The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-03-09
MISS GRIGG'S IDEA.
The Lady's Maids Story of How It
Was Carried Out.

Was Carried Out.
Eyes, miss. certainly, I lived with
Mrs. Birch-AIiss Grigg that was be-
fore she married Mr.. Birch. And
knew all about that affair. 1t was very
singular, indeed-very. I'm not sure
that l ought to mention it, for if
lady's maid can't hold her tongue she
can't find good places. Dear me, I'm
no talker. I'm as mum as a mouse.
Bushels of pearl powder and quarts of
rouge have l applied with my own
hands, and never so much as limited at.
As for cotton, bless your heart, I've
never breathed about it. and / did live
with lady once that took arsenic reg
ularlY for her complexion. That's no
secret for she took too much one day,
by accident. and died.
There was an inquest, and it all
came out It's well it did, orsuspicion
| pointed to her husband. Somehow, it
always seems to strike jury that a hus-
band is the likeliest person to wish a
wife out of the way. But this isn't any
thing about paint; Miss Gugg, being
on the stage made no secret of that.
She played queens and such, miss.
I've often had tickets given me and
gone with my young man to see her
act. And when she was naughty and
curled her nose like, miss, and looked
at other folks over her shoulder, and
talked away down in her throat like
a pigeon gurgling she was splendid,
miss. 1t made me think how nice it
would be to be queen and to take airs
over everybody.
''Well, Miss Grigg was engaged to
be married. Mi. Birch had fallen in
love with her when she was playing
Hamlet's ma Perhaps you have seen
the play, missP The young man OBJ
jects to his ma getting married the
second time, so l seemed to make out,
and acted most impertinent. giving
sass to his ma and his step-pa, and
carrying on awful. And there was "A
poor young lady quite out of her mind
that afterward got drowned.
''Well, she was playing Hamlet's $
ma, and Mr.. Birch fell in love with
her, and sent her a letter, and called,
and made an offer all in no time. She
accepted him, of course, and the prep
arations for the wedding began.
don't think any lady ever had so many
dresses before. Silks and satins, and
velvets and laces. Dear, dear; Mad
anne IS whole establishment was
hard at work for month, and if I'd
had twenty fingers, instead of only ten,
I'd have had use for them all.
''At last every thing was finished.
The trunks were packed, fifteen of
'em, miss, and fourteen were to 90 on
that afternoon, and one-the one with
the wedding and travelling dresses
was, of course, to be left and 90 with
! the bride when she started next dav
She was to be married at ten o. clock in
church and then drive home, have a
splendid breakfast, change her dress
and catch the three o'clock train. Of
course l saw to the trunks, and / was
very careful; but Just when / was
needed most, just as the trunks were
going down stairs, Miss Grigg called
me.
miss Grigg was a lady who didn t
! like to wait. | went to her at once,
, miss, as was my duty, and I said to
Bridget Duster. the chambermaid:
!, - Bridget, watch that black trunk
, and see that the men don't carry it
{ Off
t Bridget understood with her elbows,
of course, miss, and after I'd been to
the lands end for two yards of blue
I ribbon Of exactly such a shade as she
: wanted, and got back, found that she
i had sent off the black trunk first of all,
and was very proud of having been Sc
= | he al
! away by that time. There was nothing
for it but to tell Miss Grigg. She flew
s at me, miss. / didn't blame her foI
j being angry. 1 would forgive her in
: such a case She few at me violent
: miss, and then, miss, she had spasms.
She beat the sofa, she tore her hair,
she screeched, and me all the while
i. saying:
) &" Remember your eyes, miss. Think
u how you'll look. Your nose is swelling
>, dreadful, miss.
. : Finally she came to and bathed heI
: face And says she:
4 Flora, what-shall-I do?'
:. "I don't know, miss, said l, 'unles.
ie you put of the wedding until you tele
I graph for the trunk
W. SetitA HtAEs AaAslb hIAAGh9s 0[
r. sides, one never knows. None ain
n to be depended on
y - You might borrow dress, said
= AS if I'd be married in one tha
: didn't fit, said she. Stop, don't speal
a word. I've an idea.
n she sat with one finger on her lip
8 for awhile. Then she said:
q My embroidered dressing gown
The white one! That's here?'
). - In the bureau. miss, said /.
4 - Very WELL said she. IN b.
= married in that Telegraph for tia
) trunk. Flora.
: The white dressing-gown, miss?
d said l. nearly astonished out Of m.
. senses.
q Yes. said she. 'the white dressing
gown, goose. you don't think Ia
> going TO be- married in church IN thai
u ] won't put OF the wedding. and
won't stand up before . crowd in an