The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-06-14
AN OLD SOUTHERN MAMMA"
A Virginia Womg ms Affectiouate Picture
of Type of a Vanishing Glass.

! of Type of a Vanishing Glass.
There never existed under fair skin
a more honest, loyal soul than that
which beams from the face of my dusky
NANNY, says a Richmond, Va, letter
to the Hartford Ncacs. She was given
| to my mother on her wedding dav by
my grandfather, and was bnt u years
of age. That marriage. although it
/ took place more than fifty years ago.
| still dwells as a bright spot in mammv's
/ heart and memory. Not a month ago
| she gave me most graphic account Of
! il, and in good English-no negro dia-
| lect spoiled her story, for, having been
a house-servant from her earliest
| years, she had never caught the lingo
| Of the ''hands." She was lust 13 when
| she took care of my eldest sister. and
/ she has often told me Of her pride and
| delight in her first nursing. She did
not leave us when the war closed. and
when we We're forced by poverty to
| leave her she worked hard and hid her
| wages until she accumulated enough
| to bring her back TO her dear old mis-
| tress and the children. | was very
/ young girl when we had to leave her,
and | often longed for her dear, dark
face and her soft ample lap, always so
| ready to ''cuddlea me. The coming
| back to Us was a great surprise, and |
| was SO overcome with delight that |
| fell on my knees and wept tears of ioy
! in the faithful bosom of my dear fos-
| ter-mother. She was always ready in
every time of need or sickness, always
| full of tenderness in sorrow. She
/ Zfa,~1l n! l.,
| last Illness. faithful to the end" Her
| home now is with a married sister Of
mine, and she is still the much beloved
nanny Of the many grandchildren of
the family, who run to her in every
childish need. Mammys name was a
very celebrated one She was a Caesar!
| Her father was butler in the Harrison
| family, at their old homestead. the
! .'Wigwam, and he bore the great
name Of Julius Cesar. He might have
| been styled tho 'autocrat Of the break
! fast-table,' 50 strict was his rule over
his special domain. Nanny was
married twice Her first husband and
| her two children lived very short
time. Then she married quite
character-Dr Wilson Tyrrell, a semi
! Indian herb doctor
A marriage in the family is still an
| event of great interest to nanny, and
1T the wedding Of one Of her nurslngs,
some five years ago she came on to
| be present from her home. farther
north. She went with the family to
to the church and sat in front pew.
As is customary on such OCCASIONS,
many of the ladies of the family wore
natural flowers. Imagine the amuse-
ment of the assembled company when
NANNY walked up the aisle adorned
with huge artificial sunilower. She
told me she had kept it a long time
| Just for the wedding"
With all her virtues. NANNY is a
| great lover of 1.-The good things of this
life,n and will eat them when it is best
she should not. She told ne of her
hiding a watermelon under her bed,
when she was i'll once in B, to
keep her mistress from knowing she
had it. Her capacious bosom is often
the receptacle Of cakes. nuts, and
raisins, placed there for future enjoy
ment She possesses remarkable
ability to find anything that is lost,
and very often the missing article is
stored away in her dress-body for safe
| Keeping" She is quite as ''broad as a
| barn-door," this old nanny of mine,
and so stout and heavy that she has to
move very slowly. But her gentle
manners, her perfect tact, her sweet old
face, all make one ignore her lack of
| sylph-like proportions, Her youngest
charge, a beautiful boy of five years of
age, and her especial darling, forms d
| pcrfc ct contrast in his fair Saxon beauty.
They make pretty picture when she
| takes him out for walk; she in her
nurses apron and Northumberland,
| and he in scarlet coat and hat, with
cheeks glowing. blue eyes shining. and
yellow curls tossed by the wind. Some
years after the warshe got on a street.
car in B with one of her charges.
Everybody was attracted by her, as
this type Of old nurscis becoming rare.
One lady seemed especially struck,
| and looked at her long and earnestly.
Then she recognized old NANNY, and
the scene that followed beg@ars de-
scription. Such hand-shaking. Such
talking! The lady proved to be an old
friend of mammy's earliest years, hav-
ING been raised in my grandfather's
family. And here, SO unexpectedly,
these two had met again, after so many
years of separation, and those who
witnessed the meeting Of the ''old Vir-
ginia ladies' say it was worth seeing
OF one thing | am sure-not one of
the coming race can present bet
ter record Of 4 pure and blameless life
than my old '.mammy." known to some
as Aunt Cynthia" to others as Mrs
DR.. Tyrrell," but more widely known
rs ''mammy." II any Of your readers
would like to see NANNY they will find
her in the city of b. She is a real
lady" and true Christian. She still
wears the head-handkerchief, and still
takes pride and delight in her white
children Her own children have died
off very fast. only two are left, but her
white children keep her heart warm.
and they will love and cherish her al
ways.