The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-02-02
The Grnmbler.

suppose, snould De seen ana not
heard, but since it IL the prerogative
ofthe grumbler to be heard as well
seen, l shall probably be tolerated
even if / am abused. So much by
way of pre- acc. Last week was a
great week for Sedalians. There was
a theatrical troupe here which WIS
really deserving of the name, and yet
the grumbler cannot help grumbling
about it even if he calls down upon
his head any quantity of spiteful ad-
jectives. went and / was disguised.
1t was not that the play itself lacked
anything particularly, Michael
Strogoff,' in spite of a desire to look
pretty b~fore the ladies, did very
well, The lord high executioner. :"
in the shape of Ogaroff" was fair
The dancing of the frisky damsels on
the stage, barring the efforts of one or
two who carried no flesh than is
allowable, and the capering of one or
two others who had knots OH their
knee-pans ss large rs saucepan, was
passable, the donkey was all right,
the correspondents, not true to life in
any particular but creek. acceptable,
but right along side of me
sat a woman, and that woman
was fat, had been eating onions and
cabbage, had wart on her nose and
smelled to high Heaven with a mix
ture of musk, altar of roses, patchouli
and the Lord Knows what else.
| might evgoeLave borne this but
she had on AMI 'ormous hustle which
prevented Rore e from sitting "pIum
up in her chair and as she was I'M
comfortable, she was obliged to
"scrouge" me dreadfully.
First she would gather my arm up
in sort of a thing, women call q
dolman, which she wore and which
ratified with dreary "dried pea-in-
the-pod" sound, because Of the Jet
rubbish strung to it, then she would
lean over in confidential manner and
put her whole weight on my unofend-
ing knee, while she talked to another
woman in the row in front of her and
all the time would notice how the
buttonholes waved" and strained in
front of her, well -ah shoulders, and
I would smell her depraved breath
and | would swear a deep and inward
swear that ha ed her and / wouldn't
marry such woman if she were the
only one left in the Universe, and my
knee would ache despite of my efforts
TO shift it little and, well, | think
have made out case when / say
that 1 was Disguised more at the
play of Michael Strogoff than have
been for some time.
1t is astonishing to me how pert
the girls Of the nineteenth century
have become. / contend that when a
girl Of sixteen or seventeen in
the presence several of her
mates common, ON the fact that
a certain gentI:Ssdn is getting as
old as MetheusaleLa, and would make
"a good relic for" dime museum"
that there is no real old fashioned
courtesy in it. She may have the red
cheeks of a winter apple or the sun
kissed side of a ripe peach, or any of
the rest of such rot, the form of a
Venus, the foot of Diana, the grace
Of q Helen and the destinations of q
Gree, but l say she is i'll bred and
deserves spanking with a well sea-
soned slipper that Is she should have
it, i'll had py way, especially when /
was 'he "Metheusaler" alluded to and
was standing in a corner the other
night at Broadway reception. just
Is patient as man could be under
he infection of being in a place where
ne did not want to be and also wish
ng supper would be announced. IL
nay be as old as the scriptursl gentle
nan mentioned by the pert miss, but
fl ever have any children to train,