Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-06-01
Miss DjIly Daily.

She is sort of omnpresent damsel.
common 10 all communities, and on fa-
nous visiting terms with all tho neirhbor
hood-nt least, she thinks so. She always
rms into your house in great hnste ms
though hor wish was TO borrow fire, instead
OF telling you lin voice lowered in terror
lzed nccenls) TINT your neighhora on the
other side OF her have just closed loving
tnsSle TO remove superilnous trcsses from
each others devoted heads. Indeed, our
lingering informant draws on her imaeinn-
hon so strongly in depicting tho mnnipu
ln'ion of jet and cardinal locks, that we see
forthwith mental picture of the angelic
book keeper above, with busy pen sub
tracting handluls of hair from our nei,r,-
boris record.
Ste hns rcmeined standing during this
eEci'ing recital, she boing lin too much of
IA hurry to tdown. Now she sinks into
chair and relates other direful hnppen-
ings, her haste apparently OF lesser import
nhce thnn her chit-chet, and tho budget slo
IS generously bnnque.ing you upon. All
The time she is going, but doesn't get oil.
Perhnps Miss billy Daily is such very
kind, heated creature, and seeing the i'm
pied entrcaty in you: face for lust one
more OF .lcr stnrias, she cannot deny YOU
ner society oil nj once, 30 she breaks the
shock OF her Departure by frequently re-
itera'ed warnings of We'll, really, 1 must
Co."
But she doesn't. She settles back and
aimlessly talks for ten moro minutes,
though the washer- woman may be waiting
Tor her wages, with n sick family Mt home
needing her immediate presence; or. she
may be cheating you cut of other duties
winch you are anxious 10 discharge; but
courtesy keeps you there giving enr TO
MISS Only Dally's gassonading and idle
Finally, this creature CT q most tiresome
habit will arise; but still abe tarries, stand
Ing in various unbecoming attitudes. repeat
ing for tho fifieth time, II Just run over for
minute" forgetting sho has already slain
many golden minutes.
She may get halfway down the hall
when She will suddenly brighten I'M with
something Gle had nearly forgot to say. ;.
Ihen, IN nervous state, you must listen
TO What is of no moro benefit to YOU or
humanity in general than Hebrew is TO
Geronimo. Then she hangs on to the
door-hnob, still talking, az if she held the
hand of long-lost friend and felt loatb
TO palt with it. After tho door is opcncd.
she issues general and particular invita-.
lions to everybody present to "call soon. u
pitching her voice to upper G to reach
those who may not have followed her TO Tho
door,
one may get SO far as the gate, when an
alter thought, or last underscore 10 "call
soon," strikes our going" caller, and YOU
must risk pneumonia by standing in the
chill winds to patiently and politely hear
to the end.
Everybody seems relieved after Miss
Diily Dally.s departure. She may be over
so nice otherwise, but her prolonged an
nouncements of going detract from he,
society materially.
Miss Oily Daily and all others whom il
mny concern, when you say you must 20,
Put your potential verb into force and 90,
DO not daily and have everybody on the
q'n ofse to see you 60. BE not Extensively
short or abrupt, but go, when you say YOU
are going.-l.roI I'D. III. Gibson, In 81,
Louie Ma1asi,M.