The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-08-24
A Talk From Aunt Iemima.
Aunt Jemima gave a real old-fash-
oned quilting party the other day in

Aunt Jemima gave q real old-fash-
ioned quilting party the other day in
honor of a niece who was visiting her,
and freed her mind in this little lecture
to her guests, who were all young girls.
eve are livin', gals, in a fast age-a
progressive age, they call it, when
women are a putin on airs and a settin'
up to be equals of man. 'Twan't SO
when l was a gal. Women didn't then
pretend that they'd g, right to vote,
and sing bass, and specify in public,
Gals didn't go galivanting off to colleges
and universities, and rack their brains
over ologies and furrin' lingos, till they
was turned inside out.
"Do you suppose that, if I'd ben one
of that sort of young women, Scion Pet
tibone would ever haye took a fancy to
me, and choose me cut of twenty other
gals that was just a-dying for him? For
Squire P~ettibone, whose weepin' relict |
now am, was a great man in his day, a
member ola school committee, Il Justice
of the peace, head of the board of selek
men, He served two terms in the state
legislator, and was even talked of for
congress!
"He was a man of deep learnin', and
great powers of mind. He read a good
deal, but it was mostly in science books,
too 1eep for me. Whenever in his
weekly newspapers, be come to artikel
he ded "Woman's spere," Advice
to Wives" and sieh like, he'd insist
on readin' it to me. even
if ] had to leave my salt risin' a-runnin'
over. or the dinner-table a,standin' in
the floor to listen. Sometimes of an
evenin', arter the children was all
asleep, an ! sot in the climbly corner a
darnin' stockings or doin UP my weeks
mendin', he'd take dauwn some learned
voium from the book case that he alters
KEEP under lock and key, and if he come
acrost anything suited TO my needs or
capacity, he kindly read it to me. E'na-
most all of the iarnin' ever got come
in this way.
~ remember lest lift wa Yesterday
how kinder pleased-ike led look over
at me and the work | was dom, which
he read some lines from Sheridan
Knowles, beginnin'-
Women act their parts
When they do make their ordered house
holds kuow EN-
or these words from another great poet
Shakespeare or Martin Farquhar Tup-
per, | disremember which
What ! do most admire in woman
Is her affections, but not her intellek.'
zone line of Nargil was q petikelar
f~avorte of his'n. He said it in his sort
of hectorln' way TO me so often that,
though | don't know no Latin q should
hope not | larned this. lingo by heart,
and can repeat it o
'Vsrium ct mutwolic semper femina.'
"(Husband said it meant, 'More fc-
kle than the winged winds is w%onan.")
''.At famerly prayers, which he kept
up constant, and whore he was the most
edityin' of mem he used to ransack the
%scripturs for passages improvin to me
and the eals-such as
"Wiyes, be in subsection to your hus-
bands"
"Waose adornin' let it not be that
outard adornin' of plat;n' the hair or
wearin' Of gold, or of putin on apparel,
but the ornerment of a meek and quiet
spe"it."
"But the varses he set most by was
them of King solomon describe the
%vartuous woman. know the hull OIL
EN- by heart. Them books upon wom-
ans spere by DR.. TODD and Dir. Fulton
come out lest afore he died, and wasthe
solace Of his last hours. How many
times when | was a n1inisLerin' around
his dyin' pillow, he quoted to me them
lovely words of DR.. Fulton: Woman is
Gods first gift to man, and to be ..elper
to man is nobler than to be queen of
Heaven. For this God created You.
For this lie preserves you"
"One day, the squire added, smilin,'
'Jemima, you've been to me a meek,
%lovin', industrious, devoted, obeient
wife. | shall leave you the income of a
third of my estate as long as you remain
my widder. No son of my. W can
bear my nam and honors,
but the Pettibone name must be kept
up, and tother two-thirds-.ba hull
when you are done with it-goes to So
lon P%ettibone, my second cousins 10
who is named arter me. When the gals
got so uppish and independent in their
ideas as our gals, they'u better be left to
scratch for themselves, I leave EN- just
one dollar apiece
Ono, Susan Maria, l don't think that
was too bad. Our gals e again their
paris teechins, and it was his duty to
punish 'em.)
For nigh upon thirty years I was blest
with this high, improvin' companion
ship, and, though a poor creatur at
best. Tried in my humble way to be u
"help-meet" for my husband. The
squire was a master-hand for good victu-
ts, and l made his dislikens in this line
oASh Stu'AS liza L CAllIcAN NOUl Ills
h 9esd (And 10 gals a the straig ;hse,t
heart, leads right through his stummi *.
From rise to set of sun, my work was
never done. l looked well arter the
ways of my household. I never ate the
bread of idleness. My husband was
known in the gates, when he sot among
the elders of the land, and that was glo-
ry enough for ne.
"You ask if the squire was kind to
me, Matilda Jane. He made me keep
my place.; l don't suppose you'd call
that kind, but l was content. If I'd
gone on the way lots Of women in these
days are goin' on, he'd a shut me up in
. lunatic asylum, and sa-ved me ri hit.
He had a tremenjus will Of his own, and
l didn't darse to oppose it. l do be-
lieve that if he'd a smit me on one
cheek I'd a turned him tother one also.
In all things he WIS lord and master. |
had promised to sarve, honor and
obey him, and l kept nv
word. If had sot up my Ebenezer and
trled to have my say contrarywise to
his'n, l should aroused a speerit no
power on earth could quell. You have
heerd of the iron hand in the glove Of
velvet. That was Squire Pettibone ex-
actly. He jest quietly took it for grant
ed that his word was law-like unto that
of the Modes and Peisians, which
changeth not.
my gals-there was three on 'em-"
didn't grow up as they'd orter under
SUCH plous teachln's. They used to say
to me,'Mar, you're a drudge and a sla 1e.
You don't dare say your souls your own
you haln't got the sperit Of the worm
that turns when its trod upon. Par
thinks all wonlen his interiors, and he's
allus weepin' an bewailin' the heavy
cross laid upon him, in havin' his chill
dren all da1ters instid Of sons, 1T was