The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-15
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summer, about three years ago. nothin'
to do but we must all on us go TO the
sesshore. He hadn't been for good
many years, and so he wanted TO go, and
we sot TO thinkin' where would be the
best place and after while Jonathan
and Harriet persuaded their father TO go
10 Newport down I'm Rhode Island. where
they make such nice Johnny-cakes ana
have such wonderful clam dinners. They
were both interested in history and want
ed 70 see that curious old fort, or old
mill or whatever they call that relic OF
antiquity that nobody knows nothin'
about who built IL. SO 7 packed big
trunk and we started.
When we got to Providence the man
who took us 10 the boat in his carriage
charged fifty cents apiece for goin' about
as far as tbs from our house TO the barn
dot. told federation then and there that
81 we'd got TO pay at that rate he nights
well make up his mind 10 sell the farm
soon's we got home.
But law, the sail down that great bay
OF water made me forgit all about the
price, everything looked so beautiful.
couldn't help thinl<in' about the promiseo
land that Moses was goin to take the
Children OF Israel to-don't believe II
could been any pleasanter than the
shores OF this bay that the Indians used
10 live on.
I thought how good the Lord is to give
us poor unworthy mortals who are given
10 talk about our neighbors such bless
ings. When see sech sights OF nature
ali about me, the green woods and the
grassy fields. and the seabirds afiyin
overhead so graceful, and know that they
are gifts OF God. almost feel ashamed
that I've talked so much about the
Bateses. But they're so stuck up over
nothn' 'twould fret Job himself TO hear
them go on. so l don't believe I shall
have anything TO answer for
We kept on sailin' by the islands and
lighthouses It'll we come TO Newport. Just
as we was sailin' into the harbor a lot
Of boys In white suits were exercisin' on
the shore. The captain said they be-
longed TO the trainin' ship. They looked
real nice and performed all alike jest like
soldiers.
When that boat stopped. Jonathan he
wanted TO take the. car that is run by
electricity, and his father fell right in
with the notion, and. finally we all de-
cided to go over in the street car
Jonathan and Madalene and Dorothy
Ann went I'm bathin' long with their
father. but mercy they couldn't git me
10 go In. Sech suits as some OF the girls
had on! They'd look kinder pretty II
the patterns hadn't been so scant II
they'd staid In the water 'twouldn't
looked so bad. but seemed so they were
possessed 10 keep out Of the water so
everybody could see them,
I thought to myself II the girls git into
that water with sech n suit as that on
I'll march them back again pretty quick
/ watched for 'um TO come out and
pretty soon they all appeared federation
comm first
1t jest about stopped my breath. He'd
got one arm through the sleeve OF the
bathin suit and cause 'twan't big
enough to let the other arm in without
splitting II out in the back, he buttoned
IL down under the right arm instead OF
round the neck, and the pants didn't come
half way 20 his knees. II he didn't look
like fright! Made me think OF pictures
I'd seen OF Rip Van Wrinkle. Jonathan
and Madalene and Dorothy Ann looked
quite respectable.
! sot out TO holler to Toleration. but I
was so ashamed didn't want the people
10 know l was with him, so I sot still
and held my breath tin he was decently
clothed In the water He seemed TO be
Jest as unconcerned as II he'd had on his
Sunday clothes.
After the bathin' we drove up and
down the Bellevue road. and around what
they called the ten mile drive. where we
could see the ocean and all OF the beauti-
fnl houses OF all things alive | never
saw such extravaganza in my life. II
things keep on they'll be worse than
they was I'm Babylon.
why. there were hundreds Of carriages |
that cost a thousand dollars apiece with |
two and four horses hitched 10 them ana
then there wouldn't be nobody but a
woman and poodle dog aridin' in nore'n |
haf, except the driver and the waters |
on the back seats. who wore high hats
with old-fashioned back combs stuck on |
the side with short sheepskin pants that |
rnaue EN- look like Continentals asked |
n young man who was standin' near bv |
when we stopped what they wore spcb
ciothes FOR and ne said that's English |
you Know! ! told him / didn't know,
enything about &C. but said TO him. and
meant II, that II the American society
was follerin' old England's customs of
uarparlty' with their lords and dukes !
them "'Vu'
4, hope the Lord will forgive such ex-
fravagance, but don't believe no will
There were barouches cabrloIets Co
hshes, coupes. britzkas. cbarIo,ao.
coaches, Gladstones. stanhopes dos,
carts, jump-seats, landaus and lara |
knows. what else and everybody seemed |
TO Try 10 nave better one than their
neighbors. Think Of that great ,yas,a
OF money-how many starvin' chtISro,.
twould feed and clothe. 'Tain't no won.
der a rich man can't git to Heaven anv
easier than camel can crawl through
the eve OF needle
j don't blame Solomon for savin' "ail
" vanity n the rich folks Of this ci,v
sduandered their money in rich carriages /
end horses that they didn't need Bu,
ms federation said n makes work for
somebody. and keeps money clrculatIn' II
and. perhaps. It's all right after ali FOR II
the average rich man is 40 prodlgious
stingy that IL he couldn't be persuaded
by his proud wife TO spend his money I'm
carriages. hne dresses. and 50 on. most
on 'un, would bury II up somewhere IN
the earth Ike the man in the Bible with
the one talent, so I guess it's better as
N Is.
I couldn't help notlcln' what a lot of
horses had their tails cut on short, SO
that some OF them stuck right up