The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08


IA my hons at The time was in
Marietta, GA, quite near, Atlanta, and
directly in Sherman's line Of march,
writes a Southern girl in the Watch
man, | saw a great many strange and
exciting things, and suppose that is
the reason remember my life there so
well; for, although a very small girl at
the time, it is far more wildly real to
] me than the events of last year.
| a picture to myself distinctly the
i QUAINT figures Of my little playmates,
aafor invention, like charity, begins al
iahome, and we little ones showed the
G;4airst fruits of our mothers talents in
h4hat direction. We always wore "home-
and as the cloth stood a good
of wear our dresses we're made
enough to last two seasons. Some
1se a8 us wore shoes, but they were such
Ipohd-looking things, made of course
DSeeslIather and only reaching u
forhkles. AS the leather shoestrings
a iRre out they had to be replaced by the
.lacygering from the wires of hoop-skirts,
es tded black. Our stockings were knit
lD,sd plain white yarn, also homespun.
. enf every day" we wore calico sun
= andlnets, but on"state occasions" hats
IL ap5ded at home from the palmetto
AS n thing after another gave
e e ONE We're always equal to
emergency and quick in finding sub
ties, just as our great -grandmothers
y INNS Turing the Revolution. American
ontent- pm are, | think, quite remarkable
atesdo pat sort of thing. My mother must
Of our been unusually clever, for I re-
we PER SO many bright things that she
anu lTrifies never seemed to daunt her.
from Fable was always delightfully."-
s stoatiar although her inventive faculties
ould be constantly called upon to supply
These Iced in the kitchen.
cause, e is one very clever thing that I
, o;vs 10 about her. She had sent out
efts and pms for o very large party; for
re. NO was quite gay at one time, as a
ase US ~ OF refugees, besides a great
ua not icers ION leave" were in town.
hope to mother, who was delighted to
vice and to collect together so many
! v are people, determined to give
them g very grand. Her prepar-
signify in IRE all completed, as she sup
ace OF the pa the morning of the APP
~ = 90 60 day, and she was actual
ging the flowers In her
EN- she received the very de-
fdings that not a candle could
p Atlanta for love or money.
up ln no" 1omen would have de-
ming WIS such ill-luck as this, and
sngianu = sent Immediately to inform
be futuls' Sests that they need not come;
wl'n 9her did nothing Of the sort.
Ter mrs. ar aher thinking cap" at once.
8 PLANK oi i and near to borrow all the
were OF the y possible. These she filed
Mite lard, and every one who
that II MIS-. cared on the place was set
ner cnS She ing out little round pieces Of
"a has been Y the size of a half-dollar.
ough Of her, n she twisted in the centre
question q Yer, and placed on the lard
I ls 511Ht Of nf, ready for use, for she
woman Mt her rooms with them.
Q she has I'D used them in the bed
orld wo rsst sickness, as they would
r sus atten- IL and candles were far too
d this long. p1wasted in that way. But
s remaining t1laking them ornamental
Tune o o. Il WIS, and you cannot real
she wss sur iz.9y the house looked that
"a who were Mad placed them every
nent she nae, wlbuilt pyramids of lights,
ae es posateroom. Dah flowers, in every avail
present. He aDtorner. The rooms and
he most ten nalliantly lighted by the
manner. one i1ch seemed to me to be
2 s yellow like MAJOR to ceiling in every
"a Law. / can al1oked like some lovely
. fool, but ! Ialprettier than any ball
York within .