Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-25
Aunt Patsy Goes to Town.
LAS She Told 1t to Me.
BY X.

down to waco, seeing rs naun
been there for twenty years and me I
living only twenty-three mile from 1t
too! But you see when woman ha
a famully of her own besides som'
nephyers, and has to run farm, too
she don't have much time to run
around the nearest city! But, seeing
as them powerful rains this spring
made such an amazing sight of corr
my oldest nephyer, William You
don't know what store l do set by
that boy; he's been my right hand
bower for fifteen year, ever since his
mother died and left him to me; him
a puny ten year old y Well, rs 1 was
saying, William says to me, mother"
(he always called me mother) ~ want
you to go down to Waco and see what
u city it's got to be since you went to
school there to DR.. Burleson. want
you to go in style, too, and have the
best time you can for the money. Go
to the biggest hotels and stores and
spend all you want.to. 1t amt any
thing but right to do it. You've been
a shaving for us for fifteen year, and
by your managing we didn't starve
or go in debt last year and this being
such good year with the corn and
cotton so promising, you've got TO gow
William has an amazing lot of COM
mon sense, and then he's travelled,
too! Besides his going down to Waco
every year or so, I sent him to the
New Orleans imposition, and this
spring made him go to that Austin
impos: ton too. If we don't take pa
pers much want us to keep up with
the world. felt like 1 needed
change right smart, so it didn't take
much persuading to start me and
John, my thirteen year old boy, Off
bright and early one morning. Going
the same old round of hard work for
so many years with no anus ements
but church, funerals and camp-meet-
ings occasionally, and once In a right
smart while little visiting, is calcu-
lated to wear out anybody as ambi-
tious as I am.
We had good team and started
out fair, but such roads 1 never want
to see again! Where there wasn't a
branch there was a mud hole or a
wash-out fit to break my buggy, or
else it was as rough as new broke
ground. FL was the merchants of
Waco I'd send a lot of hands out to
work those roads or go out myself and
I'LL up gullies and buId bridges over
bad places, so that people could come
TO town and trade without jolting the
money out of their purses and sense
out of their heads in coming. I felt
Ill tuckered out when got there, and
,rOss as two bears or crosser. AS
knew some OF the Grand boys
when he was at DIR. Burleson's school
md since then he has been to their
lotel, he told me to go there with
John. "Never mind the cost mother"
'aid he, II want you to have the best
If everything. and you'll be safe
here. Don't give the walters any
money even if they ask for it, for Mr..
brand don't like it. Eat with your
ork, do just like the other people and
+ the water don't bring things to suit
you send him back"
We got there in time for dinner and
after John had put the horses in Mr..
wagon yard we took our
way up to the hotel and asked for
some of the Mr.. brands. When saw
him knew they must feed we'll, judy
ing from his looks. As we went in
the dining room the perlitest little
shiny black man came a running to
us and pulled out some chairs for us
rs kind as could be. Then another
one came and handed us a little IA.
per, l sposed to read while dinner was
getting done. So took my spectacles
and wiped them and read the name
oft. Menu" humph! some forrin
name" l said. Ofall the names for a
paper even such o little one tho I |
sposed 1t was an extry'D that beats
ali! SO began to read, and If you'll
believe 1t they had the names of the
things they had cooked for dinner: 1t
was we'll they did for there was 80 |
many they couldn't remember half |
and some of them would never have |