The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-07-11
FROM BRIDGET.
ALEXANDRIA,, LA.,)
July II, 1883. !

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DEAR DEMOCRAT
l have been so very busy of late
drumming up customers that you
came perilously near not getting
your weekly letter today. You and
your readers ought to be infinitely
obliged to me for thus consulting
your welfare instead of my own con
venience. l have, however, such a
opinion of my own mer
its as q writer that l feel perfectly
convinced you would all miss me
sorely if l should cease my weekly
dissertations; and I am therefore i'm
PEELED by charitable regard for the
feelings of the community at large to
continue them.
Alexandria and her SISTER city"
have been quite gay lately. The
concert in Pineville was we'll gotten
up and a lively little affair. The on.
ly thing that troubled my enjoyment
was the "sing-song tone of unimpas
stoned woe" in which the gentleman
who personated "Charley Goahead'
persisted in calling on bis lady love.
His "Ob, Ara. bee-lay' was indica-
tive Of the deepest depths of forlorn-
ity rather than the rapturous joy Of
lover rejoining his adored one. ]
could not help wishing he would act
up to his name and "go ahead'' with
his part, instead Of giving US so
much "linked sweetness long drawn
out" l alec regretted deeply the
sudden disappearance Of the ice.
cream. When one does happen to
have Two bits in ones pocket, and has
fully made up ones mind to invest
it in ice cream for the good of the
church and ones own qualification, it
is an aggravating thing to be told
1.-THE ice cream is just out" But l
had one consolation, saved my
two bits.
The Peabody School exhibition en-
the I'd inst. was fair sample of most
school exhibitions, with good deal
of noise and confusion behind the
scenes and a good deal more 10 the
audience. The children acted their
parts fairly we'll, and some with even
marked ability. But what I admir-
ed most was the courtesy and con
sideration of the audience, who kept
so very still and quiet that the noise
of the loudest brass band might have
been family and indistinctly heard.
l would respectfully suggest to the
next, and, Tin point of fact" as
Cousin Feenix would say, to all fu,
ture audiences in Alexandria, that
although they may not, individually,
care to hear what is passing on the
stage, other people have paid their
money for that privilege, and natu-
rally feel defrauded of their rights
when the performances are reduced
to pantomime. After the exhibition
closed and the dance began, being
troubled with some iucipient symp.
toms Of the govt, and not quite equal
to tripping on the light fantastic, l
amused myself by wandering in dark
corridors and stumbling over senti
mental couples in unexpected cor
ners. I nearly broke my neck one
time when, attempting to go down
the stairs leading from the back Of
the stage, l pitched head foremost
over a pair of turtle doves roostiug
there, and measured my length, Eve
feet eleven, on the hard floor Of the
corridor. BLESSINGS not loud but
Deep rose up from my heart as
rose up from the floor, and I could
not help wishing young ladies and
gentlemen would stay in the ball
room where people expect to find
them instead of acting as man traps
in dark corridors. The exhibition
had one good result, however; it's
proceeds will enable those unfortu.
nate individuals, yclept teachers, to
keep soul and body together during
vacation; a firm which, otherwise,
might dissolve partnership for want
of needful supplies.
had nearly forgotten the T0acn
Talk, which reminds me forcibly OF
an idioticaIly persistent house fly
continually buzzing about the same
place though driven away thousand
times. ought to have had sense
enough to know, at first, that it only
wanted to attract notice, though
must confess that I, for one, would
prefer the most inglorious obscurity
to such -"puffs." Since it seems
however. that the little thing is of q