The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-06


while, and was so anxious to hear about
the weddin'. and what kind of time you
had Here. gimme the cup towel I'll wine
while you wash"
"AIl right, 1 was just goin to rench 'em.
Don't you want your teeth scalded off? 1
always scald mine along with the cups;
seems like the waters so good and hot in
the morning. Lay 'em In that saucer there,
so they won't get mixed with mine
ugly looking things, amt they?"
Eyes: ugly and hateful too. I've never
got used to mine yet. Sometimes when I'm
visitin' all mornin', l feel that If I don't
get home and get 'em out, I'll have to spit
'em clear across the street-they torment
me so. You'd think EN- possessed, the way
they clinch on to my gums! 1 feel like I'm
fast in their clutches, and yet when / go to
chewin' they crack like was eatin bones
the nasty, disgustin' things!"
Mine too Cousin; mine do me the same
way. I so often feel rebellious about 'em,
and yet ] know it's the Lords will that I
be tried In this manner"
'sI wish / felt like it's the Lords Will;
may be could stand it BETTER but know
He never intended any of His fold to go
whistln' their SIS the way we have to. 1
know He's got his opinion of me this min
ute for tryin' to supplement the work OF
His hand, even If it had got down to
snag or two. There-take yours"
cousin Anna Bradshaw, you're borderin'
On blasphemy!'
mo 1 amt, Me and the Lord under
stand one another. amt goin' to say any
thing to hurt Him, and If He does any
thing that hurts me, / realize that I'm too
thick-headed to take In His meanin' i'm
mediate. 1 know His intentions are good"
"But you're levitous about holy things.
cousin. I don't like to see 1t in you. You
forget we're old women. and our times
gettin' short. Our thoughts should be SER
ious ones
Now, don't 60 talkin' about gettin' old
and dyin'! 1 amt old, and 1 amt goin'
to die as long as the rest of you live!
AMT OLD! could cut a caper right now,
if 1 wasn't out dissipatin' last evenin'."
Don't do it, cousin, don't do it! Tell me
about the weddin'!'
II was just gettin' ready to- only you put
me off the track. 1 spose 1t was a good
weddin as weddin's go around here, but
since / went up to Kansas City last year
and see Effie May get married, all these
country doins sort of leave a taste In my
mouth, because / know, now, how 1t can
be done. In the first place. the invitation
part was kind o. queer. Now, havin' been
| through Effie Mays affair, and KNOWN it
was all right, 1 judge all others by it; SO
felt 1t wasn't quite the thing to get out
two sets of invitations. Well. heard last
| night that a relative of the Musgroves up
4 hon nd he
offered to print em for nothin if they'd
| furnish the PAPER, which they did. and he
sent 'em down last week, and we all got
one. You remember how they read:
| .Oceanny Musgrove
Welded
William Linkern Van Buren,
| Wednesday evening,
Nov q. p m-'
The New M. E. South,
Rosebury,
1903
| Then, day before yesterday, everybody
gets another, and last night heard there
| was some who scored the first set-said
| they were misspelled and fixed wrong in
several places; so got mine ont and looked
at 'em both together. ! see, then. that
Lincoln wasn't right, and they had
| Wednesday, evenin'. p. m., all Of which
was corrected In the second batch. Now,
think of two sets of 'em! l know Ef1e
May however, Oceanny is a nice
| girl. and VIII Van Buren, Is good enough
/ for her, / reckon.
| Don't YOU remember what we used to
call Ieveler.' when we were young? He's
Il biz Of In nf
sick-headed ones, with such a pinched,
| wizened nose, you'd think it would strain
him, the skin of it stretches so tight over
the bone. They say he's been spittin' blood
for several months; 1 reckon his nose amt
to blame for that. thought think heard
| he'd always been weak.
cousin jimmy, you needn't have had any
feelin's about your clothes. Even If your
new dress had been done it wouldn't have
been noticed last night; you nights well
have gone
| mo, me a sort Of stranger, it wouldn't
| have done to go in my old black; people
always wear their best to such a place."
Every one looked very well-nothin' I'M
usual, but very well-except that old Haight
| girl. She'd slipped on her skirt over her
/ wrapper and had forgot to put the back
| straps down below the belt Course every
| one knew it was a wrapper, but it didn't
really make much difference. Most every
| one just wore light shirt waist and dark
| skirt. 1 fell in with that old Mis- Finshaw
| that one with the heart and brain troubles
and she pulled along beside me and said
she knew she'd have a spell before she got
home. She's the biggest old humbug-for-
ever gettin' ready for spell, and yet no
| ones ever heard of her havin' it.
shes been real sick, though, on ac-
| count of her daughter THROWN over WELL
| TODD young man for little fce-ty Luther
| ian minister's son, who don't do a thing
| but smoke cigarettes anc play on the man.
| colin. / don't blame her. / always did hate
| fiddler She's that old Mormon, you
know. She calls herself Latter Day Saint,
but they are all the same, only may be
| she amt E piuribus unum in the matter of
wives. She Dragged on her nurse, Sister
| Shank. she called her: the most mother
hest and the most prayerfullest woman
| she ever see, she said. 1 told her thought
could do away with the prayerfulness,
especially If | was liz misery"
| "Cousin,''
| Il could! I'd heap rather she knew
how to rub my joints and let me do my