The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-01-14
Another Letter From Kitty Wag
goner.
BoLToS, Miss, Jan. 9th, 1885.


DEAR ALIEN: Your very charmini
letter found its way to nv breakfas
table this morning, and was immediate
~ read, though the warmth of the roll.
and cakes dissolved in furious smoke
before me, just like I've known some
peoples sympathy vanish in cloud OF
words, leaving them cen as cold and
eiammy as a plate of forgotten batter
cakes.
A pleasant letter such as yours, nv
dear, as very much like conversing with
a pleasant friend-leaves q good taste in
the mouth, metaphorically speaking
And isn't there q wonderful difference
in the manner and speech of some per-
sons? There are 4 few, God bless EN-.
with whom you can converse but
short while, and vet instantSneously
become charmed by the grace and inf
mite sweetness of disposition, and though
often very quiet and reserved, you will
tind a strong underlying current of love
and longing for all the higher and
| nobler purposes of life. You feel, after
being with such a person, that YOU have
literally been taken up, and fitted for
something higher Yourself, while on the
contrary, taking the antipodal character,
I WY lev AUEAS VIII euA4tE MAKO
| you feel as if YOU were being evil!v
treated, and while huFriedly departing
| from such presence, will instinctively
cast glance upwards TO see if there is
not storm portending, so rapidly is the
toHch-stone descending IN the Barometer
Feeling.
L am reioiced to learn that Mrs. 4. NJ. !
d. Is improving. Not we'll could she !
De spared from the sphere she now
occupies, and for which she is so fitted. /
Though she may not engage in active /
duties, yet who does not leel her pres |
ence throughout the entire place! Old |
lime has taken me, with its unaccount-
able changes, from {. I. l., but the /
days passed there as her pupil are re-
corded tenderIy upon those pages of /
memory We turn 10 in alter life, with a /
peculiar feeling OF love and reverence |
Long may tue Institute continue
to prosper and give to our girls,
The Angels of Home" that culture
and grace in which our Sunny South
delights.
Don't ask me, though, my dear, what
| think OF this new departure this
new feature OF Mississippi College as 4
mixed school, (gjrls and boys, not white
and black. Ia the first place it did mt
ask me anything about 1t whether !
favored IL or not, hence | shall not COM
NIT myself upon either side, Tor truly
am | unlike those foolish knights who
tel! ahghiing before they severaiiy look
ed at both sides of that human faced
shield. Ii Mississippi College ever asks
my opinion, III give 1t, having had
time by then 10 study the question, but
we'll 1t Will always have any support as
viii any undertaking with a good end
in view.
We came near having a second deluge
the other day, didn't We? And the
night OF the fifth, too, We were to have
such brilliant ball. and the installation
of officers OF the X. of z These did
take place, however, despite the thunder
and lightning and torrents of rain that
doomed down, and a supper, too, given
by the ladies of the Episcopal church.
Il did mt mean 10 say This last doomed
down with the rain, but passed off as
fast as the girls themselves.)
We heard one OF the prettiest girls
taking advantage of the leap year SO
lately dead, and offering herself as a
partner-in a waltz to a young gen
tleman who had been modestly holding
back, and another who begged for a
silent waltz with such pathOs that it
frightened the timid gallant away from
the ball.
"Merciful heaven =" screamed mother
with a beautiful little girl on her lap,
what is in store for our daughters
growing up under such examplesp As
she wisely remarked afterwards, eve
will do what We can to keep them from
such, but here ieth a stone in the way
of the wheels Of society it had better
remove"
Did tell you that the Davis Bros.
are putting up a nice store. and Pub
lie Hall, something We need, in the real
nice order, and that Mr.. B. and his son
Frank have returned, and | think the
bells will be ringing soon, those merry
wedding bells!'
The accomplished Miss Josie D. has
returned from Port Gibson at the i'm
Fortunate request of her friends to
resume her school.
And Mr.. l.. on dit, is going to build |
fine hotel. Who dares say now that
Bolton is not booming?
L hope soon to send ven nv address |
from New Orleans waere | am eager to |
go, and study that curious march of |
intellect, the AnGs.tion, and to shake |
hands with, FOR one, Catherine Cole, !
that caUstic, spicy pen friend of mine. |
Be prepared then to write me then |
another OF your pleasant letters, and tell |
me some more Clinton news. |
KITTY WAGGoNRE.