The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-11-14
OH! THESE WOMEN
Bill ARP Places Himself on Record.


make me so tired. But it is sweet SER
vice. Here I've been working in the
harness for forty years and 1 don't reckon
I would be happy ifthe harness was off.
I know I wouldn't for sometimes when
Mrs. Arp goes off to spend the day I
don't feel natural about the house. I
want somebody to order me around in a
sweet feminine way. William, that
stick that was between the sash has fsl.
len out and is down there on the ground
don't you feel the cool air coming in."
William, the clock needs cleaning very
bad-it stopped twice yesterday-h hadn't
you better take it down to Mr.. Bakers" /"
William, wish you would get little
paint aud give the old mantepice coat
lyon have scraped 80 many matches on
it to light your old pipe, that it is sight.
a little can of prepared paint won't cost
much. And that old CRATE needs coat
of polish-oh, did see some of the love.
liest CRATES down at the exposition, and
those tiles for hearths were exquisite. 1
don't mean for you to buy any, but I
ana just telling you. Somehow when.
ever I tell you about the beautiful
things / see you look like you didn't
nave friend in the world. Of course I
don't mean that want you to buy
them" William, what am I to do with
the flowers, the geraniums and verbenas
aud all the potted plants. The winter is
coming on. aud l do wish we had pit
somewhere. 1t will be pity to loose
them. Hattie has had q pit dug and
says it didn't cost but two dollars-and
she is going to cover it with a cloth
Frame" Sam Pitts digs pitts" she con.
tinued-"Sam Pitts digs pits" said I.
And so I sent for uncle Sam and marked
off the place, six by ten, and squared it
according to rule and he had been dig
ging few minutes, when Mrs Arp
raised the window and said she thought
it was little too far that way, and so I
moved the marks couple Of feet and
began to dig again. In little while she
came out aud paid it was too arthis way
and 80 I moved it back where it was at
first and she said it was about right now.
She thinks that I split the difference, but
1 didn't. The next day in gentle voice
she asked me how much a brick
wall around the top would cost
"a brick wall about three feet
high ON one side and foot high on the
other. And sash with glass for
cover" said I; for I knew she was think.
ing about it. She smiled sweetly and
said, "Yeu." l scratched match on the
mantle and lit my pipe aud ruminated.
That was yesterday. Mr.. White is maxi
ing those sash to day, and the brick
mason is building the wall and I an still
10 the harness. Alex. Stephens said he
wanted TO die in the harness and be did,
but he never knew anything about mat.
rimonal breeching, or he would have
wanted to live and not die at all. What
would become offs man If be diden't have
woman 70 keep him lively? When we
were in Atlanta the other day, my wife
asked me for Eve dollars to buy pair
Of shoes. "Have shoes gone up" said I,
"as I handed her the money ono, but
have," she said, ~ want fine pair
shoes that are as soft as kid glove-you
owe me lots ofshoe money-you promised
me before We were married that you
would give me- thirteen pair a year
don't you remember ?" eyes," said 1
''and you have had them and more too.
How can woman raise ten children on
less than thirteen pair year. But I
would have promised you anything then.
I would have climbed the Chamboraz
mountains and fought tiger for you
then-a SMALL tiger-but 1 would fight a
big one now. Here take another FIVE
and buy you some fine stockings to go
with the shoes, but don't buy black ones.
despise to see white woman wear black
stockings. 1t is like heather Chinee
blacking his teeth" wish I had the
making of the fashions. I see that the
bustles have gone out at last, and 7 am
glad oft. never did like these unnat-
ural humps on Il woman's back. They
have been in and out dozen times sirlce
was boy, and 80 have hoop.skirts. 1t
is funny to see new fashion come in and
go out. There are women in my town
still wearing bustles. They feel sorter
shamed to leave them off all of q sudden.
But they will fall into line and slim down
before long. They have done slimmed at
my house. They keep up pretty we'll. I
saw lots of nice ladies at the fair who
were behind, and 80 were their bustles,
but they were from the country and little
tpwns and hadn't caught up. It is
good deal of trouble to alter bustle-
dress to no. hustle dress, and all the
mysterious garments underneath have to
be altered, too, and that is why it takes
o fashion so long to run ou'. It costs
money, and work. Now if the ladies
will cut Of about four inches of their
skirts and keep out of the winters mud,
they will be all right. Let them show
their ankles if they want to. There is
nothing prettier than the poetry of mo.
ton that is in lady's foot and ankle
when she walks, 1t pleases an old man
nightly.
But the men have passed through some
Very ridiculous fashions too. When 1
Was in ny teens and had begun to notice
the girls and put oil on my hair and
cinnamon drops on my handkerchief,
the fashion vas to wear short pants and
straps-leather straps about an inch wide
that came under the shoe and fastened to