The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-09-01
ALEXANDRIA, La, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER l. 1897:

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solemn. CRY 50 easily that the slight
est effort will bring on ocean OF tears.
Then my nose gets red, my freok!es
grow larger, and I'm q sight generally,
So don't make me weep. Hyou are 60
ing to New York, Mics Margaret, envy
you. Gauss why1 Cause you've got
money and can have no end OF fun
there. It's different with US. We are
poor, as Alice has no doubt told you,
and it's nasty, meani contemplate
feeling. Poverty was the reason fol
our moving to Philadelphia, nothing In
the world else. Our friends were told
that we liked Philadelphia; that tho ar |
agreed with us-we are all 80 healthy
we'd thrive in pig-pen-when the real,
unvarnished truth Is the low rents agree
With our pocket.books. I tell you, you
don't half know Our tricks"
"Oh; Nell!"
Just heat Alice say oh, Nell! as
though she doesn't know Pc we'll as 40
the tricks Of the guild. Tho guild
means poor people, you know. NOT
poor washerwomen, needlewomen,s SCRUB
women, and such poverty stricken
wretches, but poor people like US, trying
to keep up appearances on nothing.
abomiiate item, and despise poverty
80 heartily that I'd rather be rich than
40 to heaven. Now It's Miss Msrgaret's
turn to say oh, Nell!' and how shocked
she looks In the bargain. It's evident
she doesn't know anything about scrap
ing and scratching. II she'd lived IN
cheap fats bet she'd agree with me.
They are simply horrible. And when II
comes to furnished flats-Lord, be meri-
full to me, a sinnerl We've had them,
and know whereof speak. 1remem-
Der one, especially. The greatest cheat
on record. Handsomely furnished, the
owner called it. We hadn't been In 1t
three days before all that handsome
furniture tumbled to pieces. A case OF
familiarity breeds contempt, very likely
Now, I've grown suspicious. If see q
tidy on a sofa l want to know what is
under 1t; and no matter how innocent
the chairs and tables may look sitting
around In their Sunday clothes, as II
we're, know it's ten to one that the
tables will shed leg and the chairs
give up back or seat just when one IL
seeking such support. You see, expert
ence Is good teacher.
Thanks for your Grafton, remarked
Alice, as Nell paused for breath. YOU
: tongue, my dear, IL one Of those infan
industries not in need Of protection
"Nelps experience rather frlghten
me-" remarked Margaret, with glanc
, at the late speaker. Think OF my fur
nished apartment, and what is probabl
Z in store"
"A furnished apartment" broke i
Nell quickly, rs as different from a full
nished fat as crow from partridge
Don't laugh at my comparison, please
), Iconsider It particularly happy, and to re
. tuln to the apartment, you probably pa
y from two hundred to three hundred do
. lars @ month Now we never aspired
T. ANYTHING so RESPECTABLE. A fiat, notf
', Ing more nor less than fiat, was tn
II object of our ambition, and therein lie
the difference. 1t Is to enable me
:, one day live In an apartment III
l. yours that I am now diligently searcl
s. ing for husband. Beauty and BLU
d blood desired Money Indispensable.
he's young, we'll and good. II he's o.
l. SO much the better. He'll"
Or mo moro, please" begged Margare
tn Il came here expecting to tie dolef,
or and you've ma lie me laugh So"
8, "'Comfort the sorrowful, quot
81 Nell. "A corporal work of mercy, n
Id dear. I've performed good action u
consciously. I'm an excellent YOU
:, person, and, as you say, can't imagl
IS how they manage TO spare me at hon
d. But to tell the truth, May Is the impc
O. tant one just now. She is soon to
married, you see; and by some curio
IN sort of reckoning, her value Is increas
fifty per cent. 1t is really hard cas-
ly The two beauties Of the family going
49, in this style, and leaving Bess and
ID, to single b,essedness. l rebel agall
such unjust DEGREES; wish was bes
%, tiful Oh, don't wish l was beautif
ng I'd like people to tumble into fits j
ng from looking at me. What's the m
ng ter, Alice?"
81 "pd be glad to make a few remark
"a was the answer, with affected me-
IT,. ness.
, , Poor child Have you been watt
at for my permission all this timer U
|. I tainly you can talk. Don't pull DO
ife your chin in that fashion. 1t remil
zen me of old Spenser when he INDUCES
md Scripture. Scripture being someth
ore I'm totally unacquainted with, dc
of want it mentioned in my presen
,st. Spenser ornaments his conversat
NV with Biblical quotations; therefore
q hate Spenser Besides, he says 'Hao
NV oughter;' and any man, woman,
ttle child who says hadn't oughter' =
eli oughter' be shot: My private opin-
,ss- What, Bon! Luncheon! Gracious.
has glad, I'm as hungry as bear. n
we'd Margaret, pray take me under
,ars shadow Of your wing. Alice, lead
for way. smell fritters. Oh, myl"
vi Expressing mild hope that the c
81 bined influences Of the fritters and
a Of uncle's presence might silence NJ
lied busy tongue, Alice did lead the way
!, IN TO BE Continued
Did
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