The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1881-08-17
FROM CHATTY.
ALEXANDRIA, La,

cOuld STRIP Oh his HeSn ana slL IN III!
bones. In spite of the great heat ant
its being the blue Monday so dreaded
by housekeepers, many devout Catho
lies are going to Church-and as the
pellucid drops trickle DER my nose anc
off my ears | wonder when the mex
cold wave is due and if could summon
up enough energy to 90 to Church
Anyway have just been on the river
bank to see regular built low water
steamer for the Red River trade. II
was fiat boat drawn by two sad-eyed
bismuckle brown horses. | suppose
they were kept owes from last Summer
as they were moth eaten and dusty, and
the driver was lame and knock-kneed
The Captain gave orders while sitting
on a barrel eating tobacco, and the
mate took the soundings with pine
plank, calling out in one place "il
comes to dar," in another sit teches de
nail" the crew with tin bucket, tfor
he was one) bailed out water, while
the cook, chambermaid. steward, etc.,
was OIL duty, sat on the side of the boat
dragging his toes through the mud and
singing
SHY knee bones am er achin',
My body am racked wild pain"
Overwork snd dampness was what real
ly allied him.
Yesterday saw the Alexandria and
two heavy laden barges drawn up by
about1twcky-f1ve deck hands and the
mate--the mate worked as usual--his
tongue and three nude nubians--to ex-
press it poetically--swam before and
guided the barque. 1t is right muddy
work to sail on Red River, and no one
should undertake the trip without a
stout pair of rubbers to walk over sand
bars In. Some time when the mail car
rier keeps us waiting to hear from
home, some one ought to wade down to
the mouth of the river and hurry him
way of getting this week. S
mail before you get that of last week is
confusing.
Friday I borrowed two children and
started of on an exploring tour through
Pineville. After buying some fossils
that man made a mistake and sold us
for cakss, we embarked ON the John
NJ. Sandidge. After much hustle and
confusion we started and were at Pine
vile before we realized the fact. Up
the big broad road that leads to the
grave yard we went until we reached
the Church yard. We were so tired we
entered and sat under the shade of a
sweet scented pine and tried to eat
those cakes. We cracked every tooth
in our own head and the children's Just
trying to eat those cakes. That man
must have thought that we wanted
them for a Sunday School picnic or to
give away--he never meant in cold
blood that we should try to eat them.
for he was an honest-contiding looking
man, who seemed to be continually
chewing cinnamon bark and singing
love ditties. Generally man in love is
tender-heartea, but that man would
want no better fun than robbins or
phans and pinching widows, or what
ever that quotation is. Do you think
that Pineville will ever turn round and
settle on the river, or will she 60 on
and on struggling out to where? VIII
it always be one long street.-the jeal-
busy, no chickering's, no extra breezes,
I'll the same prospect, the same street,
The narrow city? We bought some new
lakes in Pineville--they couldn't have
been more than two or three years old
1t most, for you could actually chew
hem and they tasted sweet, like sugar
lad been in them, but the merchant
rave US pitcher of delicious, icy cold
veil water and clean goblet to drink
'ut OF, and we overlooked the cakes
'ge. Ills true some water fell on one,
md the way that cake swelled was |
mystery. We left it growing larger
md larger. As the children still felt
n aching void we bought some peach
g. We sent for dimes worth but the
hid could only carry five cents worth, |
hey gave so many. No wonder; they
'ere homemade, and we never sent
ack for the other Bickle's worth, for
re never finished the first. They were
lade of leather, painted yellow, and
lost of them were hard and bitter,
Tough we did find a few that were
|ammy and sticky like clay. don't
elieve the man understood me when !
sked how he made them and if he had
lem patented. Maybe he wasn't mad.
ut he looked that way, or perhaps he
as unhappy. Weary and broken
wed we retraced our steps, medita-
hg OH the duplicity of man and won- !
'ring why no one would establish 5
Ike shop in these two promising viii :
ses, stocked with cakes to cat, not to !
Ok at. Why is a knowledge of cook
g so looked down upon--considered :
degrading? 1t means the knowledge I
herbs, fruita, balms, spices and of ali {
at is healing and sweet in fields and t
owes and sayory meats. 1t was prac- v
ed ny Medea, Gree, CALYPSO, Helen, b
oecca, the Queen of Sheba, and lots liz
more modern celebrities. It means
'efulness, inyentiveness, watchful, ed
IS, wlllingness;--it is the econom de
our great grandmothers and sfe sh
ence of modern chemists. 1t is much mi
ting and no wasting Will, English di,
'ronghness, French art ana Arabian cd
'pltality, and is so com 0rting in wo
ally. In my next let,sr 1 will give Oh,
NV cake recipes tIdt l have the psf ~;
f0r--they can De eaten. vi
Tobias" and myself, one would mag so
have established Il mutual admiration ~,
ety. sui 10 MS great charity attri- eh'
. it, First, he proposes a new name col
ne; then the subject upon which l pre-
Awrte; then invites me- to the Sui tho
lrSprings, after he shall have left. Oh vii
IT generous Tobias! Won't the season MI,
fishing be overt Remember, fish are mrs
in bod. DO be careful; how serious an u
rdse might prove. Could any suppes. rec
b made to Tobias, it would he chr
time to write aud lenghen your tior
ersy r
bout a name-how much lame h,s fam
owish ones lifef People suffer from .Ul
r names. might have been noet thai
there was nothing on the fairplobe| w;s,
'ne word in the 100000 Englis, words r We
wonld rhyme with the name given leia
citing parents-so our fondest lre. NJ. eog
,lighted. When your washerNoman who
her name is Angelina Carolina Vic. ricu
Matilda Whey Belts" you NAV Az bret
to pay big price, though she loo. di