish
hadn't talked to him for my mumps
was awful, but they are most bet
ter now. Once l sneezed while l
had them, and L thought had torn
off both ears and turned my nose
wrong side out, it hurt so; but l
hadn't.
Edith took them from me, grand
ma says, but l don't see how she
could, for kept 'em long after
hers began. They said she was on
ly going to have 'em on one side,
but she was most through with the
measles so she had room enough to
have 'em on both sides just like
me.
Jimmy and Josey have each got
a mump apiece, and they are
dreadfully measled too. Their
faces are as red as red can be, and
the little spots on them are redder
still, and their mumps are all red
and speckled too. Isn't it funny?
Perhaps it's because they are twins
I've drawn portrait of them, and |
if Il had time I'd paint it, too. so
you could see how bright their
measles is.
Your canary bird isn't well, and |
we've took him out of the nursery. |
1t can't be malaria because he's vel |
lower than grandma, anyhow, and |
couldn't get any worse; and don't |
suppose it's measles, because the
feathers take up too much room;
and if it's mumps, it will have to be
4 very small kind or else they will
be bigger than he is.
This is the baby's birthday. She
is eighteen months old, and she's
got two mumps and lots of meas
les. Grandma says they come out
splendid. l should think they had.
[ don't believe there's half a one
eft inside of her, and she's as cross
Is a cross; she goes yaOu, ydou,
JaOu, aOaou aO00u t00Oa, and she
Keeps knocking her mumps axiden-
ically, all tie time, and then she
ust hollers-my, how she hollers!
I've made up some poetry for
you to put in your ortograff album.
It begins:
We are all in the dumps
Because of the mumps.
That swells up in bumps
And gives us big Jumps,
And will not bear any trumps,
Observation-Disclosures. trumps
................ gumps
Observation-Disclosures. f1umps
CTuIlpS
That's far as l could make upI .
he lines, but know lots more
worlds that rhyme, so I've written