The record-union., 1891-10-17
BACKVOODS BELLIES.
Still Another Literary Aspirant in
the Field.
Lake County VIII Be known to the
World Through the Literary Talent
of Its Citizens Who Write ''Back-
woods BelIes'' Letters-More Gossip
for Fun.
for Fun.

EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN Now / think 1t is
too bad that so many smart things have
been written from Lakeport, and we OF
the 400" have had no hand in it.
We move in the upper curcles, we do, and
have calm cards, and tea gowns, and
uker parties. Indeed, we would not
condescend to sniff the air of a quiltin'
bee or stoop to 60 to Scott's Valley to
hophouse hoe-down; we are tony and lit
eraFy, and have had Shakespeer readin'
business and scores of French dinners
with jack rabbit on toast, and wine from
Hastings winery, which was served in
crystal goblets of different sizes, which
were bought at Levy's for ten cents
glass-real, genuine blowed glass.
Now, will write you a fue news and
tell you all about US, with the rest of the
town thrown in. Cap'n Floyd's ''Whis-
PERI that was) is bein' built very rapidly
and she is bound to be a picturesque lit
tie bit of furniture that will just garnish
the waters of our romantic lake.
Jack" Dolly DelFs beau, is paintin'
her all in old rose and black, striped like
the leoprousy. He has painted the smoke
stack bright green, which will be very
harmonious when red headlights reflect
from the bilious on its polished sides;
but let me tell you TACK" is only COM
mon douber, not an artistic Margeritte
painter like some in our set. Everybody
goes out to visit the Whisper-old men
go out on Sunday mornings and spit to-
bacco juise over the sides, and tell Of all
the canoes and schooners and things they
ever had a hand in. Not beer schOOners).
The old women waddle on little later
and sit down ON the emerald sod and eat
soda biSkults with their conSortS, keep
ing time to the rythm Of the lakes waters,
but the young people glide out after
nightfall, in the Nenetion style, with a
gondoleer, and sometimes float away in
the moonlight to the music Of q mouth
piece, their arms lovingly entwined
round one anOther'S neckS. Oh, 1T is
grand our lake by moonlight for
sparkling and sparkling it can't be beat.
Oh, yes; there was a surunade not long
ago, about eight or ten common people
in the third set conducted it. They con-
Quoted it to the Mound Cottages" !" They
had fiddle and one man 1iddled, and
the landlord he brought out wine that
was awful old. Some said twas made
by Stone d Kelsey from wild grapes be-
fore they was killed by the Injuns q
mean Stone dC Kelsey was killed by the
Iniuns 'oause they was the first white
settlers in this happy vale). Well, it was
just perfectly lovely, but somebody was
sick nigh unto death, and the afOremen-
toned parties found it convenient to de-
camp because the pianno made so much
noise the cats got to sQuaIlin'. The land
lord is the handsomest and geneialist
landlord in town, and everybody knows
him to be such. But speakin' of land
lords, we've got one that's just as pop
olar, and he's ecoquinomicel, too, for all
he has to do is just TO fill up a hogshead
OF the lakes limpid waters and peek
down the bunghole and it will sour INTO
real Old Bourbon,
There is an awful joke goin' around up
here, something about two golden circlets
taking journey over to the coast. 'Oh,
mammaw We won't mention the
whole facts, for they are connected with
the most respectable jewelry shop in
town, and besides they amt in our swim.
Then Miss c. G. has moved-and her
shop is now regular bribery. The small
boys are all out shotin' wild pigeons for
her bonnets, and they are very harmoni-
GUS when tastefully mounted on the top
of a toque alongside bit of gingham cut
basin, with few shingle nails along the
edge-you can buy them at Touree's
cheaper than city nail heads by leaving
something to insure good faith if you
have to go on tick.
There was q divorce case here the other
day, too; the woman wanted to get di-
vorced from the man, and the man was of
the same mind. He just naturally had
her viii him all her chickens and bed
steads and things, and then he went to
law and won the suit, and she didn't
know she had signed away all her NOV
able property until a long time after the
Judge said she was free woman, and
you bet she was mad when she found out
the lawyers were going to have half the
the boodle-including a layin' hen and
some sucking pigs.
Then there was another case on dock:
the tail end Of the White Cap raid, but it
was dismissed because the lawyer on one
of the sides had to stay at home to mend
his pantaloons.
B. B. has moved into the printing
Office, and still makes the latest style
My Dickey" collars for the Scott's
Valley girls, and sometimes helps the
ladies of our set with their tea gowns.
She's lookin' ten times younger than she
did sometime back, and many attribute
her rejuvernated appearance to the
fresher air in her present location, bein'
away from the noise and turnout of
Main street With a rose in her hair she
would actually be courtin' the boys.
Bloomer dresses with three e-cornered
trangles under the armpits are all the go
her now.
There is new woman's head-gear
shop in town now; the tinsel effects are
lovely. There is one style trimmed up
in mauve brown, with a big black buZ-
Yards wing, which will sit gracefully on
some Backwood's Bellies fair head. By
the way, the cream bellies We're scarcely
mentioned by 'Manda Higgins. You
see, she amt in the swim. She belongs
to set No. 2, but she tries to rub against
us sometimes.
There is a charming Young lady in our
set, the former head and shoulders of our
Shapespeer business and Chat-chaw-go-
wa CuTcel-no body but upper tens ever
got a sneak on that. She wears in the
summer lovely red null waist, all
draped diagonal across the back, and her
eyes are as black as soot-but shine more
but she wont be in it long for she will
soon join Betsey Bobbett in the land of
matrimony, and give up her professional
life before she gets any older. We will in
anticipation wish her joy, as she slides
down lifes cellar door, and hope that the
happy man of her choice will some day
be elected 10 Congress Kansas.
The op-pickers have all got done and
gone home. The Injuns ended with a
tandango and barbaque with whiskey
roast, and the whites bought them head
gear aud socks for the winter.
The boys are All sorry the hop season is
over. The butcher shops in town have
actually taken on a blue cast, and one has
really gone off TO Santa Rosa to see If it
can't get little red paint to blaZon up
things. One young fellow "a travelin'
artist, who makes birds eye views by
means Of q telescope and two crooked
1@1ChSi NOujiI Iet Ills SiIl 20 pick uOf}S
,cause she said so), and she throwed off
on him-but didn't hear the particulars
because it wasn't in our set.
Everybody went to Ukiah to the fair,
and got busted. The Na-ads of the lake
went in part they are in our set, some of
them) ard created quite a sensation, ap-
pearin' as mermaids with flowing hair
and Goldfish fms. They wern't arrested,
for the law over there against Annie
Rooney kept the Shuriff busy.
The literary lady Of our town is soon to i