Blue-grass blade., 1890-10-25
A Homemade Sunday school
Story.

the tongue, had lots OF fine clothes
plenty of money, and no poor kin
Together with some elegant youn.
ladies and gentlemen l. was invited
to be the guest of house in ;
county OF this State that was no.
Fayette.
In those days when the aristoc-
racy went calling" they took
along their great big leather trunks
and spent three or four days.
They went in great big carriages
the stomachs of which hung down
with a storage capacity that beat
anything since the days of the Tro-
Jan horse.
They were ostensibly intended
for only four inside passengers, but
they were always jollier when there
were two girls and boy on each seat
and the boy was sandwitched be-
tween the girls.
Some times the boy was troubled
to know what to do with his arms,
SO as to keep his elbows from both
ering the girls.
Some times he wasn't.
The most intimate male acquaint-
ance / ever had was one of the
latter kind.
The motor that propelled one of
those big carriages was, among the
very creme de IL creme, two big
mules.
A big negro man on the "box"
outside held the rcins. and beside
him sat a colored woman to wait
on the girls.
These carriages left home after
- an elaborate injunction from the
pdtertamiiias to the driver, which
John G. SAKE mas travestied from
Horace.
Pdrce s'imutis utcre Ioris,
A stage direction of which the core
is,
Don't use the whip, they're ticklish
things,
But whatever you do, hold on to
the strings.
The injunction was always observ-
ed until the driver got ont of sight
of "Ole Marster."
The house and grounds that we
visited in the instance referred to,
was, like Washington, a place of
"magnificcnt distances The farm,
and the yard, and the house were
all on big scale. The dominant
idea in architecture in those days
had as its model a goods box, with
porch as high as the house and
about half as big, that was inge-
niously constructed with reference
to keeping neither sun or rain off
of anybody or any thing.
Had a sort of prophetic archi-
tect built house for rich Ken
tucky farmer, like a Lexington ar
chitcct would now build, one of
these Queen Anne chop-logic es-
Establishments, the farmer would
have thought it fine for the "nig-
gers"
In such house as the first we
have described, large and spacious,
and filled with elegant furniture,
books, music, family portraits, DC,
with negro slaves, male and female,
old and young, odHbituo,, we were
entertained. Every meal, set in
the most elegant Of china, was Il
chet dosuore of the cuisine, and
nuts and raisins, and fruits, domes-
tic and tropical, sat around in the
most inviting negiige, In silver SER
vices, to be sampled between
meals.
But this merely material feature
was the smallest part Of the enter
tainment. The host and hostess
were most elegant people, and
dressed elegantly-"neat and not
gaudy," as the monkey said when
he had painted the eat.
There We're some handsome an d
happy looking little boys, children
of these good people. They were
earnestly religious people. The
father was a reading and think
ing man, and was one of the first
men that ever heard maintain
some metaphysical views that
neither then accepted, nor now nc
cept, but which have now become
much moe common.
Here the novels place string
of stars, or astericks, rs the print
ers call them, and begin the sequel
with the words, Wears have flown
by" | won't infringe ON then
patent.
The other day man stopped m'
on the Court House concrete. li'
was ragged and dirty, and so thin
that he appeared not to have ha'
enough to eat. lie said; "Mr