Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-17
DlvIs1oN1 IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Mrs. Nasty Heard From.
CONEEnEpArE Y

petroleum end me hes fell out forthe
1ost time sence we fell in Twenty-Five
years ago-the year afore Jeems Allen
was born. [ hev been q good wife-or
a fule-solnetil1es 1 amt sartain wich.
| hev alters raised eggs ana garden
truck in summer, and nit socks to sell
IN winter, to help meet the bills-Das-
CONS alters bein' the heaviest.
lhev jes come from M~issoury; my
folks liv in Missoury, Pike county. |
stald four months so es to hev my bord
ekal the price oV my ralerode fare. Pc
troleum is good economizer, eff he amt
the best pervider in the world. MY
folks is all tempruns folks, and ] went
with EN- to the meetings: pertiklerly a
conTehshun at Sedaylia, where I got
some vues, end I hev ben a vuin ever
sence. The PERSONAL of the meetin
was all Wimmen, and a few pale nosed
entWich otherwise was of goodhelthy
color, and uncommon free from smelly
One OF 'em, who was right .peart look
In, was axed thare to spoke, but the
wimmen didn't git time to hear him.
l seen by the handful the fust thing
after dinner was hegeen and heredity,
showed by a doctor. l SEE to sister.
Marian, eat fast; 7 want to see them,
we don't hev 'em in Kaintucky,"
We got in ies as thay was a calm it
off. None Of the men didn't move, but
a female riz up-as fur as she Good
she was q hull he'd lower'n me. She
locked scared like, and / Whispered to
sister, "Mariar, whar is the doctor and
the hygeen at"
SEE she, thar she is, it's a female doc
tor, Cynthia Ann"
SEE /, "Mariar, in the solum hour Of
deth [ want somethin strong.'
you want DR.. Bigpil's breth then"
snapped Marian. Iherd afterward that
she he'd doctored with the little female,
for a pecoolyar kind Of malaria thay
hey in Missoury. People is awful
touchy about thare doctors. Then a
woman talked about law and politicks
and she was smart. Thar want nothin
skeery about her. That's wen my Use
was opened. 1 hev alters believed
wimmen should keep in their speer,
but. J. seen now that Woman's speer was
all out doors, and L mean to keep inside
my speer.
hey heerd Petroleum say conven-
shuns was upliftin, OWN to the scope
r1er quality of the likker thay allus
hev to, em, but here the tlowin bQle held
Lemonade without stick or straw in it,
and VT I was inspired to resolve thet l
wood go back tc. the Corners, and jipe
with ..1Iirandy Ppgram, Mrs. Kernel
McPe1ter. and the rest of the sufferin
sisterhood in such q rade On Bascoms
es wood make the fust n pail. l also
visited in Bethany war, fortMenty-lye
yeer thare hes been no likker sold, and
there is no Jale Reconnaissance, and
men has been bleeged to spend their
mummy for whites and clcse,-or keep
it,-wich men wunt do. Thare my
purpose was strengthened.
This morning at brekfust | begun;
SEE [ to Petroleum, "Who.be you goin
to vote fur this fall?' He looked at
me severe and sed: "Cynthy Ann, hev
YOU Termed to knit them new kind of
stockins with purity insteps, thay is
warm? Them ort to fetch a good price"
Sell /, "AIr. Nasty" l never called him
Nasty afore, end it startled him, 'hev
you lost your manners a assoshlatln
with George Willyum Curtis andBeech-
er. and them Boston fellers? Who be
vou agointosvote fur "Sez ne, "With
my party, a man is bound to his party
as much as awoman is bound 70 her
husbund.Y See J., "a woman amt
hound to her hnsbtnd after he's ded.
hey lined the Prohibition party, Mr.
Nasty" seq, l.. petroleum -actooaly
- n;l in +hc hose. and zip spoke