The Press., 1891-02-19

Issued Every Thursday Evening. [For The Press.l
 SHAKERS AND PARKS.
 Geography on Both Sides of the Line. WRITTEN BY DITTO.
 It was MT. and Mrs. Great Heart again, only she's gettin' tony, she is. She's jest he's as prompt as a major, proud you see to be keepin' step with Doll. There's the Great Hearts all over. They've gone up the scale some since Isa thought 11O was about the right weight for Great Heart. Humph And Mabel and that black eyed brother of hers. They've been presented at court-that is, they say he has, anyway, and he ain't but about POI years old at that. Now what do you think of chap that can roll wheefbarrow so's to dodge the drops when it rains He's what you might call a shaker. He shook like-hke people leaf only the other night, jest to see girl try to mow corn. More'n all that, he like to shook the bark all offn Pansy. (Pansy is the kings pet heund.) But may be again you don't know about this 'sking" business. When you get little Roy Chats king, you see,) in the family that don't weigh so many pounds as he is months old, then you'll think you belong to the ''royap family, same as Mabel does, sure and enoughl So Mabel and her black-eyed brother (his name is Peter) didn't go, but we did, jest the same, Isa, Aaron, Clara, ! o,,1 had ,fr,l or,1 time.
 Our train, you see, was what you might call the special express, and Isa, she was so 'fraid she shouldn't catch it or some. thing. that she didn't sleep none als night, nor eat morsel of breakfast; and all eat was couple of plates of hash and a slice or two of bread, jest enough to make
 me hungry. If we didn't just dump in the biggest kind of lunch ! May be we didn't pay our respects to it before we got to
 Hampden, and then again may be we did
 They say its bad to ride in the morning on an empty stomach.
 But it's good place to write letters on the way to the Shakers. You'd think they
 was on the way to the Shakers if you'd seen them letters Jennie wrote. "Jiggle ty-iiggle, jigglety -jiggle," that's the way that fountain pen of hers went. Such di dos as it cut up, you'd think it was saying just as the folks was, "Well take our pic
 mack now" And they did, and circus too guess, for one of lem never got there the letters-and t'other didn't till it was too
 late. Isa said she didn't believe Jennie di
 rected them at all, she popped out of the office so quick. But she did, or how should one of them get so many post-marks on it Southbridge, Union, Stafford Springs anG
 the like of that before it got "picnack'
 enough to go where it belonged; and if il cheated pretty girl out of her ''picnack,
 why we couldn't help it? That's all abou
 the letter. So down went the baked apples
 and after we got through the corner O Longmeader we began to come to Enfield
 where the Shakers live. They hain't livet
 there always. You see Ann Lee, she conn
 over from the old country and told folk that she was the female Christ, and if ev ieryb body want Twin in heaven it was thei own fault, they d ought to be n I s'pos , that S so, but you can't get my ma to see it | They was feller once that was mindn lsumpn' 'twan't none of his business. , isaid wisht he was in heaven. I though , was real kind about it, considerin', bu , ma, she said she thought twas awfu
 wicked. I told her thought he'd stand
 slim chance of gettin' there if somebod, didn't a0ash him in. She thougt 'twan'
 best to be in too big hurry. Humph
 had to give in, course, and the feller tool his own time s'pose; but guess he go
 there fast enough. If he didn't he can r blame me.
 don't see what 'tis about Twin in heavel that should make folks shake. It 'twa the other place 'twouldn't seem so queer
 But Ann Lee, she come over a shakin', ant Ill T. Az k>1 kl~ l.. , go out into the woods in New York stat and settle down into regular Shakers, an'
 enjoyed it. Its @ queer world, anyway difference in folks, I s'pose. Some folks , when they get the shakes. they send for doctor.
 al They was 8 man in this town once tha use ter make shakers He had plac f down by the depot. He got lot of pain leaf down to South Carliny or somewhere and had it all stripped up and made um , It got stylish, and you knew all the womel
 round got some big machines-looms the, e called 'em-and went at 1t. The maj F didn't pay 'em but 10 cents apiece fo 'em, but it was all the go. Even the youn ones use ter have little looms and carry en round visitin', and weave binds at penn
 bind. I wanted to get rich too, but m 3 she just put her foot on it. Mas got ] small foot, but she puts it into big sho , and when she puts it down on anythin
 'taint no go, anyway. The women the - use ter have dreadful big skeletons in ther
 days. Get one of them looms and ske ! eton into the room and there wasn't muc D of chance for cats and dogs. But the n don't make shakers out of palm leaf an : more; they make lem of straw. Tn : man't use ter make lem backed out of tn o business and went out west, and now he e dead.
 v The shakers that's made of straw ain | anything like scare scrows 1t took we
 man to do that, and she ain't dead. see
 the woman that made the first one. Sh d told me so herself. She told me that sh e use ter be wild, and never got to be E. Shaker herself till she was 'leYen years olt r. She said her father sleeps in the gulf r Mexico, and they use ter live in Middle l- bury or some such place in Mass, but st It and her mother and sister all got groun ,s over at once when they went ont to E
 field visitin'. ,She want made of stra, !, by no means. Her black eyes glimpsone = like diamonds. Nothing slimpsy abo1 ,e her. She showed us round nice, nd gi'