The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-23
WIKI HILDA / sloNSANS,:

=. II was tireder las night n I've been
for a good many days an there's folks
# I'D say I wasn't very busy. either:
I like to. have them follow me 'roun
for: q. while: when I'm under the orders
of Dor thy Marshall Still. I'd be willin'
to bet they'd get discouraged quicker n
could. Dor'thy's got the makin's Of a
nice little girl in her, but she's the only
chill in the whole connection, an that
gives her considerable to work against.
It isn't her: fault, 5for; she didn't expec'
to have her own way. in the beginnin',
but when her uncles an aunts an pa
an ma, not to speak Of gran'pa an gran
ma, had succeeded in teachin' her It she
only had to stamp her feet an hoP her
breath till she was purple in the face
an she could have ariythin' in Mime
apolis an occasionally from Chicago, she
wouldn't be human If she didn't do as
they expected her to. An Dor thy's hui
man from the big bow Of ribbon t over
balances her head to the tips Of her
patent leather shoes.
1--WE known her ever since she was a
baby an I've watched her grow from
bad to worse under the inf1u' nee of her
relations. When she's alone tn me-,
gen'rilly speakin', you'd think she had
wings stead Of Etucks on the back of her
frock, but let even a tenth cousin come
near us an she can turn from a little
angel into a. roarin' demon fore the tenth
cousin has the door shut. There isn't
any magician t turns rabbits into stove
pipe hats. could do it quicker.
"Considerin' all things it wasn't s'pris-
in, It I wasn't any too well pleased when
Mrs. Still asted me to take her down ito
have her picter taken. One sof her seven
uncles was goin' away, an he wanted a
new picter to-. take eth him to show the
men in the smokin' car what a cute little
niece he had an give, him q. .chanst TO
tell a few stories. didn' t see why some
of the five aunts couldn't go, but it isn't
my place to asst questions, anil waited in
the kitchen tn a troubled min while they
dressed Dor'tf1y They tried on seven
differ MT frocks, Mrs. Still a1y's calls 'em
frocks, an combed her hair three ways
fore Dor'thy got tired, an then they had
to slip on mos anythin' AN let her go.
II she collec's ell that was promised her
If she'd be a good girl, she'll have to build
an addition to her playroom.s :s# IS. 81
Have you ever taken chill, a chill
who has seven uncIes an five aunts, to
have her picture taken? II you haven't
you won't ever know " hat the pIotogra-
pher an went thru. There's some
things you can't do Justice to tn pen or
tongue, an this was one. b If ever there
was an aggraVatin' !, teasin' imp; in a pho-
tograph gallery her names Dor'th Mar
lllcL plO-
tographer. 1nansif he charged double rates
He earned 'ens even fore he says to me,
says he: = rhaps your personality makes
the chill nervous. s,poses you wait in the
anteroom for q minute says he.
IT wouldn't have said twas my per-
sonaIity, but not KNOWN what 1t was, I
letits go at that. an tho Mrs. Still asted
me. to be careful an never let Dorothy
get out Of nay sight / went out an got a
aehansts to- res. fore I started home. 1t
wasn't four minutes fore. the man called
me back. S g h - 49, III
: We've. got aghne neg tive, says he,
a-moppfn his head an he looked as
wiited as II he'd been a cucumber out Of
water for forty eight hours.
How did you manage to sit still?'
says to Dorothy, says I, on the way
home She WASH t near SO Eighty as she
was on goin down town an was kind Of
curious.
Cause, he says says she. that man,
says to sit still you dernd little imp, or
( II smash you. An did; says she.
II was glad t he'd SEN me out Of the
room, for don't 'pprove Of such language
fore children tho / don't deny It wouldn't
have blamed him il he'd said worse.
There's times in mos Of our lives when
the strongest language IS none too strong
to express what I'VE really feel, seems If. 9 :