The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-08-01

10 to disappoint my friends, but can
e endure to disappoint myself; and
you know l rather enjoy writing Fl
|. the DEMOCRAT. Besides, what woul
q become ofmy own dear public witho,
Bridget's letters to laugh over, crit
else and condemn Talking of col
demnation, 1 find that my uufortuna
epistles have evoked two more antag,
" nists. There are now "three Ricl
monds In the field" aud find l a,
l. getting more business on my hand
l. than is altogether agreeable with tn
u thermometer at ninety 10 the shade
o 1t is entirely too hot to dispute abor
J. trif1es; still. common courtesy demand
D tnat should pay some attention to m
q numerous assailants.
, Acting upon the old chivalric rule {
place aur danes, will begin with you
fair correspondent Belle. take it fo
granted she is fair, since she claims {
,, be "belle." She is, dare say, yer
like bell in one respect; she has
pretty long tongue of her own; but sll
must be "cracked" one, somethiu,
like our Court House bell, otherwis
she would never have let out SOM
things she told in her letter. Youn,
ladies unconsciousiy make very dam
aging admissions sometimes; witnes,
a late notable instance. Let Miss Bell.
take warning by the sad example ani
not tell quite so much in future. Now
here, if the editor Of the Express viii
promise not to faint, l will say tina,
Young ladies who attend parties strict.
~ decol!etee-'t sounds nicer in Frenci,
and invade even tho eanctum sancto-
rum of slumbering bachelors bed
room, will bear watching and good
deal of it; and l would advise Miss
Bellies mamma, if she has one, to keep
good look out, Or her daughter will
be running away with a sewing ma
chine agent before long. or anybody
else that is fool enough to ask he,.
To turn to more important matters,
1 must inform you, dear DEMOCRAT,
that, following the respectable exam
pie of the Apostles ct ais, I"weut a
fishing" There were not very mapv
of US in company, but We had elori-
Gus time; had any numder of "bites"
principally from mosquitoes during the
night, and gnats and sand flies that re-.
lieved guard punctually at daybreak.
We also took a good many "raw nips"
ourselves, so many in fact, that we
found our stock Of "creature comfort
run Unexpectedly short, which com.
PEELED us to return to town sooner
than We intended. On my return, hap
penlng to pick up late number of the
Erpress, what was my horror, my too
utterly utter CONSERVATION to find nv
self solemnly adjured s:for decency's
SAKE" to cease these, my innocent and
most laudable disquisitionsa Shall I
ever forget the exceeding bitterness of
that momentf "Mine own familiar
friend in whom I trusted" to say such
things about me-! Overpowered BY nv
feeling, l faiatly calculated, Eft tn,
Brute! and like the soldier in the bal.
lad II turned aside my face and wiped
away tear" When / had recovered
rom the shock-temporarily 1 mean,
Tor l am sure it will ultimately bring
ny gray hairs with sorrow to the
grave; l have already fallen off ten
pounds and am fast wasting away to a
'hadow-1 collected all my letters,
which my literary vanity had prompt.
ID me to preserve, and examined them
arefully with a microscope of forty
lorse power to see if could discover
ny of the "indecen" expressions al.
aded to. To you, dear DExocRAr,
ny faithful friend and ally, I need not
ay my search was altogether vain, not
ne such word could find. II to cav
hat thing may be Give and at the
anne time extremely disagreeable, and
be more live it is, the more disagree.
lie it makes ITSELF" if this is to be .'in.
ecent," then my thirty odd years
tudy of the English tongue has been :
tasted, and had better go back to the
nd'ments and take a fresh start
'oes not the Express editor think he
a little like-bears a faint simula- 4
rum of resemblance-to the lady. in \
Martin Chuzzlewit" who was 80 dread.
lily shocked at the "indecepcy" of !
icing thing with the naked eve Or S
lat other fastidious fair one who put '
on her piano because it was 7
shockingly Indecent" to have it !
anding in the parlor with naked +
gs1 l had already, in my letter of A
e 18th inst. fully expressed my iuten.
on of ending the controversy a1luded
; not because my share of it was at
"lndecent"-I am not responsible
other peoples "indecency" 1 hone G.
It because was tired of it. News
per controversies are something like
l'glous ones, they never lead to any