The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-08-05
THEIR OWN

A Number Of FrOlicsOne School Girls
Draw Up Their Own Wills.
There is lever any telling what half
a dozen boarding school girls may take
it into their pretty heads to do. Their
teachers have been surprised SO often
that they are generally prepared for
the most startling developments, but
one of them in St. Louis was rather
more amazed than usual the other
evening when she found "the young
ladies' solemnly engaged in making
their wills. Attached to these docu-
ments were explicit instructions for
the conduct Of their respective funer-
ais. The girls were quite in earnest
about the matter. They were all pretty
well provided with this worlds goods,
and they had disposed of everything
down to the smallest item.
Miss b, the teacher, who is young
and the object of a vast amount of
school girl devotion, was decidedly
curious to know what ideas these sweet
young things have about funerals and
kindred subjects. After much urging
one of these girls consented to reveal
what she had written. She first dis
posed of the bulk Of her property, Civ
ing one-third to her elder sister and
two-thirds to her younger, because, as
she said, the elder n had a husband
to take care of her. In case the young
err one married, however, she was to
promptly even up. Some minor lega-
cies followed, among them being SUM-
dry gifts to her teachers and school
mates.
"Give Miss b" SO ran the docu-
ment, my diamond cross, my umbrel.
Ia with the Dresden handle, and my
watch. Have a new handspring put
in it first, Give Miss c. (anothel
teacher my books. I haven't very
many now, but Tn going to get Dick.
ems in thirty-two volumes on my next
birthday"
After the will followed the instruc.
tons for the funeral, and these were
original and imperative.
II want to wear a BLUE dress OF
some sort and I want my feet covered
up, but I do not want M Of those lit.
tie tufted comforters spread up over
my face. There'H be about sixteen OF
them sent in. Don't cross my bands
and put a flower in them. I'm sure |
don't know just what I want done with
my hands. / never know myself where
to put them unless I have a jacket
with pockets or a muff, and I suppose
I ought not to wear those. I positively
insist on not being placed On public g
hibition. IL any Aleasly undertaken
gets up and says in mOurnful tone
that those who wish to view the re-
mains may pass up this aisle and out
at the right / shall haunt him as surely
as my name Is Lillian -. Another
thing, + don't want a lot Of relatives
crammed into the first carriages and
Having a lovely free ride with their
faces SO heamlng that everybody will
think some stingy old codger is in the
hearse. / warn you that IL these rela-
lives are not put back toward tho rear
or the procession I shall. get out and
walk And / want the children left at
home. They can have q ride some
other time. I know / don't want them
leating cookies and hanging out OF the
third carriage windows. And I want
the grave; lined with flowers. Further
more, as there isn't any law requiring
la minister to throw dirt on my coffin, /
decline to have that on the programme.
Last, but not least, see that my grave
Iii kept green."St Louis Post-Dispatch.
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