The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19
neck ont OF her collar 80 az to look still
longer NaiStpl.


the fashion plate makers rs deiorElities.
and yoa have to 70 and ret some special
artist to Wor,;&t itiode. ign your clothes
just rs you wouid 20 to a specialist Il
you had ii club loot and get him 10 make
your boot for yoa.
why is ii. do you SUPPOSE Ethel
asked. with great. wondering eyes.
Il do not know said the short. stout
lady as she SWING her feet back and
forth like Il baby in II high chair. There
are surely enough Of Us. and ono Of Us
are quite refined. You know it is o
generally believed shat stout women are
refined. \ man may get SO stout that
even the presidential chair isn't hi.
enough for him, and yet be will not
lose any prestige. but let "A lady
along about 20 to 40 begin to weigh well
and shun the slot machines. and then
strangers in u crowd look upon her rs
they would OH IA MAJ who rides on one
railroad ticket and carries a hive of busy
bees with him in the same seat, or puts
the hive there. ut least. and lets the bees
select their Owl seats.
YES, that is So said Ethel. ..but
these who know you love you if you
are stout. That's more than some can
say whom l know c."
Il hope So" said the short, stout lady.
with a tear in her eye rs she tried to get
her overshoe on by kicking it against
the other foot. but only succeeded i'll
%fracturing a whalebone or two and tip
ping her hat down over her nose.
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Weare ashamed to ask for clothing Of
our size. and nobody over attempted 10
design anything for rs especially. for
we wouldn't wear it anyway, no matter
how becoming it was. if it had got to be
the uniform of the fat Of the uni
verse, and 50 there Won are"
Then they both had to get off the train
there. and Ethel had to borrow ii trav-
cling mans sample case for the short.
tout! lady to step on rs she got off the
coach.
have not been richly endowed by ma
ture with the fatal gift of beauty, but it
might have been worse than it is. though
when ] pass through "A car and afterwar,l
look back and see the passengers exam
lining their watches to see if they are
still running | can think of the short.
stout lady and say. What if I. too. had
been thus:
Written in "a childish hand comes a
.'eGuest from little Alonzo Belcher Of
East Rawlse's Center asking this paper
how he can cure soreness of the tongue.
Alonzo. it SEEMS during the cold weather
was acting as undcrstudy for the property
man mt East Rawlse's Center. and one of
the other stage hands. n bright young
whalcback farmer. got Alonzo to accept
a wager that he LAlonZO) could o erase
with his tongue the name of Pistacha
Oleson. the rising Young Swedish nigh
ingale and child wonder. which she Miss
Oleson) had written i'll blue chalk on the
gas pipe of her dressing room while at
the Grand Opera House of East RawlSe's
Center.
AlonZo accepted the wager and now
writes to ask about what he shall do.
Alonzo has a large. copious tongue,
which almost encircled the gas pipe. and
of it may still be seen there.
For one night he and the opera house
occupied the same apartments. The next
day they logged along together TIL about
when che other stage hands told
the authorities, and steps were taken TO
arrange it SO that the opera house ana
young Belcher coula be used separately.
You see, you dare not cut ont a piece
of gas pipe tina, way for fear Of asphyxia-
ton, and they could BOT cut i. off at the
1t seems, as the company had ar
1t so that gas would be ''con-
sumed' every evening, whether the house
was opened or not. and they did not SEE
how they could change it.
\ hot %shoehorn. however. was ap-
Piled to the tongue. and soon the little
sufferer was removed from the real es-
and again became his own personal
property.
He went home, he exclaims in the let
ter, feeling like a man that has a redhot
bone in his mouth and cannot get
it out. Ever since then he has COM
m~unicated with the outside world who'll
" by means of the pen. No one can
think of his great sorrow without
bitter and somewhat brackish tear.
How puny are II efforts when we
find ourselves in the act of violating a
great natural law! We must not get on
the mighty turntable of creation or try
to cross the side tracks Of solar systems
unless we are employees.
Mr.. Belcher will do we'll to battle the
sore place with witch hazel as often as
the idea occurs to him. and keep a piece
Of oiled silk between the tongue and roof
Of the mouth, Sc that the two shall not
unite and become one grand whole, to
the injury Of the grand hole that he has
been i'll the habit of swallowing through.
olive