The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-13
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Scene.-The sitting room; mamma with
the evening paper; papa fdgetting till she
gets through.
Dear me. that poor old Mr.. Longdays
IS dead at last-he must have been a hum
dred years old If he was a day-he was an
old man when l was a little bit of thing in
Georgetown. And that poor Mrs. Browni-
son is dead, too-cancer, you so
many years. certainly must go there to-
morrow. Um-um, here's the announcement
of hat RiCkashaW SirIS marriage to that
Pickapenny fellow-they were married over
in Merton last November, il seems, and
they are only just announcing thigh time,
II seems TO me. Oh, dear me, there's going
TO be a bargain sale tomorrow of dimities,
only 8 cents a yard, and / certainly do need
two or three more wash dresses-yOu must
let me have a little money tomorrow and
III go down and get the goods.
Here are some nice serge suits for men,
would get one OF them, instead of paying
$50 for a serge suit, as you always do, and
they all crinkle up in no time, don't they?
Mercy on US! What's all this talk in the
papers lately about sugar and Cuban reci-
prOclty and all that2 1t says here that
there's a big fight on among the senators.
They don't actually fight, do they? L
should think they're old enough to know
better, and they look so dignihed, too.
M-m-mi More about that old canal. It's
a wonder they don't just go ahead and de-
then dig the old thing, isn't it? oh, they've
found the bodies of that New York girl and
the young man who took her out rowing at
midnight. 1t is supposed they were both
done away with by one of the young mans
rivals. Funny time of night for young peo-
pie to go out rowing. L wonder what kind
of mothers daughters have over in New
York, any way? 1t says here that Heno is
the favorite for the American Derby at
Chicago. What is the favorite-the pref
test horse? Ii says here that tina unfor-
tunate Mr.. GOquick is very low with
BrlghtS disease. It's hard to say il, but
that man certainly has been drinking him
self TO death for years. Volcanoes active
in Hawaii-now, isn't it a wonder that
folksU go right on living In such horriC
places, where they are liable to be smoth-
cred by a nasty old volcano any minute:
Panama hats advertised here for S3O-the
nerve Of some people TO expect a man &c
pay all that for a hat! Wen, L do wish
they'd settle this old Philippine business
whatever II is, and give us a rest. King
Edward is sick-graciouS Sakes alive, its
a wonder he isn't sick all the time, from
all that we've heard about him! It's beer
raining steadily in London for a month
oh, now l know why that Ohjee pinheaC
has been wearing his trousers turned uI
all the time. Well. If that silly Forge.
ahead hasn't been promoted to eighteen
hundred in the Patent Office, and he
hasn't got enough sense to come in out
OF the wet, / do declared Listen to this
Mrs. Miggsley and Miss Miggsley have
gone TO Atlantic City for the summer
and right among the society notes. TOO
Well, we'll, so that Longwait girl has go
married at last, the poor, skinny thing
ana they say the old man she's married
ne must be seventy at leaSt-has JUS
loads and loads of money. Oh, there's go.
ing TO be a special sale of silk stockings to.
morrow at - etc, etc, until mamma
finally tossed the shredded and dismantleC
paper, turned inside out, over to papa. anC
by the time he got hold of it it seems As
old to him as a piece of scalIoped news.
paper cupboard shelf covering.